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The World Food Programme is the food assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
Digital solutions are rapidly reaching some of the most vulnerable people and places affected by crisis. As one of the main humanitarian actors, the World Food Programme (WFP) has the opportunity and the obligation to leverage data and technology to better know and serve those in need by digitally transforming the way it works. Such ambition led to a plan aimed at establishing, integrating, and mainstreaming the core elements of an end-to-end digital business process.
WFP Kenya Country Office (KCO) has 9 office locations Nairobi, Mombasa, Garissa, Dadaab, Wajir, Kakuma, Lodwar, Isiolo and Marsabit). The Head of the Business Transformation Unit, reporting to the Deputy Country Director, is accountable for providing all KCO staff with the technology products and services that they require to do their work.
For the Nairobi office location, the Business Transformation Unit (BTU) is also responsible for providing IT services to other offices such as Regional Bureau East and Central Africa (RBN), SCOPE Global Service Desk and the Digital Transformation Unit. The Business Transformation Unit is comprised of 4 teams. The Head of BTU manages 11 staff and has an indirect reporting line to 3 TEC staff in Field Offices (Mombasa, Kakuma and Dadaab).
JOB PURPOSE
The Head of Business Transformation Unit role is focused on improving the value of technology in WFP Kenya. Through working with our internal clients, building strong relationships with senior management and key stakeholders, continual service improvements and mainstreaming of innovations, the shift to a new digital landscape supports our operational requirements.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
Advanced university degree in business management, computer science, telecommunications engineering or social sciences, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience or trainings/courses.
Experience:
Language:
Fluency (level C) in English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language, Portuguese.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
Knowledge & Skills:
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The selected candidate will be employed on a fixed-term contract with a probationary period of one year. He/she will be required to travel abroad sometime to remote and difficult locations.
WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package, including basic salary, post adjustment, relocation entitlement, travel and shipment allowances, 30 days’ annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, pension plan and medical insurance. For more details please visit icsc.un.org
Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply
WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.
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.
JOB PURPOSE
WFP is seeking to recruit a Risk Management and Financial Services Specialist within Strategic Outcome 2 of the WFP Kenya Country Strategic Plan (2018-2023). Strategic Outcome 2 is designed to address bottlenecks in food production, transformation and consumption in food insecure areas in the arid and semi-arid lands through a systems-oriented, and risk management-, market- and community-based approach. Activities aim at addressing climate-related threats to food security and well-being by adopting climate smart technologies, investments in resilience of households, communities, institutions, market access for smallholder farmers, and combines these with innovative new approaches throughout the food system.
The risk management and financial services component will build on WFP’s extensive market and supply chain expertise, analyses and identified food-based business opportunities along the value chain in the ASALs, and subsequent business plans and models thus to enable WFP beneficiaries to gradually transition from a situation of food insecurity to self-sufficiecy and eventually market actors.
The work will build on WFP’s global experience and learning on integrated risk management also known as Rural Resilience Initiative (R4). R4 was introduced in Kenya in 2017 with positive results and is now being scaled up. WFP also seeks to build on long-standing efforts to link the creation of climate-resilient technologies at community level to microfinance - particularly village savings and loans associations, as a bridge towards financial inclusion. Additional innovative areas where financial services will need to be mainstreamed include farmer organisation capacity strengthening, youth engagement in agribusiness and the strengthening of capacity of small and medium-scale food retailers and processors in the ASALs.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The candidate is required to meet the following qualifications:
The following qualifications are an added advantage:
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
The Programme Policy Officer will be responsible for the following areas:
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
People
Performance
Partnership
BACKGROUND:
WFP is a member of a consortium of public and private institutions, known as the Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA), to help smallholder farmers unlock new opportunities. The Alliance works by supporting smallholder farmers to move from subsistence farming to market-oriented agriculture by connecting demand for their crops with commercial markets, and further by helping them to access formal contracts. These contracts help farmers to access the credit, resources and services necessary to plant and harvest quality crops, which in turn boosts incomes and builds long-term resilience. The Alliance is today operating in a pilot phase in Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Kenya.
In Kenya, the Alliance has been in operation since 2017 and have reached over 25,000+ farmers in two years of operation. FtMA operates in 9 counties and links smallholder farmers to off-take markets with pre-planting forward delivery contracts, offered improved input packages linked to mandatory crop insurance available on credit by partnering financial institutions and organize comprehensive training package over the course of the season.
FtMA does this with PATH – a holistic value chain solution supporting African farming families transition to commercial agriculture.
FtMA’ s mission is to create a thriving and sustainable agricultural sector in Africa that aims to empower farmers, forge strong markets, and improve global food supply. Through its six Global Members, FtMA leverages the knowledge, experience and footprints of the world’s leading experts in agriculture. FtMA’ s mission is to enable a thriving and sustainable agricultural sector in Africa that aims to empower farmers, forge strong markets, and improve global food supply.
FtMA has been creating a supporting robust digital platform which operationalizes the PATH solution. The digital solution makes it easier for farmers to access locally provided agricultural services, reaching far beyond their communities. Additionally, FtMA leverages its data points to systematically collect data to provide deeper insight to markets for product and service innovation.
Unilever-Transform
FtMA – TRANSFORM: Market Based Solution
Despite the strong results to date, FtMA believes that more needs to be done in order to overcome the barriers preventing smallholders from increasing their agricultural production and lift themselves out of poverty sustainably. FtMA has ambitious plans to achieve this by expanding its lending portfolio and to onboard more ecosystem players to create a competitive and transparent marketplace, accessible to farmers through digital tools. Unilever-Transform have provided funds to FtMA to develop Farmer Service Centers through Agribusiness Advisors in Nakuru and Tharaka Nithi counties, with a possibility of scaling up in Phase II with a subsequent grant to all counties where FtMA operates.
WFP takes the lead in coordinating this comprehensive value chain intervention through an extensive partnership with all stakeholders and for the benefit of smallholder farmers’ resilience and livelihoods. WFP is looking for an individual to push forward these efforts.
JOB PURPOSE
ROLE:
The Alliance seeks an experienced professional for the key role of Project Manager (Farmer Service Centres) in Kenya.
Under the management of the FtMA Country Coordinator, the Project Manager will be responsible for equipping, training and expanding the network of Farmer Service Centres in Kenya, as well as the learnings. The incumbent will lead the Unilever-funded research project (Phase 1) and play a critical role in translating formative and implementation research findings into an evidence-based activity design for Phase 2 implementation of the Farmer Service Centres.
Reporting:
The Project Manager will report directly to the Country Coordinator of the Farm to Market Alliance in the country and liaise regularly with WFP staff as well as other FtMA members for technical guidance and industry best standards and trends. The position will involve frequent travel in the country.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Officer will be responsible for the following areas:
Deliverables:
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
A minimum of an advanced university degree in one or more of the following disciplines: agricultural economics, economics, development studies or development economics, finance, or agriculture.
Experience:
At least five (5) years of postgraduate experience in agricultural, financial or business services, with particular exposure to SME and micro agribusinesses.
Language Fluency in English is required.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
Knowledge & Skills:
OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS
The following qualifications are an added advantage:
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
People
Performance
Partnership
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