Digitalization Officer SC L9 -Extended (Multiple Duty Stations)

Job Description

Reporting line:The?Digitalization?Officer will be under the overall supervision of the Head of Programme, Area Office and the technical supervision of the Head of Beneficiary Management Unit in the Country Office.?The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Strengthen knowledge base and understanding of food security and vulnerability issues at the Area Office level contributing to effective targeting and prioritization of beneficiaries and the appropriateness of assistance modalities.??
2. Contribute to the establishment of beneficiary management system in the Area Office which include verification control process, controls on verification, profiling and prioritization, beneficiary identification management, beneficiary data management
3. Take on overall responsibility for the roll out of SCOPE in the Area Office.
4. Ensure adequate internal controls, governance and risk management processes associated with beneficiary management are in place at the Area Office.
5. Ensure adequate internal controls, governance and risk management processes associated with beneficiary management are in place at the Area Office.
6. Contribute to the formulation of policies, guidelines, processes, information systems and generation of reports on beneficiary management;
7. Conduct regular analysis of SCOPE data and provide feedback to management of Area Office and Khartoum CO, with regards to identification of the intended beneficiaries, improvements in verification and authentication processes, reconciliation of entitlement transfers.
8. Establish systems to track and update changes in vulnerability of beneficiary populations, track arrival and departure of beneficiaries, minimize inclusion and exclusion errors in the beneficiary lists maintained by the Area Office.

9. Participate in the design and implementation of WFP programmes with emphasis on problem analysis, defining the role of food assistance and providing recommendations on targeting of such assistance along geographic, sectoral or socioeconomic lines;10.Transfer skills and develop sustainable capacity in beneficiary management in the Area Office, cooperating partners and local government counterparts;11.Responsible focal point for profiling of protracted caseloads of beneficiary population through:

• Coordination within the Area Office VAM and Programme team, as well as partners and beneficiary representatives on conducting the profiling exercise with emphasis on identifying the intended beneficiaries for registration;
• Train and supervise the data collector/enumerators to undertake beneficiary registration in SCOPE
• Supervise the registration exercise to ensure that the right beneficiaries are registered after verification process and complete information of the household is captured in SCOPE;
• Follow up with CO profiling officer on profiling results after validation by the programme unit, arrange to update the beneficiary master list accordingly;
• Contribute to the successful implementation of the corporate Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism by taking active role in resolving complaints of the beneficiaries, carrying out problem analysis and following up with concerned units and staff when escalation of the issue is required.

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