WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis. We are committed to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees and encourage qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity, and disability.

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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.

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the Head of Operations Support, the purpose of this assignment is to lead and manage WFP Afghanistan’s digital delivery solutions, identity management (IDM) and contribute to effective, efficient, and transparent programme delivery. The incumbent will be leading the SCOPE team based in the Country Office and providing regular support to Field offices.

Key Accountabilities:

Based in the CO, the Programme Policy Officer will be leading the SCOPE team in providing a strategic vision to the overall implementation of SCOPE digital delivery solutions. Business needs analysis, standardization of processes for increased efficiencies and close coordination with the field office are among the key responsibilities.

Key responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Develop and implement strategic plan for digitalization of assistance for the Country Office incorporating assurance standards.
• Initiate, lead and manage WFP Afghanistan’s digital delivery solutions for enhanced programme delivery including the expansion of SCOPE to cover all the modalities, Secure Data transfers solutions, and Integration with SugarCRM.
• Lead and manage the implementation of SCOPE in Afghanistan and ensure its institutionalization in WFP’s programmes including cash-based transfers, in-kind and commodity vouchers to cover all the modalities entirely.
• Support the development of functional work plans, ensuring compliance with wider WFP policies, standards, and strategies; and continuously improve guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures, processes and procedures of business relationship management and Business Analysis
• Develop operational partnerships and maintain established strategic partnerships around the use of SCOPE by external partners including UN agencies and identify opportunities for collaborative approaches and initiatives.
• Contribute to the discussions around social protection programmes and collaborate efforts towards creation of a social registry of vulnerable population with other stakeholders.
• Regularly perform data analysis for the purposes of supporting programme implementation and informed decision making.
• Closely work with CO Protection to ensure personal data protection and privacy of personal information of beneficiaries that shall include rollout of secure means of PII sharing, data minimization and awareness trainings to CPs and Area Offices around handling PII according to WFP’s guide to personal data protection and privacy.
• Active coordination with Digital Delivery Solutions team of regional bureau and HQ as well as SCOPE service desk for troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Lead and support the team to manage deduplication across modalities and maintain a duplication rate of below 5%.
• Provide regular support to field offices on registrations, deduplication, and transfers management and ensuring quarterly visits to field offices.
• Support field offices, cooperating partners and financial services providers in terms of capacity building around the use of SCOPE, quality data collection and compliance with WFP standard operating procedures.
• Develop and implement unit succession planning to enhance the capacity of the team and as a preparedness measure to ensure business continuity in instances of staff turnover.

Education:    

• Advanced university degree in the fields of international development, public administration, business administration or any other relevant field.
• Or first university degree with additional specialized training and additional two years of most related professional work experience.

Minimum Work Experience:

• At least 5 years of continuously progressive experience in the field of international development, humanitarian assistance, project management

Desirable Work Experience:

• Has experience in planning and rollout of digital solutions.
• Has substantial experience in data analysis, project management, business management, and business modelling.
• Has substantial professional experience of producing comprehensive standard operating procedures, and project documents, and implementation plans.
• Has led a large team to ensure the effective delivery of objectives.
• Substantial experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI).

Knowledge & Skills:

• Possession of combination of broad business skills coupled with familiarity with management information systems.
• Advanced computer skills in Word processing, Excel, PowerPoint, typing English/Pashto/Dari.

Languages:

• Ability to write and speak in English, as well as Pashto and Dari.

This vacancy announcement is for Afghan nationals only and WFP encourages especially Afghan females and Afghans with disabilities to apply.

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