Major Responsibility

Program design and implementation

• Lead the implementation of gender and protection activities of JEOP project and actively engage throughout the project cycle in collaboration with consortium members. 

• Actively participate in concept note preparation, proposals development from gender lenses and make sure protection and gender-specific indicators, tools and methodologies are in place during the onset of the project.

• Lead programmatic assessments including gender and protection analysis, and protection monitoring to ensure continuous improvement mainstreaming of finding on program strategy, design and advocacy

• Facilitate regular focus group discussions and individual interviews ensuring that issues of women, men, girls, boys, and people with different needs are identified and addressed.

• Ensures a gender-sensitive approach is taken to programming and integrated into protection assessments and activities.

• Ensure that issues of SGBV and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) are explored in sensitive ways and that services and follow-up are provided in keeping with international guidelines.

Monitoring, and Evaluation

• Work closely with program and MEAL team to ensure gender, safe guarding, protection and other cross-cutting issues are properly assessed and integrated into WFP programming.

• Undertake regular on-site visits to monitor the quality of activity implementation and provide technical advice to partner staff as necessary.

• Support donors, stakeholders, and other internal reporting requirements by providing accurate and timely input on gender and protection activities.

Training and capacity building

• Conduct capacity assessment of partner staff, stakeholders, and beneficiaries, plan and lead capacity-building initiatives, training and technical support.

• Enhance the capacity of project staffs, partner’s organizations and stakeholders towards mainstreaming Gender, Protection and Safeguarding in JEOP projects.

Networking, Coordination and Reporting

• Liaise, network and maintain good working relationships with relevant actors

• Collect analyses and produce regular reports with regard to the implementation of WVE’s safeguarding policies, review and audit.

• Represent WFP within the relevant meetings, forums and consortium meetings.

• Attend internal meetings and work in collaboration with WVE Protection unit.

Job Requirements

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• MA/BA Degree in Social Science, Social work, Gender studies and related field

•  Certificate in specialized training related to Gender and safeguarding and PSEA and inclusion programing.

​ Required Professional Experience

• ·At least five years relevant experience in Gender, child protection and safe guarding program design and management.

• Relevant field-based experience in development or humanitarian response settings, preferably in a conflict setting.

• ·Experience with and knowledge of mainstreaming protection in food assistance, gender integration, and gender-based violence (GBV) mainstreaming.

• Good knowledge of concepts, approaches, and application of gender marker, safeguarding policies and best practices in gender integration and protection mainstreaming.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrated understanding of international protection and gender standards.

• Demonstrated ability to conduct assessments and studies, including gender audits and protection risk analyses.

• Experience with capacity strengthening and partnership building.

• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.

• Demonstrated commitment to accountability to affected populations, and experience working with and meaningfully engaging diverse populations, including pregnant and lactating mothers, persons with disabilities, older adults, and IDPs

• Demonstrated commitment to and application of gender responsive programming and positive action measures towards gender equality, including the participation and leadership of women

How to Apply

Interested applicants can send their CV with three references using the link: CLICK HERE

World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries, and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.

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