Programme Policy Officer (Protection, Gender and Accountability to Affected Populations) SC9 | Kyiv
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Career opportunities: Programme Policy Officer (Protection, Gender and Accountability to Affected Populations) SC9 | Kyiv
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🚩 Vacancy Announcement n°: 827893
📢 Job Title: Programme Policy Officer (Protection, Gender and Accountability to Affected Populations)
📌Type of Contract: Service Contract
➡️ Unit / Division: Programme Unit / WFP Ukraine
📍 Duty Station: Kyiv
➡️ Duration: 12 months (renewable)
⏰ Closing date: 3 July, midnight (Ukraine Time)
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.
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What will you do in this position?
Support Ukraine CO operations' consistency with WFP policies on Protection, Gender, and AAP. Integrate the Protection, Gender, and AAP considerations into WFP’s program in Ukraine. Establish partnerships to ensure inclusive, safe, dignified, and accountable humanitarian assistance.
Why work with us?
The war in Ukraine has had drastic consequences, both for people inside the country and for those around the world dependent on its huge grain supplies. It has caused one of the fastest forced population movements since the Second World War. Close to 8 million Ukrainians are living as refugees across Europe, and another 5.3 million are internally displaced. Many are destitute, having lost their homes and livelihoods. As food production and supply lines are disrupted by fighting, many families in the east and south do not have reliable access to nutritious food.
WFP uses a flexible mix of food and cash assistance to support vulnerable Ukrainians wherever they are. This includes working with local partners to distribute food rations in areas near the frontline and providing cash transfers wherever people have access to banks and markets to buy food. WFP reaches between 2 to 3 million Ukrainians every month with this critical assistance.
➡️ 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 trainings, 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 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.
➡️ WFP offers a competitive benefits package including salary, leave plus a medical insurance.
How can you make a difference?
1. Contribute to translation of WFP programme policies in Protection, Gender, and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) into country level practices in Ukraine, developing necessary programme guidance and implementation modalities and operations.
2. Support Ukraine Country Office to ensure that policy and programme operations in Protection, Gender, and AAP are consistent with WFP policies, Executive Board decisions, and other relevant guidance.
3. Identify opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of protection, gender and AAP principles in WFP programming in Ukraine and propose effective strategies and modalities to address these opportunities.
4. Contribute to planning and support implementation of Protection, Gender, and AAP mainstreaming through cross-cutting activities within the programmatic circle of WFP in Ukraine;
5. Identify capacity strengthening needs in Protection, Gender, AAP, and facilitate capacity building for WFP and CP staff and contractors;
6. Develop and conduct functional trainings in topics relevant to Protection, Gender, and AAP areas to enhance the capacity of WFP staff, cooperating partners, and contractors to deliver safe and dignified food assistance programmes.
7. Establish and maintain operational partnerships to identify opportunities for strengthening protection, inclusion, gender equality, and accountability to affected populations in WFP food assistance programmes in Ukraine.
Contribute to design and management of operational research, assessment, and evidence building on issues relevant to protection, inclusion, gender equality, and accountability to affected populations in humanitarian food assistance in Ukraine.
8. Elaborate and provide recommendations based on available up-to-date evidence, protection and risk analyses to ensure WFP’s operations are done through age, gender and diversity lenses;
9. Ensure integration of up-to-date protection referral pathways into WFP operations in Ukraine, and monitor their functionality;
10. Develop in coordination with affected communities, relevant program units, sub-offices, regional bureau, and HQ strategies and/or action plans on cross-cutting issues (including community engagement and PSEA strengthening) and support their implementation.
11. Collaborate with stakeholders to build and maintain a functional localised community engagement approach, based on community-identified engagement preferences, relevant information management to support community participation in WFP decision-making;
12. Support information management system with inclusion of protection related information, with a particular focus on community engagement;
13. Collaborate with Community Feedback Mechanism team to identify and respond to protection related risks;
14. Ensure protection issues are captured through the Community Feedback Mechanism and responded to appropriately;
15. Represent WFP in country-level inter-agency bodies and coordinate Protection, Gender, and AAP related activities, where it is required;
16. Given the emergency context, support with other protection and AAP related tasks as required.
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.
Experience:
At least 5 years of postgraduate relevant progressively responsible professional experience in the humanitarian and/or development sectors, of which at least 2 years have been spent working in development context with UN agencies and NGOs.
Experience of undertaking capacity building of colleagues or partner organisations.
Experience in humanitarian and/or development project management and engagement with multiple stakeholders.
Knowledge & Skills:
1. In-depth and operational understanding of 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.
2. Strong management, analytical, writing, and communication skills. Sound knowledge and skills in training and facilitation, including adapting materials for the audience. Client orientation with excellent interpersonal and team skills, including mentoring skills. Cross-cultural sensitivity. Knowledge of UN system policies and functions of protection-mandated agencies.
Languages: Fluency in English and Ukrainian languages.
Before you apply…
WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting an inclusive work environment in which diversity is valued and where no form of discrimination is tolerated. We aim to achieve parity in our teams in Ukraine. Qualified female applicants are especially encouraged to apply. CV and cover letter must be submitted in English language.
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.Bottom of Form
How do you apply…
How do you apply…
To be considered, you are invited to apply via WFP’s recruitment portal. CV and cover letter must be submitted in English language.
Only those who are short-listed candidates will be contacted for the next steps of our recruitment process.
We also encourage you to create your candidate profile and set up WFP job alerts to learn more about all the opportunities available to join us and make a difference in the lives of the people we serve.
