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Emergency Preparedness & Response Leadership

• Lead development and implementation of multi-hazard emergency preparedness and contingency plans.
• Coordinate operational readiness and response for refugee influxes, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other emergencies.
• Guide response planning, including targeting, response modalities, logistics requirements, and adherence to WFP standards.

Early Warning, Risk Analysis & Anticipatory Action

• Monitor emerging risks, humanitarian trends, and food security indicators.
• Lead scenario building and early warning analysis to inform preparedness actions.
• Coordinate anticipatory action and risk financing initiatives, including insurance mechanisms where applicable.

Partnerships, Government and Key Stakeholder Engagements

• Represent WFP in national, district, and interagency coordination mechanisms related to disaster preparedness, humanitarian response, and anticipatory action.
• Strengthen cross-sector coordination with Government (OPM, MAAIF, MoH, MoGLSD, MoLG, Local Governments), UN agencies, NGOs, donors, private sector actors, and other stakeholders.
• Foster coherent multi agency approaches to preparedness planning, ensuring complementarity with national systems and international humanitarian platforms.
• Support harmonization of emergency response standards and joint planning across actors.

Capacity Strengthening

• Lead training, simulations, tabletop exercises, and capacity building initiatives for WFP staff, government counterparts, and partners.
• Support localization and transfer of knowledge, tools, and systems to national and district authorities.
• Facilitate after action reviews, preparedness drills, and lessons learned processes to strengthen institutional readiness.

Programme Integration & Quality Assurance

• Ensure emergency preparedness is fully integrated into WFP programme portfolios and area office operations.
• Promote accountability to affected populations (AAP), protection, gender, and inclusion across all EPR activities.
• Draft and review SOPs, contingency arrangements, guidance materials, concept notes, and proposals.

Reporting & Information Management

• Produce high quality situation reports, early warning briefs, analytical updates, and inputs for internal and external audiences.
• Maintain and update preparedness and response tools, workflows, dashboards, and databases.
• Support dissemination of analytical products to inform strategic decision making.

Operational Readiness & Business Continuity

• Support development and periodic revision of Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) and business continuity plans.
• Ensure contracting processes—including FLAs, MoUs, standby agreements, and Financial Service Provider (FSP) arrangements—align with operational readiness needs. Identify operational gaps, propose mitigation measures, and support readiness actions across WFP field offices.

Coordination Across Government and Other Actors

• Serve as a key liaison between WFP, national emergency coordination structures, humanitarian clusters, and development partners.
• .Support government-led emergency coordination platforms to strengthen multi-hazard planning, shock-responsive systems, and emergency governance.
• Facilitate joint assessments, information sharing, coordinated contingency planning, and harmonized response actions across sectors and partners.
• Reinforce WFP’s role as a technical leader in emergency preparedness and a convener across humanitarian and development actors.

Resource Mobilization and Donor Engagement

• Contribute to resource mobilization by preparing inputs for proposals, donor briefs, situation updates, and funding submissions.
• Support engagement with donors, including technical discussions, field visits, and evidence-based presentations on preparedness and response needs.
• Identify funding gaps and opportunities to strengthen EPR, anticipatory action, and shock responsive programming.
• Ensure donor visibility requirements are integrated into EPR operations and reporting.
• Perform any other responsibilities aligned with emergency preparedness and response, as assigned.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Updated multi‑hazard contingency plans and strengthened operational readiness measures enabling timely, coordinated emergency response.
• Enhanced early warning and risk analysis products, including scenario forecasts and anticipatory action triggers and plans that inform rapid decision‑making.
• Strengthened coordination frameworks with government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors, and private sector actors to ensure harmonized preparedness and response actions.
• Comprehensive capacity‑building packages delivered—trainings, simulations, tabletop exercises, and after‑action reviews—improving readiness across WFP and national systems.
• Integrated emergency preparedness components across WFP programme portfolios, supported by refined SOPs, guidance tools, and operational workflows.
• Up‑to‑date dashboards, situation reports, and analytical briefs that support operational planning and strategic positioning.
• Revised CONOPS and business continuity plans, aligned with operational risks and readiness needs, including fully compliant agreements (FLAs, MoUs, FSPs).
• Joint assessment reports, coordinated contingency plans, and strengthened information‑sharing systems with national emergency structures and partners.
• Donor‑ready analytical inputs, proposal contributions, and visibility materials that enable resource mobilization and improved financing for preparedness and response.
• Timely completion of evolving EPR responsibilities, contributing to WFP’s continued leadership in emergency preparedness and anticipatory action.