Head of Emergency

Leads WFP Yemen's Targeted Emergency Food Assistance operations from Aden in a complex humanitarian setting. The international consultant manages pipelines, partners and multi-disciplinary teams; drives beneficiary digitalisation and cash-transfer shifts; and strengthens emergency preparedness, social-protection interoperability, external coordination and donor engagement.

• Lead Targeted Emergency Food Assistance operations, including planning, budgets, pipelines and expenditure controls
• Manage cooperating-partner selection, negotiations, monitoring and formal evaluations
• Lead and strengthen the Emergency Food Assistance team and field collaboration
• Coordinate household retargeting and digital identity assurance measures
• Drive appropriate transition to digital cash transfers
• Advance social-protection interoperability and cash-transfer mechanisms with UN and financial-institution partners
• Lead emergency preparedness and represent WFP in Rapid Response Mechanism coordination
• Represent WFP in sector coordination and donor discussions

• Advanced university degree in international relations, development studies, economics, social sciences, business administration or another relevant field
• Minimum seven years of progressive professional experience in humanitarian operations, emergency programme management or food-security assistance
• Fluency in spoken and written English

• Experience leading large-scale cash-based or in-kind operations in complex, high-risk or conflict-affected settings
• Experience in the Middle East region or Yemen
• Working knowledge or intermediate proficiency in Arabic

• Emergency Food Assistance
• Humanitarian Operations
• Cash-Based Transfers
• Digital Identity Management
• Social Protection
• Partner Management
• Operational Planning
• Food Security

• SCOPE
• Identity Management
• Results Based Management

• International consultancy contract CSTII
• Duration: 11 months
• Closing time: 23:59 Arabian Standard Time
• Apply through WFP's online recruiting system with a CV and cover letter