Overview
The Programme Policy Officer (Head of Gender, Protection and Inclusion) will provide strategic guidance, technical support, and direction to WFP country operations and activities in South Sudan. The role involves managing a team and ensuring gender, protection, and inclusion considerations are integrated into programme planning and implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical advice and guidance to Senior Management to ensure consistency with humanitarian, human rights, and gender equality frameworks.
- Support programmes and operational leads to address issues such as Housing, Land and Property Rights, do no harm, and gender-based violence.
- Develop and implement programmes that facilitate community empowerment.
- Lead the Country Office to action evidence-based and ambitious gender transformative programming.
- Facilitate context-specific research, data, analysis on protection and gender.
- Develop and maintain relationships with authorities, communities, UN agencies, and other humanitarian actors.
- Lead the development, review, and implementation of the Gender and Protection Unit Annual Plan.
- Provide advice and guidance in relation to protection problems related to the safe delivery of assistance.
- Support Country Management to advocate and raise awareness on protection, conflict, and gender issues.
- Provide technical support in preventing, protecting, and responding to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Required Experience
- At least eight years of progressively responsible and relevant professional experience demonstrating high performance and leadership capacity in protection and gender programming, and establishing accountability mechanisms towards affected populations, in complex emergencies and/or hardship setting is required (for master's degree holder or higher).
- A minimum of ten years of the above experience is required (for a candidate with a first university degree).
- Demonstrated field experience working on either protection, human rights or gender programming and in-depth knowledge of humanitarian protection, sexual- and other forms of gender-based violence, civil-military relations and other humanitarian policy issues, and its linkage with humanitarian assistance.
- Field experience within a range of contexts (emergency, conflict, and transition).
- Experience managing or working with Grievance Redress Mechanisms (Community Feedback Mechanisms).
- Proven leadership and management capacity to build and foster inclusive and high performing teams in a multi-cultural environment.
- Experience working with government or international agencies in policy development.
- Inter-agency experience.
- Understanding food assistance programming with previous experience from WFP or any of its cooperating partners is highly desirable.
Qualifications
• Advanced University degree in Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, Social Sciences, Gender, or other relevant fields, or a First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
