WFP External Partnership Officer Jobs in South Sudan

WFP External Partnership Officer Jobs in South Sudan

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.

Job Purpose

WFP’s Programme in South Sudan aims to reach more than 5 million people each year with both emergency and recovery assistance.

WFP provides food and nutrition assistance for populations in crisis and delivers safety net programmes such as food assistance for assets, purchase for progress, and food for education to food insecure people in more stable contexts.

In all its programmes WFP seeks to employ the most efficient, effective and appropriate transfer modalities, whether through in-kind food, Cash Based Transfers (CBT), or capacity development, and to do so in as transparent and accountable way complementing partners’ efforts.

WFP South Sudan currently provides CBT to close to 900,000 beneficiaries with USD 4 million on a monthly basis.

In areas where markets are functioning, or can be supported to effectively deliver cash assistance, WFP will scale-up its CBT interventions given the positive impacts it has on beneficiary empowerment and choice, diversification of diets, efficiencies, and local markets.

WFP is also co-chairing the Inter-Agency Cash Working Group together with a non-governmental organization.

WFP is increasingly utilizing the corporate Scope system for beneficiary and assistance transfer management, and is increasing biometrics registration and authentication of beneficiary identities through biometrics checks in order to improve accountability and quality of the programmes.

In all this work development of partnership with UN, NGO and governmental agencies is essential so that the analysis, good practices and information can be effective shared for the common benefit of the humanitarian community.

Digitizing transfer and beneficiary data, and digitalizing assistance processes, and partnering in this with a wide range of agencies, requires careful consideration of which data is collected and how data is acquired, used, stored and shared.

This in order to protect data and uphold individuals’ privacy and dignity, adhering with the principles of data protection.

Key Account-abilities