Recrutement de 01 Programme Policy Officer

Recrutement de 01 Programme Policy Officer

Entreprise: World Food Programme
Niveau d'etude: Non precise
Localité: Zambie / Lusaka
Date limite: 2025-08-25

Recrutement de 01 Programme Policy Officer
Programme Policy Officer - Social Protection, DRM and School Feeding - International Consultant (CSTI)
Fully Present
locations
Lusaka, Zambie
time type
Full time

job requisition id
JR115267
DATE LIMITE DE CANDIDATURE

25 August 2025-23:59-UTC+02:00 heure normale d’Afrique centrale (Lusaka)
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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.


At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, 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 the lives of those WFP serves.

WHY JOIN WFP?

WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

BACKGROUND:

In July 2023, the World Food Programme (WFP) Zambia Country Office commenced a new five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP), informed by, and aligned with national and United Nations priorities and global commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It embraces the Government’s long-term Vision 2030; aligns with 16 key strategic areas of the 8th National Development Plan (NDP8); and contributes to the joint Zambia-United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).

WFP Zambia’s integrated and pragmatic CSP shifts away from unsustainable localized and micro-level interventions, to embrace more effective advocacy and engagement with national policies, systems, and programmes to achieve national impact on SDG2. Given the Government’s commitment to budget support for nutrition, social protection, and agriculture, despite the constraints in the country’s fiscal position, WFP’s overarching strategy seeks to enable the government to meet its national priorities with better systems, expertise, and resources for implementation. This means a decisive shift of WFP’s country positioning towards the provision of innovative, sustainable, upstream technical assistance for nationally owned solutions.

Advancing the global WFP Strategic Plan (2022-2025), the CSP addresses both SDG2 and SDG17, and WFP’s Strategic Results 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. WFP will implement seven activities to achieve five Strategic Outcomes (SO). These SOs include: responding to crises and shocks, including support to refugees (SO1); addressing the root causes of malnutrition (SO2); building the resilience, enabling environment and market access for smallholder farmers, especially women and youth (SO3); supporting government institutions to provide social protection systems (including home grown school meals) and disaster preparedness and response and anticipatory actions (SO4); and improving access to supply chain services for humanitarian and development actors (SO5).

In view of the above and considering the increased funding portfolio for Social Protection, Disaster Risk Management (DRM), and School Feeding, the Country Office (CO) is scaling up its efforts to build resilient, inclusive, and shock-responsive systems. While social protection shall provides the foundation for long-term human development, DRM will help mitigate the impact of shocks, and school feeding will support human capital development.

REPORTING

Reporting to the Head of Programmes, the incumbent shall provide strategic leadership and technical expertise in the integration of social protection, disaster risk management (DRM), and school feeding across the Country Office’s programmatic areas. The job holder will leverage global innovations and successful models to co-create localized frameworks and tools, enabling the Country Office to build resilient, inclusive, and shock-responsive communities that can withstand and recover from crises more effectively.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Strategic Integration and Technical Leadership

Lead the integration of social protection, DRM, and school feeding across all CO programmatic areas.
Support the integration of shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) approaches in national policies and anticipatory action & contingency frameworks, ensuring scalability during crises.
Provide strategic advice to senior management on policy coherence between humanitarian response mechanisms and national SP systems, advising on appropriate entry points, sequencing, and system alignment.
Draft technical briefs, concept notes, and policy papers to guide WFP and government positioning on SP reforms.
2. Systems Strengthening and Digital Transformation

Support the design, enhancement, and use of social registries, Management Information Systems (MIS), and digital delivery mechanisms for SP programmes.
Provide advisory support to the harmonization of data systems between humanitarian and government actors to improve efficiency, targeting, and interoperability.
Guide efforts to strengthen feedback, grievance, and referral systems linked to social protection delivery.
3. Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Exchange

Facilitate capacity assessments and tailored capacity-strengthening plans for government and partners at national and subnational levels.
Deliver technical trainings, workshops, and peer-learning sessions on policy, systems design, and humanitarian-development linkages in SP including SRSP based on global and south-south best practices.
Promote Support South-South and triangular cooperation and exchanges by documenting and sharing Zambia’s SP innovations and lessons learned.
4. Productive and Resilience-Building Social Protection

Design and promote productive social protection and graduation-oriented pathways, leveraging WFP’s resilience, nutrition-sensitive, and school feeding programmes.
Provide technical inputs to operational frameworks that combine social transfers with livelihoods, skills, and market access interventions for poor and vulnerable households.
Contribute to joint assessments and targeting tools that integrate climate vulnerability and food insecurity data into SP programme planning.
Support the development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track resilience and graduation pathway outcomes and milestones.
5. Partnership Building and Resource Mobilization

Represent WFP in social protection technical working groups, policy dialogues, and donor coordination mechanisms.
Foster strategic partnerships with government, UN agencies, NGOs, and research institutions to align SP investments.
Contribute to the development of joint proposals, donor reports, and funding strategies to support SP system strengthening.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Advanced university degree in Social Policy, Public Administration, Economics, International Development, or a related field.
Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in social protection system design, advisory support to government, digital systems (registries/MIS), and/or SRSP in a development or humanitarian context.
Proven experience in designing and implementing integrated, multi-sectoral programs.
Strategic thinking, policy analysis, government engagement, digital literacy, and excellent written and verbal communication.
Desirable: Familiarity with adaptive and shock-responsive SP approaches, productive social protection, and national registry architecture.
Languages:

Fluency (level C) in English.

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