Partnerships Officer

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26 November 2025-23:59-GMT+05:30 India Standard Time (Kolkata)

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VACANCY DETAILS

Job Title: Partnership officer (MoA)

Type of Contract: Service Contract

Duration: 12 Months (Renewable)

Reporting To: Joint Secretary in MoA&FW and Government Partnerships Officer in WFP India

Duty Station: New Delhi

Date of Publication: 19 November 2025

Deadline of Application: 26 November 2025

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This vacancy is open to Indian National only

The salary for this position will be INR 1,62,706 /- per month + 8.33% of Base Salary towards Social Security, also employee will be covered with medical benefits as per WFP 's Plan. All Tax liability for payments from this contract are to be borne by the subscriber

JOB PURPOSE

WFP India has a Project Management Unit (PMU) with Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Govt. of India to facilitate the delivery of its mandate under UN SDG-2, SDG-5 and SDG 13.

The recruited personnel will work with the WFP India and Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare while seconded to the Ministry, with a special focus on International Cooperation and other such areas as jointly identified by MoA&FW and WFP India.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (Not all inclusive)

Under the overall supervision of the Country Director, WFP India, and the direct and joint supervision of the Joint Secretary, MoA&FW and the Government Partnerships Officer, WFP India, the incumbent of the position will be responsible for the following duties:
1. Support the International Cooperation Division (Technical Cell) at MoA&FW for activities related to Rome Based Agencies (RBAs) and other partners working in the area of food and nutrition security.

2. Provide coordination and analytical support on India’s Presidency on BRICS and BRICS - Agriculture Working Group (AWG) initiatives, ensuring alignment with India’s priorities and WFP’s mandate as a institutional partner.

3. Follow up on the priorities of G20 Presidency of India and its way forward.

4. Provide technical support to conduct studies in areas selected by the Ministry and support advocacy, communications, and capacity building on International Cooperation and Coordination.

5. Leverage resources, collaborate and coordinate with different institutions like Public Systems Lab (PSL), a joint collaboration between WFP India and IIT Delhi for technological innovations, system strengthening, data analytics, research and other such areas.

6. Provide Support to enable cross learning, facilitate convergence, and help in plugging data gaps by collating and coordinating information from different ministries and non-governmental stakeholders.

7. Collate information from different stakeholders, prepare accurate and timely analysis to enable information flow through streamlined approach to enable informed decision-making.

8. Support MoAF&W in different activities in organizing trainings, workshops, conferences whenever required.

9. Coordination and support the work of WFP India with the different Government ministries/nodal ministry including to establish the linkages support with different State Governments

10. Liaise closely with the WFP country office in New Delhi through bimonthly meetings to ensure strategic alignment.

11. Document and record key discussion with partners, issue notes, preparing/coordinating talking points, concept notes, proposals and briefs.

12. Support the IC division and WFP India in any other tasks as assigned.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION