FOOD SECURITY COORDINATOR – PAM – BURKINA FASO

Contexte

JOB VACANCY — WFP FOOD SECURITY COORDINATOR. 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.

The Food Security Cluster/Sector Coordinator (CC) plays a vital role in ensuring timely, coherent and effective food security interventions by mobilizing and supporting stakeholders to deliver a coordinated and strategic response to a humanitarian crisis.

The role, as set out in the IASC Generic Terms of Reference, is to lead food security coordination along with the support team (including an Information Management Officer, IMO) and a wide range of stakeholders in:

• Facilitating a timely, coherent, effective and coordinated food security response by mobilizing stakeholders in a strategic manner;
• Enhancing coordination through the reinforcement of linkages and synergies between relevant food security actors, as well as between humanitarian and development partners;
• Ensuring that food security is appropriately represented in the overall humanitarian response;
• Supporting delivery service;
• Informing strategic decisions of the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) and Humanitarian Country Team (HCT)/Country Management Team (CMT);
• Coordinating and planning Cluster strategies, including contingency planning and preparedness;
• Monitoring and evaluating Cluster/Sector performance;
• Building national and FSC members’ capacity in relevant areas;
• Supporting advocacy for food security needs;
• Accountability to affected people.

The Coordinator will work impartially with all members of the Food Security Cluster (FSC), closely with the UN Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator and OCHA, and with all other humanitarian stakeholders including other cluster leads.

Missions et responsabilités

Purpose of the role: Coordinate and foster effective collaboration among humanitarian agencies, government authorities, UN organizations, NGOs, donors, and other key stakeholders to ensure a timely, efficient, and well-coordinated food security response. Lead multi-stakeholder planning processes, needs assessments, monitoring, reporting, advocacy, and resource mobilization initiatives, promoting evidence-based decision-making and collective action. Strengthen emergency preparedness, partner capacities, and coordination mechanisms to enhance the quality, impact, and sustainability of food security interventions for vulnerable and crisis-affected populations.

• Establish and maintain the Food Security Cluster/Sector: ensure membership and engagement of key partners at national and sub-national level, organize regular cluster meetings, and ensure overall coordination of the food response in an emergency;
• Establish an inclusive governance structure for the FSC (including co-leadership with national authorities where possible, a Strategic Advisory Group, NGO co-chairing);
• Contribute to the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) by managing the process for the FSC, supported by the IMO and in close consultation with cluster partners;
• Ensure monitoring of the FS response (quantitative and qualitative) and report on its implementation;
• Ensure timely, inclusive and regular information sharing with cluster partners (meetings, dashboards, maps, assessments, technical working groups);
• Facilitate and support needs assessments (EFSA, CFSAM, SMART, MIRA, etc.) and promote analysis and utilization for decision-making;
• Coordinate and promote mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues (gender, age, HIV/AIDS, human rights, disability, environment, early recovery, protection, nutrition) and participatory/community-based approaches;
• Promote application of common standards (SPHERE, CHS) and harmonization of programmatic responses (SOPs, Minimum Expenditure Basket, minimum assistance package);
• Contribute to country-level contingency planning and coordinate cluster/sector-wide emergency preparedness and response;
• Ensure development of regular food security reports (sitreps, bulletins, newsletters);
• Undertake advocacy and resource mobilization on behalf of FSC partners, neutrally and impartially;
• Contribute to management of country-based pooled funding schemes, leading the process for the FSC;
• Identify funding for the FSC team in collaboration with the Cluster Lead Agencies (FAO and WFP), and track FSC funding status;
• Identify capacity gaps and provide training/capacity building to FSC partners;
• Supervise and guide the IMO, and guide the co-chair and other Cluster team members; report regularly to the CLAs;
• Together with the IMO, support global FSC initiatives such as CCPM (Cluster Coordination Performance Monitoring) and the global cluster annual overview.

Profil recherché

• Advanced university degree in food security, agriculture, economics, humanitarian affairs or related field;
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in humanitarian response at a mid or senior level, including experience in food security topics (mandatory) and inter-agency coordination (desirable);
• Working knowledge of English; knowledge of another UN language based on country of deployment (French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese);
• Ability to work and plan at both operational and strategic level;
• Understanding of the international humanitarian response architecture (HPC, CERF, Flash Appeals, Pooled Funds);
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to an evolving, complex humanitarian context;
• Ability to express and summarize ideas orally and in writing in a diplomatic and inclusive manner;
• Ability to interact with multiple stakeholders and represent the FSC in strategic meetings;
• Ability to lead workshops and meetings, and present outcomes on behalf of a group of stakeholders;
• Good understanding of Food Security assessments, surveys, and monitoring & evaluation.

Conditions et avantages

• Duty Station : Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Type of contract : Consultancy
• Duration : 11 months

Dossier de candidature

• Food Security needs analysis and response plan;
• Food Security Cluster/Sector workplan with key deliverables;
• Cluster-relevant contingency plans, SOPs and harmonized packages;
• Multi-sector joint planning with other clusters, as relevant;
• Food security sitrep, newsletters/bulletins;
• Advocacy notes and round table meeting minutes;
• FSC resource mobilization strategy and business case;
• Handover report with shared folder of documents at the end of the assignment.

Comment postuler

All applications must be submitted exclusively through WFP’s online recruiting system (Workday). CVs or applications sent by email, LinkedIn, or other channels are not considered.

⚠️ The United Nations never charges any fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

📅 Deadline: 2 October 2026, 23:59 UTC (Ouagadougou time)