Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster Coordination & Information Management Officer SC8 – Odesa (1 Position)
JOB DETAIL
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
10 November 2024-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Warsaw)
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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).
📌 Type of Contract: Service Contract, SC8
➡️ Unit / Division: Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster
📍 Duty Station: Odesa
➡️ Duration: 12 months(renewable)
🇺🇦 The position is only open to Ukrainian nationals or residents of Ukraine, with a legal work permit.
Why work with WFP Ukraine?
The war in Ukraine has had drastic consequences, both for people inside the country and for those around the world who depend on its food supplies. The war has caused immense suffering for civilians, displaced families, and disrupted supply chains and food production. It has caused one of the fastest forced population movements since the Second World War. Close to 6 million Ukrainians are still living as refugees across Europe, and almost 3.3 million are internally displaced. Many have lost their homes and livelihoods. As food production and supply lines are disrupted by fighting, many families in the east and south of Ukraine do not have reliable access to nutritious food.
WFP uses a combination of food and cash assistance to support communities affected by the war. This includes working with local partners to distribute food boxes in areas near the frontline and providing cash transfers in locations where people have access to banks and markets to buy food. Since March 2022, WFP has distributed food and cash assistance equivalent to 3.01 billion meals to people displaced and affected by the war.
At WFP Ukraine, we offer a wide range of benefits and entitlements and favorable working conditions for Service Contract holders. Some of them are:
✅Competitive salaries per job level
✅Pension contribution added to net salary
✅ Medical insurance with the possibility to enrolleligible dependents
✅ Applicable danger pay (revised on quarterly basis)
✅ Annual leave – 30 days per year
✅18 weeks of parental leave for birth mothers and 4 weeks of parental leave for non-birth parent
✅ 1 day per week remote working option within the duty station (subject to conditions)
✅ Accessible premises & reasonable accommodation
✅ Learning & development opportunities
How can you make a difference?
The officer role provides coordination and information management support to the sub cluster clusters (downstream) and reports to the national cluster (upstream). Support includes supportingthemanagementoftheFSL clusterdatabase qualitativeandquantitativedatacollection,cleaning,collation, and other related functions
1. Capacity Building:
- Provide oversight, support, mentoring, and coaching to Cluster Focal Points (CFPs) and other relevant personnel.
- Provide orientation over time on the cluster core functions; coordination, monitoring & reporting, needs assessment, strategy & planning, technical standards, advocacy and accountability to affected persons.
- Identify capacity gaps and develop tailored capacity-building plans to enhance the skills and knowledge of cluster partners.
- Organize and facilitate training workshops, webinars, and knowledge-sharing sessions to improve the technical and coordination capabilities of cluster partners.
2. Coordination:
- Foster a collaborative environment among cluster members, encouraging information exchange and joint planning.
- Ensure monthly reporting updates and gap analyses are shared with all FSL partners across all coordination forums in the South-Hub;
- Manage the food requests, including contacting the partners, maintenance of the database and regular updates of the database and following up with partners and other organizations.
- Facilitate the development of joint strategies and action plans to address food security and livelihoods challenges in the humanitarian context at the Oblast/ Rayon level; responding to crisis events such as the mandatory evacuations etc.
- Engage with other relevant clusters and sectors to ensure cross-cutting coordination and integration of efforts.
3. Information Management:
- Develop and maintain an effective information management system to track and analyze relevant data and trends related to food security and livelihoods.
- Collect, synthesize, and disseminate information to cluster partners and stakeholders, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
- Produce information products (e.g., maps, dashboards, reports) to support decision-making and advocacy efforts.
- Collaborate with technical experts to ensure the integration of relevant information into cluster strategies and interventions.
- Support partner reporting via ActivityInfo platform. Identify and utilize secondary data and information resources.
- Perform any other tasks that may be required.
To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have:
Education:
Advanced University degree, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses in: International Affairs, Economics, Management, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other field relevant to international development assistance, or other related fields.
Experience:
At least one (1) year of postgraduate professional experience of working in International Affairs, Economics, Management, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, or other related field.
Experience of working in the area of information management, coordination or food security programs is an added advantage.
Knowledge & Skills:
The position is for a dynamic and agile coordination and information management officer.
Specifically, we are looking for: proven knowledge, abilities and skills in the areas of preparing a variety of quantitative and qualitative information summaries and reports;
Strong knowledge of and experience in using Excel; maintenance of contact database;
Advanced written and communication skills; ability to learn quickly without need for external follow up and to anticipate bottlenecks.
Languages:
Fluency in oral and written English and Ukrainian.
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