Budget & Programming Officer – Budget and Resource Analysis

Job Description

Budget & Programming Officer | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at the World Food Programme, located in Port Sudan, Sudan. WFP stands as the world’s largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and leveraging food assistance to foster peace, stability, and prosperity for communities recovering from conflict, disasters, and extreme weather. This pivotal role ensures the efficient, effective, and compliant utilization of critical funds, directly contributing to WFP’s mission to serve millions globally.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: In-person, Port Sudan, Sudan
• Team: Reports to Senior Budget & Programming Officer
• Mission: Ensure efficient, effective, and compliant utilization of funds to support WFP’s humanitarian operations and strategic objectives.
• Tech Stack: WFP’s corporate systems, information and financial systems, relevant pipeline management tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Budget Management: Coordinate and contribute to the implementation of plans and policies, setting clear goals for budget and programming activities, and reviewing budgets for accuracy, appropriateness, cost-effectiveness, and completeness in WFP’s corporate systems.
• Funding Proposal Development: Support the preparation of funding proposals by conducting donor trend analysis against operational shortfalls, proposing fund prioritisation options by activity and modality, and ensuring timely resource transfers and activity closures.
• Pipeline Resource Monitoring: Review and analyze commodity pipeline requirements, including Advance Financing requests, in collaboration with operational stakeholders to ensure timely shortfall coverage and efficient utilization of contributions. This includes coordinating monthly, cross-functional pipeline working groups.
• Funds Utilization & Reporting: Monitor fund sub-allotments, advise spending units on timely and appropriate programming and utilization of funds in alignment with donor conditions, and contribute to the preparation of interim, progress, and final reports for various contribution agreements.
• Capacity Building & System Enhancement: Supervise, guide, and train a small-sized team to build capacity, collate and analyze data for informed decision-making, and implement proposed developments and improvements of systems, techniques, and procedures for WFP budget and resource management.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Advanced university degree in Business Administration, Statistics, Finance, Economics, or another relevant field, or a First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.
• Experience: At least three years of postgraduate professional and relevant work experience, including performing analytics of medium complexity, preparing, managing, and reporting on operational budgets, and working with large datasets.
• Skills: Fluency in English and Arabic languages, demonstrated understanding of information and financial systems, thorough understanding of operational planning and business processes, and the ability to coach, train, and mentor staff.
• Bonus: Additional professional trainings in project management, statistical analysis, and/or operational planning and management, and adequate knowledge of programme operational requirements.