Syria: Programme Policy Officer (Accountability)

Jun 6, 2023 | World Food Programme
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world's largest humanitarian organization, operates in more than 120 countries and territories, bringing life-saving assistance in emergencies, building pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change and supporting sustainable and resilient livelihoods for a world with zero hunger.

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WHY JOIN WFP?

  • WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
  • WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse and multicultural working environment
  • WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of trainings, accreditation, coaching, mentorship and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities
  • A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe
  • WFP offers attractive compensation package (please refer to Terms and Conditions section)

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

WFP Syria provides food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance to people in need with operations across the country in government controlled and non-controlled areas. Integrating protection and AAP and related cross-cutting issues, based on WFP policies and guidelines, continues to be a priority and essential in the evolving context. Focusing on information provision, consultation and strong complaints and feedback mechanisms supports, WFP aims to have accountability to the populations it serves. In addition, these activities support the understanding of the context and identification of protection risks that need to be addressed to ensure that WFP activities are contributing to the safety, dignity and integrity of affected populations and ensuring that WFP assistance is accessible impartially to those in need.

THE ROLE

WFP Syria is hiring a Programme Policy Officer (Accountability) to lead on the integration of accountability to affected people (AAP), conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding, and humanitarian principles in WFP programmes. The Programme Policy Officer will also take the lead on the mainstreaming and integration of WFP's Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (GEWE), and Protection across WFP's operations in Syria. Under the direction of the head of Programme in Syria, and with technical support from the Gender and Protection Units in HQ and Regional Bureau Cairo, the Programme Policy Officer (Accountability) will lead on the operationalization of relevant WFP policy and strategic frameworks, such as the Protection and Accountability Policy (2020), Gender Policy (2022), the Disability Inclusion Road Map (2020-2022), and the Community Engagement for AAP Strategy (2022-2026), at the country office level.

Considering the breath of WFP's commitments and the need to operationalize them across the country’s office operations in a volatile and complex environment, WFP Syria needs a highly-experienced practitioner who has subject matter expertise and can carry out technical and strategic support tasks independently. This will be done by providing timely specialized support to senior management and implementing teams for the implementation of different policies' components, ensuring close external coordination with relevant actors and inter-agency coordination fora, and ensuring timely communication and liaison with relevant counterparts at the regional and global level.

KEY ACCOUNTIBILITIES (not all-inclusive)

  • Support WFP Syria to ensure that programmes are based on context and risk analysis that consider the needs, capacities, vulnerabilities, and other important characteristics such as age, gender, and (dis)ability, of affected populations receiving assistance. This will be done by conducting protection analysis for each WFP’s programme and working with programme staff to integrate protection and AAP throughout the programme management cycle (design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation).
  • Lead knowledge management, information, and analysis to ensure integrated protection and disability inclusion, AAP, and gender-sensitive data collection, analysis, monitoring, reporting and decision-making.
  • Provide strategic and technical support for the integration of WFP’s relevant policies and related humanitarian and human rights normative frameworks across WFP operations in the Syrian context.
  • Conduct protection and gender analysis aimed at providing solid evidence to inform vulnerability-based and inclusive response across the programmatic cycle.
  • Developed Community Engagement for AAP strategy/action plan; Developed Protection and Gender action plans.
  • Lead the AAP team to ensure affected communities are meaningfully engaged across the programme cycle and inclusive two-way communication with communities’ mechanisms are available, including by ensuring Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) are established and respect WFP's minimum requirements.
  • Manage all WFP’s complaints and feedback mechanisms (CFM) with the support of WFP CFM and AAP teams, ensuring that WFP’s policies and strategies on AAP and protection are well-reflected, all CFMs are coordinated, and supplement each other without duplicating efforts.
  • Develop and update risk matrix and mitigation responses including programme adjustments, advocacy measures, partnership building and coordination enhancement activities, etc.
  • Lead and manage a team of Protection, Gender & AAP staff and liaise closely with other teams to ensure cross-functional synergies.
  • Work with programme management in Country and Sub-Offices to ensure strong institutional commitment and leadership for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) and protection mainstreaming across programming and operations.
  • Provide advice and support on the integration of gender and protection in the formulation of country level WFP-specific and interagency strategic documents and programmes.
  • Support programme staff to integrate, AAP, disability inclusion, gender, and protection throughout the programme management cycle (design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation), and in needs assessment frameworks as appropriate, including the adaptation of tools, collection, analysis, and reporting processes to ensure that different beneficiary needs are identified and met.
  • Support programme staff and cooperating partners to integrate and mainstream disability inclusion across the operation, including both programmes and support functions.
  • Devise and support the implementation of gender and protection capacity development initiatives, undertaking training and building the capacity of staff on protection analysis, response development and integration of these areas in WFP’s work.
  • Represent WFP in all relevant inter-agency gender, protection, and AAP coordination mechanisms, coordinating and strengthening the link between WFP’s internal work on gender, protection and AAP and its interagency role as a partner and peer within the humanitarian system; including coordination and support to develop harmonized approaches with other protection, gender, and AAP work across the sector.
  • Work with head of programme to ensure adequate allocation of human and financial resources, supporting the mobilisation of resources to implement Action Plans.
  • Represent WFP in all relevant food security, protection, and AAP coordination mechanisms, including the Protection Sector, PSEA Taskforce, and Food Security Sector.
  • Support existing organisation commitments and efforts to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), together with PSEA focal points.

