WFP vacant: Climate & Resilience Finance Officer

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, color, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status, physical or mental disability.

Are you a Climate and Resilience Finance Expert interested in further developing your professional experience while contributing to ending global hunger? Are you passionate about helping those in need? Would you like to join a global organization investing in its people?

If so, an exciting & fulfilling career awaits you! Join our diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly contributing to saving & changing millions of lives around the globe.

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

WFP is well known for its ability to deliver food assistance rapidly to people in need. Increasingly, this emergency assistance is delivered in conflict-affected areas, where it runs the risk of inadvertently becoming caught up in the conflict itself. Many WFP staff around the world work hard to understand the contexts where they work and intuitively try to ensure that WFP programming and operations do not contribute to conflict or tensions. However, WFP needs to go beyond ‘Do No Harm’ to become truly conflict sensitive in the many complex emergencies in which it operates. WFP has committed to the application of conflict sensitivity in all of its operations, not only through the 2013 Policy on WFP’s Role in Peacebuilding in Transition Settings, but also more recently in signing up to the 2020 OECD DAC recommendation on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN).

Climate change multiplies existing threats to food security, hunger and malnutrition. Expected impacts of climate change include an increase in the number and intensity of climate-related disasters, increased scarcity and lack of access to land and water, decreases in agricultural productivity. Impacts will be felt disproportionally by the most vulnerable people, the majority of whom live in fragile areas prone to natural hazards, ultimately putting hundreds of millions of people at risk.

The World Food Programme (WFP) approaches the challenge of climate change from the point of view of its impact on hunger and under nutrition. In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), WFP supports communities and governments with programmes and policies that address climate risks, build resilience and adaptive capacities to climate change. WFP has a range of partners it engages with, and is looking to strengthen and diversify its partnership and donor base in the areas of climate and resilience financing.

JOB PURPOSE

Under the supervision of the Development and Thematic Funding Officer and the Regional Climate Advisor, YOU will contribute to resource mobilisation on climate and resilience action in LAC, including expanding partnerships with public and private sector entities. With a strong background in proposal writing, donor relations and an understanding of the international climate and resilience agenda, YOU will play a key role advocating for WFP’s work in climate and resilience finance and furthering innovative programme and partnership solutions.