Budget & Programming Officer NOA, FT at WFP
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS18 December 2025-23:59-GMT+03:00 East Africa Time (Dar es Salaam)
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ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the world’s 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 WFP’s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
To learn more about WFP, visit our website: https://www.wfp.org and follow us on social media to keep up with our latest news: YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.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).
This position is based in Dar es Salaam and reports to Deputy Country Director.
THE ROLE
The Budget and Programming mission is to support and enable the Tanzania Country Office operations by safeguarding resources and efficient management of WFP resources, risk-informed end-to-end planning, budgeting and reporting that enables WFP to deliver its key priorities, strategic objectives and achieve its zero hunger goals.
To support the delivery of budget and resource analysis and programming activities and/or provide support to management, collaborating with and guided by HQ/Regional Office and managers to apply best practice approaches for the efficient, effective and compliant utilisation of funds.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):
Participate in and support preparations for the monthly, cross-functional, pipeline working group, (across Area Offices, Sub Offices and Field Offices as needed), that proactively discusses resource availability and upcoming shortfalls, recommending timely mitigation measures.
Funds, Grants Management
Participate in meetings with internal stakeholders to discuss the utilization of foreseen contributions and support the process of developing funding proposals. Funds and Performance Management, and Reporting.
Advise spending units on the timely and appropriate programming and utilization of funds, to align with funding proposals and donor conditions, proposing timely recommendations and possible corrective actions that enable reporting in close collaboration with the Partnerships teams.
Monitor fund sub allotments as per available procedures and guidelines, to avail funds to spending units for timely commitment.
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Coordinate and consolidate inputs for the CO Resource Management Committee (RMC) which reviews and prioritizes resources against the Country Portfolio Budget (CPB) implementation plans, as per agreed timelines.
Contribute to the preparation of interim, progress and final reports as stipulated in various contribution agreements between WFP and specific donors, particularly for those locally negotiated contributions, in close collaboration with CO, RB and HQ counterparts as required.
Perform other relevant duties as required.