Programme Officer

Provides programme leadership for WFP’s emergency food assistance, nutrition, livelihoods and shock-responsive safety-net operations in Mukalla. The officer manages implementation, protects data and compliance quality, oversees monitoring and digital-registration activity, and coordinates with government, humanitarian actors and internal technical functions to deliver accountable assistance.

• Manage implementation of emergency food assistance, nutrition, livelihoods, school feeding and shock-responsive safety-net programmes under the Mukalla Field Office plan
• Review and validate field proposals, operational targets and Field Level Agreements against WFP standards and protection criteria
• Monitor in-kind and cash-based transfer systems, financial-service-provider capacity and local distribution barriers
• Compile field reports, donor updates, Situation Report inputs and Country Brief entries
• Audit cooperating-partner invoices, commodity ledgers and narrative reports before final system entry
• Mentor national staff and monitoring assistants and maintain working relationships with ministries, humanitarian partners and community leaders
• Oversee verification missions, beneficiary feedback, complaints follow-up and digital registration workflows

• Advanced university degree in international relations, social sciences, business administration, economics, development studies or a related area with at least three years of relevant experience, or a bachelor’s degree with at least five years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian or development programme execution
• English and Arabic

• Experience managing complex multi-modality humanitarian operations, field operations or emergency food-assistance support
• Experience reviewing partnership agreements, auditing reports and managing compliance loops
• Experience supervising national staff or field-monitoring networks in high-risk settings
• Knowledge of UN/WFP policies, programme rules, field-monitoring frameworks and risk-management guidelines

• Emergency Food Assistance
• Programme Management
• Partner Management
• Field Operations Management
• Cash-Based Transfers
• Compliance Management
• Field Monitoring
• Risk Management
• Humanitarian Coordination
• Capacity Building
• Data Analysis
• Digital Identity Management

• SCOPE
• Microsoft Office

• Official deadline time: 23 September 2026, 23:59 GMT+03:00 Arabian Standard Time.