Programme Policy Officer - Social Protection, DRM and School Feeding - International Consultant (CSTI)
2025-08-21T06:40:36+00:00
United Nations World Food Programme
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Lusaka
Lusaka
10101
Zambia
Nonprofit, and NGO
Admin & Office
2025-09-02T17:00:00+00:00
Zambia
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Reporting to the Head of Programmes, the incumbent shall provide strategic leadership and technical expertise in the integration of social protection, disaster risk management (DRM), and school feeding across the Country Office’s programmatic areas. The job holder will leverage global innovations and successful models to co-create localized frameworks and tools, enabling the Country Office to build resilient, inclusive, and shock-responsive communities that can withstand and recover from crises more effectively.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Strategic Integration and Technical Leadership
- Lead the integration of social protection, DRM, and school feeding across all CO programmatic areas.
- Support the integration of shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) approaches in national policies and anticipatory action & contingency frameworks, ensuring scalability during crises.
- Provide strategic advice to senior management on policy coherence between humanitarian response mechanisms and national SP systems, advising on appropriate entry points, sequencing, and system alignment.
- Draft technical briefs, concept notes, and policy papers to guide WFP and government positioning on SP reforms.
- Systems Strengthening and Digital Transformation
- Support the design, enhancement, and use of social registries, Management Information Systems (MIS), and digital delivery mechanisms for SP programmes.
- Provide advisory support to the harmonization of data systems between humanitarian and government actors to improve efficiency, targeting, and interoperability.
- Guide efforts to strengthen feedback, grievance, and referral systems linked to social protection delivery.
- Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Exchange
- Facilitate capacity assessments and tailored capacity-strengthening plans for government and partners at national and subnational levels.
- Deliver technical trainings, workshops, and peer-learning sessions on policy, systems design, and humanitarian-development linkages in SP including SRSP based on global and south-south best practices.
- Promote Support South-South and triangular cooperation and exchanges by documenting and sharing Zambia’s SP innovations and lessons learned.
- Productive and Resilience-Building Social Protection
- Design and promote productive social protection and graduation-oriented pathways, leveraging WFP’s resilience, nutrition-sensitive, and school feeding programmes.
- Provide technical inputs to operational frameworks that combine social transfers with livelihoods, skills, and market access interventions for poor and vulnerable households.
- Contribute to joint assessments and targeting tools that integrate climate vulnerability and food insecurity data into SP programme planning.
- Support the development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track resilience and graduation pathway outcomes and milestones.
- Partnership Building and Resource Mobilization
- Represent WFP in social protection technical working groups, policy dialogues, and donor coordination mechanisms.
- Foster strategic partnerships with government, UN agencies, NGOs, and research institutions to align SP investments.
- Contribute to the development of joint proposals, donor reports, and funding strategies to support SP system strengthening.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Advanced university degree in Social Policy, Public Administration, Economics, International Development, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in social protection system design, advisory support to government, digital systems (registries/MIS), and/or SRSP in a development or humanitarian context.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing integrated, multi-sectoral programs.
- Strategic thinking, policy analysis, government engagement, digital literacy, and excellent written and verbal communication.
- Desirable: Familiarity with adaptive and shock-responsive SP approaches, productive social protection, and national registry architecture.
Languages:
Fluency (level C) in English
Strategic Integration and Technical Leadership Lead the integration of social protection, DRM, and school feeding across all CO programmatic areas. Support the integration of shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) approaches in national policies and anticipatory action & contingency frameworks, ensuring scalability during crises. Provide strategic advice to senior management on policy coherence between humanitarian response mechanisms and national SP systems, advising on appropriate entry points, sequencing, and system alignment. Draft technical briefs, concept notes, and policy papers to guide WFP and government positioning on SP reforms. Systems Strengthening and Digital Transformation Support the design, enhancement, and use of social registries, Management Information Systems (MIS), and digital delivery mechanisms for SP programmes. Provide advisory support to the harmonization of data systems between humanitarian and government actors to improve efficiency, targeting, and interoperability. Guide efforts to strengthen feedback, grievance, and referral systems linked to social protection delivery. Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Exchange Facilitate capacity assessments and tailored capacity-strengthening plans for government and partners at national and subnational levels. Deliver technical trainings, workshops, and peer-learning sessions on policy, systems design, and humanitarian-development linkages in SP including SRSP based on global and south-south best practices. Promote Support South-South and triangular cooperation and exchanges by documenting and sharing Zambia’s SP innovations and lessons learned. Productive and Resilience-Building Social Protection Design and promote productive social protection and graduation-oriented pathways, leveraging WFP’s resilience, nutrition-sensitive, and school feeding programmes. Provide technical inputs to operational frameworks that combine social transfers with livelihoods, skills, and market access interventions for poor and vulnerable households. Contribute to joint assessments and targeting tools that integrate climate vulnerability and food insecurity data into SP programme planning. Support the development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track resilience and graduation pathway outcomes and milestones. Partnership Building and Resource Mobilization Represent WFP in social protection technical working groups, policy dialogues, and donor coordination mechanisms. Foster strategic partnerships with government, UN agencies, NGOs, and research institutions to align SP investments. Contribute to the development of joint proposals, donor reports, and funding strategies to support SP system strengthening.
