Budget & Programming Officer – Budget and Resource Analysis

Job Description

Budget & Programming Officer | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a professional staff role based in Port Sudan with the World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian organization. WFP is dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace through food assistance for people recovering from conflict and disasters. This role is crucial for delivering accurate budget and resource analysis and programming, supporting managers to ensure the efficient, effective, and compliant use of funds to achieve WFP’s global mission.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Port Sudan
• Team: Reports to Senior Budget & Programming Officer.
• Mission: Ensure the efficient, effective, and compliant utilization of funds through meticulous budget and resource analysis and programming activities.
• Tech Stack: WFP’s corporate systems, information and financial systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Manage Budget Planning: Coordinate processes for budget and programming activities, review budgets for accuracy and completeness, and release them in WFP’s corporate systems.
• Oversee Pipeline Requirements: Review and analyze commodity pipeline requirements, including Advance Financing requests, to ensure timely shortfall coverage and efficient utilization of contributions.
• Advise on Fund Utilization: Guide spending units on the timely and appropriate programming and utilization of funds, aligning with funding proposals and donor conditions.
• Lead Team and Reporting: Supervise and train a small team, collate and analyze data, and contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reports for decision-making.
• Drive System Improvements: Implement proposed developments and improvements for systems, techniques, tools, processes, and procedures related to monitoring, managing, and reporting on WFP budgets and resources.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Advanced university degree in Business Administration, Statistics, Finance, Economics, or a relevant field. Alternatively, a First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience.
• Experience: At least three years of postgraduate professional and relevant work experience, including performing analytics, preparing and managing operational budgets, and working with large datasets.
• Skills: Budget planning and management, resource analysis, pipeline management, financial systems understanding, operational planning, data analysis and reporting, team supervision and training.
• Bonus: Professional trainings in project management, statistical analysis, or operational planning and management. Demonstrated experience coordinating operational planning and fostering discussions around resource projections.