Programme Policy Officer, Climate Resilience
About the role
We are looking to hire a Programme Policy Officer focusing on Climate Resilience to support the design, management, and delivery of climate resilience programming within the World Food Programme's Country Office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The role involves project management, technical guidance, coordination, knowledge management, and capacity building for effective program delivery, as well as partnership identification and development. Responsibilities: - Provide project monitoring and implementation support for integrated resilience activities, undertake field visits, review implementation of project activities to ensure progress towards objectives and identify opportunities of further collaboration. - Design and develop proposals in the climate resilience portfolio under the guidance of the Activity Manager and WFP SO3 Manager. - Provide technical expertise and guidance, including natural resources management, asset creation, regenerative agriculture, livelihood development, natural resource management, among other integrated activities. - Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders. - Support coordination of the climate resilience portfolio across the country office, cooperating partners, and development partners. - Represent WFP in public fora and maintain relationships with the government, development partners, and other organizations involved in natural resource management. - Ensure gender and nutrition perspectives are embedded in programming to empower women, men, and marginalized groups. - Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to integrate climate resilience concepts and approaches, targeting a variety of sectors (i.e. social protection, anticipatory action, school feeding, and agriculture market development). - Produce internal and external operating procedures, knowledge products (e.g., briefs, case studies), and lessons learned, among others. - Any other tasks as may be assigned. How to apply: Apply online via the WFP careers portal: https://wd3.myworkdaysite.com/en-GB/recruiting/wfp/job_openings/job/Dar-es-Salaam-Tanzania-The-United-Rep/Readvertisement---Programme-Policy-Officer--Climate-Resilience_JR126707?locationCountry=db69e332446c11de98360015c5e6daf6
Key requirements
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in climate studies, agriculture, environmental studies, natural resource management, international development, or other related disciplines.
- Five or more years of progressively responsible professional experience working in climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resources management, agriculture, international development, or other related sectors.
- Field experience working on food security, natural resource management and sustainable development, rural livelihoods and poverty reduction, asset creation, or climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes.
- Experience implementing nutrition-sensitive, gender, youth, and inclusion programming is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience engaging and fostering relationships with national and local governments, organizations, and communities.
- Proven ability to design, plan and facilitate trainings and workshops for a diverse audience.
- Excellent interpersonal, networking, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and other standard software packages and systems.
- Previous work and knowledge of WFP’s processes and procedures in the field of asset creation, landscape rehabilitation, and participatory development (i.e. Three-Pronged Approach), is considered an asset.
- General knowledge of UN system policies, rules, regulations, and procedures is considered a plus.
- Fluency (level C) in English and Kiswahili.