About US:

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It is the largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. Currently WFP focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition & Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets. WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.

Job Summary:

The Programme Associate (Gender, APP & Protection) will initially support NUSAF, DRDIP and SAGE Programmes that lead to benefits to local community structures in promoting social inclusion of the poor, vulnerable and excluded groups by supporting accountable practices and institutions, community engagement, and ensuring compliance with social safeguard policies and standards. The emphasis is social protection to become more efficient, transparent, child- and nutrition-sensitive, to scale up the coverage of existing programmes and improve their effectiveness. This support will intensively encompass investments into national systems and tools or addressing crucial gaps (e.g. with respect to nutrition aspects of on-going programmes). This role will be critical in ensuring the WFP social protection technical support at the districts and community level support the establishment of systems that promote accountability to people in need, enhance gender inclusivity and give the people that we serve a voice to demand quality service delivery from duty bearers.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Support partners and DLGs to undertake district specific gender assessments, map out beneficiary protection risks areas and define mitigation measures needed including establishment of needed protection systems/structures at different levels.

• Work in close collaboration with the AMEL team monitor and evaluate, report and advice on specific gender/protection/AAP issues including targeting of beneficiaries, choice of transfer modalities, and ensuring that programmes do no harm.
• Undertake gender and power dynamics analysis in the scope of Cash Transfers and broader Cash Plus programming outcomes.
• Support robust mainstreaming of gender and protection/AAP into WFP Uganda (West Nile & Acholi Region) social protection programmes including advice, guidance and follow-up in relation to protection and gender aspects.
• Strengthen existing Grievances Redress Mechanism (GRM) at the different levels to address Social Protection programme gender, AAP and protection emerging needs.
• Facilitate and support the integration of gender-based approaches into monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management frameworks and ensure that gender considerations are integrated in all data collection initiatives, and to ensure proper gender analysis ensues.
• Facilitate staff and partner (including District Local Governments) capacity strengthening to integrate gender equality, inclusion and protection principles into their work, employing diverse learning methods in daily operations.
• Facilitate the development of district level detailed annual gender action plans with resources allocated towards effective mainstreaming of gender and protection-sensitivity in social protection programmes.
• Responsible for gender and protection reporting tracking all gender and protection related indicators and benchmarks.
• Provide WFP staff with regular information and updates on gender and protection concerns and trends in WFP’s programme areas.
• At field level, participate in protection and gender working group meetings to identify issues that require WFP’s attention to inform programming
• Work closely with the management and protection and gender officer to support cooperating partners integrate GEWE and protection meaningfully into upcoming proposals and budgets.
• Support the implementation of the Gender Action Plan through ensuring gender features prominently at all stages of the program and activity cycle i.e assessment, design, baseline, implementation monitoring and evaluation including budgeting.
• Support partner capacity building through trainings, coaching and mentoring and development of protection and gender guidelines.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Associate (Gender, APP & Protection)) job placement should hold a basic university degree in one of the following disciplines: business administration, finance, or other related fields would be an advantage.
• Demonstrated familiarity with locally purchased commodities/goods/services (e.g., cash based, in-kind donations).
• Experience conducting supplier research and coordinating with retailers, wholesalers and traders.
• Demonstrated knowledge of procurement processes and linkages with other operations (e.g., logistics).
• Language: Effective verbal and written communications skills in English. Working knowledge of one more of the following languages is an added advantage. Luo, Acholi, Lugbara, Madi, Kakwa, Aringa, Alur and Langi.

Competencies:

• Tendering and Contracting: Displays basic understanding of processes to support the contracting/tendering implementation at WFP by collecting necessary information.
• Vendor Management Leverages basic understanding of business needs to define vendor requirements and selection criteria.
• Commodity and Product/Service Intelligence: Appropriately handles products/services based on an understanding of sources, technologies, properties, and public procurement principles/practices.
• Systems & Reporting: Demonstrates strong understanding of procurement systems, Corporate operating System and tools to conduct range of analyses and generate reports to drive decision making.
• Ethics and Compliance: Maintains accurate records of activities in line with compliance standards to increase ease of response to basic audit queries.

NB: Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

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Closing Date : 6th July 2020