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ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Back ground- Palestine Country Office

Over the past five years, socioeconomic conditions in the State of Palestine have deteriorated and a protracted protection and humanitarian crisis has undermined the food security of millions of Palestinians. 1.8 million people are food insecure across Palestine and the aid dependency ratio is increasing. Rising inflation, linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and now also spurred by the Global Food Crisis, has contributed to reductions in the purchasing power of Palestinians and increased food insecurity. For Palestinians engaged in agriculture and herding, climate-related obstacles, including droughts and rising temperatures, increasingly impede productivity.

Building on the strengths of its 2018-2022 country strategic plan, WFP Palestine’s new plan for 2023–2028 will address the needs of Palestinian communities through a humanitarian‑development–peace nexus approach, responding to immediate humanitarian needs and simultaneously addressing longstanding socioeconomic vulnerability.

While food assistance, through cash-based transfers and in-kind food to meet essential needs, remains WFP’s largest activity, this will be complemented by livelihood and resilience building interventions to address issues of poverty and poor labour-force participation, which have been identified as one of the key drivers of poor access to food, and to strengthen resistance to shocks. Nutrition integration will be integrated throughout the programme, to address immediate and underlying causes of micronutrient deficiencies.

WFP Palestine has demonstrated longstanding commitment and contribution to the strengthening of capacity at the national level, through strategic partnerships with various government line ministries, to enhance the consideration of food security, shock-responsiveness and nutrition-sensitivity in national systems, programmes, policies and plans. WFP is engaged in joint programming and implementation with other United Nations agencies. Under the new CSP, WFP is expanding its enabling services – in the form of a CBT platform, CFM, logs sector – to continue supporting the wider humanitarian community to achieve collective outcomes and continue supporting the people we serve.

JOB PURPOSE

The escalation of the conflict which began on 7 October in Gaza, resulted in the disruption of electricity, food, water, and fuel supplies, as well as restricted access to and movement within Gaza. This has caused a significant worsening of the humanitarian crisis and a large-scale displacement of the population within Gaza. Due to the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis, the significant impact on the supply chain and the access challenges to and inside Gaza, humanitarian organizations face significant logistics challenges for the delivery of relief supplies and life-saving cargo. In response to the request made by the Palestine Humanitarian Country Team, the Palestine Logistics Cluster was officially activated on 16 October of 2023. Following this, a logistics coordination cell based in Cairo is supporting information management and coordination efforts, and supports the operational response through the Egypt corridor for Gaza.

Under the direct supervision of the Logistics Coordinator based in Cairo, and in close collaboration with the WFP country office and Logistics Cluster Coordinator for Palestine, the Information Management Officer is in charge of identifying the information needs of the humanitarian logistics community and responding to them in the most efficient way possible, by implementing the tasks described below.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• The IMO will act as the focal point for collecting, analysing and disseminating logistics information, in close coordination with logistics and information personnel of other humanitarian organizations and national counterparts involved in the humanitarian response.
• Produce Logistics coordination products/reports in specific formats as required within the operation. Key products include: situation updates, bulletins, snapshots, briefings, situation updates.
• Liaise with Logistics coordination cell participants, other stakeholders, ERC, OCHA, UNWRA and national counterparts to gather information for the production of sitreps and bulletins, ensuring that challenges and concerns relating to the logistics operation are represented.
• Gather information on the overall logistics situation, including comprehensive data on logistics procedures and bottlenecks from the various Logistics coordination cell participants and national authorities and support emergency response operations with the drafting of lessons learned mission reports, as required.
• Support the Logistics Coordinator as required in drafting donor proposals and reports, collating key operational information and provide support as required.
• Draft, consolidate, and share key logistics information and procedures, such as ConOps and SOPs ensuring they are regularly revised/updated if required. Inform relevant stakeholders on commodity tracking reporting procedures.
• Manage content of Logistics country operations webpage – in close coordination with Global Logistics Cluster support team in Rome.

• Inform relevant stakeholders on commodity tracking reporting procedures and use Microsoft Excel to generate tables, charts, reports based on the Relief Item Tracking Application (RITA) data, to illustrate cargo flow as entered into the system
• Maintain the Palestine Logistics Cluster SharePoint site, ensuring proper archiving of files and advising Logistics Cluster staff on best practices for filing.
• Prepare operational overview, briefings and snapshots on the logistics operation for management, donors, stakeholders, Humanitarian Country Team, Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator and other stakeholders.
• Work closely with OCHA to ensure updated logistics information is disseminated to all focal points as necessary. Attend coordination meetings on access constraints and Information Management Working Group and provide updates on logistics bottlenecks to OCHA working groups on a regular basis.
• Contribute to the Humanitarian Needs Assessment, Humanitarian Response Plan and other interagency key documents.
• Identify the most appropriate methodology to source and map information that can be used for advocacy in addressing issues in the supply chain.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
• Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
• Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
• Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
• Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
• Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
• Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
• Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
• Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
• Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
• Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: University degree in economics, social sciences, international relations, communications, supply chain management, journalism or related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language: Proficiency in English and Arabic both oral and written.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum five years of professional experience in an international context including: responsibility in information management, communications and/or reporting roles; experience with reporting/tracking systems; Previous experience with humanitarian organizations and/or in emergencies is an advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills; high attention to detail and proofreading ability; good research and analytical skills; ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure as part of a team; good communication and networking skills; ability to work independently while asking questions and seeking support in a fast-paced work environment; willingness to work in challenging environments / field locations.
• Proficient in MS Office package, particularly in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Demonstrated ability in data acquisition and knowledge of Access or other database tools is a great advantage. Experience with SharePoint is a distinct advantage. Demonstrated ability in acquiring, wrangling, structuring, manipulating and visualizing unstructured and structured data with BI platforms like Power BI or Tableau is a distinct advantage.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

10 March 2024

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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.