Programme Policy Officer (Field Coordination), Blantyre, Malawi

## Programme Policy Officer (Field Coordination), Blantyre, Malawi - Organization:WFP - World Food Programme - Office:WFP - World Food Programme in Blantyre DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability. The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. 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JOB TITLE & GRADE LEVEL:Programme Policy Officer (Field Coordination), NOB TYPE OF CONTRACT:Fixed Term UNIT/DIVISION:Programme Unit - Blantyre Sub-Office DUTY STATION (City, Country):Blantyre, Malawi REPORTS TO:Deputy Country Director and Head of Programme DURATION:12 months (Renewable) ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. WFP Malawi is undergoing a strategic repositioning aimed at strengthening its alignment with national priorities, enhancing inter-agency collaboration, and supporting the Government of Malawi in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, with a particular emphasis on Zero Hunger (SDG 2), in line with Malawi Vision 2063 and its first ten-year implementation plan (MIP-1). WFP's Malawi Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2024-2028 seeks to ensure the food and nutrition security of vulnerable people and communities while building resilience through the transformation of food systems. Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2024-2028, the CSP sets out five mutually reinforcing outcomes and continues WFP's strategic shift from direct implementer to enabler of nationally owned, sustainable systems, with phased handover of interventions informed by capacity assessments. The CSP prioritises the most food-insecure districts, largely located in the southern region, while leaving room for scale-up and expansion. The Blantyre Sub-Office is WFP's operational hub for field implementation in its area of coverage, where the full range of CSP activities is delivered: crisis response and anticipatory action (Activity 1), assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and host communities (Activity 2), nutrition (Activity 3), Home-Grown School Feeding (Activity 4) and the integrated resilience package (Activity 5). Delivering these activities as a layered, integrated package at district and community level, and progressively strengthening the capacity of district councils to lead them, is central to the CSP's theory of change and to WFP's evolving role as an enabler. To advance this agenda, WFP Malawi seeks to recruit a Programme Policy Officer (Field Coordination) to coordinate and oversee the field implementation of CSP Activities 1 to 5 in the Blantyre Sub-Office area of coverage, ensuring integrated, timely, high-quality and compliant delivery, and serving as the link between country office activity managers, district councils and cooperating partners. Under the overall supervision of the Deputy Country Director and Head of Programme with technical guidance from the Deputy Head of Programme and the country office activity managers, and in collaboration with the sub-office Supply Chain, Finance, Administration, Security and RAM teams, the Programme Policy Officer (Field Coordination) will: KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority): A. Field programme coordination and integrated delivery - Coordinate the day-to-day implementation of all CSP activities (Activities 1-5) ensuring interventions are layered and sequenced so that the same communities benefit from complementary support. - Translate country office annual plans into district implementation plans with clear targets, timelines and responsibilities, and track progress against targets and budgets. - Apply the three-pronged approach (integrated context analysis, seasonal livelihood programming and community-based participatory planning) to guide geographic targeting and programme design at district and community level. - Serve as the field focal point for country office activity managers, consolidating field feedback to inform programme adjustments. - Supervise, coach and manage the performance of all filed programme staff (programme associates, assistants and field monitors), acting as a point of referral for analysis and operational queries. B. Activity-specific oversight - Activity 1 - Crisis response and anticipatory action:oversee lean season and emergency responses (e.g., floods and cyclones), targeting and registration, leveraging national shock-responsive social protection systems and the unified beneficiary registry, cash-based and in-kind distributions, "cash plus" asset creation, and district-level anticipatory action and preparedness, including contingency planning and pre-positioning with Supply Chain. - Activity 2 - Refugees, asylum seekers and host communities:support the delivery of food assistance and cash initiatives and social cohesion activities, in coordination with the activity manager, UNHCR and the relevant ministry. - Activity 3 - Nutrition:coordinate the field delivery of malnutrition treatment and prevention activities, nutrition top-ups and SBCC with district health offices and district nutrition coordination structures. - Activity 4 - School meals:oversee HGSF implementation in targeted schools and ECD centres, including cash transfers to schools, school procurement committees, linkages with farmer organisations, food safety and quality, and take-home rations where applicable, working closely with district education offices. - Activity 5 - Integrated resilience:through the field offices oversee the implementation of Food Assistance for Assets (community planning, technical standards and asset quality), the Integrated Risk Management Programme (micro-insurance, savings groups), Smallholder Agriculture Market Support (aggregation, post-harvest management, market linkages), climate services and graduation of participating households. C. Cooperating partner management and compliance - Contribute to cooperating partner selection, field level agreements and budgets; monitor partner perfor