QUALIFICATIONS & KEY REQUIREMENTS

Education:


• A University degree in one of the following disciplines: social sciences international relations, human rights, law, political science, or another related field.

Experience:

  • At least 8 years of postgraduate professional experience in addressing a mix of topics accountability to affected population, protection, disability inclusion and gender issues in humanitarian context, of which at least 5 years have been spent working in a humanitarian crisis context, emergency assistance and food security with UN agencies and NGOs in the field.
  • Demonstrated field experience on accountability to affected population integration and mainstreaming into programme.
  • Demonstrated field experience of working directly on protection integration or protection mainstreaming, gender equality and women empowerment, disability inclusion, and accountability to affected populations.
  • Experience of undertaking capacity building of colleagues or partner organisations and/or delivering training.
  • Experience in establishing and maintaining multi-sectoral collaborations, partnerships, and networks.
  • Strong analytical and writing skills, including the ability to write in an engaging and informative manner, and conceptualize and clearly synthesize information.
  • Ability to facilitate consultations and technical discussions.
  • Demonstrated experience managing large multi-functional teams, covering: AAP including CFM and call centres, disability inclusion, protection and gender.
  • Initiative, enthusiasm, and flexibility with excellent interpersonal skills and team spirit.

Languages:

  • Fluency in English (spoken & written) is required.
  • Working proficiency in another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian) is an asset.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  • This is an International Professional position and candidates must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment.
  • Mobility is and continues to be, a core contractual requirement in WFP. The selected candidate will be employed on a fixed term as well as a rotational contract with a probationary period of one year.
  • WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package in line with ICSC standards (http://icsc.un.org)_including basic salary, post adjustment, relocation entitlement, visa, travel and shipment allowances, 30 days' annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, a pension plan, and medical insurance.
  • The selected candidate will be required to relocate to Damascus, Syria to take up this assignment.

REMINDERS BEFORE SUBMITTING

  • WFP strongly recommends that the applicant’s profile is accurate, complete and includes employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable)
  • Once the profile is completed, please apply, and submit the application
  • Please make sure to upload professional CV in the English language
  • Kindly note the only documents applicants will need to submit at this time are CV and Cover Letter
  • Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
  • Please contact at wfprecruitment@wfp.org in case of any challenges with submitting the application
  • Only shortlisted candidates will be notified

How to apply

Please apply via the following link: https://career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=827484&company=C0000168410P

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Applications must be submitted by Thursday, 22 June, 2023 (11:59 PM CEST).