Programme Policy Officer – General Food and Nutrition Assistance

The Programme Policy Officer manages WFP Libya's general food assistance portfolio, including partnerships development, implementation management, oversight, and reporting. The role involves collaboration with government counterparts, UN partners, donors, and NGOs to deliver policy support and technical assistance for food and nutrition needs of targeted populations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall planning, coordination, partnerships and oversight of WFP Libya’s general food assistance, most notably in-kind transfers, including coordination with relevant government authorities.
• Develop and strengthen quality partnerships in support of WFP strategic objectives.
• Set up and manage all aspects of the implementation of activities under the general food assistance activity, including complementing nutrition interventions.
• Develop strategy, concept, timelines, operational mechanisms and related work plan to implement.
• Identify and develop targeting and implementation modalities, as well as standard operating procedures (SOP) for the responsible operations.
• Work closely with other units in the country office and in the regional and global headquarters on food basket design, procurement of in-kind food, selection of cooperating partners and design of contractual arrangements to meet programme needs.
• Work with the Head of Programme and other team members on the selection of cooperating partners through due diligence and competitive process.
• Manage and liaise with cooperating partners on all aspects of programme implementation in the field including oversight, capacity strengthening, reporting and accountability measures.
• Support dialogue with other stakeholders in the identification and development of targeting and implementation modalities, SOPs for prepaid cards, distribution mechanisms, project guidelines, selection criteria, assessment questionnaires, payment mechanism and reconciliation.
• Lead capacity building activities for government and partner personnel through elaboration of project guidelines related to general food and nutrition assistance.
• Prepare periodic reports including inputs for public information unit, sitreps and donor relation unit on progress of activities.
• Monitor and manage resources availability and expenditure for responsible operations and support resource mobilization through presentations, donor and media missions, focus groups with beneficiaries.
• Participate in inter-agency meetings and meetings with government counterparts under delegated functions.
• Participate in Social Protection and Rapid Response Mechanisms working groups to strengthen national social safety net and emergency preparedness and response capacities.
• Perform any other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Advanced University degree in Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, International Relations, Law, Marketing, Communications or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.
• At least 5 years’ operational experience in humanitarian and development sectors and track record of working with government institutions, managing NGO partnerships.
• Experience in the Programme design and management at senior levels, preferably food and nutrition assistance programs.
• Experience in nutrition programme design and management in humanitarian setting and UN or donor collaboration experience will be an asset.
• A sound understanding of policy making processes and the ability to distil operationally relevant recommendations/lessons for governments and other partners.
• Strong capacity for analysis, learning, research and innovation.
• Capacity to foster strong cross-agency collaboration.
• Good leadership and interpersonal skills.
• High degree of discretion and diplomacy.
• Excellent communication skills verbally and in writing.
• Fluency in Arabic and English is a must.

Skills

• Programme Design
• Programme Management
• Nutrition Programme Management
• Humanitarian Operations Liaison
• Government Partnership
• NGO Partnership Management
• Policy Analysis
• Operational Research
• Cross-Agency Coordination
• Donor Collaboration
• Food Assistance Programming
• Technical Assistance Delivery
• Report Writing
• Team Leadership in Humanitarian Contexts
• Diplomacy
• Verbal Communication
• Written Communication

Languages

Arabic, English