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JOB PURPOSE
To provide effective coordination and specialized support to a full range of policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
1.Provide specialized expertise and contribute towards the development of project activities, plans and processes within the specific technical area of work ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines.
2.Provide efficient coordination and specialized project management support to a range of specific and/or defined programmes to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP’s policies and procedures.
3.Within the specific area of responsibility, prepare a variety of elaborated reports and substantial data analysis (e.g. ROI, economies of scale, programme status, performance) and make recommendations to supervisors, ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
4.Lead and ensure accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. financial inclusion schemes, sustainability programmes) and consistency of information presented to partners.
5.Coordinate and liaise with internal counterparts on a range of complex matters to enable effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
6.Support partnership-building with local partners, agencies, NGOs and financial institutions to perform accurate economic analyses.
7.Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners and national banks within a specific technical area.
8.Act as an escalation point for complex query resolution on all matters within the area of responsibility.
9.Manage a team of support staff, providing advice, guidance and training, to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered to agreed standards and deadlines.
10.Support alignment with Egypt’s 2030 SDSs to ensure WFP can swiftly respond and deploy needed actions in response to the Haya Karima initiative.
Job Requirements
Skills
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: University Degree in Finance, Cooperative development, Development studies, social sciences, business administration, marketing, economics, finance, international development, or any other relevant degree.
Experience Knowledge & Skills: At least 7 years of experience in working in the domains of Business Development, Social Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Project Finance.
Languages: Fluency in both oral and written Arabic & English.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
- Experience in the fields of business and economic research.
- Experience in Financial Inclusion, SME and Value Chains environment and understanding the issues and challenges facing SMEs in Egypt.
- Experience in and in developing innovative financing instruments for development context.
- Experience and understanding of policy, advocacy, business, and finance
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
- Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
- Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
- Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
- Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
- Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.