Programme Assistant

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Mission and objectives

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetime. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need. In emergencies, WFP gets food to
where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict, and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries annually. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions,
especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

Context

In Uganda, WFP provides humanitarian and lifesaving assistance in the forms of food and nutrition assistance to over 1.39m refugees across the 13 refugee settlements in the country, supports smallholder farmer production, market, and value chain activities, undertakes school feeding, as well as livelihood and resilience programmes. Through these programme interventions, WFP responds to both the humanitarian and emergency situations in Uganda to meet the needs of vulnerable people, to save and change their lives, and to promote inclusion and resilience building.
As Uganda strives to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and become a middle-income country by 2040, WFP is also assessing its relevance and repositioning its role in Uganda as a key partner through its partnerships with government and other key stakeholders at various levels.

Task description

Support the Crisis Response Unit in the implementation and delivery of food and nutrition assistance to both refugees and vulnerable host population.
• Support in strategic programmatic drive implementation within the Crises Response unit Support programme assurance and its implementation processes.
• Lead on monthly accountabilities and reconciliations across programme interventions.
• Support beneficiary sensitization and awareness creation activities as well as training and capacity building/strengthening for staff and other key stakeholders.
• Support pre, in and post monthly distribution activities including monitoring and reporting.
• Support resource management ensuring efficient monitoring across various pipeline levels.
• Review, compile and analyze program activity data of implementing and cooperating partners, prepare periodic and ad hoc reports, in support of programme implementation.
• Support programme implementation across various WFP intervention locations.
• Support in donor proposal and report writing as well as unit factsheets and standard reports.
• Participate in both internal and external coordination and other required meetings.
• Perform any other tasks as may be required.