Budget & Programming Officer

Job Description

Budget & Programming Officer | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at World Food Programme, located in Juba, South Sudan, specifically open for qualified South Sudanese candidates. The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build peace, stability, and prosperity. This role is crucial for ensuring effective resource planning, utilization, and financial oversight to support WFP’s mission of tackling hunger and malnutrition across the region.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Fixed term (NOB), 12 Months (Renewable)
• Location: In-person – Juba, South Sudan

• Team: Budget and Programming Unit (BPU), reporting to the Head of Budget & Programming Unit.
• Mission: Optimise resource planning and utilization, monitor operational effectiveness, and ensure adherence to financial guidance and donor conditions within WFP’s country operations.
• Tech Stack: WFP’s corporate systems, Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

What You’ll Actually Do
• Budget Oversight: Create and review Country Portfolio Needs and Implementation Plan budgets, monitoring actual performance against these plans and providing financial analysis to optimize resource utilization.
• System Release & Compliance: Review and release budgets in WFP’s corporate systems, ensuring all supporting documents are available and review recommendations are addressed before recording data.
• Resource Pipeline Management: Monitor and manage the resource pipeline to maximize operational effectiveness, advising on resource allocations based on identified pipeline shortfalls.
• Fund Utilization Advice: Advise spending units on timely and appropriate programming and utilization of funds, ensuring alignment with funding proposals, donor conditions, and terminal obligation/disbursement dates.
• Reporting & Committee Support: Consolidate inputs for Country Office monthly Resource Management and Allocation Committee (RMAC) meetings and contribute to the preparation of interim, progress, and final donor reports.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Advanced university degree (master’s degree or higher) in Business Administration, Statistics, Finance, Economics, or other relevant field. A first university degree (bachelor’s) in the same fields is accepted with additional years of related work experience.
• Experience: At least three years of progressively responsible work experience in budget planning and management, operational pipeline management, or resource programming activities for master’s degree holders (or five years with a bachelor’s). This includes experience performing analytics of medium complexity, preparing and managing operational budgets, and working with large datasets.
• Skills: Adequate understanding of information and financial systems, thorough understanding of operational planning and business processes, and proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• Bonus: Additional professional trainings in project management, statistical analysis, and/or operational planning and management. Ability to coach, train, and mentor staff in budgeting and fund management. Fluency in both oral and written communication in English.