Programme Associate (Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP))-SC6
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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis. We are committed to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity and disability.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Job Title: Programme Associate (Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP))
Grade: SC6
Type of contract: Service Contract
Duration: 1 Year
Duty Station: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Vacancy Number : 827895
Date of Publication: 19.06.2023
Deadline of Application: 03.07.2023
WFP offers a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the contract type and selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.
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JOB PURPOSE
The Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) Associate will report directly to the Gender Officer within the Programme Unit. The associate will be responsible for developing a Community Engagement for Accountability to Affected Populations Action Plan that aligns with the WFP Sri Lanka Country Office Country Strategic Plan (CSP). The associate will also be responsible for reviewing current WFP Country Office operations and activities to identify and action opportunities to ensure that activities are inclusive of all diversities, and that WFP is meeting it’s accountability targets. The responsibilities will also include to support gender mainstreaming activities with the advise and support of the Gender officer.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
Strategy design: In close collaboration with key stakeholders, particularly affected populations across all diversities, establish a Community Engagement for Accountability to Affected Populations Action Plan (CE4AAP). The action plan will appreciate protection and AAP as both a process and a result in-and-of itself. The action plan will be measurable. The CE action plan should include Gender, protection and AAP aspects.
Community Feedback and Response Mechanisms (CFRM): In close collaboration with the affected populations and key internal (all WFP staff) and external stakeholders (partners, authorities, and representative groups), the associate will support the current community feedback and response mechanism to that is aligned to the emergency response and expand to other programmes as well. The CFM will be expanded also with a view to sustainability ensuring that feedback and response remains a priority for the CO. Interagency collaboration will be essential to ensure that WFP’s CFRM complements existing interagency approaches and efforts.
Information and Knowledge Management: The associate will work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to produce and share information tailored to audiences using feedback data collected. This will ensure that feedback collected is used to inform decisions made by WFP and other humanitarian actors. The associate will also work closely with stakeholders, especially programming, to evidence how feedback collected and shared has informed programming throughout the whole programming cycle. The associate will also coordinate messaging to affected populations to ensure that information on WFP and its activities meets the information needs and preferences of the affected population (of all diversities).
Embedding AAP capacity: Through user-focussed learning methodologies, design, and rollout an AAP capacity strengthening agenda for WFP and CP staff.
Inclusion: Undertake a review of WFP’s operations, throughout the full programme cycle, to document existing good practice leading to meaningful inclusion of all affected persons across all diversities. The review will also identify opportunities to strengthen inclusion. The associate will then work closely with key stakeholders (internal and external) to meaningfully, measurably, and sustainably strengthen inclusion throughout WFP operations.
Partnerships: Establish partnerships to strengthen Gender, Protection AAP for Zero Hunger results including partnerships with donors, interagency forums, UN and I/NGO agencies. Importantly, establish partnerships with affected populations directly, and relevant representative groups, for AAP including with people with disabilities, organisations of disabled people, women, women’s civil society groups, youth, youth representative groups, ethnic and religious minorities and their representative groups, amongst others with a particular focus on ensuring meaningful inclusion of marginalized groups in informing decisions made by WFP throughout its activities.
Team Leadership: Oversee (supervise) the day-to-day work of the CFM operators. This will include ensuring that they have appropriate performance targets and support to accomplish their responsibilities.
Ad hoc tasks: Undertake ad-hoc tasks as required. This may include, but is not limited to, support with donor reports and engagements, providing Protection, AAP and Gender talking points and summaries (internal and external facing).
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area. (Human Rights, International Relations, Development Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Social work, Communications for Development or Humanitarian Affairs)
Language: Fluency in local languages in use at the duty station and fluency in written and spoken English
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of people affected by disasters, conflict, epidemics/pandemics and more. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 100 million people with food assistance in 83 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to nutritious food and contribute to the lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas. In 2022, 3 in 10 Sri Lankans are food insecure amid the country’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. Skyrocketing food and fuel prices, inflation, and shortages of essentials mean an adequate and nutritious diet is now increasingly out of reach. Pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under five years of age, and people with disabilities are among the worst affected. Approximately 6.3 million people – nearly 30% of the population – are facing acute food insecurity and are in need of immediate assistance, according to findings of WFP and FAO's Crop and Food Security Assessment. Of these, an estimated 66,000 people are severely food insecure. WFP aims to expand its response to reach 3.4 million people who need urgent food and nutrition assistance. In 2017, WFP re-committed to ensure Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) through adoption of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) Commitments to Accountability to Affected Populations (CAAP). Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) entails giving account to, taking account of, and being held accountable by people negatively affected by food and nutrition insecurity, or who face barriers to participation to access in food security interventions. For WFP, systematic engagement with affected populations is essential to meeting WFP’s strategic objectives of people centred humanitarian response. WFP Afghanistan is seeking an Accountability to Affected Populations Officer to support necessary adjustments and innovations required to customise AAP approaches, systems, and products tailored to context and that meets the AAP needs and preferences of affected populations, across all demographics, locations and diversities.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
- Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
- Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
- Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
- Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
- Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
03.07.2023
OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS
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DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
Minimum of 6 years of relevant professional work experience in Accountability to Affected Populations and/or Protection and/or Gender and/or Inclusion.
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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.
