Emergency Response Roster - Food Assistance & Non-Food Item(NFI) Advisor

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight and leadership of the Food Assistance and NFI Programs, in compliance with Disaster Management Standards and donor guidelines.
• Establish and maintain an effective working relationship with the DM Regional Technical Advisor throughout the life of the project.
• Ensure strong communication and coordination with all team members as a means to effectively achieve program objectives.
• Spearhead innovation and creativity within the food assistance and NFI programs to ensure cost competitiveness and value for money.

Management of Food Assistance (In-kind, Cash and Vouchers) and Non-Food Items Resources

• Lead project team in participatory planning and implementation of activities, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices and donor guidelines.
• Provide supervision and technical support to all food assistance and NFI activities to ensure they are managed and implemented as per approved award document, donor and WVI guidelines/standards.
• Design strategies, partnerships and interventions to ensure project activities and implementation approaches are gender, age and ability inclusive and in compliance with requirements.
• Work closely with all departments (other operations stakeholders, finance, procurement, supply chain management) to provide technical support needed for the implementation of all food assistance and NFI activities.
• Identify and support program staff capacity building and development.

Implementation And Program Quality

• Work with all sectors within the response to ensure food assistance and NFI interventions are well integrated with existing sectors programs for maximum impact within the response.
• Maintain appropriate tracking systems for both food assistance and NFI interventions to ensure proper accounting and stewardship of all food assistance and NFI resources entrusted to the response.
• Ensure all food assistance and NFI distributions are executed in line with set industry, donor, WV and humanitarian standards, and all distributions documents are correctly filed in a safe place and readily available for audit.
• Ensure all commodities, CVP and NFI losses are properly documented, investigated and claims procedures comply with the World Vision Partnership and donor requirements.
• Support Operations in implementation challenges with hands-on capacity building.
• Support direct reports as needed on invoices tracking sheet and update & share with the management on timely basis.
• Support Food Assistance (in-kind, vouchers, cash) /NFI and procurement teams in maintaining inventory control on a monthly basis.
• Ensure that all Food Assistance (In-kind, vouchers, cash)/NFI are tracked as on funding and separate reports prepared for each donor.

Risks Management And Compliance

• Work closely with other stakeholders across Response team (response director/management, Operations Director, programs, finance, procurement) to ensure teams are up to date on key issues in the Food Assistance and NFI portfolio.
• Ensure that the development and use of Standard operating procedures and risks management registers for all FA & NFI projects.
• Conduct regular compliance reviews and programming adjustments in line with donor regulations and World Vision Standards.
• Identifies potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk; develops/implements corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues, and provides general guidance on how to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future.
• Develops, initiates, maintains, and revises policies and procedures for the general operation of the Compliance Program and its related activities to prevent illegal, unethical, or improper conduct.