21 September 2024-23:59-GMT+02:00 Eastern European Standard Time (Cairo)

• 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).

• Leadership: Leading and managing teams and providing direction, prioritization, and support for the implementation of EPR activities, response planning and implementation, and engagements with HQ or inter-agency counterparts.
• Strategy: Formulating regional or country-level approaches and guidance for emergency preparedness and response (EPR) and potentially Cross-Cutting Priorities (Protection, Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), Gender, disability inclusion (DI), in line with organizational strategy and the practical realities of operating in the field.
• Early Warning & Analysis: Working in close coordination with CO and RB teams and HQ services, ensuring that WFP is continuously scanning the horizon for potential shocks and stressors that could lead to new emergencies in operational and oversight countries.
• Response Planning: Working with COs and the RB to prepare for emergency responses, including identifying appropriate early warning, advanced preparedness, early action and transition to sustainable programming and exit. Supporting COs to plan and prepare for emergencies, including overseeing contingency planning exercises, developing Concepts of Operations and/or facilitating workshops or simulation exercises.
• Preparedness: Supporting rollout of the WFP Emergency Preparedness Checklist (EPC) in coordination with other functional areas, including training EPR Focal Points and other relevant staff.
• RBC Capacity Development: Ensuring COs and the RB have minimum capabilities for responding to emergencies within the region. This may include supporting, building or maintaining cross-functional rosters and ensuring readiness to deploy at short notice.
• Capacity Development: Leading or supporting WFP’s regional efforts to support national governments, NGOs and Civil Society Partners to better prepare for, and respond to, emergencies.
• Coordination: Managing day-to-day coordination between with RBC, HQ and CO technical counterparts and ensuring an effective flow of information. This will include ensuring active and effective engagement in the Corporate Alert System (CAS), the corporate Early Warning Watch List and other related systems and processes.
• Response: Programmatically leading ‘first wave’ deployments in response to emergencies in the region. This will include helping WFP to quickly design and scale-up new operations that respond to the urgent Food, nutrition and protection needs of crisis-affected populations, as well as to set up the necessary internal capacity and systems to make that happen.
• Resourcing: Guiding support to COs and the RB on funding proposals linked to emergency preparedness and immediate response activations, such as WFP’s IRA funds and the CERF or extra-budgetary proposals in support of emergency preparedness and response activities.
• Representation: Representing WFP in engagements with counterparts in headquarters and COs and in relevant inter agency fora.
• Documentation: Development and drafting of very high-quality strategic and operational documentation.
• Cross-Cutting Commitments: Ensuring that WFP offices supported in operationalizing WFP's commitments to Protection, AAP, Gender and DEI. Ensuring a streamlined application of WFP's cross-cutting commitments are embedded into emergency preparedness and response of Country Offices, in coordination with subject matter experts.

• At least 6 years of progressively responsible professional experience in the humanitarian system.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in low income or emergency settings. Experience working directly with or alongside affected communities is highly desirable.
• A demonstrable track record of operationally responding to emergencies on behalf of a humanitarian organization.
• Prior experience of working with the cluster system or interagency fora is desirable.
• Prior experience of working on an emergency response for WFP, or a WFP cooperating partner is desirable.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting governments to prepare for or respond to emergencies is desirable.
• Experience implementing protection, AAP and or gender programming is desirable.

• Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Can lead a technical team through the programme lifecycle in highly complex contexts to address hunger through interventions that are integrated into long-term strategies.
• Emergency Programming: Demonstrate ability to lead a technical team through the development and implementation of operational initiatives in highly complex emergency situations.
• Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrate the ability to make well informed, strategic decisions surrounding every aspect of transfer modalities (e.g., modality type, strategic opportunities, and areas for change) to improve long term programme effectiveness.
• Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrate ability to engage and advocate for programmes in technical areas, and to build strategic partnerships in technical fields.
• Strategic Policy Engagement with Governments: Position your agency as a partner of choice with influence on a wide set of political dialogues that strengthen national government strategies.
• Cross-Cutting Priorities: Knowledge and experience in gender, gender-based violence, protection, humanitarian principles, access, and other humanitarian policy issues, and their linkages to humanitarian assistance is an advantage.

• We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
• Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
• Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
• Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
• Please contact us at wfprecruitment@wfp.org in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified