Organization: United
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station:
Uganda
Uganda
Reports to:
Head of Programmes
Head of Programmes
About US:
The UN World Food
Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It
is the largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. Currently WFP
focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building
Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition &
Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets.
WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.
Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It
is the largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. Currently WFP
focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building
Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition &
Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets.
WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.
Job Summary: The Programme Assistant (Beneficiary Feedback
Mechanism and Reporting) will work on integrating and mainstreaming protection
and gender at the strategic, programmatic and operational levels in West Nile
and Acholi region. The incumbent will provide expert advice to Management and
support staff with programming and implementation that is consistent with WFP’s
Humanitarian Protection and Gender commitments. The incumbent will perform
specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related processes and
activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.
Mechanism and Reporting) will work on integrating and mainstreaming protection
and gender at the strategic, programmatic and operational levels in West Nile
and Acholi region. The incumbent will provide expert advice to Management and
support staff with programming and implementation that is consistent with WFP’s
Humanitarian Protection and Gender commitments. The incumbent will perform
specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related processes and
activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide Technical
Support to the Arua AO and Yumbe and Gulu Field Office (FO):
Support to the Arua AO and Yumbe and Gulu Field Office (FO):
- Provide strategic and technical support
for the mainstreaming of humanitarian protection, gender equality and
women’s empowerment across WFP operations in West Nile and Acholi; - Gather and analyse 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 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;
Monitoring and
Reporting on Protection and Gender Issues:
Reporting on Protection and Gender Issues:
- Keenly 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.
Networking and
Coordination:
Coordination:
- Build working relationships with
relevant local and regional non-state actors, key domestic political and
civil state actors, 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, Accountability to Affected
Populations (AAP) and gender as related to food and nutrition security; - Represent WFP in interagency working
groups, conferences and seminars as necessary;
Training and
Capacity Growth:
Capacity Growth:
- 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.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the United
Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Assistant (Beneficiary
Feedback Mechanism & Reporting) job placement should hold a Bachelor’s
degree in Community Development, Gender Studies or related Social Sciences
such as Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Adult Education. Any
specialized training with international standards of humanitarian work e.g.
SPHERE, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) Standards etc. is
desirable - At least five years of progressively
responsible professional work experience in protection and gender
development programming, including years of experience in emergency and
development contexts. - Experience in emergency operations and
management especially in northern Uganda is highly desirable. - Experience in organizing and
implementing training, community consultations and negotiations in
scenarios of cultural and language difficulty. - Experience working with beneficiary
communities, host communities, government structures and all other
humanitarian stakeholders. - Experience in conducting assessments;
including gender analysis, as well monitoring and evaluation processes and
how to integrate them with gender and protection objectives - Experience in facilitating communication
with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.). - The applicant should have contributed to
implementation of programmes. - Has observed or assisted with policy
discussions. - Fluency in English and any or more of
the following languages: Luo, Acholi, Lugbara, Madi, Kakwa, Aringa, Alur
and Langi.
Competencies:
- Programme Lifecycle & Food
Assistance: Can facilitate
implementation of food assistance programmes under guidance using basic
understanding of principles and good practices of programme design,
implementation and monitoring. - Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash,
Vouchers): Demonstrates
ability to facilitate, under guidance, food assistance programme
implementation that deploys full range of transfer modalities with an
understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and
implementation. - Knowledge of Specialized Areas: Understands basic technical concepts and
data andtheir relevance to food assistance programmes. - Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs
into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality
emergency programmes. - Strategic Policy Engagement w/Govt: Understands and applies basic
principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or
local level.
NB:
Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are
especially encouraged to apply
Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are
especially encouraged to apply
How to Apply:
All candidates who
desire to join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit
their applications online at the link below.
desire to join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit
their applications online at the link below.
Deadline: 6th December 2018
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