Senior Food and Cash Resources Officer

World Vision International

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Senior Food and Cash Resources Officer, you will provide District Level leadership, management and technical oversight for WV/WFP Food and Cash Assistance Program. You will be primarily responsible for ensuring the full implementation of program activities within designated geographical location (region/district). These include adherence to the World Vision Food and Cash guidelines; program & staff management; capacity building and training of project and partner staff; and the building and strengthening of region/district level relationships with local government, donors, communities, and partners as shall be appropriate.

Requirements include:

• A bachelor’s degree in project management, social science, agriculture or other relevant field; master’s degree will have added advantage.
• Strong knowledge of Cash/Food/Voucher programming and good working experience with UN WFP, USAID, BHA, UNICEF and FAO.
• 5 years minimum experience in humanitarian or development work, preferably in developing and fragile contexts and at least 2 of those years in a management/supervisory role.
• Excellent written and verbal in French and knowledge in English.
• Program cross-functional proposal team with the right staff and right time to meet deadlines.
• Proven experience in networking with donors and partners to bring about funding opportunities. Persuasive presentation skills: face-to-face and in public settings.