Programme Associate , Nepal WFP Closing date: Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Programme Associate 
(Knowledge management, gender, protection and AAP), 
Nepal 
WFP - World Food Programme 
Closing date: Tuesday, 24 July 2018

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The Programme Associate (knowledge management, protection and accountability to affected populations (AAP)) will be directly supervised by Head of WFP Sub-Office. S/he will have the overall responsibility of assisting the WFP Country Office and Sub-Office to document the impact of the CSP activities and develop knowledge products, gather the information in relation to protection and accountability issues and help in timely management response. The key responsibilities include:

Technical support to the sub-office, field based staff and partners:

• Provide technical support to integrate gender, protection and accountability concerns into the project management cycle;
• Support WFP and partner staff in implementing the Humanitarian Protection Policy, the Gender Policy (2015-2020) and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) commitments to ensure WFP operations and programme activities take beneficiaries’ gender and protection concerns into account and facilitate safe, dignified, and accountable food assistance that is adapted to the different needs of women, men, boys and girls;
• Support Country Office Gender, Inclusion, Protection and AAP Officer, M&E team members and partners to ensure that protection and gender considerations are integrated into all monitoring, evaluation and analysis frameworks, activities and outputs;
• Support the development of relationships with protection and gender mandated agencies and inter-agency fora at field level to strengthen coordination and advancement of protection, Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and gender as related to food and nutrition security;

Monitoring and reporting on protection and gender issues:

• Monitor and report on programme, activity and implementation related protection and gender issues;
• Support the sub-office and field based staff to undertake context and protection risk analysis and formulating appropriate protection risk mitigation and response activities;
• Provide regular information on protection concerns and trends in WFP’s programme areas;
• 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.
• Assist in organizing and conducting protection mainstreaming /conflict sensitive programming - trainings for WFP and Cooperating Partner staff.
• Undertake field travels to WFP activities locations to conduct protection monitoring.

Knowledge management, information and analysis:

• Assist in data collection, compiling lessons learned, establishing case stories to support proper and timely documentation and knowledge sharing on activities impacts including gender and protection;
• Facilitate systematic gender and protection analyses, so that the Programme Unit identify strategic and practical responses to advancing gender equality in WFP activities;
• Ensure that gender considerations are integrated in all data collection initiatives; its use and analysis.
• Collect the case studies/success stories reflecting the impact of WFP activities and document the lessons learned/good practices and changes brought by activities in the lives of beneficiaries as knowledge products;
• Contribute to research, baseline, midline and end line survey, impact study, if necessary.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area with focus on a a relevant discipline: gender studies, development studies, information management, social sciences, law, human rights, international development or related field. Higher education (Bachelor degree) is preferred.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Nepali.

Experience:

• At least 4 years of work experience in gender, protection, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation etc with field experience.
• Knowledge of gender-transformative approaches, conflict sensitive/Do No Harm principles, and application of humanitarian protection principles;
• Knowledge and experiences of result-based programme monitoring, reporting and knowledge management, research, and drafting reports and advocacy notes;
• Experience in delivering trainings and debriefings;
• Excellent writing and communication skills including ability to effectively communicate through multiple mediums;
• Experience in implementing programme activities, networking and relationship building with government agencies and other stakeholders;
• Experience in data analysis and database management.

Knowledge & Skill

• Must be familiar with MS office;
• Nepali Typing skill is an asset.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
•  Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
•  Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
•  Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.