Budget & Programming Officer

Job Description

Budget & Programming Officer | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a Fixed Term role at World Food Programme, located in Yangon, Myanmar. The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity for communities recovering from conflict and disasters. This role is crucial for delivering precise budget and resource analysis and programming activities, ensuring the efficient, effective, and compliant utilization of funds to support WFP’s critical operations. The incumbent will support managers in applying best practices for resource management within a diverse, committed, and high-performing team environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Fixed Term
• Type: Fixed Term
• Location: In-person Yangon, Myanmar
• Team: Reports directly to the Deputy Country Director (Operations).
• Mission: To ensure the efficient, effective, and compliant utilization of funds through comprehensive budget and resource management for WFP operations.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PPT), WFP’s corporate systems, Global Commodity Management Facility (GCMF)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Budget Planning & Compliance: Contribute to implementing budget plans and policies, coordinating budget/programming activities, and reviewing budgets for accuracy, appropriateness, cost-effectiveness, and completeness in compliance with WFP strategies.
• Resource Mobilization Support: Support the preparation of funding proposals by analyzing donor trends against operational shortfalls, proposing fund prioritization options, and ensuring timely resource transfers and activity closures for CSPs/RBPs.
• Pipeline and Supply Chain Oversight: Review and analyze commodity pipeline requirements, including Advance Financing requests, coordinate cross-functional pipeline working groups, and provide feedback on resource allocations to maximize operational effectiveness.
• Funds Management & Donor Reporting: Advise spending units on timely and appropriate fund utilization, monitor fund sub-allotments, coordinate inputs for the Resource Management Committee, and contribute to the preparation of interim, progress, and final donor reports.
• Team Leadership & Operational Improvement: Supervise, guide, and train a small team to build capacity, collate and analyze data for accurate and timely reports, and contribute to developing and improving systems, techniques, and procedures for budget and resource monitoring.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Advanced university degree in Business Administration, Statistics, Finance, Economics or other relevant field, or a First University Degree with an additional two years of related work experience.
• Experience: Three years of postgraduate professional experience in budget and programming, funds management, funds reporting & analysis, resource management information, or project management, preferably within the humanitarian sector.
• Skills: Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PPT). Fluency in both oral and written English and Burmese. Ability to perform analytics of medium complexity and present information effectively to diverse audiences. Thorough understanding of operational planning and business processes, rules, and procedures.
• Bonus: Experience in humanitarian and emergency response operations, either in Myanmar or internationally. Additional professional trainings in project management, statistical analysis, and/or operational planning and management.