Programme Associate

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The Gender and Protection Associate will report directly to the Gender and protection Officer within the Programme Unit. The associate will be responsible for supporting gender mainstreaming, disability inclusion efforts and advancing protection outcomes in a way that aligns with the WFP Sri Lanka Country Office Country Strategic Plan (CSP). The associate will also be responsible for reviewing current WFP Country Office operations and activities to identify and action opportunities to ensure that activities are inclusive of all diversities, and that WFP is meeting its accountability targets.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Provide technical assistance to documentation, reporting, and knowledge sharing to foster gender equality, improve meaningful disability inclusion, enhance women’s empowerment, and reinforcing data protection measures through WFP supported programmes and strategy.
• Support the application of the gender and age marker (GAM) to all programmes and monitoring at both the design and monitoring stages.
• Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM): In close collaboration with the affected population and key internal (All WFP staff) and external stakeholders (Partners, authorities, and representative groups), the associate will support the current community feedback and response mechanism to that aligned to the emergency response and expand to other programmes as well. The CFM will be expanded also with a view to sustainability ensuring that feedback and response remains a priority for the CO. Interagency collaboration will be essential to ensure that FP’s CFRM complements existing interagency approaches and efforts. 
• Information and Knowledge Management: The associate will work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to produce and share information tailored to audiences using feedback data collected. This will ensure that feedback collected is used to inform decisions made by WFP and other humanitarian actors. The associate will also work closely with stakeholders, especially programming, to evidence how feedback collected and shared has informed programming throughout the whole programming cycle. The associate will also coordinate messaging to affected populations to ensure that information on WFP and its activities meets the information needs and preferences of the affected population (of all diversities).
• Documenting gender, protection and disability inclusion outcomes for reporting, including the drafting of inputs for annual country reports.
• Inclusion: Undertake a review of WFP’s operations, throughout the full programme cycle, to document existing good practice leading to meaningful inclusion of all affected persons across all diversities. The review will also identify opportunities to strengthen inclusion. The associate will then work closely with key stakeholders (internal and external) to meaningfully, measurably, and sustainably strengthen inclusion throughout WFP operations.
• Partnerships: Establish partnerships to strengthen Gender, Protection AAP for Zero Hunger results including partnerships with donors, interagency forums, UN and I/NGO agencies. Importantly, establish partnerships with affected populations directly, and relevant representative groups, for AAP including with people with disabilities, organizations of disabled people, women, women’s civil society groups, youth, youth representative groups, ethnic and religious minorities and their representative groups, amongst others with a particular focus on ensuring meaningful inclusion of marginalized groups in informing decisions made by WFP throughout its activities. Provide support and build capacity for the integration of gender, protection and disability inclusion for staff and partners.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Minimum of 6 years of relevant professional work experience in Accountability to Affected Populations and/or Protection and/or Gender and/or Inclusion. Experience in relevant areas of work will be considered. Or 2 years of experience plus relevant educational qualification.
• Demonstrated experience in Protection, AAP and Gender implementation, strong background in communications work, preferably specifically in Communicating with Communities and Inclusion.
• Prior UN cluster or WFP experience or experience with a cooperating partner of WFP is an asset

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree, plus relevant experiences, in Human Rights, International Relations, Development Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Social work, Communications for Development, Humanitarian Affairs, or related topics.
• Language: Fluency (level C) in written and spoken English. Knowledge in either Sinhala or Tamil or both (written spoken) will be added advantage.

Source: https://career5.successfactors.eu//career?career_ns=job_listing&company=C0000168410P&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH&rcm_site_locale=en_GB&career_job_req_id=833451

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