Programme Policy Officer (Social Protection) P3

Job Description

JOB PURPOSEWFP is looking for a Programme Policy Officer to manage the social protection portfolio (CSP strategicÿoutcome 2). He/she will lead the capacity strengthening initiatives for the government actors, as wellÿas oversight of the school feeding activity. He/she will report to the Head of Programme and directlyÿsupervise the staff from CSP social protection and school feeding activities while working closely withÿProgramme Support teams (CBT, M&E) as well as other CSP Activities such as those related toÿhumanitarian response to refugees, emergency preparedness and response, and sustainableÿlivelihoods.ÿKEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)1. Lead WFP?s technical work on social protection:ÿ- Provide technical advice for the Government on a wide range of social protection programme and policy issues to support government efforts to reduce hunger, malnutrition and poverty through national social protection systems.ÿ- Provide technical assistance to government counterparts (NAF, MoSD, MoE) to enhance social protection systems, including design, targeting, delivery, verification, accountability, evidence generation and reporting, in close coordination with the World Bank and UN agencies including UNICEF, ILO and UNDP- Facilitate technical knowledge and experience sharing on enhancing shock-responsiveness and inclusiveness of the national social protection system.ÿ- Contribute to the design and operationalization of referrals mechanisms between different key service providers based on robust and interoperable information management systems (i.e NUR).- Identify areas for decentralized capacity strengthening support to national actors at the local level and design a roadmap for technical assistance provision.- Contribute to strategic and technical efforts for the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, including the harmonization between humanitarian unconditional assistance and national social assistance, and foster sustainable linkages between social assistance, social security and livelihoods/self-reliance building programmes.2. Guide WFP social protection strategy in Jordan:ÿ- Formulate WFP?s social protection vision in Jordan, adapting the WFP global social protection strategy to the Jordanian context and its national priorities.- Explore opportunities to link informal workers such as small-holder farmers or school feeding kitchen workers to social security/insurance schemes, in close collaboration with CSP activities related to school feeding, emergency preparedness and response, self-reliance building and climate action.- Formulate and implement a monitoring framework to generate evidence on institutional capacity strengthening results, in collaboration with VAME unit.3. Involvement in broader Social Protection discussions:ÿ- Enhance WFP?s leadership status in different forums on subjects related to social protection through direct contribution to discussions or policy/strategy formulation and provision of briefings, presentations and other knowledge products.ÿ- Foster South-South and Triangular Cooperation for social protection knowledge sharing and best practice promotion.- Contribute to the design and operationalization of the shock responsive social protection chapter within the national social protection strategy.ÿ- Contribute to the design and implementation of graduation workstream and transitional pathways for beneficiaries of non-contributory schemes (i.e social assistance) to contributory and more sustainable social protection schemes (social insurance).4. Oversee the school feeding activity:- Orient the technical assistance and provision of advisory services to the Ministry of Education in line with the operationalization of the national school feeding strategy action plan- Ensure the complementary direct delivery component of the school feeding activity is planned and implemented effectively and efficiently.5. Partnerships:ÿ- Sustain established partnerships and develop new ones in line with the needs identified within the social protection domain and opportunities for collaborative approaches.ÿ6. Team management:ÿ- Manage the team in line with the workplan of the CSP social protection pillar to ensure expected deliverables are met in a timely manner.ÿ

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