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About the Role

The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking a seasoned international programme manager to lead and coordinate programme activities in South Sudan. This role is crucial for ensuring the effective delivery of food assistance and building resilience in a complex and challenging environment, supporting millions facing food insecurity.

Responsibilities

• Supervise day-to-day management and implementation of the Programme, addressing operational issues and interacting with stakeholders.
• Actively supervise the Field Office (FO) Programme team to achieve results and enable high performance through training and mentoring.
• Contribute to the development of Programme policies and guidance, translating them into field-level practices.
• Provide technical guidance on programme and policy matters, including assessments, activity design, and transfer modalities.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise for the planning, formulation, and implementation of food assistance programmes in complex operational environments.
• Develop field implementation plans aligned with organizational strategy and coordinate commodity calls.
• Provide oversight and custodianship of WFP assets, monitoring project resources and ensuring compliant use with zero losses.
• Lead the Field Office's partnership cycle management, building quality cooperating partnerships.
• Enhance WFP’s leadership status in forums related to food security, nutrition, livelihoods, and resilience.
• Coordinate food security and livelihood cluster partners' activities in collaboration with relevant ministries and organizations.
• Attend and/or lead inter-cluster working group meetings and other coordination fora.
• Assist the Head of Field Office (HOFO) as the alternate Coordinator of Area Based Coordination (ABC).
• Design and implement food and nutrition assistance through various modalities (general distributions, supplementary feeding, in-kind, cash-based, capacity-building).
• Deliver human-centered, contextually relevant initiatives like asset and livelihood creation, market support, school feeding, and climate adaptation.
• Contribute to Country Office Emergency Preparedness, including early warning, risk analysis, and contingency planning.
• Embed conflict sensitivity, social cohesion, gender-transformative, and localized approaches into the WFP Programme cycle.
• Ensure adequate monitoring of WFP's activities and the use of monitoring data for corrective action and improved design/implementation.
• Build and/or enforce the use of existing systems to track programme performance and accountability mechanisms.
• Coordinate the creation of high-quality analytical reports, infographics, briefings, and fact sheets.
• Deliver partner stock reports, distribution plans, and achievement reports.
• Ensure timely and accurate use of corporate platforms and local trackers.
• Integrate findings from monitoring and feedback mechanisms into programme design and decision-making.
• Support the Head of Field Office in performing duties and undertake HOFO's responsibilities during absences.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements

• Seasoned international programme manager required for large and complex operations.

Skills

• Programme management
• Team supervision and mentoring
• Policy development and implementation
• Technical guidance on food assistance
• Strategic planning
• Partnership management
• Coordination
• Emergency preparedness
• Conflict sensitivity
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Knowledge management
• Reporting
• Use of corporate platforms (SCOPE, COMET, Partner Connect, SUGAR-CRM)

Location

• South Sudan
• Kuajok

Work Type

• Full-time
• International

Experience Level

• International programme manager

Benefits

• Highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment
• Investment in personal & professional development (training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, internal mobility)
• Career path with opportunities across global offices
• Attractive compensation package

About the Company

• The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity.
• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP's vision is a future workforce that is diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change lives.

Equal Opportunity

• WFP celebrates and embraces diversity.
• It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
• WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
• All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications.
• WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority.