Programme Policy Officer (Senior Protection and Accountability Advisor) P4 – Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

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WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

Are you a Programme Policy specialist with experience in Protection, Gender and Accountability to Affected People programmes? Are you interested in further developing your professional experience while contributing to ending global hunger? Are you passionate about helping those in need? Would you like to join a global organization investing in its people?

If so, an exciting & fulfilling career awaits you! Join our diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly contributing to saving & changing millions of lives around the globe.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Applications must be submitted by Sunday, November 27, 2022 (10:59 PM CET)

WHO WE ARE

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, operating in more than 120 countries and territories, bringing life-saving assistance in emergencies, building pathways to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change and supporting sustainable and resilient livelihoods for a world with zero hunger.

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.

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WHY JOIN US?

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

WFP has been working in Myanmar since 1992, and the present focus is on the escalating humanitarian needs from ongoing conflict and since the pandemic and military takeover. In 2021, WFP Myanmar assisted 2.9 million food-insecure people, almost three times more than the previous year. In 2022, the Country Office plans to reach 4 million people with food and nutrition assistance, focusing on both life-saving assistance and contributing to the community and household resilience through livelihood and school feeding support. WFP continues to advocate for safe and unimpeded access to all populations in need consistent with international humanitarian principles.

WFP is committed to ensuring that assistance provided is informed by, accountable to, and accessible to all affected persons including women, girls, men, and boys of diverse and multidimensional needs. WFP is guided by the Gender Policy (2022), Protection and Accountability Policy (2020), Disability Inclusion Roadmap (2021 – 2022), Community Engagement Strategy for Accountability to Affected Populations (2021 – 2026), Secretary General’s Bulletin on Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, and other cross-cutting standards that guide inclusion, equity, and rights-based approaches.

WFP is seeking a Senior Protection and Accountability Advisor to ensure that protection risks are understood and appropriately mitigated (immediately and sustainably through necessary institutional adjustments), and that ongoing operational presence and activities are driven by protection outcomes at household level. The Protection and Accountability Advisor will also lead WFP with ensuring protection capacity is enhanced across all staff and partnering agencies. Adapting operations and programming to reflect conflict sensitivity is also a priority for this Country Office and will require technical support from the Senior Protection and Accountability Advisor.

The Senior Protection and Accountability Advisor will be proficient in capacity strengthening and required to travel throughout Myanmar to support field offices and engage with communities in diverse settings. The Protection and Accountability Advisor will overall be required to be self-driven and able to meet demands in a fast paced, high volume, protection, and food insecurity environment. The candidate will also be proficient at translating complex protection challenges into operationally tangible approaches.

JOB PURPOSE

Under the supervision of the Head of Programme, the Senior Protection and Accountability Advisor will be responsible for leading the Country Office’s Protection, Gender and Accountability to Affected People (PGAAP) unit.

The Advisor will lead on protection and inclusion risk analysis and mitigation; implementation of the humanitarian principles, disability inclusion, accountability to affected populations (consultation, community feedback mechanisms, information and knowledge management), gender equality and women’s empowerment including in emergency settings, beneficiary privacy and personal data protection, conflict sensitivity, protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, interagency cooperation (especially PGAAP related clusters and working groups), protection assessments, monitoring, and targeted protection programming for food and nutrition security to leave no one behind.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Support the Country Office to contextualise and meaningfully implement the WFP Protection and Accountability Policy (2020) and key complementary policies and strategies including (but not exclusively): Gender Policy (2022), Disability Inclusion Roadmap (2021-22), Community Engagement for Accountability to Affected Populations Strategy (2021 – 2026), and core documents for Humanitarian Principles, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Conflict and Contributions to Peace, Beneficiary Privacy and Personal Data Protection. Includes integration in country strategic planning processes, and supporting the Country Director and senior management on WFP’s responsibilities under the centrality of protection, including through participation in interagency fora formed under the UN Country Team.
• Undertake protection assessments using mixed methodologies to document protection risks relevant to food and nutrition security. This will include advice on appropriate mitigating actions including immediate as well as institutional adjustments required for sustainable risk mitigation. Identify opportunities and programming adjustments / designs that contribute more intentionally and measurably to protection outcomes to contribute to food and nutrition security, as well as minimizing harm in general. This includes outcomes across all identities and diversities aiming for equitable outcomes, which may require targeted protection programming in order to leave no one behind.
• Ensure inclusion of people with disabilities across the programming cycle with appropriate adjustments to ensure equity in asset creation and livelihoods, school feeding, social protection programming, and mainstreaming disability in food and nutrition assistance activities and operations.
• Strengthen the Country Office approach to community consultation, community feedback mechanisms, and information and knowledge management. This includes supporting integration of AAP into all activities, operations and field offices, particularly through the Community Engagement Mechanism (CEM).
• Support WFP to integrate conflict sensitivity into programmes and operations; identify access impediments faced by individuals, households, and communities and identify possible solutions.
• Support WFP staff and partner capacity to apply protection, AAP, disability inclusion and other relevant cross-cutting approaches. This includes, but is not limited to, mentoring and training the national protection and accountability staff, network of focal points for gender and Protection, CEM, PSEA and data protection, and strengthening the capacity of staff and partners to implement protection and AAP-related responses.
• Represent WFP in Protection and Accountability interagency fora; maintain community and key stakeholder relationships and partnerships to enhance AAP – including with civil society, I/NGO, community groups, community representatives and individuals working to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, disability inclusion, minority rights, and other demographics and marginalized groups. Lead on joint programming efforts with UN agencies including UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and UNHCR. Support integration of PGAAP in Food Security Cluster Cash Working Group, and AAP/Community Engagement Working Group.
• Maintain the Country Office PGAAP Strategy and Action Plan; oversee implementation of recommendations arising from Privacy Impact Assessments, as required; provide inputs to proposals, reports, tools, standard operating procedures and the like; respond to requests from counterparts in Regional Bureau Bangkok and Headquarters; contribute on PGAAP emergency preparedness and response exercises and plans.

