Emergency Response/roving

**_Emergency Response/Roving Management Services (Administration) Consultant_**

**_Are you an organized and customer-focused professional, interested in changing lives and saving lives with the UN’s largest humanitarian agency? Are you mobile and want to enable operations and teams, working and living, in some of the most difficult environments? Are you excited to be in diverse field locations for the majority of your contract (i.e., 75%)?_**

**_If yes, this is your opportunity_**

**ABOUT WFP**

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

**ABOUT THE MANAGEMENT SERVICES (ADMINISTRATION) CONSULTANT**

You will be joining a community of over 4,000 team members, worldwide - ranging from facility managers, engineers, and environmental officers to drivers and maintenance workers, managing critical Management Services (Administration and Engineering) that WFP’s humanitarian operations cannot run without. Management Services (Administration) colleagues ensure duty-of-care and enable the actions of our more than 20,000 colleagues. At the core of WFP’s efforts to respond quickly to dynamic operational needs - Management Services is there

The responsibilities of our **Management Services** professionals include managing travel, accommodation, and protocol support; delivering and maintaining fit-for-purpose facilities; managing WFP’s pool of assets including light & armoured vehicles; and providing guidance on oversight, internal controls, and anti-fraud management.

**ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT**

The Management Services functional area delivers high-quality, people-focused support to WFP field operations in the areas of oversight and risk management, Facilities, Asset, Contract, and Fleet management, and Travel and Protocol services. The function serves as the organization’s administrative backbone, seeking to ensure that WFP programmes and objectives for changing lives and saving lives are delivered efficiently and cost-effectively, while at the same time guaranteeing compliance with relevant laws and regulations. We also have organizational cross-cutting co-ownership of Occupational Safety and Health and Environmental Sustainability.

You will work in close collaboration with other related support functions - Finance, Logistics, and Human Resources - to ensure consolidated and efficient processes and services. Our teams of specialists in HQ are there to support you

**JOB PURPOSE**

The Management Services functional area focuses on creating the best possible environment for our colleagues, globally. Providing exceptional, customer-focused professional service supporting our teams, working, and living, in some of the most difficult environments, to reach WFP’s beneficiaries.

The Field Support and Staffing branch (MSDS) of the Management Services Division (MSD) is responsible for coordinating field support to ensure duty of care and service delivery are available, at the onset of emergencies in WFP’s Regional Bureaux and Country offices and to promote and support the effective coordination of Administration transformation initiatives and projects through engagement with regional bureaus, Country Offices and other functions.

The position is based in Rome or home-based and is to be agreed upon with the incumbent. The position requires extensive travel to field offices. The incumbent may be required to be in a duty station for up to 3 months and often required to deploy at short notice.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)**

Under the supervision of the Chief, MSDS, or designate, and in close collaboration with field Administration Officers and Regional Administration Officers, the **Emergency Response/Roving Management Services Consultant's** responsibilities will include support to the field through the provision of guidance and support to field initiatives whilst also required to be available at any time to be deployed to support the Administration needs, as they arise:
As an **Emergency Response/Roving** **Management Services Officer**, **you will be responsible for the following key duties:

- Contribute to Emergency preparedness and response actions such as immediate surge support and capacity enhancements for operations scale-ups in the field,
- Perform and support initial required risk analysis, contingency planning, monitoring the management of risks, and reporting on actions taken.
- Where necessary, lead on managing Admin team in the area of responsibility (e.g., WFP managed facilities, assets, and travel management, etc.) and estimate new requirements aiming at efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and timeliness of operations and services
- Support in dev