The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
The position is located in the Kenya Country Office with the incumbent reporting to the Deputy Country Director (for Programe).
WFP has unparalleled expertise in operational services, as well as the unique capacity and global reach to quickly assess needs, connect people, inform choices and effectively mobilize appropriate response tools to provide access to nutritious food while delivering essential support to other actors, including Governments. Through the five-year Country Strategic Plan, WFP in Kenya continues its shift from service delivery to capacity strengthening of national and county institutions to implement sustainable hunger solutions.
The incumbent will manage and coordinate a cross-functional Programme Support Services team, providing strategic and technical guidance, generating an evidence base, disseminating expertise and helping ensure quality programme design
- Lead and coordinate WFP Kenya Programme Support Services, which include: monitoring and evaluation, vulnerability analysis and mapping, beneficiary services, partnerships and data management, gender and protection, and nutrition to ensure that these services actively work together to inform and support WFP Kenya’s Country Strategic Plan (2018-2023) and its implementation;
- Provide expert technical advice and/or mobilize technical expertise to support the Programme Support Service team to promote programme coherence and synergies;
- Oversee the collation, drafting and dissemination of complex food security, nutrition, markets and resilience analysis to enable effective decision-making;
- Lead and support operational research and evidence-building to influence policy dialogue and programme implementation, notably through making monitoring, review and evaluations findings accessible, developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products;
- Lead operational partnerships, including inter-agency collaboration, to ensure a provision of solid and coherent technical programme support.
- Represent WFP during meetings with partners to contribute to technical discussions, exchange of knowledge and experience, advocate for appropriate interventions and identify areas for potential collaboration.
- Support WFP Kenya to continually assess its programme performance for accountability and learning to inform future direction and contribute to embedding of effective learning culture throughout the office;
- Other duties as required.
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Utilizes understanding of WFP’s Strategic Objectives to communicate linkages to team objectives and work.
- Be a force for positive change: Proactively identifies and develops new methods or improvements for self and immediate team to address work challenges within own work area.
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Identifies opportunities to further align individual contributions with WFP’s mission of making an impact on local communities.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Helps colleagues to see the link between their individual tasks and the contributions of their unit’s goals to the broader context of WFP’s mission.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Is able to identify, support and encourage focused on-the-job learning opportunities to address gaps between current skillsets and needed future skillsets for WFP.
- Create an inclusive culture: Recognizes the contributions of teammates, and encourages contributions from culturally different team mates to recognise the value of diversity above and beyond just including it in programming for beneficiaries.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Provides and solicits ongoing constructive feedback on strengths and development opportunities to help develop individual skills, whilst also helping others identify areas for improvement.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Sets clear targets for self and others to focus team efforts in ambiguous situations (e.g., unprecedented issues and/or scenarios)
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Thinks beyond team’s conventional approaches to formulate creative methods for delivering food aid and assistance to beneficiaries.
- Focus on getting results: Maintains focus on achieving individual results in the face of obstacles such as volatile or fragile environments and/or organizational roadblocks.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes personal accountability for upholding and delivering upon team’s commitments and provides assurance to stakeholders.
- Be Decisive: Demonstrates ability to adjust to team’s plans and priorities to optimize outcomes in light of evolving directives, while also responding quickly in high-pressure environments, such as in emergency settings.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Demonstrates an understanding of when and how to tactfully engage other units in conversations on impact, timing, or planning
- Build strong external partnerships: Networks regularly with key external partners using formal and informal opportunities to understand each partner’s unique value proposition, and to build and strengthen relationships
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Demonstrates ability to adapt engagement approach in the context of evolving partner circumstances and expectations
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Demonstrates ability to articulate to internal and external audiences the value that individual contributions and immediate teams bring to partnerships.
| Capability Name | Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level |
| Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance | Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools. |
| Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher) | Demonstrates the ability to design, implement, monitor and provide oversight over effective and efficient programmes deploying different transfer modalities. |
| Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.) | Demonstrates the ability to incorporate technical information into programme design and implementation and appropriately communicate it internally and externally. |
| Emergency Programming | Displays ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches. |
| Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government | Demonstrates the ability to engage key stakeholders (e.g., WFP units, external partners) in policy dialogue to strengthen national government food and nutrition security strategies and programmes. |
- WFP Kenya is well positioned to actively support the Government of Kenya to achieve its SDG2 targets; and is a partner of choice for informing food security and nutrition policies, capacity building and operational support;
- Programme evidence, knowledge and best practice is shared with relevant teams and senior staff to improve the quality of WFP’s direct assistance and technical support;
- WFP support achieves enhanced outcomes for beneficiaries, and evidence and learning from these experiences is captured and shared internally and externally;
- Well prepared, analytic work;
- Well managed programme support services.
Education: Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, 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: At least eight years of postgraduate professional experience with increasing responsibilities in the humanitarian and development sector in a bilateral, multilateral or nongovernmental organization. Proven experience in building synergies among units, projects and regions.
Language: Fluency (level C) in English language.
- Proven capacity to conduct policy and programme analysis and to successfully engage in policy and programme dialogue.
- Good analytical skills, resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgement, tact, negotiating skills;
- High capacity for organization and coordination, as well as an ability to work with a high degree of independence in a team environment;
- Demonstrates the ability to incorporate technical information into policy and strategy formulation and into programme design and implementation, and to appropriately communicate it internally and externally.
- Experience leading teams in strategic discussions;
- Experience working in a multi-donor environment;
- Ability to work in a team and establish effective working relations with persons of different national and cultural backgrounds;
- Ability to deal patiently and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
- Experience in managing diverse and sometimes competing interests and perspectives to arrive at a durable consensus;
- Fluency in English, written and oral; excellent public speaking and presentation skills; excellent computer skills in MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
- A willingness to travel frequently, often to remote areas; ability to cope with situations, which may threaten health or safety; flexibility in accepting work assignments outside normal desk description.
- Please ensure you include your past TWO Performance Approvals / PACE
- WFP is an equal opportunity employer and does not charge fees from applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. Only short listed applicants will be contacted.
- Qualified female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.
- For any queries write to Nairobi.queryhr@wfp.org
Suitable candidates must uphold WFP Apiration Values:-
We are committed, compassionate, visionary and tenacious problem-solvers, helping build a world without hunger.
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