WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
Assets (including light and armoured vehicles, generators and pre-fabs) are essential to deliver our mandate to serve our beneficiaries. And WFP Management Service Division (MSD), in particular the Asset Management Unit (AMU), is taking great strides on its new approach to responsible asset management through improved tracking, accounting, policy and guidance.
When new tools and guidance occur, educational materials need to be revised and adapted to accommodate these changes. For this reason, the AMU training strategy must be re-vamped and new content be created to meet the new needs of our staff from self-paced learning (e-learning modules) and webinars to hands-on training (face-to face).
In addition, in 2020, the team will be rolling out a structured communications strategy to ensure timely information is received and pushed out effectively between HQ, Regional Bureaux and Country Offices. Both training and communications needs to go hand-in-hand to support the change management initiatives taken around Asset Management in WFP, especially around the decentralization of asset management.
The AMU is currently seeking a Training and Communication Specialist for proposing, managing, designing, developing, coordinating and conducting training programs, as well as supporting various communications within the team.
This position is suited for someone who can work both independently and, in a team, has excellent oral and written communications skills, is impeccably structured and organized, technology-savvy, quick to learn new tools and to familiarize with business processes so that s/he can understand subject matter experts.
JOB PURPOSE
Under the joint supervision of the Global Asset Manager and the Asset Management Decentralization stream leader, the candidate will design training content from conceptualisation through to creation of new – and where available, repurposing of existing – materials. Internal promotion of the training also falls under the responsibility of this position.
