IFAD Founded in response to a global food crisis, IFAD is a specialized United Nations agency and an International Financial Institution that tackles hunger and poverty in rural communities. Since 1977, IFAD-supported projects have reached hundreds of millions of people around the world.
IFAD Over the years, we have grown in scope and scale, but our mission has remained the same and is now more important than ever: Invest in rural people and empower them to improve their food security, income and resilience.
IFAD Professional staff are the engine of IFAD. They have excellent analytical and communication skills, substantive expertise and strong leadership capabilities. They are hired with a view to support IFAD’s mission in the long term. Positions in this category normally require an advanced university degree or, in some cases, a first-level university degree combined with relevant work experience.
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- International Professional Officers: Internationally recruited and expected to serve at different duty stations throughout their career with IFAD.
- National Professional Officers: Nationals of the country of employment who bring local experience and knowledge to IFAD’s work.
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Professional staff are appointed for:
- Fixed-term: to perform functions of a continuous nature; it is granted for at least one year and may be extended.
- Co-terminus: to perform project-related functions of a non-continuous nature with clearly limited funding and scope; it is granted for a fixed period of one year or more, not exceeding the project’s duration, and with a maximum duration of seven years.
- Short-term: to support temporary needs of staff functions for up to 11 continuous period and 11 months in a calendar year (followed by a one-month cooling-off period), for a maximum of 44 months. A six-month break will be then required to be re-engaged by the organization.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger. It does so by investing in rural people. IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation.
The Department for Country Operations (DCO) oversees the origination, design and management of IFAD investments, including sovereign and non-sovereign operations, as well as the design and implementation of non-lending activities within country programmes, including policy engagement and SSTC. DCO is the department that primarily interfaces with governments, the private sector and other stakeholders to deliver IFAD’s programme of work and to provide oversight to ensure quality of the portfolio.
Key Functions and Results
- COUNTRY OFFICE SUPPORT: In stand-alone IFAD Country Offices led by CPCs, the incumbent is accountable for day-to-day office administration and reporting in close collaboration with the CD who is not located in the ICO. The incumbent has accountability for financial and material resources and related processes including managing contracts for services. The incumbent collaborates closely with the Regional Office Administrative and Resource Analyst and other staff in the regional team in the IFAD regional office and provides inputs to budget preparation and monitors expenditures, manages contract completion and certifies payments as required.
- COUNTRY PROGRAMME SUPPORT: The incumbent enhances the technical quality of IFAD country activities through programme (Results-Based Country Strategic Opportunities Programme RB-COSOP) and project (grants and loans) design, supervision, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and completion activities.
- The incumbent also provides substantive contributions toward the development of advice and technical guidance in support of sustainable government strategies, policies and programmes in agricultural development and rural poverty reduction. The incumbent is further accountable for capacity building activities including identifying, analyzing, documenting, harmonizing and disseminating both national and local issues as well as conditions and best practices and lessons learned among partner development agencies. Capacity building activities will include coordinating meetings, workshops and seminars with project management teams, government, partners and other stakeholders.
