BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

WFP has successfully positioned itself on a technical advisory role through government capacity strengthening activities in Tunisia and Morocco, launched in 2014, aiming to enhance nationally-owned school feeding programmes.

The purpose of this assignment is to :

1. contribute to the development of new and existing partnerships with government and private sector organisations in order to advocate the work of WFP;
2. provide technical advice on programme strategy and implementation, raise and mobilise resources to support WFP programmes;
3. deliver budget and resource analysis and programming activities, partnering with managers to apply best practice approaches that support the efficient, effective and compliant utilisation of funds.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Deliver activities that maintain and develop government and private sector partnerships in order to maximise resources raised for the programme.
2. Contribute to the management of a portfolio of partnerships, soliciting contributions, providing

donor stewardship, and analysing results, in order to maximise resources raised.

3. Provide support to the Country Office in delivering its portfolio of programmes to clarify amibiguities and ensure that policy and programme operations are consistent wih WFP policies, Executive Board decisions, and other relevant guidance.
4. Support the establishment and maintenance of operational partnerships at country and regional level, and identify opportunities for collaborative approaches and initiatives that improve WFP assistance and support advocacy work, in liaison with UN agencies, private sector and civil society.
5. Provide support with aims to strengthening South-South and Triangular cooperation, promoting the sharing of best practices and lessons learned.
6. Contribute to advancing WFP’s leadership status in different forums on subjects related to food security, nutrition, livelihoods, resilience, engagement in humanitarian, transition and development contexts and other related issues through direct participation, briefings, information products and other materials.
7. Provide support to technical units in order to assist them to effectively mobilise donor resources.
8. Préparer des notes sur les questions de ressources pour la gestion du bureau de pays, participer au processus d’examen stratégique des programmes (s-PRP) et au processus électronique d’examen des programmes

(e-PRP), et fonctionne comme un point focal de ressources afin de s’assurer que les préoccupations sont

pris en considération.

9. Guider le personnel plus junior, agir comme un point de référence et les soutenir avec des

analyse et requêtes.

10. Participer et aider aux négociations de contributions et d’accords de partenariat, conformément aux

politiques internes et réglementations externes, afin d’obtenir des résultats avantageux, tels que

plus de flexibilité et de prévisibilité.

11. Créer et examiner les plans budgétaires de projet et surveiller les performances en cours du projet par rapport

budget, assurer le respect des directives et des politiques, et fournir une analyse financière et

des conseils pour optimiser les ressources.

12. Surveiller le pipeline de ressources pour maximiser l’efficacité opérationnelle, en suivant les normes et

processus et fournir des conseils sur l’allocation des ressources en fonction de la gravité des insuffisances de pipeline

en utilisant des outils de pipeline pertinents.

13. Rassembler, analyser et rendre compte des données internes et externes et produire des rapports précis et opportuns sur les donateurs et les programmes, afin de permettre une prise de décision et une planification des actions éclairées par les principaux intervenants.
14. Contribuer aux activités de gestion de l’information opérationnelle et de rapport de performance, et à la présentation d’un tableau opérationnel standard et cohérent des opérations du PAM et des résultats associés, y compris une variété de produits d’information ou de propositions pour une utilisation et des communications internes et externes, telles que les fiches pays et la Tunisie et Rapports nationaux annuels Maroc 2020 (ACR). 
15. Contribute to the planning and implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities.
16. Proactively contribute to ideas and highlight fundraising opportunities to senior managers for

new strategies to maintain and increase funding from new and traditional donors.

17. Prepare and provide regular information to educate new and potential donors on the strategy,

design, relevance and impact of WFP programmes, and to advocate the work of WFP.

18. Represent WFP at international meetings at appropriate levels, in such a way that advances

the government partnerships strategy and objectives, and builds support for WFP activities.

19. Prepare and provide inputs for briefing documents for senior level management meetings with

donors.

20. Maintain effective relationships with representatives of donors through appropriate

channels, and coordinate donor meetings, attending where required.

21. Coordinate work with other partnership officers to ensure the flow of information

and other WFP units to align activities and ensure donor visibility and that donor conditions are

met.

22. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond

and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of a crisis.

23. Work to raise awareness and knowledge among all and stakeholders of the WFP corporate framework and approach for country capacity strengthening (CCS) and how best to integrate/reflect CCS in on-going activities and plans for future intervention.
24. Support CO generation and documentation of evidence by capturing knowledge, best practices and experiences in relation to capacity strengthening.
25. Contribute to key Performance Management actions in close collaboration with all units, facilitating the completion of the mid and end of year reviews of the CO’s Annual Performance Plan.
26. Other as required.

DELIVERABLES:

1. Development and implementation of the WFP Tunisia and Morocco Partnership Action Plan
2. High quality information products or proposals for internal and external use and communications
3. Liaising with RB colleagues, perform BPO functions and develop relevant planning and programming products.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: