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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.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. The Specialist will lead the workstream to provide support to high-risk field operations
2. Each deployment will include a risk analysis where the PSEA Specialist will assess needs, SEA risks, and opportunities to support the WFP country office and WFP-led clusters in each setting. Risk analysis will be conducted using internal and interagency PSEA risk assessment tools. Findings from these exercises will be used to inform the development of a global analysis tool to support Global learning and Capacity Building.
3. As part of the deployments, this position will conduct a context-specific PSEA pilot initiative with the aim of supporting field level coordination and exchange of tools, guidance, and best practices, including through the Food Security Clusters.
4. As part of the in-country pilots, this position will also lead on testing and capturing learning to disseminate learning from these pilots, including, but not limited to guidance notes, standard operating procedures, checklists, templates, case studies and online assets.
5. Interagency Coordination: Where relevant and applicable, when deployed, this position will engage closely with the in-country Interagency PSEA Coordinator and will also contribute to various PSEA thematic workstreams in relevant working groups, including Gender Based Violence Area of Work (GBV- AoR), Protections Cluster, etc.
6. As part of their deployment to hosting WFP Country Offices, this position will also lead on capacity building including PSEA training and briefing sessions to Country Office staff in-country and providing other support on an ad-hoc basis as well as support country offices to strengthen the inclusion of victim/survivor-centred approach into standard processes and mechanisms.
7. Other tasks as relevent to the assignment
8. As a WFP employee, the consultant is expected to live the values of integrity, collaboration, commitment, humanity, and inclusion. Working with the ETO PSEA Unit, the consultant is expected to perform the duties while abiding by the following principles: Respect, Integrity, Victim at the Centre, Collaboration, Proactive and Preventive, Confidential.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Advanced university degree in political science, law, internationlal development, other social sciences or other relevant field.
A minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
Experience working on issues related to Protection from Sexual Expoitation and Abuse (PSEA), Protection and/or Gender-based Violence in emergency settings.
Strong analytical, written and oral communication skills, as well as conceptual thinking.
Ability to collect, collate and analyse data in an efficient and effective manner
Demonstrable skills in developing and conducting capacity building activities.
Proven ability to produce outputs independently with minimal supervision and guidance, while at the same time seeking innovative ways to integrate PSEA into WFP operations
Languages: Excellent knowledge of English.