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• Provide strategic and technical support
  for the mainstreaming of humanitarian protection, gender equality and
  women’s empowerment across WFP operations in the country;
• Gather and anlyse primary information from
  stakeholders (affected populations, INGOs, UN agencies and others) on the
  situation and experience of crisis affected populations and provide advice
  and support for principled humanitarian interventions;
• Oversee the implementation of the Country
  Office Gender Action Plan (2017 – 2022) and ensure that project goals,
  objectives, processes and activities are gender sensitive and meet the
  needs and priorities of women, men, girls and boys;
• Support WFP and partner staff in
  implementing the Humanitarian Protection Policy and Accountability to
  Affect Population commitments to ensure WFP operations and programme
  activities take beneficiaries’ protection concerns into account and
  facilitate safe, dignified, and accountable food assistance;

• Ensure systematic protection and gender
  analysis, and provide policy advice on specific protection / gender issues
  that impact on WFP humanitarian operations;
• Monitor and report on program, activity
  and implementation related protection and gender issues;
• Support the country office to undertake
  context and protection risk analysis and formulating appropriate
  protection risk mitigation and response activities;
• Ensure that protection and gender
  considerations are integrated into all monitoring, evaluation and analysis
  frameworks, activities and outputs;
• Provide assistance in data collection,
  compiling lessons learned, establishing indicators to support knowledge
  sharing on protection and gender;
• Ensure protection and gender issues can be
  captured through the Beneficiary Feedback Mechanisms and responded to
  appropriately. Provide advice, guidance and follow-up in relation to
  protection and gender aspects of the Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism.

• Build working relationships with relevant
  local and regional non-state actors, key domestic political and civil
  state actors, think tanks, academic institutions, human rights
  organisations, UN, development and donor partners to coordinate and
  enhance principled humanitarian protection and gender impact;
• Support the development of relationships
  with protection mandated agencies and inter-agency fora to strengthen
  coordination and advancement of protection, AAP and gender as related to
  food and nutrition security;
• Represent WFP in interagency working
  groups, conferences and seminars as necessary;

• Develop and implement protection and
  gender training including on gender analysis, protection assessments,
  Gender Based Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Accountability to
  Affected Populations and other related subjects;
• Strengthen WFP workforce and partners’
  protection and gender analysis capacities and improve their ability for
  protection and gender mainstreaming in project design and throughout the
  cycle.
• Other duties as required

• The ideal candidate for the United
  Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Policy Officer (Protection
  and Gender Officer) job opportunity should hold an Advanced University
  Degree in one of the following disciplines: Social Sciences, International
  Development, Gender Studies, Law, Human Rights, Political Science or
  related.
• Extensive knowledge of humanitarian
  gender, sexual and other forms of gender-based violence, civil-military
  relations and other humanitarian policy issues and its linkages with
  humanitarian assistance.
• A minimum of five years of relevant work
  experience in a humanitarian organization and dealing with protection
  and/or gender, human rights and related issues;
• Strong analytical, writing and
  communication skills
• Sound knowledge and skills in training
  and facilitation
• Knowledge of UN system policies and
  functions of protection and gender-mandated agencies
• Languages: Proficiency of
  English is required; Knowledge of Karamajong, Kiswahili, Arabic or other
  languages spoken by Uganda’s Refugee Population is desirable.

• Identifies and communicates relevant
  information for a variety of audiences for advocating Protection and
  Gender as related to WFP’s mandate
• Formulate written information clearly and
  persuasively
• Contributes into results through primary
  research and analysis
• Maintains an established network of
  contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date
• Generates new ideas and approaches,
  researches best practices and proposed new, more effective ways of doing
  things
• Proactive, problem solving and result
  oriented attitude
• Shares information openly with co-workers
  and partners while using discretion to protect confidences
• Deepened technical knowledge through
  exposure to technical teams is desired
• The applicant should have taken leadership
  of implementing programmes preferably
• Provided input into policy discussions
  and decisions

• Programme Lifecycle & Food
  Assistance: Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem
  at the national or subnational level to design and implement
  context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full
  range of food assistance tools.
• Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash,
  Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate
  quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g.,
  market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme
  development.
• Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas
  (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret
  basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to
  technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.
• Emergency Programming: Displays
  ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies
  and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context
  specific approaches.
• Strategic Policy Engagement w/
  Government: Develops thorough recommendations using multiple
  inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen
  national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition
  security programmes.

• Understand and communicate the
  Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s
  Strategic Objectives.
• Be a force for positive change:
  Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
• Make the mission inspiring to our
  team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary
  communities to teammates.
• Make our mission visible in everyday
  actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will
  serve WFP’s mission.

• Look for ways to strengthen people’s
  skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and
  capabilities.
• Create an inclusive culture:
  Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
• Be a coach & provide constructive
  feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area
  of work.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit:
  Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular
  basis with supervisor.

• Encourage innovation & creative
  solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and
  accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with
  colleagues.
• Focus on getting results:
  Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own
  tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
• Make commitments and make good on
  commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies
  supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or
  commitments.
• Be Decisive:
  Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices
  in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests
  opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
• Build strong external partnerships:
  Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field
  towards common goals.
• Be politically agile &
  adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s
  teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings
  to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s
  priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.

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