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JOB TITLE : Programme Policy Officer (Nutrition)
TYPE OF CONTRACT : International Consultancy Level 1
UNIT/DIVISION: Programme Unit / Country Office Gambia
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Banjul, The Gambia
DURATION: 11 months
BACKGROUND
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been actively involved in addressing food security and related challenges in The Gambia. WFP's interventions include supporting food assistance programs, school feeding initiatives, nutrition programs, and resilience-building efforts to help communities adapt to changing environmental conditions. The organization collaborates closely with the Gambian government, local partners, and other stakeholders to achieve its objectives in the country.
PURPOSE
Job holders will work with minimum supervision, in the Programme Unit to effectively deliver WFP programmes and activities in the Gambia CO. Specifically, the job holder will work to deliver results under Strategic Outcome 1 ( Crisis affected population can meet their basic food and nutrition requirement), 2 (People have better nutrition, health & education outcomes) and 4 (Social Protection). S/he will ensure that WFPโs activities (1) incorporate a nutrition objective, outcomes and indicators; (2) are informed by a comprehensive gender and nutrition situation analysis and focus on key nutritionally vulnerable groups across the life cycle; (3) include deliberate nutrition actions and/or provide appropriate delivery platforms to ensure the project will contribute to achieving the identified nutrition objective; (4) Tackle lack of nutrition knowledge; (5) are aligned with national nutrition plans; 6) ensure partnerships and policy engagement to foster a more nutrition-sensitive enabling environment.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the direct supervision of Deputy Country Director and Head of Programme, the Programme Officer will undertake the following tasks:
Design and strategy:
Contribute towards the development of a wide variety of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidance.
Translate WFP policies and other relevant policies into nutrition and social protection strategies, programme design, implementation modalities and operations adapted to the Gambian context
Ensure that WFP nutrition and social protection programmes are consistent with WFP policies as well as relevant national or international guidance.
Provide technical and strategic advice on programme design for nutrition specific and sensitive programming, including assessment and analysis, the choice of relevant objectives, activities (including community engagement), transfer modalities, and commodity to maximized impact on nutrition outcomes.
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.
Explore and develop strategic partnership and linkage with the global initiatives.