Programme Policy Consultant (Risk Financing and Insurance Operations)
Programme Policy Consultant (Risk Financing and Insurance Operations)
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30 July 2025-23:59-GMT01:00 Central European Time (Rome)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 colour national origin ethnic or social background genetic information gender gender identity and/or expression sexual orientation religion or belief HIV status or disability.
ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the worlds largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse committed skilled and high performing teams selected on merit operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment living WFPs values (Integrity Collaboration Commitment Humanity and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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WHY JOIN WFP
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).
JOB TITLE: Programme Policy Consultant (Risk Financing and Insurance Operations)
TYPE OF CONTRACT: CST I
UNIT/DIVISION: PPGR
DUTY STATION (City Country): Rome Italy
DURATION: 3 months until 31.12.2025 (extendable)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
Climate change multiplies existing threats to food security hunger and malnutrition. It will make natural disasters more frequent and intense land and water scarce and difficult to access and increases in agricultural productivity even harder to achieve. It will disproportionally impact the most vulnerable people the majority of whom live in fragile areas prone to climate hazards ultimately putting hundreds of millions of people at risk. It is estimated that by 2050 the risk of hunger could increase by 20 percent and child malnutrition is anticipated to be 20 percent higher than it would have been without a climate change scenario.
WFP approaches the challenge of climate change from the point of view of its impact on hunger and under nutrition. WFPs work on climate change and climate risk management focuses on enhancing the resilience of food insecure communities and countries helping them adapt to more frequent and intense climatic events. About 40 percent of WFPs operations already include activities to reduce disaster risk build resilience and help people adapt to the effects resulting from climate change. WFP is developing and testing innovative tools and approaches to help Governments and communities to manage disaster risks in a more effective manner. WFP is further developing refining and testing these tools by incorporating approaches such as the African Risk Capacity (ARC) sovereign drought insurance to accelerate the coverage of climate risk insurance to millions of Africans while building the capacity of national governments to respond to large-scale climate shocks.
Climate and Resilience Service is in WFP HQ (located under WFPs Programme and Policy Division) that provides guidance and support to a range of activities from household-level inclusive insurance programmes to carrying out climate analyses to better understand the impact of climate risks on food security and nutrition helping governments implement adaptation projects on the ground as well as developing innovative climate risk management tools programmatic and financing mechanisms.
Under the supervision of the Climate and Disaster Risk Financing Advisor the consultant will be responsible for engaging with Country Offices and Regional Bureaus in the operational aspects of WFPs inclusive and meso insurance portfolio with the support of Regional Advisors. The role will involve providing capacity strengthening for Country Offices to ensure the appropriate design and implementation of meso and inclusive insurance schemes; following in-country workplans to ensure programme success; facilitate cross-country learning; support Country Offices when engaging with Technical Service Providers local insurers and reinsurers during design and implementation of the insurance schemes; support the Country Offices and Regional Bureaus to provide capacity strengthening to governments and other stakeholders to ensure local ownership in the mid and long term; support Country Offices to engage in strategic discussions on sustainability of the inclusive and meso insurance schemes; supporting integration of the inclusive and meso insurance portfolio with savings loans remittances and other financial services; supporting contractual negotiations; leading knowledge and information management and drafting donor reports. This post will require travel to country offices for workshops and capacity strengthening missions.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Provide support to Country Offices (COs) throughout the processes of design and implementation of inclusive and meso insurance schemes. Specifically by attending internal and external calls; providing operational and technical guidance; following in-country workplans; following work of taskforces; encouraging the participation in national platforms and community of practice on inclusive insurance microinsurance agricultural insurance; amongst other activities.
2. Support the technical review of index insurance products.
3. Contribute to conducting and reviewing feasibility studies to design and implement inclusive and meso insurance and its integration with other financial services.
4. Support the organisation of strategic workshops on sustainability of inclusive and meso insurance in at least 3 countries.
5. Support the organisation of at least 3 internal technical cross-country webinars.
6. Support the data gathering in due time of inclusive and meso insurance schemes globally.
7. Support the implementation of the Sustainability Strategy of Inclusive insurance.
8. Support the COs to participate in national and regional platforms on agricultural insurance climate risk insurance disaster risk financing etc.
9. Support contractual negotiations related to inclusive and meso insurance programmes liaising with WFPs Legal Division (partnership MoUs data sharing agreements insurance policy signature etc.)
10. Lead knowledge and information management for the inclusive and meso insurance portfolio (ensuring all key documents are saved and organized on TEAMs including programme documents case studies comms materials and programme output figures etc).
11. Support the drafting of donor reports.
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:
1. Two strategic workshops on sustainability for inclusive and meso insurance in two countries.
2. Two cross-regional webinars on inclusive insurance on pre-selected topics
3. Technical review of index insurance products of at least three countries
4. Four COs supported to launch inclusive or meso insurance schemes
5. At least 2 feasibility studies / inception assessment
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
Advanced University degree or University degree in one or more of the following disciplines: economics actuarial studies hydrometereology insurance finance or related area
Experience:
At least 3 years of post-graduate progressively responsible job-related experience in risk financing inclusive insurance agricultural insurance rural finance microfinance financial inclusion agricultural value chain support and development.
Experience in supporting the development and implementation of index insurance schemes is a plus.
Demonstrated field experience setting up distribution delivery operations and management of insurance and other financial services to benefit vulnerable and food
insecure populations
Knowledge & Skills:
Demonstrated knowledge of needs and particularities of vulnerable and food insecure populations.
Demonstrated strategic thinking.
Ability to conduct effective meetings listen to others and engage in dialogue.
Ability to promote business oriented approaches that at the same time provide value to the most vulnerable and food insecure.
Ability to communicate with public and private sector understanding their mandates and roles to reach to strategic public private partnerships.
Proficiency in Windows MS Office. Competencies: Cognitive Capacity Teamwork Action Management Innovation Partnering Client Orientation.
Languages:
Working knowledge of English (proficiency/level C) and intermediate knowledge
(intermediate/B) of another UN language (Arabic Chinese French Russian and Spanish). Working proficiency in Spanish and/or French would be considered an asset.
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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
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
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Additional documents such as passport recommendation letters academic certificates etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
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Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs job requirements merit and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse all forms of discrimination any kind of harassment sexual harassment and abuse of authority. Therefore all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) FAO Finance Committee WFP External Auditor WFP Audit Committee Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Full-Time
