Protection From Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Officer P3

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

9 February 2025-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

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WHY JOIN WFP?- 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).

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

This job is located in Office of the Executive Director in Rome, Italy, Headquarters (HQ), reports directly to the Senior Advisor on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA).

WFP is committed to uphold a zero-tolerance approach to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA). The PSEA unit focuses on effective prevention and protection measures to safeguard the people WFP serves from SEA and to take actions with a victim-centred approach. This is done by facilitating a multi-disciplinary approach to PSEA, including identifying good practices, supporting interagency coordination and UN coherence, and providing advice and guidance to employees on SEA prevention and response.

JOB PURPOSE

The purpose of this position is to provide expertise and substantive advice to contribute to the Organizational PSEA strategy and the rollout of the revised Executive Director Circular on PSEA, which outlines the internal framework for addressing SEA. This position will support this process by ensuring PSEA is reflected and integrated into standard corporate processes, with a focus on those related to programme design and monitoring. This role also includes strengthening outreach and engagement with regional bureaus, country offices, and relevant HQ Divisions in the area of PSEA.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES- Participate in the technical rollout of the ED Circular on PSEA (WFP PSEA policy framework) by developing technical guidance and tailored training and capacity-building modules.- Provide technical advice to the downstream implementation and mainstreaming of PSEA across the organization by working with counterparts to strengthen of links between units and functions, especially the work of Risk Management Division, Gender, PRO-P, and Human Resources.- Contribute to the development and implementation of PSEA assessment guidance and tools and track progress towards WFP PSEA commitments at the country level by working with technical counterparts to build upon corporate PSEA risk management tools.- Conduct collaborative engagement with PRO-M and other HQ colleagues to ensure that PSEA is adequately captured and integrated in CSP guidance, quality checks, and review and approval processes.- Provide technical and policy level inputs to the Strategic Evaluation of WFP’s Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and conduct analysis of the final report.- Manage the development of WFP’s updated PSEA Strategy and Policy Framework, integrating recommendations from the Strategic Evaluation and other feedback/data from field operations.- Develop corporate indicators, methodologies and testing and reporting to feed upstream to strengthen corporate mechanisms on PSEA. This will be done by working with technical counterparts.- Manage the development of models and processes to integrate feedback and learning into programme adaptation. This will be done by conducting a technical review and interpretation of the data available and current processes.- Develop a knowledge management approach and tools on PSEA, including the maintenance of the repository of tools, documentation of promising practices, etc. This will be done by conducting a technical review and interpretation of the current information available and current knowledge management processes.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
- Advanced university degree in political science, law, ethics, human resources, pu