Career Opportunities at The United Nations World Food Programme for Programme Assistant

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. 

Vacancy: 02

Vacancy Type: Contractual 

Role: Programme Assistant (Protection)

Job Responsibilities:           

• Act as a point of contact in conducting protection analysis, flag up the protection concerns to management and coordinate with field protection focal for mitigation. 
• Address protection referrals, including the hotline cases, update the referral tracker and analyze the quarterly and yearly referral trends. 
• Maintain the protection tracker with findings related to protection concerns from different studies and reports by updating monthly. Additionally, maintain an online drive for all the resources/documents to ensure data-driven support for the team as requested by the supervisor.
• Support in reviewing the M&E tools to incorporate protection and AAP indicators, as well as conduct follow-up surveys to further dig/complement the PDM/OSM result.
• Support in NGO capacity assessment, yearly partner performance evaluation, proposal review, and PSEA capacity assessment exercise. 
• Support in 16 days of activism campaigns (Human Rights Day) for awareness raising against gender-based violence and International Women's Day to promote gender equality.
• Supported the development of IEC materials, messaging packages, and training modules, as well as conducting training for CP and WFP staff. In addition to that, contribute to project proposals, SOP/Concept notes, reports, and briefing notes as delegated by the supervisor.
• Represent WFP in an inter-agency coordination platform, adopt the strategic guidance, and collaborate to mitigate the protection concerns affecting WFP operation. 
• Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP can quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.

Requirements: 

• University degree in Social Science, Law, Development Studies, or another related field.
• At least five (5) years of experience, with two years of relevant experience in humanitarian or development programs. Individuals with experience in Protection, AAP, Gender, PSEA, and Inclusion in humanitarian settings will be preferred.   
• Fluency in both written and spoken communication in English and Bangla. Proficiency in Rohingya or the Chittagonian dialect would be an advantage. 

Additional Requirements: 

• Flexibility, including travel on different WFP program sites and in challenging environments.
• Demonstrates openness to intensive mentoring support to take over responsibility for protection, gender, and disability inclusion in the entire Cox's Bazar operation.
• Analyze the field findings with gender and inclusion aspects and come out with practical recommendations to inform programs and cooperating partners to consider program implementation and future interventions. 
• Support to organize quarterly catch-up events with the program unit and protection from different units of WFP.  
• Excellent communication, research, written, and oral presentation skills.
• Team spirit and excellent interpersonal relations.
• In-depth and operational understanding of integrating protection, gender equality, women's empowerment, accountability to affected populations, disability inclusion, sexual and gender-based violence, PSEA, conflict-sensitive programming, and humanitarian principles into humanitarian assistance.
• Strong analytical, writing, and communication skills. 
• Sound knowledge and skills in training and facilitation, including adapting materials for the audience. Client orientation with excellent interpersonal and team skills, including mentoring skills. Cross-cultural sensitivity. Knowledge of UN system policies and functions of protection-mandated agencies.

Job Location: Cox's Bazar.

Salary: As per the organization's salary scale.

Benefits: As per the organization policy.

Application Deadline: 19 June 2024

Application link: https://tinyurl.com/24t78xxs