Business Support Assistant - Procurement

Job Description

ABOUT WFPWFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.?The United Nations World Food Programme is the worlds largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.?The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.?????????????WFP?s Global Strategic Plan 2017?2021 aligns WFP with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Goals (SDGs). It focuses on ending hunger and contributing to a revitalized global partnership to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Further extensive consultation with the Government and other development partners in Egypt during the second half of 2017 to allow informing and formulating the WFP Egypt Country Strategic Plan for the next 5 years until mid-2023 in line with Egypt?s development priorities, the WFP Egypt Country Office has started implementing the Country Strategic Plan (CSP). The focus of the CSP remains on support to school meals and nutrition support for Pregnant and Lactating Women as integrated part of the national social protection scheme, food assistance for assets and resilience-promotion for smallholder farmers and support to vulnerable Syrian refugees and migrants. To sustain those planned interventions, WFP will be conducting joint monitoring activities with Government representatives of key line Ministries to enforce the concepts of participation, transparency and accountability to its partners. In addition, capacity development activities will be provided to national counterparts and cooperating partners to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability and raising their capacity to conduct monitoring at the local level.WHY WORK AT WFP?SAVING & CHANGING LIVESMake a difference the world will notice.We are driven by our mission to fight world hunger and feed people?s dreams of a brighter future.GLOBAL COMMUNITYBuild bridges that unite people across the world.Being part of a global, diverse and multicultural community like WFP, will continuously expose you to new ideas and perspectives.How we deliver our mission in deep respect for personal and cultural differences and close collaboration between every member of our global team, will certainly enrich your experience and knowledge on so many levelsUNLIMITED POSSIBILITIESUnlock possibilities you never thought youd find.WFP goes anywhere it is needed and does whatever it takes to get the job done.LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCEReach beyond yourself and discover your true potential.WFP offers the kind of life-changing experiences you?re unlikely find in many other organizations.KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)1. Gather information with clear direction to support the drafting of documents and preparing reports by other staff.2. Respond to queries and escalate where appropriate, in order to provide a timely and accurate service to clients.3. Support processing and managing routine administrative and financial tasks in various functional areas, to contribute to the effective and timely management of resources.4. Provide revision and proof-reading services for standard documents, to contribute to the development of accurate documentation.5. Take responsibility for the maintenance of set standard systems and files, to ensure information is accurate and readily available for the function.6. Identify simple discrepancies in statistics and data, such as missing information, and report to senior staff in order to support clients to deliver their work.7. Take responsibility for data integrity to facilitate availability of accurate information in corporate systems.8. Provide guidance on routine business support methods and practices to junior colleagues to ensure services are delivered consistently and to the required standards.9. Work with a variety of individuals, taking on feedback where appropriate to assist in business support delivery for staff.4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIESPurpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP?s Strategic Objectives.
• ?Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team?s work processes to supervisor.
• ?Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
• ?Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit?s responsibilities will serve WFP?s mission.

• Look for ways to strengthen peoples skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
• ?Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
• ?Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
• ?Create an ?I will?/?We will? spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
• ?Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
• ?Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
• ?Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
• ?Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
• ?Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP?s teams and external partners in fulfilling team?s goals and objectives.
• ?Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor?s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.

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