UN Careers – Programme Policy Officer (Cash Based Transfers & Market Access) – United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Job Title: Programme Policy Officer (Cash Based Transfers & Market Access)
Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station: Mbarara, Uganda
Reports to: Head of Satellite Office (HOSO)
About US:
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It is the largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. Currently WFP focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition & Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets. WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.
Job Summary: The Programme Policy Officer (Cash Based Transfers & Market Access) will provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work closely with programme, supply chain, and Satellite Office staff to assist them with analysis and understanding of financial inclusion, financial literacy and agricultural market linkages in MAO to meet WFP goals
- Work with WFP-contracted Financial Service Providers (FSPs) to
- ensure rapid scale up in line with WFP’s expansion plan for cash-based transfers;
- ensure efficient and accountable cash distributions at field level;
- expand the agent banking model with the objective of promoting financial inclusion for the POCs; and
- verify that appropriate entitlements are disbursed.
- Assist in reviewing of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), to identify and document impacts on underlying processes, systems, people and the organizational structure;
- In coordination with the MAO Head of Programme, provide regular feedback to the CBT Coordinator at Country Office level regarding the progress of the distributions, including achievements and constraints as well as suggested improvement actions
- Provide hands-on guidance in the engagement with bank agents, CBT PoCs, smallholder famers and local retailers as part of the on-going expansion of cash transfers.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Policy Officer (Cash Based Transfers & Market Access) job placement should hold an advanced University degree in Business, Finance, Sales, Retail, Supply Chain, Management, Marketing or other related fields.
- A minimum of seven years of professional postgraduate experience in digital payment solutions in relation to agricultural development programmes. Experience with mobile financial services, such as Agent Banking and/or Mobile Money is required.
- Solid knowledge of category management, marketing, supply chain, negotiation and sales principles.
- In-store experience in the visual merchandising, organization of products, pricing, management, sales, procurement, promotion.
- Analytical mind with a strategic ability, organization, attention to detail, be able to multi-task.
- Proficient in MS Office
- Previous experience in implementing technical programs (i.e. nutrition, etc.).
- Has implemented programmes and provided input into designing operations.
- Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.
- Excellent influencing and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Good training skills, hardworking, calm, mature, logical, culturally sensitive, result oriented and interest in humanitarian development
- Languages: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English. Local languages/dialects is a plus.
Competencies:
- Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.
- Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.
- Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.
- Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
- Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government: Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.
NB: Female applicants and qualified applicants from Uganda with Ugandan Nationality are especially encouraged to apply.
How to Apply:
All candidates who desire to join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit their applications online at the link below.
Deadline: 12th December 2019