CANADEM is seeking qualified individuals with previous relevant experience who are
available for an immediate deployment to Nigeria as a seconded expert with WFP for a 6 months contract.
JOB TITLE: Protection Officer-P3
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:
- Undertake protection policy analyses of issues that are impacting
WFP beneficiaries and their communities and the linkages to food
security and food assistance. The PO will assist the country office in
monitoring and evaluating these issues in the design 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 shall work closely with WFP field staff; protection
policy-mandated and non-mandated agencies; WFP NGO
cooperating/implementing partners; and other relevant interlocutors on
the ground.
- Integrate protection considerations relevant for food security,
nutrition and food assistance into WFP's tools. The PO will work with
the Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping and the and Monitoring and
Evaluation Units in the WFP Country Office to integrate relevant
protection concerns into assessment and monitoring tools and support the
roll out of the updated tools with WFP and partners at the field level.
- 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 sector working group
and individual actors to ensure complementarity with the overall
strategy on protection. The PO may, from time to time, represent WFP in
inter-agency meetings, and will provide advice to WFP staff who
participate in such for at the national or field levels.
- Undertake capacity building activities for WFP and partners staff on
protection in relation to food assistance programming. The PO will
design and carry out training in Maidaguiri to increase WFP and partner
staffs understanding of integrating protection in food assistance, as
well as their capacity to design and implement project adjustments in
response to these.
Qualifications:
- The Protection Officer will have at least 5 years of international experience in issues relating to humanitarian
- The incumbent will have at least 5 years direct knowledge and experience of field operations including programming and coordination aspects.
- She/he will have a varied experience of both complex (man-made) as well as natural disaster crises and the humanitarian principles associated with each.
- He/she will be fully familiar with WFP's mandate and operating procedures, as well as with the agency's approach to emergency response and food security issues.
The Protection Officer also needs:
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• Good writing skills
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• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
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• Solid experience as a trainer
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• Can work under pressure in a security challenging environment
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• Languages: Written and spoken English
How to apply:
If you see yourself in and have
all of the above-mentioned skills, please register with CANADEM
before contacting us. This can be done on our website at
www.canadem.ca/register . Then send an email to
[email protected]
by no later than May 12th, 11:59 pm EDT. Please include in a Subject
Line: "Protection Officer-P3-Nigeria." In your email, please include an
updated resume, date of availability, your current location, and a phone
number where we can reach you.
Please also forward blank referee
questionnaire that can be found at
www.canadem.ca/rqf
to two of your references (recent supervisors preferred). Full
instructions on how to complete the forms are included in the document;
also please send us any evaluation report that you may have about your
field work. We will be considering applications as they are received.