Programme Associate, Nutrition - UN World Food Programme

The Office of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Tamale invites applications from suitable candidates to fill the vacancy below.

Job Title: Programme Associate (nutrition)

Duration: Fixed Term (1 year renewable)

Post Grade Duty:  :  GS 6

Station: Tamale

JOB PURPOSE:

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Ghana aims to support Government and stakeholders to create more efficient, equitable, resilient and inclusive food systems, contributing to addressing stunting, micronutrient deficiencies and overweight and obesity. Under its Country Strategic Plan (2019-2023), WFP works in partnership with the Government and other stakeholders to achieve four strategic outcomes:

• Strategic Outcome 1 (S01): Vulnerable populations, including children and women of reproductive age in regions with high burden of malnutrition have improved nutritional status in line with national targets by 2025.
• Strategic Outcome 2 (S02): Targeted populations and communities in Ghana benefit from more efficient, inclusive and resilient food systems which support nutrition value chains by 2030.
• Strategic Outcome 3 (S03): Local and national institutions have strengthened capacity to better target and manage food security, nutrition and social protection programmes by 2030.
• Strategic Outcome 4 (SO4): Government efforts towards achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 are supported by advocacy and effective and coherent policy frameworks.

The purpose of this position is to assist in the implementation and management of the nutrition programme under S01 Including leadership and implementation of the Mobile Data Collection and Analytics (MDCA) tool

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES (not alI inclusive, within delegated authority)

Under the direct supervision of the Nutritionist/S01 Activity Manager and the overall supervision of the Head of Sub-office­Tamale, the Programme Associate (Nutrition) will be expected to perform the following duties:

• Provide project management and administrative support to nutrition-related programmes, projects and activities ensuring a coordinated approach to wider programmes and projects that comply with WFP standards and
• Support in facilitating beneficiary identification, Pre­registration and SCOPE registration of beneficiaries under the SO1 activities.
• Lead the implementation of Mobile Data Collection and Analytics (MDCA) and its integration into WFP SCOPE
• Perform regular update of household data, enrolment and verification of households, creation of distribution cycles, deduplication and adjudication on WFP SCOPE platform.
• Prepare a range of presentations, reports and data analysis on MDCA and OHS SCOPE registration and highlight trends/issues ensuring deliverables adhere to corporates standards and quality control.
• Support the capacity strengthening of WFP staff and partners including government on nutrition policies, programmes, strategies, action plans, protocols, guidelines, manuals, etc.
• Provide support for operational partnerships, including the identification of potential partners and inter-agency collaboration to ensure a strong multi-sectorial response to nutrition and represent WFP at relevant committees and fora including inter-agency sub-committees when the need
• Liaise with internal counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
• Support the regular monitoring of nutrition-related funds, grants and budget expenditure.
• Support in coordinating the organization of meetings including steering committee meetings and workshops with partners and maintain up to date database with partners
• Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly response and deploy the needed resources to affected areas at the onset of crisis
• Performed any other related duty as required
  

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:

• At least 3 years of work exqpenence in public health, food security, and nutrition related activities
  
• Experience in programme mianagenent, monitoring and report.
  
• Experience in beneficiary database moanagement and date analysis
  
• Experience in working in multicultural environment
  
• Experience in cash based transfer activities.
  

STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

Education:

• At least a University degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Food Science or other related field
  

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral
  
• Ability to use software for nutetional assessment and costes analysis.
  
• Good computer knowledge and database skills inecluding knowledge on data analysis.
  
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary environment/teams and ensure team cohesion
• Maturity, Initlative, courtesy, tact and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
  
• Familiarity with the use of SCOPE and MOCA
  
• Flexibitity in working with community Members, retailers and private sector
  

Language:

Fluency in both written and oral English language is essential