Avis de recrutement : PAM recrute un(e) Responsable de programme en Algérie.

JOB PURPOSE

Under the Resilience Unit, provide support to policy and nutrition sensitive integrated resilience programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Under the Head of Programme supervision and in close collaboration and coordination with the Resilience Unit team and other WFP units, the staff will be responsible of the following duties:

1. Provide effective expert support and technical analysis to policy and program activities that effectively address food assistance needs.
2. Implement and scale-up resilience activities at household level based on community based participatory approach and promote innovation and new way of thinking:
   • Develop WFP Tindouf strategy and resilience programme targeting Sahrawi refugee population to inform the next Interim Country Strategic Plan (ICSP).
   • Ensure integration of resilience activities with other WFP activities (nutrition, school feeding, food assistance) to enhance achievements and impacts on nutrition and food security.
   • Work in close collaboration with the RAM/M&E Unit to understand context, conduct needs analysis, define targeting criteria and design tailored programmes to refugee population
   • Conduct meetings with vulnerable refugees to understand their vision for resilience building and develop resilience building plan.
   • Scale-up family gardens and the use of waterboxes and growboxes at household level and for school gardens
   • Innovate livelihood and resilience activities by focusing on men, women, and young people to increase their knowledge and awareness of economic empowerment and participation in project design, implementation, and decision-making.
   • Develop concept papers and guidelines to assist WFP and partner staff in understanding programming and approaches to livelihoods and resilience building.
3. Prepare status and progress reports, document lessons learned in ensuring project implementation, and effectively track progress and results with the donor and other stakeholders through reports and other documentation to enhance transparency, accountability and generate evidence.
   • Provide technical assistance and support for the implementation of the CP action plan.
   • Review achievements, identify challenges and propose appropriate actions
   • Assist in the production of educational materials and project fact sheets.
   • Carry out budget reviews during the project and, if necessary, in collaboration with the units concerned, in order to adjust budget planning. (Extension in time, recruitment, cancelled activity…etc)
   • Regularly monitor complementary activities supported by WFP and the partner in the camps to verify achievements against the defined objectives and prepare reports that reflect the impact on the beneficiaries.
4. Ensure that the NGOs partnership management cycle under the resilience activity is implemented according to WFP standards and norms:
   • Ensure End-to-end Field Level Agreement (FLA) process management and compliance assurance.
   • Establish and implement Cooperating Partner (CP) ’s capacity building based on Cooperating Partners ‘performance evaluation and risk assessment.
   • Conduct bilateral meetings with CP’s and regularly monitor complementary activities supported by WFP and the partner in the camps.
   • Ensure regular and timely FLA tracking based on required data and indicators.
   • Ensure quality and timely CP reports and payments.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (Continue…)

Liaise and coordinate with internal and external counterparts; authorities, agencies, partners, and other stakeholders involved in livelihoods and resilience projects and ensure effective collaboration for better monitoring of activities and highlight potential risks to the project’s delivery.

• Participate in various coordination meetings (sector meetings and platforms).
• Represent WFP in internal/external working meetings on resilience/Livelihood activities or topics related to program interventions.
• Seek complementarity and synergy with other resilience actors to avoid duplication and diversify beneficiaries’ sources of income to make them self-reliance by initiating the 5W dashboard.

Education:

Advanced university degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition, Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other field relevant to international development assistance, or first university degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.

Experience:

Minimum one year of postgraduate professional experiences in the field of food security, nutrition and integrated resilience programming in refugee context.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Data analysis and reporting;
• Programme management;
• Partnership management;
• Community based-participatory planning.

Language:

Fluency in both spoken and written communication in Arabic and English is a requirement. Proficiency in French at an intermediate level is expected, and knowledge of Spanish is considered an asset.

Closing date : Saturday, 16^th September 2023 (11:59 PM Algeria Standard Time).