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Job Description

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

20 September 2024-23:59-GMT+02:00 Central Africa Time (Lusaka)

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 world’s 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).

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

In July 2023, the World Food Programme (WFP) Zambia commenced a new five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP), informed by and aligned with national and United Nations priorities and global commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It embraces the Government’s long-term Vision 2030; aligns with 16 key strategic areas of the 8th National Development Plan (NDP8); and contributes to the joint Zambia-United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).

WFP Zambia’s integrated and pragmatic CSP shifts away from unsustainable localized and micro-level interventions, to embrace more effective advocacy and engagement with national policies, systems, and programmes to achieve national impact on SDG2. Given the Government’s commitment to budgetary support for nutrition, social protection, and agriculture, despite the constraints in the country’s fiscal position, WFP’s overarching strategy seeks to strengthen the government’s capacities to meet its national priorities through stronger systems, expertise, and resources for implementation. This means a decisive shift of WFP’s country positioning towards the provision of innovative, sustainable, upstream technical assistance to support nationally owned solutions.

Advancing the global WFP Strategic Plan (2022-2025), the CSP addresses both SDG2 and SDG17, and WFP’s Strategic Results 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. WFP will implement seven activities to achieve five Strategic Outcomes (SO) under the CSP.  These SOs include: (SO1) responding to crises and shocks ensuring that crisis-affected people, including refugees, are able to meet their urgent food and nutrition needs; (SO2) addressing the root causes of malnutrition; (SO3) building the resilience, enabling environment and market access for smallholder farmers, especially women; (SO4) supporting government institutions to provide social protection systems (including home grown school meals) and disaster preparedness and response; and (SO5) improving access to supply chain services for humanitarian and development actors.

The Communications Associate will be based in Lusaka Zambia and shall report to the Communications & Reports Officer.

JOB PURPOSE:

To support all Operational Information Management and Performance Reporting (OIM & PR) activities and contribute to the establishment and presentation of standard operating picture of WFP programme portfolio and associated results that facilitate informed and timely decision-making at all levels throughout the organisation.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

• Prepare quality operational information management (OIM) products in line with established review and approval workflows. Products include situation reports for WFP and external audiences,  country briefs, donor briefs, operational dashboards, topic briefs, for the Executive Director, Regional Bureau and internal stakeholders and daily operational briefs.
• Support the preparation of Annual Corporate Report (ACR) for the Annual Reporting Exercise in collaboration with the country office programme, monitoring & evaluation, logistics and resource management functions by coordinating to ensure coherence and quality of performance information.
• Guide staff to ensure that standard OIM & PR procedures and templates are followed to drive the quality, consistency and standardisation of information management and performance reporting across WFP.
• Prepare concept of operations and communication documentation increasing visibility of the WFP Zambia operation overall.
• Prepare infographics and communication and visibility products/fact sheets as required. Knowledge of design software is required.
• Take stock of and develop innovative solutions to further improve and harmonize WFP information Management Products and Processes including dissemination to a range of audiences to enhance partnerships with donors, UN agencies and counterparts.
• Gather relevant contextual (political and humanitarian) information and data from media and local internal and external sources to provide operational awareness and understanding of events that may have humanitarian and/or operational impact.
• Under guidance, take part and contribute to the United Nations and humanitarian information management working groups, knowledge networks and communities of practice to disseminate WFP operational achievements and maximize the visibility of WFP emergency response impact in UN joint operational products.
• Organize regular documentation of all the CO information products in an accessible and structured knowledge management repository to preserve the institutional memory of the emergency response.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Education: Completion of undergraduate degree in Political Science, Economics, Statistics, Information Management or Journalism, English and linguistics, Business Management, Social Sciences or other relevant field.
Experience: 3 years or more of professional experience in a relevant field of work, with a background and interest in international humanitarian development. Experience in reporting on developmental/humanitarian operations.
Knowledge and Skills:

• Specialised knowledge of information management best practices, techniques and processes with some understanding of the basic theoretical background.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including substantive analysis and report writing skills.
• Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly assimilate, UN/WFP-specific processes and systems.

Language: Fluency (both oral and written) in English (proficient/level C)Education.