Senior Programme Associate (Site Engineer) SC7, Dollo Ado

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  • Added Date: Tuesday, 08 July 2025
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  • 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).

    CONTRACTUAL INFORMATION
    JOB TITLE: Senior Programme Associate (Site Engineer)
    TYPE OF CONTRACT: Service Contract
    GRADE/LEVEL: SC7
    UNIT/DIVISION: Engineering
    DUTY STATION: Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
    DURATION: 12 months


    ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:

    Ethiopia has made important development gains over the past two decades, reducing poverty and expanding investments in basic social services. However, food insecurity and under nutrition still hinder economic growth. According to government estimates, 7.88 million people require food assistance.

    In Ethiopia, the WFP Ethiopia Country Strategic Plan [CSP] (2025 โ€“ 2030) endeavors to ensure that targeted food-insecure and vulnerable populations benefit from more sustainable and inclusive food systems and increased resilience to shocks to meet their food and nutrition needs. WFP is working to support and implement humanitarian and resilience interactions and interventions in Somali Region with areas under Dollo Ado.

    WFP Engineering provides cost-effective, high-quality, timely, and sustainable water infrastructure to help both WFP and other humanitarian and development actors realise the SDGs. The unit has extensive experience partnering with other UN agencies, governments, and NGOs and the broader humanitarian and development community to provide an efficient response in emergency situations, as well as in longer-term development programmes.

    The Dollo Ado suboffice in the Somali region plays a key role in implementing a wide range of livelihood and resilience activities, including resilience programmes for refugees and host communities with additional projects that are expected to start soon, expanding the scope (geographic and thematic) as well as magnitude of resilience and livelihood activities in the areas under responsibility of the Dollo Ado office. Almost all the initiatives have water management component that requires complex technical engineering, agronomist and community engagement competences for designing and implementing irrigation schemes, water harvesting infrastructures in adequation with the local environment and the community knowledge.

    JOB PURPOSE:

    Under the overall supervision of the Resilience Programme Officer and Head of the Sub Office, the Engineer will provide construction engineering, water management for agronomist purpose and community management expertise to contribute to the efficient delivery and quality outputs of Irrigation as well as other water harvesting infrastructures construction projects.

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

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