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Programme Policy Officer (Protection, Gender and AAP)

3 days ago 2025/04/17
Full Time Employee
500 Employees or more · Non-profit Organization
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Under the overall direction and guidance of the Head of Programme and in close collaboration with other teams and units, the PGAAP team lead will be responsible for the following tasks:

Team management

  • Oversee the work of the PGAAP team, ensure team workplans are in place, guide team deliverables and supervise staff.
  • Develop staff capacity withing the PGAAP team.
  • Represent WFP in relevant country-level inter-agency bodies as required.

Protection, Gender and AAP policy and mainstreaming

  • Support the Ukraine WFP Country Office in ensuring that policy and programme operations are aligned with WFP policies, Executive Board decisions, and other relevant guidance related to Protection, Gender, and AAP.
  • Lead the translation of WFP corporate policies and guidelines for Protection, Gender, and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) into country level practices in Ukraine, and develop practical programme guidance and implementation modalities.
  • Support senior management to advocate and raise awareness on protection and gender issues within the office.

Capacity strengthening and partnerships

  • Work closely with WFP’s partnerships team to ensure existing and prospective NGO partners are vetted and evaluated on aspects related to PSEA, AAP, gender and protection, identify specific partner capacity gaps, develop partner improvement plans and ensure their follow-up.
  • Identify capacity strengthening needs in PGAAP and facilitate capacity building for WFP and NGO partner staff and contractors.
  • Develop and conduct functional trainings in topics relevant to PGAAP for WFP staff, cooperating partners, and contractors.

Analysis, data and monitoring

  • Identify research and data gaps in the area of gender, protection, conflict sensitivity, accountability to affected populations, marginalized groups and relevant topics; develop operational research concepts in collaboration with programme teams and work with internal and external assessment teams to deliver relevant operational research products.
  • Work closely with the programme monitoring team to ensure that PGAAP aspects are monitored in accordance with corporate reporting requirements and duly reflected in annual country reports (ACR).
  • Undertake field visits as required.

Community engagement, feedback and referrals

  • Work within the PGAAP team, with WFP programme activity teams, WFP field offices and NGO partners to ensure that effective and context-tailored community engagement plans are developed, rolled out and followed up.
  • Ensure that the WFP community feedback mechanism works efficiently across functional areas and is streamlined and able to respond to protection related issues.
  • Ensure integration of up-to-date protection referral pathways into WFP operations in Ukraine, and monitor their functionality.

PSEA and issues escalation

  • Act as focal point and key interlocutor for all issues related to PSEA in the WFP programme team and ensure cases are handled and escalated in accordance with corporate protocols.
  • Work closely with WFP’s risk and compliance team to make sure protection, fraud, corruption and PSEA cases are handled and escalated in accordance with corporate protocols.
  • Any other tasks as required.

 


Skills

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, or First university degree with an additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.

 

Experience:

  • At least three (3) years of postgraduate professional working experience in the humanitarian and/or development sectors.
  • 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:

  • Practical knowledge 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.
  • Supervision, mentoring and capacity building skills.
  • 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 is an asset.
  • Ability to build relationships with a variety of individuals across functions and experience in coordinating the work of others and self, training, and supporting others.


Language: Fluency (level C) in both in English and Ukrainian languages. Working knowledge (level B) of another UN language is an advantage.


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The UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization working towards zero hunger by 2030, 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. Powered by the passion, dedication and professionalism of our 20,000 staff worldwide, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) works in over 80 countries to bring life-saving food to people displaced by conflict and made destitute by disasters, and help individuals and communities find life-changing solutions to the multiple challenges they face in building better futures. In 2020, WFP assisted 115.5 million people – the largest number since 2012. On any given day, WFP has 5,600 trucks, 30 ships and nearly 100 planes on the move, delivering food and other assistance to those in most need. Every year, we distribute more than 15 billion rations at an estimated average cost per ration of US$ 0.61. We work to enhance nutrition in women and children, support smallholder farmers in improving productivity and reducing losses, help countries and communities prepare for and cope with climate-related shocks, and boost human capital through school feeding programmes. In conflict situations, we bring relief to exhausted populations and use food assistance to build pathways to peace and stability. For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.

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