DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS19 March 2025-23:59-GMT+04:30 Afghanistan Time (Kabul)
WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the worldโs largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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WHY JOIN WFP?
WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. 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.
WFP Afghanistanโs Country Strategic Plan 2018-2026 focuses on a new strategic shift towards strengthening resilience of communities, recognizing the interconnected nature of relief, nutrition, safety nets, food systems, capacity strengthening and partnerships, addressing some of the above causes within the context of chronic drought and frequent climate-related shocks.
A key focus area is on building sustainable productive community and household climate resilience assets, small scale value chains to prevent and reduce the impact of man-made and natural shocks on vulnerable populations. This position will support, the development and implementation of WFPโs productive assets and livelihoods especially focusing on vocational skills training, climate adaptive interventions particularly working with most vulnerable people including women and youths, strengthening community and household resilience.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):
Key Responsibilities
Leadership and Operational Oversight: Provide technical oversight and operational guidance to Area Offices to strengthen resilience-building activities, including climate-adaptive asset creation, disaster risk reduction, livelihood diversification, vocational skills training, smallholder agriculture support, and anticipatory action.
Coordination: Facilitate cross-functional coordination between Area Offices, the Country Office, cooperating partners, and other program team leads.
Technical Advisory: Provide expert technical advisory support to ensure resilience and climate adaptation programs align with WFPโs global standards, while incorporating innovative practices in climate adaptation, livelihood diversification, and disaster risk reduction into program design and delivery.
Proposal Development and Resource Mobilization: Lead the development of high-quality proposals for resilience programming.
Capacity Building: Strengthen the capacity of Area Offices and cooperating partners through targeted training and mentorship.
Quality Assurance and Standardization: Develop practical guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) covering technical aspects of resilience programming.
Environmental and Social Standards: Ensure compliance with WFP minimum standards for environmental and social sustainability across the Country Office climate, resilience and food systems portfolio.
Conflict Sensitivity: In close collaboration with gender and protection colleagues, strengthen available programming tools to ensure that WFP climate, resilience and food systems operations and activities โdo no harmโ and align to minimum standards for protection and conflict sensitivity.
Operational Support: Act as a focal point for resolving operational queries within the technical area of responsibility; and support Area Offices in addressing implementation challenges and ensuring smooth program delivery.
Community Engagement and Advocacy: Lead community engagement initiatives to promote active participation and local ownership of resilience activities.
Project Tracking and Budget Management: Support tracking of project and budget progress to ensure activities are implemented on time and within scope.
Program Integration: Lead efforts to integrate resilience programming with other WFP initiatives, including school feeding, nutrition, and emergency responses.
Other Duties: Perform additional responsibilities as assigned by the line manager to support the Resilience and Food Systems portfolio.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: