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The World Food Programme is the food assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.
JOB PURPOSE
WFP is seeking to recruit a Risk Management and Financial Services Specialist within Strategic Outcome 2 of the WFP Kenya Country Strategic Plan (2018-2023). Strategic Outcome 2 is designed to address bottlenecks in food production, transformation and consumption in food insecure areas in the arid and semi-arid lands through a systems-oriented, and risk management-, market- and community-based approach. Activities aim at addressing climate-related threats to food security and well-being by adopting climate smart technologies, investments in resilience of households, communities, institutions, market access for smallholder farmers, and combines these with innovative new approaches throughout the food system.
The risk management and financial services component will build on WFP’s extensive market and supply chain expertise, analyses and identified food-based business opportunities along the value chain in the ASALs, and subsequent business plans and models thus to enable WFP beneficiaries to gradually transition from a situation of food insecurity to self-sufficiecy and eventually market actors.
The work will build on WFP’s global experience and learning on integrated risk management also known as Rural Resilience Initiative (R4). R4 was introduced in Kenya in 2017 with positive results and is now being scaled up. WFP also seeks to build on long-standing efforts to link the creation of climate-resilient technologies at community level to microfinance - particularly village savings and loans associations, as a bridge towards financial inclusion. Additional innovative areas where financial services will need to be mainstreamed include farmer organisation capacity strengthening, youth engagement in agribusiness and the strengthening of capacity of small and medium-scale food retailers and processors in the ASALs.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The candidate is required to meet the following qualifications:
The following qualifications are an added advantage:
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
The Programme Policy Officer will be responsible for the following areas:
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
People
Performance
Partnership
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