Strategic Projects Manager
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
20 September 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).
POSITION TITLE: Strategic Projects Manager
ORG UNIT: PSP (Private Partnerships Division)
DUTY STATION: Rome HQ
CONTRACT TYPE: Regular CST
DURATION: 11 months
LINE MANAGER/SUPERVISOR: Paul Smith Head of Insights and Strategic Enablement
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT & PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
WFP is committed to growing private sector fundraising with a focus on fundraising from individuals (IF). This has been successfully established by other UN agencies and generates the majority of their private sector income. Additionally individual supporters can provide a high proportion of unrestricted income which is critical to supporting the long-term goals of WFPs programmes and goal to end hunger.
The Private Partnerships Division (PSP) is committed to develop individual fundraising as a significant strategy for growth during 2020-2025. The focus is a digital-first strategy and WFP is upgrading its systems and infrastructure to receive and process donations from individuals around the world as well as the systems to store and manage supporter information. The aim is for WFP to engage with supporters in their preferred channels and maximize long-term support through a seamless experience.
This role will report to and provide strategic project management to the Head of Insights and Strategic Enablement and will play an important role in managing specific areas of increasing complexity and risk in programmes with individual donors including data compliance privacy and protection.
Currently different teams in WFP deliver programmes to attract and retain financial supporters to WFP including the Individual Giving and the Share the Meal teams both of which report into the new added role of the Individual Fundraising Deputy Director. These teams combined have already built up a supporter base approaching 2 million people. This role will work with both teams and also on projects or initiatives that are cross-divisional with a focus on individuals. They will build effective working relationships with the Operational Excellence team in PSP as well as with important stakeholders and collaborators to drive forwards and deliver projects such as with Legal Procurement Data Protection Technology HR Risk Management and Treasury and external partners.
ACCOUNTABILITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Capture the most significant risks of fundraising from individuals for WFP coordinate inputs to the PSP Divisions risk register and develop risk assessments and mitigations with the relevant teams
2. Monitor the risks and implement the risk mitigation strategies providing regular reviews and assessments to the Director PSP
3. Work with teams to ensure they have effective data management plans in place and where required support teams ondata mapping building effective working relationships with the database managers (or equivalent roles) in relevant teams
4. Design the Supporter Engagement data privacy strategy defining processes and leading the roll-out and implementation within relevant teams in PSP and then regular reviews to ensure timely updates and operational changes are implemented
5. Working closely with the Head of Insights and Strategic Enablement as well as the Director PSP manage the various aspects of compliance to organizational UN and other relevant rules and regulation requirements (e.g. UN administrative rules contractual requirements Data Protection and Privacy Payments Security PCI DSS & KYC compliance)
6. Ensure that the above include use of digital marketing technologies and tools including on data enrichment ensuring compliance and continual review
7. Establish a relationship with peers in sister UN agencies especially UNICEF and UNHCR and engage on potential IF risks mitigations and lessons learnt as well as suppliers or advisers
8. Co-design and co-develop with teams operational processes for data governance (incl. data security protection and auditing) and manage implementation operationalizing these processes with teams so all programmes have in place at all times policies and practices that meet compliance requirements
9. Develop an internal Information Security standard operating procedure (SOP) in line with corporate requirements and in partnership with IG and STM Tech Leads as well as with the TECH Division
10. Appoint and manage external experts with the Head of Insights and Strategic Enablement to ensure effective professional and industry advice is available and/or work with experts appointed by WFP
11. Document relevant policies and practices and implement other compliance related procedures as required and stay up to date with changes in data protection and compliance issues in relevant sectors to anticipate potential evolutions in data protection compliance
all teams have effective processes to rapidly identify and report any failures in data protection and compliance
13. With the Director PSP and the Head of Insights and Strategic Enablement coordinate interaction with the Data Protection Office in WFP
14. Engage with PSPs Information Knowledge Manager to ensure that Individual Fundraising and Private Partnership data governances strategies are aligned
15. Where required
a. design project manage and support implementation of business and operational processes for IF programmes e.g. on tax receipts and coordinate the interaction with key WFP units and teams (incl. Legal Procurement Data Protection Finance Treasury Tech and Risk) and external suppliers;
b. provide more intensive support to the Heads of the Individual Giving or Share the Meal teams where changes are required by a team for the above
c. manage strategic high-level projects and lead of the internal implementation.
d. Represent IF and PSP at corporate events with a focus on risk and compliance
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT
The divisional risk register reflects the most critical risks to WFP of fundraising from individuals and risk mitigation assessments and mitigations are in place and regular reviews provided to leadership.
Full suite of policies and processes are in place and documented in both the Individual Giving and Share the Meal teams covering all aspects of data compliance privacy and protection.
Relevant internal business partners have been consulted and the above incorporates their guidance or requirements.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Education
University degree in one or more of the following disciplines: Law Social Sciences Information Technology Finance or related fields
Experience
4-5 years to include experience on privacy and compliance including experience in a technology environment (web and app) plus experience in project management.
Knowledge and skills
A pragmatic and considered approach to rule application
A good understanding of WFP/UN business processes
Confidence in presenting / communicating to small groups of people and/or senior leadership
Effective problem-solving skills and ability to exercise good judgement/initiative in a variety of situations
Excellent communication able to build rapport and demonstrate influencing negotiation and decision-making skills
Ability to build relationships and inspire confidence and respect at all levels; strong team player
A can-do attitude and is committed to delivering results and strives for continuous improvement
Strong ethical standards and a high level of personal integrity
Excellent attention to detail written and verbal communications skills
Excellent organisational and administrative experience. Administrative and IT skills; Outlook Word Excel and PowerPoint
Up to date industry knowledge in related subjects
Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality while staying focused in a pressured environment working independently and within a team
Languages
Excellent command of spoken and written English.
knowledge of another official UN language would be a plus.
WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
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Click here to access WFP Leadership Framework
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation please contact:
NO FEE DISCLAIMER
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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
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
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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:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
