Asistente de Programas - Emergencias
Organizational Context
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace and prosperity. WFP uses food assistance to help people recover from conflict, disasters, and extreme weather. We are committed to a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce operating with integrity, collaboration, commitment, humanity, and inclusion.
Job Purpose
The Assistant Programme Officer - Emergencies will provide crucial technical and operational support for the planning, coordination, and implementation of emergency preparedness and response activities. This role is vital for ensuring timely, relevant, and high-quality humanitarian assistance. Responsibilities include contributing to contingency planning, coordinating field teams, preparing reports, facilitating partner coordination, and monitoring project implementation. The position also involves integrating cross-cutting themes such as accountability to affected populations, gender, and protection, and leading emergency distributions. The objective is to contribute significantly to the successful achievement of the Emergency Unit's strategic objectives and support other strategic objectives as needed.
Responsibilities
The Program Assistant for Emergencies, under the supervision of the Emergency Coordinator, is responsible for supporting emergency activities. Key duties include planning, coordinating, and implementing emergency response operational plans in line with WFP standards, adapting them to local contexts. This involves needs assessments, identifying priority populations, and applying targeting criteria for effective responses. The role contributes to developing contingency plans, risk analyses, and anticipatory actions. Coordination with field teams and external partners such as governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and other partners is crucial. The assistant will prepare reports, operational updates, and technical documents for various WFP offices. They will monitor emergency activity implementation, ensuring adherence to deadlines, standards, and accountability requirements. Contributions to Monitoring and Evaluation activities, identifying lessons learned and best practices, are also expected. A critical aspect is ensuring the integration of cross-cutting themes like accountability to affected populations, gender, and protection of vulnerable groups into all interventions. The assistant will also lead emergency distributions and undertake technical and operational activities aligned with Strategic Objective 1 for Emergencies, providing complementary support to other strategic objectives as needed. Additional duties may be assigned by the supervisor.
Work Experience
Requires a minimum of 5 years of work experience post-academic title. Specifically, at least 3 years must be in development projects related to emergency response and/or risk management. Experience in implementing or monitoring cash transfer programs, food assistance, or humanitarian response is also needed. Experience with participatory processes, data collection, report formulation, and databases is beneficial. Prior work with international organizations, particularly the UN, is valued.
Skills
Emergency response planning and implementation, Needs analysis and targeting, Contingency planning and risk assessment, Coordination with field teams and external partners, Report preparation and technical documentation, Monitoring and evaluation of emergency operations, Integration of cross-cutting themes (accountability, gender, protection), Emergency distribution leadership (CBT, in-kind, partner), Data collection and database management, Proficiency in office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Familiarity with logical frameworks, indicators, and budgets, Excellent Spanish, intermediate/advanced English