16 November 2024-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

• 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).

WFP is seeking an emergency learning consultant to review and redesign the emergency learning path, to ensure employees working in emergency are equipped with the most relevant skills and knowledge to be able to provide high quality responses. The activities and approach proposed will have to be developed in in close consultation with relevant stakeholders and based on evidence.

• Review existing learning and development gaps within emergency functions, by engaging with a wide range of stakeholders at HQ, Regional Bureau and Country Office level, and leveraging on existing inputs from audits, evaluations, strategic workforce planning exercises and learning needs assessments ;
• Design an emergency response learning path, with activities tailored to the diverse functions and levels involved, with a strong focus on application of learning.

• Key learning and development priorities identified in a participatory and evidence-based manner, through analysis of current gaps and challenges;
• A comprehensive emergency learning path designed and customized for different audiences at different stages of their careers, including diverse learning approaches (in-person training, online learning modules, workshops, and other blended initiatives, mentoring, job swapping/shadowing).

• Minimum 7 years of experience in working across all phases of learning design, development and delivery of different kind of learning solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in developing cross-functional learning paths (and/or curricula) particularly around emergency response.
• Experience in working with subject matter experts to build learning solution and performance support tools, preferably across a range of different business areas is desirable.
• Experience in a UN agency, preferably WFP, or international NGO would be an asset.

• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at the same time and accomplish tasks with follow-through to completion.
• Understanding of learning and capacity development approaches
• Understanding of emergency contexts and challenges.
• Strong ability to engage and manage multiple stakeholders, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate and influence internally with various stakeholders and subject matter experts across business functions, levels and geographical areas.
• Strong stakeholder and client relationship skills. Ability to quickly build knowledge and understanding of stakeholder’s functional/organizational strategy and translate to learning requirements of employees.
• Confidence and mental agility to assimilate different perspectives and formulate recommendations.
• Strong creative problems solving skills; agile, flexible and patient; ability to work with ambiguity, constructive approach to overcoming challenges and build consensus across diverse and global teams.
• Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data to assess the impact of the different learning initiatives

• 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

  global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org

  in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified