Budget and Programming Cash-Based Transfers Consultant

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Job Title: Budget and Programming Cash-Based Transfers Consultant

Type of Contract: Regular Consultant

Division: CBT / Cash-Based Transfers Division

Duty Station (City, Country): Rome HQ, Italy

Duration: ‎11 months

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

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. Every day, WFP works to ensure that nobody goes to bed
hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and
children, are able to meet their food and other essential needs.
WFP endeavours to reach as many people in need as possible utilising available
resources. This means making sure that assistance reaches the most vulnerable,
while limiting the risk of assistance going to non- intended persons. The
Cash-Based Transfer (CBT) Division in HQ has been tasked with leading on WFP's
corporate systems and services for identity management for WFP's in-kind and
CBT programmes and it is providing services and support to country offices,
external partners and governments to achieve their programmatic goals.
A service-model that includes clearly defined and agreed deliverables,
transparent costs and overall excellent service provision to customers is in
place. CBT is therefore recruiting a Budget and Programming Officer role who
will use her/his technical knowledge and experience to analyse data, prepare
reports, provide advice and solutions to problems, and identify opportunities
for improvements in the procedures related to service provision and to CBT
more generally, in both the PSA budget, the country portfolio budget, and any
other relevant budgeting/funding mechanisms (for example, the global thematic
services budget, the IRA, etc).

JOB PURPOSE:

To establish an approach to funds management for CBT that promotes budget
discipline and best use of funds at the global and country office levels.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Participate in the development and implementation of plans and procedures for budget and programming activities related to CBT, ensuring that objectives are achieved in compliance with divisional, corporate, country and functional strategies.


• Ensure normative guidance on funds management supports the implementation of "state of the art" CBT operations globally.


• Create and review the budget plans and forecasts for cash services, monitoring ongoing project performance against budgets, ensuring adherence to guidance and policies, and providing financial analysis and advice to optimize resources.


• Monitor and provide advice on actions related to project closure and resource transfer.


• Monitor and provide advice on fund utilization and advance financing, loan and borrowing, repayment and refinancing arrangements; alert CBT managers and service owners to approaching deadlines for unassigned funds and potential resource shortfalls/surpluses and propose appropriate solutions.


• Monitor and manage the resource pipeline for the CBT division to maximise operational effectiveness and provide advice on resource allocations based on severity of funding shortfalls using relevant tools.


• Coordinate and prepare accurate reports, to provide consistent information for stakeholders, and to identify trends/issues and propose solutions that support decision-making by senior management.


• Analyse data and propose well-researched ideas to senior officers for improvement to systems, techniques, tools, processes and procedures to better monitor and manage budgets and funds.


• Build capacity of WFP staff in budgeting, fund management and operational planning, through preparing and delivery training, coaching, guidelines and manuals.


• Represent the division at internal meetings/committees/working groups as required, in order to contribute to discussion of key issues from a budget and resource programming perspective.


• Manage junior officers/staff to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.


• Other as required

Desired experience for entry into to the role:

Has experience translating operational requirements into financial
information.
Has experience preparing budgets and reports for WFP management, and reviewing
country office plans and budgets.
Has experience using WFP's ERP (WINGS).
Experience in service provision in the humanitarian sector is desirable.

Education:

Advanced University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics or
other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of
related work experience and/or training/courses. Chartered accounting
certificates are a plus.

Languages:

Fluency (level C) in English language

Terms and Conditions

WFP offers a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the
contract type and selected candidate's qualifications and experience.

Please visit the following websites for detailed information on working with
WFP.

http://www.wfp.org Click on: "Our work" and "Countries" to learn more about
WFP's operations.

Deadline for applications: ‎21 June ‎2022

Ref.: VA No. ‎166830

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requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to
providing an

inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms
of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of
authority.

Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and
background checks.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the
UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ),

International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP
External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other

similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight
responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of
ceasing that service.