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Vacancy Announcement

WFP encourages female candidates and people with disabilities to apply.

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a committed to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity and disability.competitive basis. We are

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

WFP offers a competitive benefits package including salary, plus a medical insurance.

Job Title: School kitchen construction monitoring senior associate support to School Feeding

Grade: SSA-7

Type of contract:WFP Special Services Agreement

Duration: From 1 May 2024 to 31 December 2024

Duty Station: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Vacancy Number: One

Date of Publication: 15 March 2024

Deadline of Application: 22 March 2024

This vacancy announcement is for Nationals from Cambodia Only.

JOB PURPOSE

Under the School Feeding activity of the CSP, WFP is handing over the school feeding programme to the MoEYS gradually until 2028. WFP is committed to handing over schools that are fully prepared to manage the school feeding programme, which includes having adequate infrastructure (school kitchens). WFP works with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), Provincial Departments of Education, Youth and Sport (PDoEYS), local authorities and other stakeholders to construct and maintain school feeding infrastructure in schools where school meals are provided. By end-2024, WFP plans to complete the construction of more than 100 new school kitchens in WFP’s supporting Provinces, partnering with PDoEYS and local authorities. This includes construction sites in remote schools.

The position will report directly to the School Feeding Programme Policy Officer (Operations) and work closely with the MoEYS Construction Department for school feeding infrastructure, including school kitchens and/or eating halls. The main responsibility is to ensure that the infrastructure is adapted to the standard design, oversee the construction process, and ensure acceptable quality.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. In collaboration with the Construction Department at MoEYS, assist schools in implementing kitchen construction in the assigned geographical areas and guide schools to ensure quality assurance of the construction work throughout the construction process in line with programme guidelines, procedures, and tools.
2. Contribute to the technical and financial analysis of partner bids and ensure technical compliance as specified in the tender documents.
3. Work with relevant stakeholders at the sub-national level, mainly WFP Area Offices, district and provincial Offices of Education, Youth and Sport in the planning and implementation of activities related to school kitchen infrastructure and student eating halls.
4. Facilitate the communication between schools, districts, and provincial Offices of Education, Youth, and Sport with MoEYS’s construction department on overall school kitchen and student eating hall construction processes.
5. Monitor school kitchen and/or student eating hall construction processes from planning, training, bidding, contracting, constructing, and payment until completion stages in line with WFP monitoring systems and tools to provide timely troubleshooting and advice related to monitoring findings to improve the construction process.
6. Provide weekly progress updates on the construction of school kitchens and/or eating halls, and prepare relevant reports (e.g., field trip, monthly, quarterly progress reports) and financial clearance from partners, consolidate and take further action as needed.
7. Document issues, challenges and lessons learned including best practices of the infrastructure process at the school level and share with the Area/Country Office to help inform learning and WFP / national strategic direction.
8. Perform other activities as required.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Minimum University Degree (BSc) in Civil Engineering, architecture and construction management.
• A Training certificate in the related functional area has added value
• Qualification/experience in health and safety

Language:

Fluency in both oral and written communication in English. Knowledge of the local language is beneficial.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Has a minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in both Civil engineering projects and vertical infrastructure design projects.
• Has experience with infrastructure construction projects, collecting programme output and outcome data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, reporting, sub-national coordinating and communicating findings to relevant stakeholders for action.
• Has experience utilizing computers, including word processing, spreadsheets and other standard software packages and systems.
• Has experience utilizing monitoring and evaluation systems and standards.
• Experience working with communities, schools and commune councils on infrastructure or other community-based programmes.
• Has experience working with Microsoft projects or any other project planning tools.
• Experience with the Government procurement process, especially in construction tender.

KEY COMPETENCEIS

Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.

Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.

Knowledge of Specialized Areas: Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.

Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.

Strategic Policy Engagement w/Government: Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level.

All WFP Employees are expected to demonstrate the competencies and standards of behavior aligned with our core values and defined in the WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK, namely:

1. Leading by example with integrity,
2. Driving results and delivering on commitments,
3. Fostering inclusive and collaborative teamwork,
4. Applying strategic thinking,
5. Building and maintaining sustainable partnerships.

HOW TO APPLY

To be considered, interested candidates are invited to apply via (https://www.wfp.org/careers/job-openings). Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Request for Disability related Reasonable Accommodations:

It is important to WFP to create an accessible and inclusive workplace for everyone. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

WFP is committed to an accessible, inclusive recruitment process. Please contact us at global.inclusion@wfp.org to advise us of any disability related reasonable accommodation or accessibility requests you may have. A member of the reasonable accommodation team will contact you to confidentially discuss your needs.

This email is only to be used for any disability related accessibility requirements and not for sending the application itself. Due to the volume of applications, any applications or CVs sent through this email address will not be considered a formal application and will not receive a reply from WFP.

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.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

WFP’s mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 as per the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2. It works to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

In the period 2019-2023, through the Country Strategic Plan (CSP), WFP Cambodia has been contributing to achieving Zero Hunger by promoting access to nutritious diets through home grown school feeding and improving climate smart food production and transformation capacities of small holder farming communities. WFP helps set standards and guidelines for food transformation to satisfy the increasing demand for nutritious foods. WFP will leverage its subnational presence and existing implementation relationships to build scalable models for replication nationally, and enable subnational counterparts’ hands-on learning in intervention planning, management, and implementation. Further, WFP will support national and subnational disaster and climate change risk management and assist national strategic direction and coordination on food security, nutrition and social protection through enhanced information systems, knowledge management, and public-private and south-south partnerships.

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WFP is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce. WFP has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, abuse of authority or discrimination. 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.

WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment.

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.