Emergency Response Coordinator, CSTI at World Food Programme (WFP)

25 Aug 2026 Emergency Response Coordinator, CSTI at World Food Programme (WFP)

• Coordinate the Country Office’s overall El Niño preparedness and response architecture, ensuring coherence across preparedness, anticipatory action, disaster risk financing, emergency response, social protection, early recovery and relevant resilience interventions. • Advise the Country Office Management Team (CMT) on emerging strategic and operational issues, risks, priorities, decision points and required management action. • Maintain a whole-of-operation view, ensuring that decisions across programme, supply chain, resources, partnerships and implementation remain aligned and that critical gaps and bottlenecks are identified and escalated early. • Extensive experience coordinating large-scale humanitarian/emergency operations, preferably within WFP, the UN or a comparable international humanitarian organization. • Demonstrated experience developing and operationalizing CONOPS, emergency response plans, contingency plans and/or emergency operational frameworks. • Strong experience bridging programme and supply chain/logistics, with demonstrated understanding of food-assistance operations, commodity planning, procurement/sourcing, warehousing, transport, distribution and last-mile delivery. • Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional emergency teams and driving delivery across programme, assessment, supply chain, finance, partnerships, field operations and other functions. • Strong experience using food security and operational analysis to inform programme decisions, including targeting, transfer modalities, transfer values, geographic prioritization and response scale. • Demonstrated senior-level engagement with Government, donors, UN agencies, NGOs and inter-agency coordination mechanisms. • Experience managing or coordinating emergency task forces, operational cells or similar emergency-management structures. • Experience in drought and/or climate-related emergencies in Africa, preferably Southern Africa, would be highly desirable. • Previous WFP emergency experience would be a strong advantage. • Strong oral and written communications skills • Strong analytical skills and the ability to use evidence to inform programme design and decision-making. • Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.