National Programme Officer NOB - Emergency

Organizational Context

WFP Chad operates in a complex humanitarian environment facing recurrent crises, climate shocks, and chronic food insecurity. The organization is transitioning from status-based to vulnerability-driven assistance, prioritizing needs and strengthening resilience. The Emergency Officer supports preparedness, response coordination, operational analysis, and partnerships to ensure timely, accountable, and evidence-based interventions.

Job Purpose

The National Programme Officer NOB - Emergency will play a crucial role in supporting WFP Chad's emergency preparedness and response efforts within a challenging humanitarian context. This position is integral to the country office's strategic shift towards a vulnerability-based assistance approach, aiming to progressively reduce reliance on humanitarian aid. The incumbent will contribute to operational analysis, evidence generation, and strategic reporting, ensuring that emergency interventions are timely, accountable, and evidence-based. Key responsibilities include supporting emergency assessments, beneficiary targeting, digital delivery systems, donor reporting, and fostering coordination with internal teams and external stakeholders like UNHCR, IOM, and government authorities. The role is vital for bridging immediate humanitarian response with long-term resilience and self-reliance pathways for refugees and vulnerable host communities.

Responsibilities

The role involves leading emergency preparedness and rapid response coordination, ensuring minimum standards are met, and strengthening analysis of refugee influxes for timely responses. It includes operational coordination with UNCHR and CNARR. A key responsibility is supporting the delivery of high-quality emergency assistance and programmatic transitions, focusing on effective targeting, beneficiary management, and digital delivery systems. This entails a shift from status-based to vulnerability-based assistance, creating pathways from emergency response to resilience-building for refugees and host communities. The position contributes to operational analysis, evidence generation, and strategic reporting through needs assessments, monitoring, and donor reporting to inform decision-making and resource mobilization. Facilitating humanitarian coordination and reinforcing government collaboration, particularly with the Food Security cluster and CNARR, is also crucial. The role supports project development and management, ensuring alignment with WFP standards, and developing data gathering and monitoring systems with rigorous quality standards. It involves researching policy and operational issues, preparing timely reports, liaising with counterparts for collaboration, and managing potential partnerships. Capacity building of staff, partners, and government for food assistance response is supported, along with guiding junior staff. The overall aim is to save lives in emergencies while enabling vulnerable populations to progressively reduce their reliance on humanitarian aid.

Work Experience

Requires 3 years of professional experience in Programme, particularly in emergency areas. Candidates should have deepened technical knowledge through exposure to technical teams, taken leadership in implementing programmes, and provided input into policy discussions and decisions.

Skills

Emergency preparedness, Rapid response coordination, Operational analysis, Partnership engagement, Beneficiary targeting, Digital delivery systems, Donor reporting, Needs assessments, Project management, Data gathering and monitoring, Policy development, Capacity building, Cross-functional collaboration, Humanitarian assistance, Resilience building

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