- Country: El Salvador
- No of vacancies: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: WFP
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: 2024-02-01
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:
In July 2022, WFP El Salvador began the implementation of its new Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2022-2027. Based on a comprehensive consultation process and analysis of the main drivers of food security and nutrition in the country, and based on WFP humanitarian assistance, the important themes of building resilience, adaptation to climate change and the modification of food preparation practices and eating habits as priorities for WFP’s program portfolio. Climate change multiplies existing threats to food security and malnutrition, will make natural disasters more frequent and intense, make fertile land and water more difficult to access, and increase agricultural productivity even more difficult. to achieve. It will have a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable people, most of whom live in fragile areas prone to climate hazards, ultimately putting their livelihoods at risk, pushing people to seek opportunities in urban areas, often depending on the precarious informal sector or migrating irregularly out of the country.
The position is based in the El Salvador country office, reporting directly to the Emergency Response Assistant.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
Carry out specialized and/or standardized activities and processes related to policies and programs in support of the effective provision of emergency response as assistance measures.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide project management support and/or country office support taking into account established goals and applying WFP policies and procedures.
- Teamwork with internal counterparts, to guarantee information management to monitor assigned activities.
- Provide support to communication activities with partners, agencies, NGOs and public institutions at the local level.
- Serve as a point of contact for the resolution of general queries regarding operations and, if necessary, request assistance.
- Follow standard emergency response practices to ensure that the country office is in a position to respond efficiently and effectively to an emergency.
- Support for tasks related to work with implementing partners with whom the office has a working relationship.
- Provide technical assistance to implementing partners to ensure that humanitarian assistance planning is responsive to WFP objectives and policies.
- As part of the Preparedness and Response Unit, provide support to activities related to strengthening government institutional capacities that work in emergency response.
FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES:
| Specific capacity | Description of expected behavior for the level of competition |
| Program cycle and food assistance | It can facilitate, following guidelines, the implementation of food assistance programs, thanks to the basic understanding of principles and good practices in terms of design, implementation and monitoring. |
| Transfer modalities (food, cash, coupons) | Demonstrates the ability to facilitate, following guidelines, the implementation of food assistance programs in which the full range of transfer modalities is deployed, thanks to a good knowledge of the basic principles that govern the selection and implementation of the different modalities. |
| Knowledge of specialized fields | Understands basic technical data and concepts and their relevance to food assistance programs. |
| Emergency programming | Deploys capacity to contribute to the development, implementation and realignment of high-quality emergency programs. |
| Strategic collaboration on policies with the Government. | Understand and apply the basic principles of collaboration with government interlocutors at the national or local level. |
EXPERIENCE TO PERFORM THIS ROLE:
- 4 years of experience in developing emergency response activities.
- Has facilitated communication with technical teams (e.g. nutrition, resilience, preparedness, vulnerability analysis and mapping (RAM), etc.).
- Has contributed to the implementation of programs and projects.
- Database management, Excel.
- Execution and analysis of budgets and generation of reports.
Desirable experience:
- Experience in using data capture or visualization tools such as ONA and Tableau among others.
- He has worked in humanitarian organizations, ideally in emergency response.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
At least 3 years of university studies in one of the following careers: Systems Engineering, Administration or related careers.
Languages:
Complete command of Spanish and basic knowledge of the English language.
Skills and knowledge:
- Good communication skills.
- Critical mind and good problem-solving skills.
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks under pressure.
- Criterion to know when to apply flexibility without affecting the final results.
- Effective negotiation skills.
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