International Consultant, Programme Policy Officer, CST II (Gender, Protection & AAP)

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World Food Programme (WFP)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: International contract
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 05/03/2026
  • Location: Chad 
Gender training
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.

RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Lead on Gender, Protection and AAP related issues at Country Office level ;
2. Ensuring the country office activities' conformity with corporate standards and guiding the definition and/or implementation of the Chad Country Office Gender, Protection & AAP component of the Country Strategic Plan by translating policies and corporate indicators into actionable guidance;
3. Management of the Gender, Protection & AAP section including the identification of human resource needs, performance planning, periodic (annual, semestrial and weekly) work planning, digitization, procurement planning, mission plan planning and other relevant managerial tasks.
4. Shows accountability and transparency by informing management on the section’s performance planning and overseeing the section's contribution to donor reports and to the Annual Country Report;
5. Leadership on the design and implementation of key projects aiming at integrating Gender, Protection & AAP into country office activities such as capacity strengthening projects, gender and/or protection analyses, awareness raising campaigns, roll out of the community engagement action plan, and pilot projects. 
6. Provide technical advice to functional units, with a specific focus on integrating Gender, Protection & AAP into operations and in ensuring the complaints and feedbacks mechanism is in line with Protection & AAP minimal standards ;
7. Advocate on Gender, Protection & AAP issues at Country Office level, at inter-agency level, and with donors ;
8. Assist WFP to coordinate with other humanitarian agencies, NGO, INGO partners and other relevant interlocutors on assessment of current and emerging Gender and Protection issues and response planning and explore strategic partnership ;
9. Represent WFP in the Protection Cluster and ensure WFP is effectively represented in Gender and Protection relevant inter-agency fora

Qualifications
  • Advanced university degree in one of the following disciplines : social science, international development, international relations, human rights, political science or another related field.
  • At least 5 years of solid, responsible and relevant work experience in a humanitarian organisation and/or with an organisation/agency dealing with the protection of civilians, human rights or gender-based violence in a humanitarian emergency setting ;
  • Demonstrated effectivness to mainstream protection within large operations (specific to food security and nuttrition but more largely to WFP Chad CSP), bringing policies and strategies into the country context ;
  • Experience in developing and implementing gender mainstreaming and/or gender transformative approaches in emergency, resilience, nutrition, school feeding or social protection programmes ;
  • Proven experience developing and ocnducting capacity strenghtening initiatives and developing guidance to mainstream protection and integrate accountability to affected people ;
  • Knowledge of field contexts in Chad is desirable
  • In-depth knowledge of gender, humanitarian protection, accountability to affected populations, sexual and other forms of GBV, and general humanitarian policy and development issues
  • Strong analytical, writing and communication skills;
  • Supervision, mentoring and capacity building experience required;
  • Fluency (level C) in French language, Intermediate knowledge (level B) of English.

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