Programme Associate, PGAAP

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World Food Programme (WFP)

  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Partnership, Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 09/11/2026
  • Location: Afghanistan
Disability rights GBV / VAWG Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI) PSEA/ Safeguarding
ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of extreme weather shocks.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serve

The Role: 
The Programme Associate (Protection, Gender, and Accountability to Affected People -PGAAP), henceforth known as the PGAAP Associate, will be responsible to operationalise and foster WFP’s commitments on Protection, Gender, Conflict Sensitivity, AAP, and Disability Inclusion, and adapt them to the Afghanistan context and programmes.
 The PGAAP Associate will join the Programme Unit, and report directly to the Head of Area Office (NOC) and will be under the technical guidance of the Protection, Gender, Conflict Sensitivity and AAP technical leads of the Country Office.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
 
EDUCATION: Completion of secondary school. Having University Degree in one of the following disciplines: Social Sciences, International Development, Political Science, Law, or related field; or having specialization in protection, gender, and/or human rights related fields would be an added advantage.
 EXPERIENCE: Minimum 6 years of relevant work experience in communications related to protection, gender, accountability to affected populations.
 LANGUAGES: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and local languages (Pashto/Dari).
 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
  • Strong community relationships building capacity.
  • In-depth knowledge and operations experience in risk identification and operationalization of mitigation measures, protection, conflict sensitivity, gender, gender-based violence, humanitarian principles, access, and other humanitarian policy issues, and their linkages to humanitarian assistance.
  • Demonstrated field experience working on protection, gender, accountability to affected populations, disability inclusion and promotion of risk mitigation measures and good practices.
  • Innovative and self-driven with strong commitment to results focused work.
  • High ethical standards and commitment to WFP’s AAP goals.
  • Strong analytical, writing and communication skills.
  • Capacity to build sustainability in WFP’s communication practice.
  • Strong capacity in establishing and sustaining relationships with diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience in communications in humanitarian settings.

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