PROGRAMME OFFICER - RIGHT TO FOOD
Location : Lilongwe, MALAWI
Application Deadline : 01-Aug-14
Additional Category Crisis Prevention and Recovery
Type of Contract : FTA Local
Post Level : NO-A
Languages Required : English
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 01-Sep-2014
Duration of Initial Contract : 1 Year
Expected Duration of Assignment : 1 Year
Background
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Head of the Resident Coordinator's Office, the Programme Officer is responsible for management of the Right to Food window of the One Fund. The Programme Officer will provide fund management services including planning, budgeting, and oversight of disbursement in line with the rules and regulations of the managing agent. The Programme Officer will also be tasked with monitoring and supporting progress of the various projects granted resources under the Right to Food window.
Duties and Responsibilities
Fund Management services for the Right to Food window:
- Ensures timely transfer of resources to benefitting agencies;
- Ensures effective accounting for project expenses and delivery;
- Ensures accurate and timely reporting of financial expenditure
Administrative support for the development of the Right to Food Agenda:
- Oversees the process of identifying the CSO's who will be responsible for implementing the different aspects of the project in consultation with the project board, the OHCHR Human Rights Advisor and the Resident Coordinator's Office;
- Coordinates the different dialogue structures necessary to ensure progress on the Right to Food agenda
Monitoring, evaluation and reporting:
- Effectively supports grant recipients in their implementation;
- Effectively evaluates impact of selected programs and projects;
- Effectively reports to different fora, through narrative and written reports, on progress made.
Substantive support for the development of the Right to Food Agenda:
- Assists in facilitating national debate and dialogue to build awareness on Right to Food policies, strategies and programs;
- Assists in ensuring best practices are identified and widely disseminated;
- Effectively advocates for the full realization of the Right to Food in Malawi
Competencies
Core Competencies:
- Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment
- Self-development, initiative-taking
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work
- Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively
- Creating synergies through self-control
- Managing conflict
- Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member.
- Informed and transparent decision making
Functional Competencies: Advocacy/Advancing a Policy-Oriented Agenda:
- Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating the Right to Food agenda.
Results-Based Programme Development and Management
- Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work;
- Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration;
- Monitors specific stages of projects/programme implementation;
- Analyses country situation to identify opportunities for project development.
Building Strategic Partnerships:Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues;
- Analyses and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders.
Resource Mobilization:
- Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies;
- Analyses information/databases on potential and actual donors;
- Develops a database of project profiles. Identifies opportunities for project proposals for presentation to donors.
Innovation and Marketing New Approaches:
- Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
- Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches.
Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise:
- Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position;
- Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks;
- Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning;
- Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
- Demonstrates in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments.
Global Leadership and Advocacy for UN's Goals:
- Identifies and communicates relevant information for advocacy for UN's goals for a variety of audiences
- Identifies and takes advantage of opportunities for advocating for UN's mandate
Client Orientation:
- Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion
- Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines
- Anticipates client needs and addresses them promptly
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Master's Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences or related field.
Experince:
- 2 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects. Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web based management systems
Language Profiency:
- Good Spoken and Written English.
