Food Security Coordinator

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WHY JOIN WFP? - 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 theTerms and Conditionssection of this vacancy announcement). Coordinate and foster effective collaboration among humanitarian agencies, government authorities, UN organizations, NGOs, donors, and other key stakeholders to ensure a timely, efficient, and well-coordinated food security response. Lead multi-stakeholder planning processes, needs assessments, monitoring, reporting, advocacy, and resource mobilization initiatives, promoting evidence-based decision-making and collective action. Strengthen emergency preparedness, partner capacities, and coordination mechanisms to enhance the quality, impact, and sustainability of food security interventions for vulnerable and crisis-affected populations. ## TERMS OF REFERENCE ## Job Title: Food Security Coordinator ## Duty Station: Ouagadougou ## Type of contract: Consultancy ## Level: 2 ## Duration: 11 months ## Background and Purpose ## The Food Security Cluster/Sector Coordinator (CC) plays a vital role in ensuring timely, coherent and effective food security interventions by mobilizing and supporting stakeholders to deliver a coordinated and strategic response to a humanitarian crisis. The role of the Food Security Cluster Coordinator, as set out in the IASC Generic Terms of Reference and the main core functions, is to lead food security coordination along with the support team (includes an Information Management Officer (IMO), but may vary according to country specific situation) and a wide range of stakeholders in: ## 1. Facilitating a timely, coherent effective and coordinated food security response by mobilizing stakeholders in a strategic manner ## 2. Enhancing coordination through the reinforcement of linkages and synergies between relevant food security actors as well as between humanitarian and development partners ## 3. Ensuring that food security is appropriately represented in the overall humanitarian response ## 4. Supporting delivery service ## 5. Informing of strategic decisions of the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) and Humanitarian Country Team (HCT)/Country Management Team (CMT) ## 6. Coordinating and Planning Cluster strategies, including contingency planning and preparedness ## 7. Monitoring and Evaluating Cluster/Sector performance ## 8. Building national and FSC members capacity in relevant areas ## 9. Supporting advocacy for food security needs ## 10. Accountability to affected people ## The Food Security Cluster/Sector Coordinator will work impartially with all members of the Food Security Cluster (FSC) and represent all members of the group equally. S/he will work closely with the UN Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator and the Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) or their designated official, and with all other humanitarian stakeholders including other cluster leads. ## Tasks and responsibilities - Establish and maintain the Food Security Cluster/Sector: actively ensure membership and engagement of key partners at national and sub-national level, organize regular cluster meetings, and ensure overall coordination of the food response in an emergency. - Establish an inclusive governance structure for the FSC (including co-leadership with national authorities where possible, establishing a Strategic Advisory Group, inviting NGO to co-chair) - Contribute to the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) by managing the process for the FSC supported by the IMO, with inputs from, and in close consultation with, the cluster partners. - Ensure monitoring of the FS response (for both quantitative and qualitative aspects), and report on its implementation - Ensure timely, inclusive and regular information sharing and discussion with the cluster partners through various modalities including cluster meetings, email dissemination of cluster products (dashboards, maps, assessments, etc.) and establishment of relevant technical working groups. - Facilitate and support needs assessments such as Emergency Food Security Assessment (EFSA), or Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM), Nutritional Surveys – Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and transitions (SMART Methodology) or Multisectoral Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA), etc, and actively promote the analysis and utilization of this information for decision-making - Coordinate and promote mainstreaming of cross-cutting and cross-sectoral issues (e.g. gender, age, HIV and AIDS, human rights, disability, environment, early recovery, protection, nutrition) and appropriate participatory and community-based approaches in cluster/inter-cluster needs assessments, analysis, planning, implementation and monitoring - Actively promote the application of common standards (e.g. SPHERE standards and CHS), and harmonization of programmatic responses (SOPs on modality of delivery, Minimum Expenditure Basket, minimum assistance package) - Contribute to country level contingency planning and coordinate cluster/sector-wide emergency preparedness and response - Ensure the development of regular food security reports (Sitreps, Bulletins, newsletters, etc.) - Undertake advocacy and resource mobilization on behalf of the FSC partners in a neutral and impartial manner. - Contribute to the effective management of country based pooled funding schemes by leading the process for the FSC - Identify funding for the FSC team in order to have a running FSC, in close collaboration with the Cluster Lead Agencies (FAO and WFP). Actively track FSC funding status in consultation with CLAs to ensure continuity of operations - Identify capacity gaps and needs and provide training and capacity building opportunities to FSC partners - Supervise and guide the IMO and provide guidance to the co-chair and other Cluster team members, ensure a smooth and inclusive relationship of the Cluster team with all partners, and report regularly to the CLAs - Together with the IMO, support gFSC initiatives such as CCPM (Cluster Coordination - Per