Resilience Associate (sc6) Arua Field Office

Organizational Context

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity. WFP operates in complex environments, assisting people recovering from conflict, disasters, and the impacts of climate change. The organization values diversity, inclusion, and a commitment to its mission.

Job Purpose

The Resilience Associate will play a crucial role in supporting the design, coordination, and implementation of resilience-building interventions in the West Nile region. This position ensures strategic coherence across ongoing operations, aligns with government systems and donor priorities, and fosters a strong evidence base for programme growth. The Associate will engage with various stakeholders, including local governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and the private sector, to advance resilience, local economic development, and refugee-host integration. Key responsibilities include providing technical oversight for resilience activities, contributing to the development of concept notes and funding proposals, and documenting lessons learned and best practices. The role requires synthesizing data, coordinating across teams, and ensuring that resilience programming is integrated, timely, and effective, with a focus on cross-cutting priorities like gender, youth, and climate resilience.

Responsibilities

The Resilience Associate role involves supporting the design, coordination, integration, technical oversight, and resource mobilization of resilience interventions in West Nile. This includes ensuring strategic coherence across ongoing operations, alignment with government systems and donor priorities, and building an evidence base for program growth. The associate will engage with district local governments, OPM, line departments, UN agencies, NGOs, private sector actors, and development partners on resilience building, local economic development, and refugee-host integration. Key responsibilities include coordinating day-to-day technical follow-up of resilience activities, ensuring complementarities, sequencing, and identifying opportunities for scale-up. The role also entails contributing to evidence-based concept notes, project documents, donor briefs, and funding proposals, consolidating technical narratives, logical frameworks, budgets, and risk analyses. Furthermore, the associate will support the identification, documentation, and dissemination of lessons learned and promising practices from resilience interventions in refugee-hosting districts, while also liaising with various internal teams to ensure integrated and timely program delivery. The position requires monitoring progress, flagging risks, and supporting the integration of cross-cutting priorities like gender, youth, and climate resilience into programming.

Work Experience

Requires at least six years of professional experience in resilience, livelihoods, food systems, climate adaptation, local economic development, or programme coordination. Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and coordinating multi-sector resilience programmes, preferably in fragile or refugee-hosting contexts, is essential. Proven experience in drafting concept notes, proposals, and donor reports based on evidence is also necessary. Experience working with government institutions, development partners, NGOs, or UN agencies is highly desirable.

Skills

Resilience programming, Livelihoods, Climate adaptation, Natural resource management, Local economic development, Programme coordination, Stakeholder engagement, Data synthesis, Report writing, Project management

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