Overview
The Programme Associate (Gender, Protection, Inclusion) will provide specialized support and technical analysis to the Multi-Country Office's regional portfolio, ensuring that protection, gender-sensitive, inclusive and transformative approaches and principles are systematically integrated into programmes, operations and partnerships.
Tasks Summary
- Provide specialized technical support to ensure MCO programme operations align with WFP corporate policies, strategies and technical guidance on gender, protection inclusion and AAP.
- Act as the MCO Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) focal point and support management and activity managers to advocate and raise awareness on protection, gender, and inclusion.
- Provide specialized project management support to promoting gender-responsive, inclusive, and accountable programming.
- Liaise with programme teams in integrating GPI throughout the programme cycle.
- Collaborate with the programme team to assess Cooperating Partners on PSEA, environmental and social risk screening, AAP, gender, and protection.
- Identify capacity-building needs and design targeted initiatives for WFP staff, partners, and government counterparts.
- Support the design and implementation of gender and protection capacity development initiatives.
- Support the Research, Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) team to identify research and data gaps related to GPI, marginalised groups, indigenous and tribal people and inclusion.
- Act as the MCO focal point for the Framework for Accountability for Results Framework (FAR) during the design of the new Multi-Country Strategic Plan (MCSP).
- Support the coordination of the FAR rollout, monitoring and reporting.
- Support the tracking of gender related activities to facilitate the completion of the Annual Gender and Age Marker (GAM) survey.
- Collaborate with MCO programme teams, Satellite Offices, and Cooperating Partners to design and implement effective, context-specific community engagement plans.
- Support the RAM team to ensure WFP’s community feedback mechanism is efficient, streamlined, and responsive to protection-related issues.
- Support the development and strengthening of government-led community feedback mechanisms.
- Contribute to ensuring that affected communities are meaningfully engaged throughout the programme cycle.
- Support WFP’s community and feedback mechanisms.
- Contribute to developing and regularly updating risk matrices and risk mitigation measures.
- Participate in relevant Caribbean interagency coordination mechanisms on GPI, AAP, and PSEA.
- Work with the WFP MCO activity managers to ensure adequate allocation of human and financial resources and support resource mobilization for implementing action plans.
Experience Requirements
- At least six years of relevant experience in the humanitarian and/or development sectors with focus on gender, protection and inclusion.
- Experience of undertaking capacity building of colleagues or partner organisations.
- Experience in humanitarian and/or development project management.
- Experience in developing and maintaining partnerships with a variety of stakeholders: governments and/or humanitarian & development stakeholders, preferably related to social protection, food security & nutrition and related emergency responses or other types of programmes.
Qualification Requirements
- Completion of secondary school education.
- A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area.
