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• Provide strategic and technical support
  for the mainstreaming of humanitarian protection, gender equality and
  women’s empowerment across WFP operations in West Nile and Acholi;
• Gather and analyse primary information
  from stakeholders (affected populations, INGOs, UN agencies and others) on
  the situation and experience of crisis affected populations and provide
  advice and support for principled humanitarian interventions;
• Oversee the implementation of the
  Country Office Gender Action Plan and ensure that project goals,
  objectives, processes and activities are gender sensitive and meet the
  needs and priorities of women, men, girls and boys;
• Support WFP and partner staff in
  implementing the Humanitarian Protection Policy and Accountability to
  Affect Population commitments to ensure WFP operations and programme
  activities take beneficiaries’ protection concerns into account and
  facilitate safe, dignified, and accountable food assistance;

• Keenly monitor and report on program, activity
  and implementation related protection and gender issues;
• Support the country office to undertake
  context and protection risk analysis and formulating appropriate
  protection risk mitigation and response activities;
• Ensure that protection and gender considerations
  are integrated into all monitoring, evaluation and analysis frameworks,
  activities and outputs;
• Provide assistance in data collection,
  compiling lessons learned, establishing indicators to support knowledge
  sharing on protection and gender;
• Ensure protection and gender issues can
  be captured through the Beneficiary Feedback Mechanisms and responded to
  appropriately. Provide advice, guidance and follow-up in relation to
  protection and gender aspects of the Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism.

• Build working relationships with
  relevant local and regional non-state actors, key domestic political and
  civil state actors, academic institutions, human rights organisations, UN,
  development and donor partners to coordinate and enhance principled
  humanitarian protection and gender impact;
• Support the development of relationships
  with protection mandated agencies and inter-agency fora to strengthen
  coordination and advancement of protection, Accountability to Affected
  Populations (AAP) and gender as related to food and nutrition security;
• Represent WFP in interagency working
  groups, conferences and seminars as necessary;

• Develop and implement protection and
  gender training including on gender analysis, protection assessments,
  Gender Based Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Accountability to
  Affected Populations and other related subjects;
• Strengthen WFP workforce and partners’
  protection and gender analysis capacities and improve their ability for protection
  and gender mainstreaming in project design and throughout the cycle.

• The ideal candidate for the United
  Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Assistant (Beneficiary
  Feedback Mechanism & Reporting) job placement should hold a Bachelor’s
  degree in Community Development, Gender Studies or related Social Sciences
  such as Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Adult Education. Any
  specialized training with international standards of humanitarian work e.g.
  SPHERE, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) Standards etc. is
  desirable
• At least five years of progressively
  responsible professional work experience in protection and gender
  development programming, including years of experience in emergency and
  development contexts.
• Experience in emergency operations and
  management especially in northern Uganda is highly desirable.
• Experience in organizing and
  implementing training, community consultations and negotiations in
  scenarios of cultural and language difficulty.
• Experience working with beneficiary
  communities, host communities, government structures and all other
  humanitarian stakeholders.
• Experience in conducting assessments;
  including gender analysis, as well monitoring and evaluation processes and
  how to integrate them with gender and protection objectives
• Experience in facilitating communication
  with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.).
• The applicant should have contributed to
  implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy
  discussions.
• Fluency in English and any or more of
  the following languages: Luo, Acholi, Lugbara, Madi, Kakwa, Aringa, Alur
  and Langi.

• Programme Lifecycle & Food
  Assistance: Can facilitate
  implementation of food assistance programmes under guidance using basic
  understanding of principles and good practices of programme design,
  implementation and monitoring.
• Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash,
  Vouchers): Demonstrates
  ability to facilitate, under guidance, food assistance programme
  implementation that deploys full range of transfer modalities with an
  understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and
  implementation.
• Knowledge of Specialized Areas: Understands basic technical concepts and
  data andtheir relevance to food assistance programmes.
• Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs
  into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality
  emergency programmes.
• Strategic Policy Engagement w/Govt: Understands and applies basic
  principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or
  local level.

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