15 July 2025-23:59-GMT+02:00 Central Africa Time (Maputo)

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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

WHY JOIN WFP?


WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

Mozambique is one of Africa’s most disaster-prone countries, facing compounding crises of conflict, displacement, extreme weather events, and economic shocks. Under its Country Strategic Plan (CSP 2022-2026), WFP aims to assist the country in tackling the key drivers of hunger and assist vulnerable populations to attain food security and improved nutritional status. WFP aims to protect the food security and nutrition status of vulnerable people and communities affected by shocks and strengthen essential health and nutrition service delivery while leveraging opportunities to initiate resilience building and self-reliance activities.

Acute food insecurity has been on the rise in recent years in northern Mozambique, as conflict and recurring displacement, compounded by climatic and economic shocks, have disrupted communities’ agricultural activities, livelihoods, and purchasing power. The conflict in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, which started in 2017, continues to displace over 715,000 people.

WFP approach to resilience building and addressing root causes in Mozambique focuses on interventions that promote climate change adaptation and food systems (CCAFS), School feeding (SF), Nutrition, Social protection (SP) and Anticipatory Actions.

WFP is looking for an experienced Programme Policy Officer to support WFP’s programme and operations management in northern Mozambique (Cabo Delgado – Pemba Area Office). The Programme Policy Officer will act as a Head of Programme leading the Area Office programme team. The position will support the Head of Area office in coordinating WFP’s emergency response efforts in Northern Mozambique and will play a strategic role in supporting the integration of humanitarian, development, and peace (HDP) nexus approaches to address the root causes of food insecurity and promote sustainable solutions

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

Under the direct guidance and supervision by the Head of Area Office, and in close collaboration with programme teams in the Country office, the Head of Programme will be responsible for the following duties:

Manage WFP programme implementation at field level, ensuring timely and effective deployment of food assistance programmes.
Provide support to the programme team in the AO and technical expertise to contribute to the planning, formulation and implementation of food assistance programmes, including advice on context-specific issues.
Ensure coordination and technical support for implementation of resilience building programmes in Cabo Delgado, with particular focus on strengthening linkages between school feeding, nutrition, social protection and climate and resilience initiatives.
Ensure implementation of programme activities is in line with ensuring the best use of financial resources for achievement of set objectives within a moderate budget.
Facilitate cross-functional coordination at the appropriate level and convene the counterparts from various technical/functional areas to ensure that programmes in the Area Office are delivered in a coherent, integrated, and efficient manner.
Establish and maintain operational partnerships with local government authorities and other partners (eg. international and local NGOs, UN agencies, civil society), to improve programmes and support complementary strategies; identify potential areas for collaborative approaches and initiatives.
Represent WFP in inter-agency forums at technical level and contribute to the development of joint strategies and plans across the Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus.
Provide timely inputs as applicable for programme reports, and a variety of information products or proposals for internal or external use
Lead, motivate and develop the Area Office programme team to enable high performance.
Perform other duties as required.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:


Has actively supported and been engaged in medium to large scale emergency operations and has led or participated in programme implementation within a mid-size, moderately complex country or equivalent environment.
Has experience working across programme and policy function, leading emergency as well as resilience building programmes, and initiatives to operationalize the humanitarian development and peace nexus.
Has gained experience in field operations, preferably in a hardship duty stations.
Has led a mid-size to large team to ensure the effective delivery of objectives.
Has experience working in collaboration with a diverse array of humanitarian actors, including governments, NGOs, U.N. agencies, civil society, etc.
Has led a country/area office programme team or a component of a country office programme portfolio.

Type of contract: Consultant Level II

Duty Station: Pemba

Duration: 11 months

This position is open to Internationals Only.

Female-qualified candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:

15th July 2025

Only Shortlisted Candidates will be Contacted

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Experiência e competências desejadas
Policy Advocacy; Partnership Management; Program Management; Policy Interpretation; Innovation; Data Visualization; Government Relations; Customer-Oriented; Data Analytics; Learning Agility; Technologically Savvy; Emergency Programs; Teamwork; Communication; Policy Analysis; Strategic Thinking; Partner Relationship Management (PRM); People Management; Results-Oriented; Capacity Development; Negotiation; Waterfall Model; Professional Integrity; Analytical Thinking; Broad knowledge and application of specialised areas and tra

Fluency (Level C) in English. Fluency in Portuguese or Spanish, is a requirement.

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