Advanced university degree in Social Policy, Public Administration, Economics, International Development, or a related field. Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in social protection system design, advisory support to government, digital systems (registries/MIS), and/or SRSP in a development or humanitarian context. Proven experience in designing and implementing integrated, multi-sectoral programs. Strategic thinking, policy analysis, government engagement, digital literacy, and excellent written and verbal communication. Desirable: Familiarity with adaptive and shock-responsive SP approaches, productive social protection, and national registry architecture.
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Vacancy title:
Programme Policy Officer - Social Protection, DRM and School Feeding - International Consultant (CSTI)
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Admin & Office]
Jobs at:
United Nations World Food Programme
Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, September 2 2025
Duty Station:
Lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, August 21 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Reporting to the Head of Programmes, the incumbent shall provide strategic leadership and technical expertise in the integration of social protection, disaster risk management (DRM), and school feeding across the Country Office’s programmatic areas. The job holder will leverage global innovations and successful models to co-create localized frameworks and tools, enabling the Country Office to build resilient, inclusive, and shock-responsive communities that can withstand and recover from crises more effectively.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Strategic Integration and Technical Leadership
- Lead the integration of social protection, DRM, and school feeding across all CO programmatic areas.
- Support the integration of shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) approaches in national policies and anticipatory action & contingency frameworks, ensuring scalability during crises.
- Provide strategic advice to senior management on policy coherence between humanitarian response mechanisms and national SP systems, advising on appropriate entry points, sequencing, and system alignment.
- Draft technical briefs, concept notes, and policy papers to guide WFP and government positioning on SP reforms.
- Systems Strengthening and Digital Transformation
- Support the design, enhancement, and use of social registries, Management Information Systems (MIS), and digital delivery mechanisms for SP programmes.
- Provide advisory support to the harmonization of data systems between humanitarian and government actors to improve efficiency, targeting, and interoperability.
- Guide efforts to strengthen feedback, grievance, and referral systems linked to social protection delivery.
- Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Exchange
- Facilitate capacity assessments and tailored capacity-strengthening plans for government and partners at national and subnational levels.
- Deliver technical trainings, workshops, and peer-learning sessions on policy, systems design, and humanitarian-development linkages in SP including SRSP based on global and south-south best practices.
- Promote Support South-South and triangular cooperation and exchanges by documenting and sharing Zambia’s SP innovations and lessons learned.
- Productive and Resilience-Building Social Protection
- Design and promote productive social protection and graduation-oriented pathways, leveraging WFP’s resilience, nutrition-sensitive, and school feeding programmes.
- Provide technical inputs to operational frameworks that combine social transfers with livelihoods, skills, and market access interventions for poor and vulnerable households.
- Contribute to joint assessments and targeting tools that integrate climate vulnerability and food insecurity data into SP programme planning.
- Support the development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track resilience and graduation pathway outcomes and milestones.
- Partnership Building and Resource Mobilization
- Represent WFP in social protection technical working groups, policy dialogues, and donor coordination mechanisms.
- Foster strategic partnerships with government, UN agencies, NGOs, and research institutions to align SP investments.
- Contribute to the development of joint proposals, donor reports, and funding strategies to support SP system strengthening.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Advanced university degree in Social Policy, Public Administration, Economics, International Development, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in social protection system design, advisory support to government, digital systems (registries/MIS), and/or SRSP in a development or humanitarian context.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing integrated, multi-sectoral programs.
- Strategic thinking, policy analysis, government engagement, digital literacy, and excellent written and verbal communication.
- Desirable: Familiarity with adaptive and shock-responsive SP approaches, productive social protection, and national registry architecture.
Languages:
Fluency (level C) in English
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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