Budget and Programming Officer

Your privacy is important to us* WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.* WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.* WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.* A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.* We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the **Terms and Conditions** section of this vacancy announcement).* Identify opportunities to develop and implement policies and procedures for budget and programming activities, aimed at achieving objectives in alignment with SMA operational strategies.* Proactively support the preparation and review of budgets to ensure accuracy, relevance, cost-effectiveness, and completeness, while monitoring ongoing performance against the operational budget.* Review and clear submitted funding proposals, making recommendations as needed, in close collaboration with the SMA programme and partnerships teams, as well as SMA activity managers.* Provide guidance on budgetary adjustments to optimize resource utilization, coordinating inputs from various SMA units and offering regular feedback to the SMA Director and key stakeholders.* Coordinate with the WFP Budget and Programming function to ensure compliant management and oversight of the SMA Trust Fund, following up on outstanding actions with stakeholders and enabling timely reporting for SMA Trust Fund grants.* Coordinate data analysis efforts and develop innovative, SMA-specific reports to meet diverse requirements and support informed decision-making, ensuring consistency in information shared with SMA management and external stakeholders.* Identify opportunities to enhance systems, techniques, tools, processes, and procedures for improved monitoring, management, and reporting of SMA budgets and resources.* Represent the unit in internal meetings, committees, and working groups as needed, providing and gathering information from a budget and resource programming perspective.* Provide technical recommendations and guidance, and support the monitoring and management of financial risks.* Perform other relevant duties as required.* Internal Controls & Compliance: Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of internal controls and proper accounting procedures and systems to recommend improvements where necessary to address current weaknesses and mitigate risks in international development setting.* Performance Budgeting, Reporting and Analysis: Manages budget, business planning, and forecasting discussions on a programme-wide level, integrating financial resource information from a portfolio of projects to analyze effectiveness and financial viability.* Resource Management: Oversees staffing resources at project and programme level, and ability to analyze resource usage trends and forecasting.* Performance Management: Applies knowledge of performance management system to manage resources and relationships to undertake monitoring actions or deliver straightforward evaluations of operations, programmes, or processes with a high-quality standard.* Knowledge of Operation: Demonstrates thorough understanding of international development programmes and financial policies, business processes and applies these in the implementation or support of the programme interventions.* Proven understanding of operational planning, business processes, rules, and procedures, consistently applying them to support and implement programme interventions.* Possess in-depth knowledge of programme operational requirements and their implications for resource management, enabling proactive recommendations for improvement.* Specialized expertise in enhancing business planning processes and promoting Value-for-Money principles in alignment with international financial policies and procedures.* Strong leadership in guiding teams to deliver resource management solutions that improve value for money to beneficiaries, while aligning staff practices with mission-critical priorities.* Skilled in consolidating and communicating resource management information with a focus on numerical accuracy and consistency across teams, drawing relevant conclusions and recommendations to inform decision-making.* Openness to testing ideas in uncertain environments.WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package in line with ICSC standards () including basic salary, post adjustment, relocation entitlement, visa, travel and shipment allowances, 30 days’ annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, a pension plan, and medical insurance.* We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).* Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.* Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language* Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter* Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time* Please contact us at in case you face any challenges with submitting your application* Only shortlisted candidates will be notified#J-18808-Ljbffr