Programme Policy Officer

To provide strategic and operational leadership for Asset Creation and Livelihood activities and coordinate with other Programme activities to implement layering, Sequencing, and Integration approach, to achieve the CSP 2023-2025 Vision

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

The Head of ACL will report to the Head of FSR. S/he will supervise the ACL team at the Head Office in Juba. Areas of accountabilities and responsibilities include:  

Strategic Engagement:

• Oversee the revision, implementation, monitoring and documentation of WFP South Sudan’s Community Asset Creation and Livelihood strategy in line with WFP South Sudan’s strategic direction
• Contribute to the development and revision of other WFP South Sudan strategies to strengthen programme integration to maximize outcomes in climate adaption, sustainable natural resource management, gender, nutrition and social cohesion across the country portfolio
• Support WFP South Sudan’s strategic engagement with line ministries, particularly related to livelihoods, to define WFP’s capacity strengthening objectives, implement actions, and document results for knowledge sharing and evidence-based advocacy and policy dialogue
• Support WFP South Sudan’s strategic engagement, including the design of joint programming, with UN agencies and other humanitarian, development and peace actors to strengthen co-location, layering, sequencing and linkages with ACL and other WFP programmes
• Contribute to the preparation of donor meetings, proposals, field visits, reports and visibility materials to highlight and advocate for the ACL programme and broader FSR portfolio

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES CONTINUED

Coordination:

• Ensure that ACL is increasingly co-located, layered, sequenced, linked and integrated within the FSR portfolio and other WFP programmes, especially in hard to reach areas
• Coordinate with other WFP technical units and field offices to conceptualize innovative ideas and pilot initiatives and support in the implementation and generation of evidence and learning for mainstreaming and scaling up within the ACL programme
• Attend internal and external coordination meetings relevant to livelihood programming and ensure that key takeaways and action points are shared with, assigned to, and followed up with respective sta             

Operational Management:

• Ensure that the annual ACL operational plan is developed and tracked in coordination with other technical units
• Ensure that the annual ACL funding and pipeline requirements are calculated, updated, allocated and that resource utilization is tracked, prioritized and reported with quality and timeliness 
• Ensure that the operational instruments of ACL are periodically updated to reflect an integrated programming approach;
• Coordinate within the ACL team and with other technical units and field Offices in the development and management of cooperating partnerships

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES CONTINUED PART2

Operational Management:

• Provide strategic and operational guidance to the ACL team to strengthen conflict sensitive, climate adaptive, gender transformative, and nutrition sensitive programming as well as collaboration with other WFP technical units and advisors in conflict analysis, climate adaptation, gender and protection, and nutrition

Evidence Generation, Learning and Dissemination:  

• Coordinate with the M&E team to ensure that the ACL Theory of Change and logframe are periodically reviewed to include appropriate corporate and custom indicators so that WFP South Sudan tracks immediate, intermediate and strategic outcomes to demonstrate resilience building in targeted communities, households and systems
• Coordinate with M&E to define the learning agenda and activities and establish partnerships to conduct periodic and specific studies 
• Coordinate with M&E, Communications, Reports and field offices to generate qualitative results of the ACL programme and disseminate them through different channels
• Coordinate with M&E to organize periodic review meetings internally and with external partners that showcase and receive feedback on quantitative and qualitative results, lessons-learnt, programme adjustments, and advocacy messages
• Ensure that quality input on the ACL programme is made for corporate, country and donor reports, briefs, and presentations.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES CONTINUED PART 3

People Management:

• Track the staff’s performance linked to the activities and outputs in the team’s annual workplan
• Lead in and or contribute to building the capacity of the ACL and field office staff and cooperative partners to improve the quality and timeliness of programme implementation
• Act as Officer-in-Charge for FSR in the absence of the Head of the Unit
• Any other duties as required.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT

• Development and regular review of the annual ACL team workplan
• Development and periodic updates of the annual ACL operational plan
• Accurate and efficient ACL resource management
• Strengthened integrated programming with WFP programmes and partner interventions
• Staff and partner (government and cooperating partners) capacity building actions   
• Quality and timely input into donor proposals and reports
• Quality knowledge products and communication materials on ACL

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Education:

• Advanced university degree or university degree with experience and training/courses in one or more of the following disciplines: economics, international development, social policy, or related discipline(s).

Experience:

• Five years post graduate, progressively responsible, job related experience in rural development, resilience, agriculture, programme management, or fields related to the above disciplines.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED CONTINUED

Knowledge & Skills:

• A demonstrated ability to prepare concise and well-written reports and documents in English is critical.
• Proficiency in utilising computers, including word processing, spreadsheet, power point, and other office software packages and systems.
• Competencies: Cognitive Capacity, Teamwork, Action Management, Partnerships, Client Orientation.

Languages:

• Working knowledge (written and oral) of English (proficiency/level C)

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