KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):

• Contribute towards the development of a wide variety of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidance.
• Provide project management support to specific and defined programmes and projects of considerable size/complexity, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider programmes that complies with WFP standards and procedures.
• Develop and coordinate data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
• Research and analyse a range of policy and operational issues to inform the development of policies, programmes and activities.
• Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Liaise with internal and external counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects and highlight potential risks to project delivery.
• Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships to collaborative working leading to improved food assistance packages.
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to food assistance needs, e.g. through providing inputs into training materials.
• Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
• Other as required.

Additional Key Accountabilities

• Undertake protection analyses of issues that are impacting WFP beneficiaries and their communities and the linkages to food security and food assistance.

The PO will undertake an analysis of protection of protection issues – including gender-based violence - impacting food insecurity and vice-versa, and protection issues arising from WFP operations and presence. PO shall work with all relevant staff in developing responses, ensuring that these are integrated in WFP’s programming and operational activities. The PO will also assist the country office in monitoring and evaluating protection issues in the design and piloting of new programmes and initiatives.

• Advise WFP and partners on the integration of protection in food assistance programmes.

Based on the analysis of protection issues, the PO will help WFP and its partners to develop responses and action points for the WFP Country Office for implementation of its programmes. These responses may include programmatic actions, advocacy measures, partnership building and coordination enhancement activities, etc.  In this regard, the PO will work closely with WFP field staff; protection-mandated and non-mandated agencies; WFP NGO cooperating/implementing partners; and other relevant interlocutors on the ground.

• Inter-agency coordination and representation

The PO will assist WFP to coordinate with other UN humanitarian agencies, NGO partners and other relevant interlocutors on assessments of current and emerging protection issues and response planning. In particular, the PO will assist WFP to strengthen its relationship with the national Protection Working Group and individual protection actors to ensure complementarity with the overall strategy on protection. The PO represent WFP in inter-agency protection for a and represent the interest of WFP in line with the corporate policy on protection.

• Complaints and feedback mechanism and reporting system for protection.

In collaboration with the M & E and Risk Management units ensure protection issues can be captured through the Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism and responded to appropriately.Provide advice, guidance, and follow-up in relation to protection aspects of the Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism. It will also explore how a system of reporting of protection issues within the context of WFP’s programme delivery can be established and sustained.

• Safe delivery of assistance

In collaboration with the Head of the Programme Unit, Head of Logistics and Head of Security provide advice, guidance, and follow-up in relation to any protection problems related to the safe delivery of food, cash, or vouchers to beneficiaries, either before, after or during distribution. Additionally, take lead in supporting capacity of Country Office to understand and implement within a conflict sensitive approach.

• Advocacy and Sensitisation

Support Country Management to advocate and raise awareness on protection, conflict and gender issues, both emerging and protracted, as related to food and nutrition security. Audience may include UN General Assembly and/or Security Council, WFP HQ, Donors, Political audiences, South Sudan based interagency forums and agencies. 

• Staff training and capacity-building

The PO will undertake training for capacity building of staff on protection analysis, response development and gender and protection integration in WFP’s work. The PO will also review and reactivate the protection and gender network in the country and support the network with necessary expertise and training for them.

• Other duties

Undertake any other activities as required by the Head of Programme or Head of the CCA unit.

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