Protection & Gender Consultant

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

1 December 2024-23:59-GMT+02:00 South Africa Standard Time (Johannesburg)

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WHY JOIN WFP?- 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 of this vacancy announcement).

The Protection and Gender Officer is responsible for coordinating and providing technical support for the Country Office’ efforts to integrate gender, protection and accountability to affected people in its programming and provide strategic and technical support for the implementation of the WFP corporate Gender and Protection policies.

Reporting line: Regional Advisor - Gender, Protection, Inclusion

The Officer will liaise with the Country Offices (COs) in the Regional Bureau for Southern Africa and HQ to keep them abreast of main developments, coordinate technical advice and support, and advance the implementation of relevant corporate policies in the region as part of the RBJ Gender, Protection, and Inclusion Team.

Key functions:
Programme support to integrate Gender and Protection in WFP operations- Provide strategic and technical support for the mainstreaming of gender and protection across WFP operations across the region.- Provide technical support at regional and country office level on integration efforts of Gender, Protection and Inclusion priorities in programming and operations.- Develop and regularly update contextual gender analysis, protection risk analysis and diversity mapping, in support of Country Offices and at Regional level.- Advise the Country Offices on the implementation of mitigation measures and appropriate adjustments to ensure inclusion of most vulnerable and at-risk groups.-
- Provide technical support to country office to facilitate progress on WFP’s ambitions on community engagement for accountability to affected people, including integrated action planning.- Support the Regional Bureau and Country Offices to integrate gender and protection in assessments, monitoring, implementation, evaluation, and reporting tools, and develop integration/mainstreaming tools as required.- Support the Regional Bureau and Country Offices to design Country Strategic Plans in line with corporate guidance and relevant processes on gender, protection, and inclusion.- Support the Country offices on humanitarian access in full compliance with the principled humanitarian action as and when needed/requested, and actioning findings from relevant studies on unequal access.- Contribute to the design and implementation of approaches related to information provision, community consultation, feedback, and complaints mechanisms to ensure these are safe, gender response and inclusive.- Support with the implementation of the WFP’s Gender Policy and Protection and AAP Policy within the Country Offices. Ensure that the programming goals, objectives, processes are gender responsive and meet the needs and priorities of women, men, girls and boys of all diversities.- Support in the testing, continuous improvement and the configuration of systems to align with the needs of WFP in the Regional Bureau for Southern Africa.

Capacity strengthening- Develop/adjust and implement trainings in support of Country Offices and the Regional Bureau for WFP staff on gender, protection, AAP, inclusion, and community engagement- Provide accompaniment and technical support to staff in relevant functional areas in Country Offices and Regional Bureau.- Document lessons learned and best practices in protection risk analysis, mitigation and integration related to gender and protection- Support cross learning and sharing of good practices across the region, and support in dissemina