DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

12 October 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

ABOUT WFP The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

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WHY JOIN WFP?

- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

The Supply chain division supports WFP’s Regional Bureaus (RBs), Country Offices (COs) and partners to prepare and respond to current and future emergencies in a rapidly changing humanitarian environment. The unit provides a field- focused, service oriented, steering and convening role focusing on forward-looking operational support to country offices.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Apply a structured methodology in leading change management activities by applying change management processes and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by projects or initiatives in GSCU.
- Contribute to practice development initiatives including business development, culture building, internal community involvement and staff engagement.
- Support engagement efforts with the GSCU communications lead towards the design, development, delivery and management of communications related to change management, awareness raising and mainstreaming of innovations and systems developed by GSCU.
- Conduct change management assessments, identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics, and manage anticipated resistance from target audiences.




- Create actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, resistance management plan.
- Develop a tracking system to ensure regular monitoring of progress in the change management activities and initiatives.
- Track and report issues, define and measure success metrics, monitor change progress stakeholders, collect lessons learned and develop evidence-based recommendations to ensure potential organizational scale-up or implementation of key change management initiative.
- Report and update management and project teams on the progress of the above.
- Provide any other support as requested.

- Manage the transition of changes from the development team to the operational / maintenance teams.
- Implement a policy to ensure transparency including guidelines for a change advisory committee
- Where necessary, mediate conflicts related to the change / project
- Lead in conducting post-implementation reviews and documentation of the same
- Create a system and build a repository to track all project data and changes made as a standard of practice.

KEY DELIVERABLES:

- Develop a detailed and timebound change management strategy, including a roadmap, guidance and an overview of methods and channels to leverage for enhancing integration and usability of GSCU tools and initiatives.
- Successfully developed a risk mitigation plan, including an assessment to identify risks and performed activities to minimize/ mitigate them.
- Successfully supported the planning and delivery of trainings for various stakeholders for easy adaptation of new tools, including through missions where needed.
- Developed a tracking system for regular monitoring of progress against goals indicated in the strategy.
- Enable change to happen safely by:
- Reducing process time of releasing changes in production
- Reduce post-release issues
- Ensure the risks, benefits and dependencies for each change are well understood by all stakeholders
- Maintain checks and balances to ensure that only approved changes are deployed
- Minimize change conflicts, failures and rollbacks on projects
- Establish a clear accountability process for change approval and coordination activities
- Create documentation for succession of current projects and success of future project

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education: Advanced University degree in Change Management, Business, International Development, Development Economics, International Relations, Human Resources or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.

Experience:

- At least 4 years of progressively responsible experience in strategy/

management consulting, project management and change management is essential;
- Experience in developing policies and strategies that focus on change management for global organizations is an advantage;
- Experience in developing oversight mechanisms and pursuing process improvements, efficiency and effectiveness through process re-engineering/re-design as well as procedures realignment is an advantage.
- Experience with WFP or other relevant organizations in the data management, statistics sector desirable, preferably with development/humanitarian actors is an advantage.





- Experience with different IT tools for performance management will be an asset.

Knowledge & Skills:

- Good understanding of change management principles, techniques & tools.
- Effective facilitation and communication skills including persuasive writing/speech.
- Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills for coalition-building, conflict resolution and negotiation
- Strong business acumen, project management and planning skills.
- Analytical mindset and critical thinking for problem-solving.

Languages:

- Able to cope with pressure.
- Team player and able to collaborate with others and work in a diverse group of professionals.

Fluency (level C) in English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language, Portuguese.

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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact: [email protected]

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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

- All applications must be submitted exclusively through our online recruiting system. We do not consider CVs or applications sent by email, LinkedIn, or any other channel.
- We strongly recommend that your Workday profile is accurate and complete, and that all sections are filled in, including your employment history, academic qualifications, language skills, and UN grade (if applicable). Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
- If you experience technical issues while submitting your application, you may contact us at [email protected]. Please note that this email is only for technical issues with an application - unsolicited applications or documents sent to this inbox will not receive a reply.
- At the application stage, the only required documents are your CV and Cover Letter. Additional documents (passport, certificates, recommendation letters, etc.) may be requested later in the process.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the recruitment process.

All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks. No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.

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