JOB DETAILS:
Mission and objectives
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetime. 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. In emergencies, WFP gets food to
where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict, and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries annually. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions,

especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

Context
In Uganda, WFP provides humanitarian and lifesaving assistance in the forms of food and nutrition assistance to over 1.39m refugees across the 13 refugee settlements in the country, supports smallholder farmer production, market, and value chain activities, undertakes school feeding, as well as livelihood and resilience programmes. Through these programme interventions, WFP responds to both the humanitarian and emergency situations in Uganda to meet the needs of vulnerable people, to save and change their lives, and to promote inclusion and resilience building.
As Uganda strives to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and become a middle-income country by 2040, WFP is also assessing its relevance and repositioning its role in Uganda as a key partner through its partnerships with government and other key stakeholders at various levels.

Task description
Support the Crisis Response Unit in the implementation and delivery of food and nutrition assistance to both refugees and vulnerable host population.
• Support in strategic programmatic drive implementation within the Crises Response unit Support programme assurance and its implementation processes.

• Lead on monthly accountabilities and reconciliations across programme interventions.

• Support beneficiary sensitization and awareness creation activities as well as training and capacity building/strengthening for staff and other key stakeholders.
• Support pre, in and post monthly distribution activities including monitoring and reporting.
• Support resource management ensuring efficient monitoring across various pipeline levels.

• Review, compile and analyze program activity data of implementing and cooperating partners, prepare periodic and ad hoc reports, in support of programme implementation.
• Support programme implementation across various WFP intervention locations.
• Support in donor proposal and report writing as well as unit factsheets and standard reports.
• Participate in both internal and external coordination and other required meetings.
• Perform any other tasks as may be required.

Eligibility criteria
Age
18 - 80

Nationality
Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.

Requirements
Required experience
1 years of experience in accountancy/audit and reconciliation related work, humanitarian and development programming, report and project/donor proposal writing, coordination and donor proposals and drafting of donor/end of project reports, consolidating information from different sources, sensitization and awareness creation.
• Good Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point and Access skills
• Ability to perform Statistical analysis, Accounting and Reconciliation
• Programme/Project Management experience especially in developmental and humanitarian programming.
• Ability to implement, under guidance, food assistance programmes deploying the full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding assessments, modality selection and implementation.
• Broad Knowledge of Specialized Areas: Understands basic technical concepts and data and their relevance to food assistance programmes.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills, as well as strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to work in a team as well as under tight deadlines and pressure.
• Sound security awareness
• Have interest in saving and changing lives through provision of food assistance to achieve zero hunger with WFP; volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System.

Area(s) of expertise
• Crisis and emergency response, Development programmes, Economics and finance
• Driving license

Languages
• English, Level: Fluent, Required

Required education level
• Bachelor degree or equivalent in Development Studies, Accounting, Business Studies/Management, Economics, Statistics or Management Information Studies/Systems, Information Studies, Computer Science.

Competencies and values
• Accountability
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Creativity
• Judgement and decision-making
• Planning and organizing
• Professionalism
• Self-management