Emergency Response Roster - Food Assistance & Non-Food Item; NFI Advisor

Overview

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. We have 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type: International Assignment - Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Country location to be determined based on response.

Please submit your Cover Letter and CV in English.

Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.

Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.

Here's where you come in: As a Food Assistance & Non-Food Item (NFI) Advisor you will be responsible for strategic leadership and management of all actions/activities related to the food assistance and non-food items (NFI) portfolio established within the Response, including a multi-disciplinary project team. He/She will provide technical support and programmatic guidance to project team, represent the response at relevant cluster/technical working group engagements, and support assessments, project design and donor negotiations.

The Food Assistance and NFI Advisor ensures all food assistance and non-food items interventions align with standards set by the donor, humanitarian industry and World Vision International to achieve quality and efficient delivery of humanitarian assistance and accountability to relevant stakeholders.

Leadership

• Provide strategic oversight and leadership of the Food Assistance and NFI Programs, in compliance with Disaster Management Standards and donor guidelines.
• Establish and maintain an effective working relationship with the DM Regional Technical Advisor throughout the life of the project.
• Ensure strong communication and coordination with all team members as a means to effectively achieve program objectives.
• Spearhead innovation and creativity within the food assistance and NFI programs to ensure cost competitiveness and value for money.

Management of Food Assistance (In-kind, Cash and Vouchers) and Non-Food Items Resources

• Lead project team in participatory planning and implementation of activities, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices and donor guidelines.
• Provide supervision and technical support to all food assistance and NFI activities to ensure they are managed and implemented as per approved award document, donor and WVI guidelines/standards.
• Design strategies, partnerships and interventions to ensure project activities and implementation approaches are gender, age and ability inclusive and in compliance with requirements.
• Work closely with all departments (other operations stakeholders, finance, procurement, supply chain management) to provide technical support needed for the implementation of all food assistance and NFI activities.
• Identify and support program staff capacity building and development.

Implementation and Program Quality:

• Work with all sectors within the response to ensure food assistance and NFI interventions are well integrated with existing sectors programs for maximum impact within the response.
• Maintain appropriate tracking systems for both food assistance and NFI interventions to ensure proper accounting and stewardship of all food assistance and NFI resources entrusted to the response.
• Ensure all food assistance and NFI distributions are executed in line with set industry, donor, WV and humanitarian standards, and all distributions documents are correctly filed in a safe place and readily available for audit.
• Ensure all commodities, CVP and NFI losses are properly documented, investigated and claims procedures comply with the World Vision Partnership and donor requirements.
• As required, support Operations in implementation challenges with hands-on capacity building.
• Support direct reports as needed on invoices tracking sheet and update & share with the…