KEY REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION:

• Specialized education with post-graduate university degree in one of the following disciplines: law, international relations, political science, human rights, or other relevant fields.

EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• At least 8 years of continuously progressive work experience in development projects or humanitarian assistance, of which at least four years international field experience. This should include experience working in fragile states, post-crisis, or crisis contexts.
• Demonstrated field and policy-oriented experience working on protection, AAP and/or human rights programming is required.
• Experience designing and establishing accountability mechanisms and disability considerations within programmes.
• Experience in delivering training and conducting capacity strengthening for field operations and supporting senior managers in implementing new concepts.
• Previous deployment in a corporate wide (formerly L2 or L3) emergency response.
• Ability to work on short timelines, under pressure, and managing multiple priorities simultaneously with minimum supervision.
• Initiative, enthusiasm, creativity, and flexibility with excellent interpersonal skills and team spirit.
• Flexibility to travel frequently and on short notice, when necessary

Desirable

• Knowledge and/or experience in intersectionality, particularly gender in emergencies programming, data protection, conflict sensitivity, peacebuilding, humanitarian access and broader inclusion (social, economic, other identities) consideration in humanitarian and development programming are desirable.
• Understanding of food security programming with previous experience within WFP or any of its cooperating partners is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of subsidiary and other cross-cutting issues including disability, access, gender, conflict sensitive programming, PSEA, and the humanitarian, development and peace nexus is highly desirable.
• Experience working in Myanmar and/or in contexts with Myanmar refugees is highly desirable.

LANGUAGE:

• Fluency (level C) in written and spoken English.

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK

These are the common standards of behaviour that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.

Different expectations of behaviour are defined depending on your grade and role/responsibilities within WFP.

MORE ABOUT YOU

You have:

• Knowledge of interagency and WFP architecture, systems, and programmes.
• Demonstrated knowledge of humanitarian programming in protection and AAP.
• Proven ability to produce outputs independently, while at the same time seeking innovative ways to integrate areas covered by this TOR in the work of other units and functions within the Country Office.
• Demonstrated capacity to rapidly review available documentation on contexts in which WFP operates, and be ready for substantive engagement and advisory work.
• Capacity to engage in strategic conversations at senior levels
• Demonstrate strong analytical and writing skills, including the ability to write in an engaging, persuasive and informative manner, and conceptualise and clearly synthesise information.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• This is an International Professional position and is open to all nationalities.
• Mobility is and continues to be, a core contractual requirement in WFP. The selected candidate will be employed on a fixed term as well as a rotational contract with a probationary period of one year.​
• WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package in line with ICSC standards (http://icsc.un.org) including basic salary, post adjustment, relocation entitlement, visa, travel and shipment allowances, 30 days’ annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, a pension plan, and medical insurance.
• The selected candidate will be required to relocate to Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar to take up this assignment.

REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

• We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
• Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
• Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
• Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
• Please contact us at wfprecruitment@wfp.org in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.

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