Business Transformation Officer at WFP, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Deadline: 25 April 2023

The World Food Programme (WFP) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Business Transformation Officer in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

Key Job Responsibilities

The Business Transformation Officer will perform the following functions:

• Support the development of functional work plans, ensuring compliance with wider WFP policies, standards, and strategies.
• Continuously improve guidelines, processes and procedures of Business Relationship Management, Business Analysis and IT Project Management functions.
• Build and nurture relationships with the business counterparts to understand and anticipate the direction of the business and ensure alignment of provider’s solutions with changing business requirements and priorities.
• Participate in identifying business needs and propose well-researched ideas for new or improved systems, tools and processes that assist meeting WFP objectives.
• Manage business expectations in servicing business needs and oversee success of solutions, seeking ongoing opportunities to support or increase the business value from those solutions.
• Propose change and continuous operational improvement that supports business capabilities, by defining needs, modeling the business and recommending solutions that deliver value for business priorities.
• Communicate business objectives, requirements and process flows, to ensure common understanding and prioritization between stakeholders for their smooth implementation.
• Test and perform in-depth analysis of IT solutions to ensure they address business objectives, needs, requirements and process flows efficiently and effectively.
• Manage estimates, business cases, planning, and risk identification to ensure the delivery of IT solutions into the business to agreed time, budget, scope and quality.
• Manage a team of staff, providing coaching, training and guidance to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicant must have:

• Advanced university degree in Computer Science, engineering or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience or trainings/course.
• At least 5 years of postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience in technology, project management, business systems analysis, design, and development, or other relevant areas.
• Experience in managing projects.
• Ability to create simple messages from complex data sets and present them concisely, tailoring messages to the needs of the specific audience.
• Strong business engagement ability.
• Experience in managing and supervising a team.
• Fluency (level C) in English and French is required.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit applications through online process.

For more information, visit WFP.