Asistente de Operaciones y Programas
Organizational Context
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's leading hunger response agency, providing food assistance where no one else can. WFP acts rapidly and efficiently to reduce hunger during emergencies and help communities build resilience against future impacts. This role supports WFP's humanitarian assistance activities, including cash transfers and distribution of goods, ensuring timely delivery, efficient resource use, and accountability to beneficiaries and donors.
Job Purpose
This National UN Volunteer position will provide integrated support to the planning, coordination, execution, supervision, and monitoring of operational and programmatic activities for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Panama. The role is crucial for ensuring the effective implementation of humanitarian assistance, including cash transfers and the management of prefabricated units and other supplies. The assignment will strengthen coordination across program, logistics, and operations teams, enhance data collection and analysis, improve reporting, ensure information quality, and identify risks and opportunities. Collaboration with cooperating partners, suppliers, and government institutions is also a key aspect of this role.
Responsibilities
Provide technical and operational support for planning, implementing, and monitoring programmatic and logistical activities according to WFP procedures. Support the coordination and monitoring of cash transfers, including information validation and incident management. Participate in planning and executing post-distribution monitoring (PDM), collecting and analyzing data to identify needs and improvements. Coordinate and track logistics for receiving, storing, transporting, and distributing prefabricated units and supplies, verifying deliveries and documentation. Maintain updated records, databases, and tracking tools, ensuring data quality and traceability. Prepare progress reports, data analyses, and indicators on activities, cash transfers, and logistics, providing recommendations. Coordinate with internal teams, partners, suppliers, and local authorities to facilitate activities and resolve operational issues. Support the monitoring of resources, budgets, services, and contracts. Conduct field visits to verify activity progress and assistance delivery, documenting findings and follow-up actions. Contribute to emergency preparedness and response by supporting operational coordination and resource mobilization.
Work Experience
Requires at least 3 years of relevant professional experience in operational, logistical, or programmatic support, preferably within humanitarian organizations, UN agencies, NGOs, public institutions, or vulnerable population assistance projects. Demonstrable experience in program/project implementation support, logistics coordination, delivery tracking, inventory management, data collection and analysis, reporting, and operational documentation is essential. A driver's license is desirable.
Skills
Accountability, adaptability, flexibility, creativity, judgment, decision-making, planning, organization, professionalism, self-management. Expertise in Administration, Logistics, procurement, and commodities management.