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Job Title: International Consultant – Programme Policy Officer (Food Security and Agriculture Cluster )
Grade: CST II
Type of contract: Consultancy
Duration: 11 Months (with possibility of extension)
Duty Station: Kabul
Vacancy Number: 832991
Date of Publication: 26 May 2024
Deadline of Application: 09 June 2024
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.
The hunger crisis in Afghanistan is unfolding at a rapid pace, with 15 million of population now facing acute food insecurity. Work opportunities are shrinking, with most households now reporting just one day of work per week. This comes on top of the worst drought in years, which is especially concerning for the 85 percent of the population who rely on agriculture for livelihoods. Preventing and mitigating a drastic increase in hunger and malnutrition is the aim of WFP in Afghanistan which can only be achieved through the scaled up and sustained complementary food security and nutrition interventions, combined with a scale-up of resilience interventions to safeguard gains. WFP has embarked on a significant month on month scale-up of its crisis response and resilience programmes across the country, ensuring that the programme is delivered at the right scale and time, targeted to the right areas. WFP is also actively following up on evolving trends to pre-empt hotspots, while guaranteeing quality and maximum impact of the programme through the monitoring of these hotspots to be able to support continued donor advocacy.
The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) in Afghanistan was established in 2008 and is co-led by WFP and FAO with an NGO in a co-chair role. The FSAC has had a dedicated Cluster Coordinator since October 2010.
In February 2022, FAO and WFP reached a common understanding on the need to strengthen the coordination of food security and livelihood interventions in Afghanistan, across all regions, and agreed to establish an FSAC Co-coordination position based in Kabul. Both Co-coordinators maintain the primary responsibility for the overall coordination of the FSAC, whereas this newly created position will be supporting the development and implementation of the FSAC strategy as well as the planning and coordination of partners to find synergies and avoid duplication at field level.
The function of the FSAC Co-coordinator is to ensure a timely, coherent and effective food security response by mobilizing stakeholders to respond in a strategic manner to the humanitarian crisis. The Co-coordinator will operate in an Inter-Agency environment that requires high standards of accountability and demonstrable leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, and in which the principles of partnership and collaboration are essential. The Cluster Co-coordinator will represent the FSAC in coordination mechanisms and will advocate for mainstreaming the integration of crosscutting issues into the sector’s work. He/she will work impartially with all members of the sector and its sub-components and will serve and represent the group as a whole, and not as an agency officer. He/She will work closely with the existing Co-coordinator to ensure all six cluster functions are successfully achieved.
The Co-coordinator (WFP) will work alongside the Co-coordinator (FAO) on the facilitation and coordination of the work of the FSAC, actively supporting the achievement of the cluster tasks.
In line with the agreed FSAC functions based on the six IASC core functions, the Co-coordinator (WFP) will work together with the Co-coordinator (FAO) to ensure the coherence and consistency in the humanitarian food security response in Afghanistan. As such the Co-coordinator (WFP) will carry out the following functions:
1. To Support service delivery by:
2. To inform the HC/HCT’s strategic decision-making by:
3. To plan and implement the strategy by
4. To monitor and evaluate performance by
5. Build national capacity in preparedness and contingency planning.
6. Advocacy
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:
All six core functions of the cluster successfully delivered in line with the IASC guidelines as per the accountabilities above.
Education:
Experience:
Knowledge and Skills:
Language:
To be considered, interested candidates are invited to apply via (https://www.wfp.org/careers/job-openings). Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. We want to ensure the recruitment process is fully accessible. Please contact us at afg.hrrecruitment@wfp.org to advise us of any accessibility needs you may have.
WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment
WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.
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