Re-Advertisement: Budget & Programming, SC9 – Mogadishu

WHY JOIN WFP SOMALIA?

In Somalia, the World Food Programme provides food assistance for nutrition, livelihoods, and relief through the hard work of more than 630 employees who contribute towards making Somalia hunger-free in close collaboration with local partners.

By joining the team, you will have an opportunity to transform communities, unleash your full potential and make a difference where it matters.

WHAT WILL YOU DO? (not all-inclusive)

• Collaborate on the development of plans, processes, and procedures to ensure compliance with WFP Somalia Country Office (CO) budget programming policies.
• Create and review project budget plans and monitor ongoing project performance against budgets, providing financial analysis and advice for resource optimization.
• Review and create budget and project documentation, ensuring the accurate recording of resource data in internal systems, adhering to WFP standards.
• Actively contribute innovative ideas for system improvements, techniques, tools, processes, and procedures to enhance budget and fund monitoring and management.
• Monitor and provide guidance on fund utilization, advance financing, loans, borrowing, repayments, and refinancing arrangements, and communicate any deadlines for unassigned funds to the Country Directors and CO Leadership team.
• Oversee actions related to project closure and resource transfers.
• Represent the unit in internal meetings, committees, and working groups to provide and obtain budget and resource programming perspectives.
• Monitor the resource pipeline to maximize operational efficiency, following established standards and processes, and provide advice on resource allocations based on pipeline shortfalls using relevant tools.
• Assist in preparing food-demand plans to support corporate Global Commodity Financial Facility management and provide data for RB/HQ decision-making.
• Collect and analyze data to prepare accurate and timely reports for informed decision-making, ensuring consistency in information presented to senior management and external stakeholders.
• Provide regular reports on the progress of WFP Projects under different strategic outcomes and for donor grants.
• Review and update CO-specific reports for external and internal audiences, ensuring data consistency across various reporting materials.
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff in budgeting, fund management, and operational planning by answering queries and updating training materials, manuals, and guidelines.
• Supervise general service staff as required and perform other relevant duties as needed.

DO YOU MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS?

Education:

• Advanced university degree (Masters degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or other relevant field
• First-level university degree (Bachelors degree) with an additional 2 years of relevant work experience and/or Training/courses.

Work Experience

• Minimum 3 years (with a Masters Degree) or 5 years (with a Bachelors Degree) of progressively responsively professional experience in financial, budgeting and accounting Systems in commercial enterprises, national governments, or international organizations

Language

International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language communication. Proficiency in Somali would be an advantage but not a requirement.

ARE YOU COMPETENT FOR THIS JOB? DO YOU HAVE: –

• Demonstrated ability to contribute to the development of plans, processes, and procedures while ensuring compliance with budget programming policies.
• Advanced knowledge of WFP’s information systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Ability to collate and analyze data for the preparation of accurate and timely reports,
• Experience in coordinating operational planning, fostering discussions on resource projections and implications on a program-wide level.