Programme Policy Officer; DRF & Operations

31 October 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

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• 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).

JOB TITLE:

Programme Policy Officer (DRF & Operations)

TYPE OF

CONTRACT:

WAE CST level II

UNIT/DIVISION: DRF, PRGR

DUTY STATION (City, Country):
Home based, with in country missions as relevant

DURATION: 120 days, 11 months

For a decade, WFP has been utilizing risk transfer tools to advance the protection and resilience of communities affected by extreme climate events. More recently, it has become a priority to integrate these tools into a broader bundle of risk financing instruments that are accessible for governments and smallholders in climate risk hot-spots. Work has developed around two major areas:
Inclusive Risk Financinag as part of an integrated risk management approach embodied by the former R4 Rural Resilience Initiative; and macro/sovereign insurance through programmes like the Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) Replica initiative.

On the macroinsurance side, WFP is purchasing drought risk insurance through the sovereign risk pools to enable quicker responses after climate shocks. In 2025, WFP provided financial protection to 3 million people living in vulnerable communities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). WFP supports Governments in index customization, choice of risk transfer parameters and the design of more rapid and effective mechanisms to deliver support to affected people.

Complementary to these efforts, WFP supports governments in designing and implementing more robust disaster risk financing systems. This requires action in terms of capacity building of national stakeholders, as well as staff in WFP country offices.

Within this effort, as the ARC Replica program (Africa) continues to grow, the support to country offices in developing relevant contingency plans (Operational Plans and Final Implementation Plans) increases. The same is true for other regions like LAC where WFP expands its national-level climate riks insurance approach. A key added value WFP provides is the FIP simulation exercise. As the number of countries in the overall…