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VACANCY NOTICE
World Food Programme

Position Title: Programme Policy Officer (climate actions mapping and development of catalogue of scalable models)
- Contract Type: Special Service Agreement (SSA)
- Level: SSA-9
- Contract Duration: 4 months (Max 45 workdays)
- Duty Station: Kathmandu
- Date of Publication: 18.02.2025
- Deadline of Application: 03.03.2025

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the direct supervision of Deputy Head of Programme (DHoP), WFP Nepal CO, the Programme Policy Officer will be responsible for the following tasks:
1. Support to carry out an assessment of the existing gender responsive climate change adaptation models adopted and implemented by government agencies, UN agencies, other bilateral/multilateral projects, development partners, I/NGOs, civil society and provate sector in Nepal.
2. Conduct a comprehensive mapping using SWOT analysis of existing models adopted in Nepal in collaboration with government agencies and development partners to assess their existing climate change adaptation models adopted.
3. Support to documenting best practices on gender responsive climate change adaptation and environment conservation models of all the agencies including government, bilateral agencies, UN agencies, I/NGOs, and other entities through assessing and analyzing their scalability based on existing socio-cultural, environmental and political dynamics.
4. Support the preparation of catalogue of scalable, successful, and gender equality, disability and social inclusive climate change adaptation and environment conservation models in Nepal with in-depth analysis of their strengths and weaknesses and ecological region/province-wise scalable models.
5. Contribute to provide technical guidance to the targeted local governments in formulation of gender-responsive and inclusive climate actions localization plan based on the catalogue and localization framework.
6. Work closely with Strategic Outcome – climate change and resilience team and other teams in WFP country office and other JP partner UN agencies- UNDP and UN-Habitat.

Deadline: 3 March 2025

HOW TO APPLY
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