VACANCY NOTICE
World Food Programme (WFP)

Position Title: Programme Policy Officer (GAFSP Project Coordinator)
> Contract Type: Service Contract (SC)
> Level: SC-9 (Equivalent to NOB)
> Contract Duration: 12 months (Renewable)
> Duty Station: Kathmandu, National Center for Fruit Development (NCFD), Nepal
> Vacancy Number: 832377

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ABOUT WFP
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.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The job holder will report to a senior Programme Policy Officer but is expected to operate with a high degree of independence, manage staff to ensure that programme and policy objectives are achieved in full. The incumbent is also expected to be involved in a wide variety of programme and policy activities (such as nutrition integration, climate change adaptation, resilience, social protection, gender equality and women’s empowerment among others) and analytical work, some of which may be of a considerable complexity.

Background
The Government of Nepal received financial assistance from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (“GAFSP”), worth USD 12 million (USD 9 million investment grant and USD 3 million Technical Assistance grant) for implementing a project entitled “Vegetables in Hilly Areas Project (as part of the Nuts and Fruits in Hilly Areas (NAFHA) Project)” for 5 years. Through consent from the Government ADB and WFP have been selected as Supervising Entities for the project. As such, ADB manages the USD 9 million investment grant while WFP manages the Technical Assistance (TA) component of the project contributing to the Project’s Output 2: “production and productivity of project farmers increased”. This project is also part of WFP Nepal’s Country Strategic Plan (CSP), 2024-2028, Strategic Outcome 3: “Smallholder farmers and climate-vulnerable populations in Nepal benefit from climate-resilient and equitable food systems, sustainable livelihoods and climate-proof assets and services by 2028”. Apart from providing technical assistance in the effective delivery of activities of output 2, to be funded by ADB investment and GAFSP grant, the GAFSP’s technical assistance grant of USD 3 million will be used for activities that support smallholder farmers in the production of vegetables and nutritious crops. The project supports 10,000 HHs who have less than 0.2 Ha of land and lack financial resources for fruits and nuts orchard development and will be implemented in 100 Local Governments of 34 districts of five Provinces (Koshi, Bagmati, Gandaki, Karnali and Sudur-Paschim) along the mid-hill highway. The major activities include: a) establishing and operationalizing Farmers Nutrition Schools (FNS) (400 FNS covering 10,000 farmers) focusing on climate-smart, nutrition-sensitive, and good agricultural practices and technology for the production of vegetables and nutrient-dense local crops; b) supporting household availability and utilization of nutritious food (seeds, diversity kits, chicken), c) training and support for home garden fruit plantation and irrigation for nutrition promotion, d) facilitating market linkage for smallholder farmers to localized markets leveraging the home-grown school feeding approach in community schools and e) providing Technical Assistance (TA) – guidance, oversight and monitoring for management of grants to the farmers for farming/production of vegetables, and nutrient-dense local crops. As part of WFP’s TA provisions, WFP is looking to recruit a highly motivated, experienced programme policy officer to serve as Project Coordinator who will support the NAFHA project execution at different levels.

JOB PURPOSE
The Programme Policy Officer (GAFSP Project Coordinator) shall be responsible for overall programmatic coordination of the GAFSP-supported component of the NAFHA project, including information management, and reporting to the GAFSP and capacity strengthening in line with WFP Nepal Country Strategic Plan (CSP) strategic outcomes and Government policies and programmes. S/he will ensure that the NAFHA project is implemented effectively and efficiently contributing to increased beneficiary’s income from climate-resilient vegetable and nutritious crops production.

Application Deadline: 17 April 2024

HOW TO APPLY
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