ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. Our Vision is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger. Through innovative hunger solutions, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 82 countries, each year. WFP has unparalleled expertise in operational services, as well as the unique capacity and global reach to quickly assess needs, connect people, inform choices and effectively mobilize appropriate response tools to provide access to nutritious food while delivering essential support to other actors, including Government.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The Engineer will be based in Lodwar Field Office and will work under the direct supervision of Head of Field Office; technically under the National Programme Policy Officer (Asset Creation Programme) and overall guidance of the Senior Advisor and Manager, Rural Resilience Unit.
The incumbent will provide construction and engineering expertise and contribute to efficient delivery and quality of rain water harvesting infrastructures including small scale irrigation systems in Turkana County.
JOB PURPOSE
Specifically, the incumbent will be responsible for the following:
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
- Contribute to the implementation of WFP policies, standards, norms and practices ensuring compliance with the wider WFP policies, procedures, guidelines and operations.
- Provide engineering and project management services, apply best practices, standards and innovative technologies that comply with WFP standards and processes.
- Undertake capacity gap needs assessment of the partners and organize capacity building programmes (workshops, training, exchange visits etc.) to address these gaps, especially focussed on small-scale irrigation and other rain water harvesting systems in Turkana County.
- Support Turkana County government and WFP Cooperating Partners in designing quality projects that address the underlying causes of food insecurity.
- Contribute towards analysis of the project proposals from the county to enable effective decision making on project technical feasibility.
- Monitor the implementation of the projects through field visits and provide necessary technical support.
- Collate data and contribute to preparation of accurate and timely reporting on outputs to facilitate informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders including information for a database and website.
- In liaison with the WFP Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, ensure the establishment and maintenance of a sound database.
- Work closely with Head of Lodwar Office and Nairobi Rural Resilience team, provide technical guidance that support procurement of quality non-food items and ensure they are supplied to the communities for effective implementation of projects.
- Participate in technical or design review, exchange of knowledge and experience keeping abreast of water harvesting technologies and engineering technologies in general, to facilitate implementation of innovative engineering solutions.
- Support building of partnerships with other UN agencies, NGOs & Government to improve synergy and impact of the projects.
- Prepare evidence-based recommendations on measures to improve facilities / infrastructures suitability to operational purpose, safety, and efficiency of structures and equipment including support in development of project guidance materials (e.g. manuals) on project implementation.
- Support county government develop policies, strategies to guide food security programming.
- Support the Head of Field Office and Nairobi team in organize field missions for donor/media/Senior WFP management and ensure that WFP staff, partners’ agencies and GoK staffs are informed on time and provide sufficient relevant information including inputs for donor briefs.
- Represent WFP in meetings and conferences, that focus on livelihoods / resilience building at the County level
- Review items accounting documents for Non-Food Items (NFI) from the partners to ensure completeness and accuracy before submitting to Nairobi.
- Perform other related duties as required.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
- Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
- Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
- Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
- Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
- Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in the following fields; Irrigation Engineering, Water Engineering, or Agricultural Engineering, from recognized universities.
- At least six years field experience in working at county level implementing and community based development projects
- Competent in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
- Understanding of community based participatory planning approaches
- Ability to conduct capacity gaps needs assessments and design programmes to fill these gaps.
- Experience in working in arid and semi-arid parts of Kenya
- Familiarity with water harvesting technologies and pastoral livelihood approaches
- Excellent communication skills – both written and oral in English and Kiswahili. Skills in workshop facilitation.
- Strong organization and planning skills coupled with good interpersonal skills.
- Good analytical skills; resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgment, tact, negotiating skills;
- Ability to work in a team, and establish effective working relations with persons of different national and cultural backgrounds.
- Ability to deal patiently and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
If you have any queries relating to this Vacancy Announcement please send them to: [email protected].
WFP is an equal opportunity employer and does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
The Deadline for the application is on 26 January 2017.
More Information
- Job City Lodwar
