Programme Policy Officer (Protection, Gender and AAP)

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World Food Programme (WFP)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: $49,697 USD-$78,133 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 24/02/2025
  • Location: Ukraine
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
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.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.


What will you do in this position?  
Within the Programme Unit, the Protection, Gender and Accountability to Affected Populations (PGAAP) team supports WFP's operation in Ukraine to integrate protection aspects, gender sensitive and transformative approaches, conflict sensitivity and AAP into WFP’s activities, in order to maximize safety, dignity and equality, and minimize social tensions and unintended discrimination or exclusion. The PGAAP team ensures advocacy and capacity building on all matters related to PGAAP for WFP staff and partners, carries out analytical work to underpin evidence-based strategies and activities, works closely with activity managers to ensure gender, protection and AAP is integrated into all aspects of WFP’s work, is responsible for WFP’s community feedback mechanisms, amongst other tasks and activities. 
The implementation of the above activities will be guided by WFP’s Protection and Accountability Policy (2020), Humanitarian Principles, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) commitments on Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), and the IASC Vision and Strategy: Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH, 2022).
WFP is looking for a technically strong candidate with excellent collaboration and partnerships skills to lead the PGAAP team. 
 
To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have: 
Education: Advanced university degree in one of the following disciplines: law, international development, gender studies, human rights, political or social sciences, or another related field, or First university degree with an additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses. 
 
Experience: 
  • At least three (3) years of postgraduate professional working experience in the humanitarian and/or development sectors.
  • Experience of undertaking capacity building of colleagues or partner organisations.
  • Experience in humanitarian and/or development project management and engagement with multiple stakeholders.
  • Practical knowledge integrating humanitarian protection, gender equality, women’s empowerment, accountability to affected populations, disability, sexual and gender-based violence, conflict-sensitive programming and humanitarian principles into humanitarian assistance.
  • Supervision, mentoring and capacity building skills.
  • Fluency (level C) in both in English and Ukrainian languages. 

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