Gender Health Emergency Disaster Risk Management Specialist - World Food ...

VACANT POST - BASIC INFORMATION Organisation: World Food Programme
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Reference Number (optional): JR108165
Application Deadline (optional): January 12, 2025
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It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability. 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 climate change.
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 serves.
WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF CONSULTANTS TO CONDUCT GENDER ANALYSIS IN WEST AFRICA Org.
Unit: African Risk Capacity (ARC)
Duty Station: Remotely based
WAE Consultant Duration: 40 days on a period of 6 months
Reporting to: ARC Gender Advisor
CONTEXT The occurrence of disasters, especially those that are climate-induced, is increasing worldwide, making it more challenging to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda particularly SDG 2 on Zero Hunger.
Due to the frequency and severity of climate-related shocks, compounded by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and food crises, there is an increase in resource scarcity, which undermines livelihoods and increases food insecurity, pressures for migration, forced displacement, and the cost of building resilience at the country level.
Disasters are also gendered, affecting women and vulnerable groups disproportionately due to underlying socio-economic dynamics and existing gender inequalities in access to resources, services, information and markets.
OBJECTIVES/RESPONSIBILITIES Under the direction of the ARC Gender Unit with support of the ARC Country Engagement Managers in West and Central Africa, and ARC's government coordinators, we are seeking to recruit Gender consultants to carry out an in-depth gender analysis on DRM in some targeted countries in West Africa to make sure the policies, strategies, activities and outputs of DRM-related programme are gender-responsive and transformational in the above-mentioned countries.
The objective is to ensure that the DRM planning and implementation contribute to advancing gender equality, social inclusion, and women's empowerment.
KEY DELIVERABLES The specific details of the activities of this consultation are:
Conduct an in-depth gender analysis of the gender sensitivity and inclusiveness of current disaster preparedness, response and recovery mechanisms in targeted countries and develop a gender analysis report with an integrated action plan.Facilitate a validation workshop of the Gender Analysis and Gender Action Plan report.To draft a Gender and DRM training manual that will be used to train the TWG and other stakeholders.To draft a policy brief, resulting from the recommendations of the Gender analysis.Facilitate the training of trainers and lead the establishment of the training of trainers' network.Facilitate the policy dialogue and donors' roundtable.DESIRED EXPERIENCES AND EDUCATION Extensive experience in research and analysis in the field of gender equality and at least in one other related theme, including disaster risk management, climate change reduction and/or environmental adaptation and/or sustainable development.Good understanding of the links between DRM and gender issues.Experience or knowledge of the work of the United Nations system and/or other multilateral, bilateral and civil society development partners.Excellent analytical, writing and communication skills.Master's degree in one of the related fields: gender, CRM, climate change, environmental science, sustainable development or comparable university degrees.At least ten (10) years of progressively advanced and relevant professional experience at the international and national level in gender mainstreaming in development projects and policies; in the development of manuals and training materials for gender mainstreaming on at least one other related theme, including the DRM, the environment and/or sustainable development.Capable of functioning in French and English.DUTY STATION, RELOCATION AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT Duty Station: West Africa, internationally recruited - Remote
Institutional arrangement: The Consultants will have access to the relevant information necessary for the performance of the tasks within the framework of this mission.The consultants will be responsible for providing their own workstation (i.e.
laptop, Internet, telephone, scanner/printer, etc.)
and must have access to a reliable Internet connection.The consultants must be available for consultations and be in reliable contact by e-mail for a defined number of hours that corresponds to the working hours of the Government or the African Risk Capacity.The Consultants will carry out their tasks under the direct supervision of the Head of the Gender Unit and the General Direction of ARC Country Engagement managers in WCA.WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.
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may potentially be requested at a future time.Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
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