Asociado/a de Programas (Transferencias de Base Monetaria, Manejo de Socios Cooperantes e Identificación de Beneficiarios)

The position is responsible for technical work including planning, implementation, and coordination of activities related to cash-based transfers, partner management, and beneficiary identification. The role involves data analysis, coordination with internal and external stakeholders, capacity building, and ensuring compliance with WFP policies and standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized expertise and contribute to development of project activities, plans, and processes within the specific technical area, ensuring alignment with broader program policies and guidelines.
• Provide efficient coordination and specialized support in project management to various specific programs to ensure activities are carried out within established objectives following WFP policies and procedures.
• Prepare detailed reports and substantial data analyses (e.g., food assistance needs, resource utilization, program status, performance) and make recommendations to supervisors ensuring deliverables meet corporate standards and quality control.
• Lead and ensure accurate and timely data recording within the specific technical area (e.g., assistance programs, food security and vulnerability assessments) and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Coordinate and liaise with internal counterparts on complex matters to enable effective collaboration, implementation, and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
• Foster relationships and support partnership building with local partners, agencies, NGOs, and government institutions to conduct accurate food security analyses and ensure efficient food assistance delivery.
• Support capacity strengthening of WFP staff, cooperating partners, and national government within the specific technical area.
• Act as escalation point for resolving complex queries within the area of responsibility.
• Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP can respond rapidly and deploy necessary resources to affected areas at crisis onset.
• Manage a support staff team providing advice, guidance, and training to ensure individual and team objectives are met within agreed standards and deadlines.
• Coordinate with functional units involved in CBT activities and serve as focal point for daily technical and operational support to programmatic and service units.
• Support efficient and effective implementation of national CBT programs; gather feedback, propose and follow up on planning, implementation, and improvement activities ensuring quality controls per data standards and policies.
• Conduct training for field offices, other unit staff, and cooperating partners on key CBT implementation concepts.
• Participate actively in all tender and contracting processes for financial contract providers and maintain ongoing communication for national level implementation.
• Monitor preparation of sectoral evaluations for each functional unit to define appropriate assistance modalities according to context and implement them in all project phases.
• Timely management of beneficiary data in all internal mechanisms.
• Ensure compliance with key normative documents for CBT program implementation and manage their filing and updating (SOPs, operational guides, evaluations, RACI, etc.).
• Support preparation of inputs for internal and external meetings and presentations.
• Compile reports and support data analysis of CBT activities.
• Serve as alternate participant in CPC providing inputs to field offices on selected transfer modalities.
• Provide technical support and follow-up on commitments established within the cash working group framework.
• Support administrative follow-up for program start-up and fund management.
• Perform other relevant CBT, CP Management, or IDM related tasks as required.

Requirements

• Completion of secondary education cycle; post-secondary certificate in relevant functional area is valued.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in accounting and/or administration related area.
• Ability to use computers and Microsoft Office package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Experience using web-based systems and corporate platforms.
• Solid understanding of administrative operating standards and knowledge of international humanitarian and development issues.
• Experience facilitating communication with technical teams such as nutrition, vulnerability analysis and mapping (VAM).
• Experience contributing to program implementation with a high degree of responsibility.
• Experience contributing to policy discussions.
• Fluency in spoken and written Spanish; working knowledge of English is desirable.

Skills

• Accounting
• Administration
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Integrated Web-based Systems
• Corporate Platforms
• Administrative Operating Standards
• International Humanitarian Issues
• Development Issues
• Communication Facilitation
• Nutrition Coordination
• Vulnerability Mapping
• Program Implementation
• Policy Discussion Influence
• Data Analysis
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Capacity Building
• Compliance Management

Languages

Spanish, English