Programme Associate - Gender, Protection and Inclusion

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World Food Programme (WFP)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 07/03/2026
  • Location: Barbados
Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI) Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
BACKGROUND
The World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saves lives in emergencies and leverages food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity for people recovering from disasters, the impacts of climate change and conflict. WFP is committed to advancing gender equality, protection, and inclusion as integral to this mandate. Guided by its 2026 Strategy on Sexual Exploration and Abuse and Sexual Harassment, 2022 Gender Policy, 2020 Protection and Accountability Policy, and 2021 Community Engagement Strategy for Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), 2021 Disability Inclusion Roadmap WFP seeks to promote safety, dignity and equitable access to assistance for women, men, girls, boys, and marginalised groups, while ensuring accountability to affected populations. At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do. 

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Programme Associate (Gender, Protection, Inclusion) will provide specialized support and technical analysis to the MCO’s regional portfolio managed from the Barbados office, ensuring that protection, gender-sensitive, inclusive and transformative approaches and principles are systematically integrated into programmes, operations and partnerships including in emergency contexts. The Programme Associate will contribute to advocacy and capacity-building efforts on gender, protection and inclusion for WFP staff and cooperating partners. This includes strengthening programme quality and building partner capacity to apply gender, protection, and inclusion principles across planning, implementation, and monitoring to maximize safety, dignity, and equality, and minimize social tensions and unintended discrimination or exclusion. The role involves conducting analytical work to inform evidence-based strategies and activities, providing technical support to integrate gender, protection, inclusion and accountability to affected people (AAP) into all aspects of WFP’s work, and collaborating closely with activity managers to ensure compliance with corporate standards. The Programme Associate will also contribute to risk analysis, design and review of programme tools, and support monitoring and reporting to ensure continuous improvement of programme delivery. The Programme Associate will also serve as the focal point for the Framework for Accountability for Results (FAR) during the design of the new Multi-Country Strategic Plan (2027-2031, currently under development) ensuring integration of gender, protection, and inclusion outcomes into strategic plan activities. 

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
  • Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area.
  • At least six years of relevant experience in the humanitarian and/or development sectors with focus on gender, protection and inclusion. Experience of undertaking capacity building of colleagues or partner organisations. Experience in humanitarian and/or development project management. Experience in developing and maintaining partnerships with a variety of stakeholders: governments and/or humanitarian & development stakeholders, preferably related to social protection, food security & nutrition and related emergency responses or other types of programmes. 
  • Practical knowledge integrating humanitarian protection, gender equality, women’s empowerment, accountability to affected people, disability, sexual and gender-based violence and humanitarian principles into humanitarian assistance.:
  • Fluency (level C) in both oral and written communication in English.

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