Programme Policy Officer CST 2 (Head of Asset Creation & Livelihoods)

Position description

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 program 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 concrete 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 programs.
• Contribute to the preparation of donor meetings, proposals, field visits, reports and visibility materials to highlight and advocate for the ACL program and broader FSR portfolio.

Coordination:

• Ensure that ACL is increasingly co-located, layered, sequenced, linked and integrated within the FSR portfolio and other WFP programs, 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 program.
• 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 staff.

Operational Management:

• Ensure that the annual workplan 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.
• 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 logframe is periodically reviewed to include appropriate corporate and custom indicators so that WFP South Sudan tracks immediate, intermediate and strategic outcomes against targets 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 program 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, program adjustments, and advocacy messages Ensure that quality input on the ACL program is made for corporate, country and donor reports, briefs, and presentations.

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 program implementation.
• Act as Officer-in-Charge for FSR in the absence of the Head of the Unit.
• Any other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:

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

Experience:

• Six years post graduate, progressively responsible, job related experience in rural development, resilience, livelihoods, climate resilience, or fields related to the above disciplines. Experience in participating in joint and consortium programs. Technical assistance to national institutions.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to prepare concise and well-written analytical documents in English. Analytical capacity to translate information, especially data, into learning and achieve adaptive programming. A strong asset to have experience in technical assistance to national institutions in policy and program design and implementation.
• 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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