Partnerships Associate

WFP YEM organization mission TBD

The WFP’s mandate focuses on delivering emergency food assistance, improving nutrition, and building resilience in communities to promote long-term food security.
In Yemen, the WFP plays a critical role in providing life-saving aid to over 13 million people each month, including vulnerable groups such as internally displaced persons, children under five, and pregnant or lactating women. Its activities include distributing food, implementing cash-based transfers, and running nutrition programs to treat and prevent malnutrition.
The WFP collaborates with key stakeholders, including the Yemeni government, United Nations agencies, international donors, local NGOs, and community-based organizations. These partnerships help ensure the effective delivery of aid and address the root causes of food insecurity.
Some of the key outcomes of the WFP’s work in Yemen include reducing malnutrition rates, supporting education through school feeding programs, and implementing livelihood projects that restore agricultural productivity. The WFP also serves as a logistical coordinator for the broader humanitarian community, ensuring timely delivery of aid supplies across the country.

For more information on WFP’s work in Yemen, visit the official page: https://www.wfp.org/countries/yemen

The position is located in the WFP Yemen Amman hub, which supports the Yemen operation.

•Implement the work plan for the assigned area to enable WFP to identify, develop, and strengthen quality partnerships in alignment with WFP strategic objectives.

•Proactively contribute to a partnerships portfolio, including partner profiling and outreach activities, to maximize resources, leverage policy and technical support, ensure partner visibility, and meet partner conditions.

•Use data to present well-researched ideas to managers for expanding support from existing partners and scoping new partnerships, guided by programmatic assessments and context-specific analysis.

•Solicit inputs from WFP entities to inform partners about WFP’s programmatic offerings, draft quality briefs, and highlight strategic issues to senior staff to support decision-making and partnership growth.

•Gather and present internal and external data using key information systems (e.g., Salesforce, WINGS, WFPGo) to support WFP’s positioning with national governments, regional institutions, and international organizations.

•Support the development of partnerships and joint events with member states, civil society, and intergovernmental organizations within the UN system to advocate for the SDGs and Zero Hunger and advance WFP priorities.

•Contribute to partnership engagement, including the development of quality partner proposals and reports in collaboration with WFP entities and external stakeholders.

•Assist senior managers in preparing strategic agreements, joint strategies, and Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) to promote the SDGs and Zero Hunger and achieve advantageous outcomes for WFP.

•Perform other duties as required to support WFP’s objectives.