Protection & Gender Consultant

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World Food Programme (WFP)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 01/12/2024
  • Location: South Africa
Gender-based violence (GBV)
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.

Key functions:
Programme support to integrate Gender and Protection in WFP operations
  • Provide strategic and technical support for the mainstreaming of gender and protection across WFP operations across the region.
  • Provide technical support at regional and country office level on integration efforts of Gender, Protection and Inclusion priorities in programming and operations.
  • Develop and regularly update contextual gender analysis, protection risk analysis and diversity mapping, in support of Country Offices and at Regional level.
  • Advise the Country Offices on the implementation of mitigation measures and appropriate adjustments to ensure inclusion of most vulnerable and at-risk groups.
  • Support the analysis of primary information from stakeholders (affected populations, local civil society, INGOs, UN agencies and others) on the situation and experiences of crisis affected populations and apply a gender and protection lens to the planned interventions accordingly.
  • Provide technical support to country office to facilitate progress on WFP’s ambitions on community engagement for accountability to affected people, including integrated action planning.
  • Support the Regional Bureau and Country Offices to integrate gender and protection in assessments, monitoring, implementation, evaluation, and reporting tools, and develop integration/mainstreaming tools as required.
  • Support the Regional Bureau and Country Offices to design Country Strategic Plans in line with corporate guidance and relevant processes on gender, protection, and inclusion.
Capacity strengthening
  • Develop/adjust and implement trainings in support of Country Offices and the Regional Bureau for WFP staff on gender, protection, AAP, inclusion, and community engagement
  • Provide accompaniment and technical support to staff in relevant functional areas in Country Offices and Regional Bureau.
  • Document lessons learned and best practices in protection risk analysis, mitigation and integration related to gender and protection
  • Support cross learning and sharing of good practices across the region, and support in disseminating WFP corporate guidance on gender, protection, inclusion, AAP

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Education: Advanced University Degree in one of the following disciplines: Social Sciences, International Development, Political Sciences, International Law or related field; must have specialization in gender, protection and/or human rights related fields.
  • Experience: 3-5 years or more of solid, responsible, and relevant work experience in humanitarian organizations and operational implementation of gender/protection programming and gender/protection integration in other humanitarian sectors, with a strong focus on protection risk reduction, conflict sensitivity, gender in humanitarian and development operations, community engagement, and inclusion.
Fluency in English, both oral and written, is required. 

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