World Food Programme (WFP)

Position: Intern (Programme - Gender)

Application Deadline: June, 09/2023

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. 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.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Duty Station: Addis Ababa

Number of Positions: 1

Contract Duration: 8 Months

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

BACKGROUND & PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

WFP’s activities include food assistance for relief, school feeding, safety nets, nutrition, and food assistance for asset creation through the provision of in-kind and cash-based transfers. The Person with Disability Internship Programme is a learning opportunity aimed at attracting young and talented candidates across the country. The program will provide selected candidates with the opportunity to supplement their academic knowledge with practical work assignments in a field related to the work of WFP. This will promote a better understanding of WFP Ethiopia’s mandate and programs. Similarly, the program will provide WFP with qualified individuals specializing in relevant fields in line with WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Under the guidance of the Head of Gender, Protection, and Conflict Sensitivity team; support all pillars in the inclusion of all cross-cutting elements into the project management cycle.  

• Provide adequate support to enhance an inclusive and gender-sensitive response in all program activities by sharing guidance, conducting awareness raising, supporting partner organizations and WFP teams in conducting barrier analysis subsequent and plans to remove barriers to services.

• Support the drafting of recommendations and reviewing tools to ensure gender, protection, AAP, Disability Inclusion and Conflict Sensitivity in the country’s monitoring framework aiming to ensure the collection of gender, age, and disability disaggregated data as set out by the IASC and WFP internal guidelines.

• Contribute to the development of program-specific analysis/assessment and propose innovative solutions to enhance the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues as relevant for all CSP activities.

• Actively participate and raise awareness in the Disability Working Group; the IAAWG, Protection Cluster, PSEA Network, GBV AOR, and other interagency coordination mechanisms to ensure the integration of cross-cutting issues in humanitarian actions/responses by featuring WFP’s representation and contribution.

• Represent WFP’s priorities in national advocacy initiatives putting the cross-cutting lens, especially gender, protection, AAP and disability inclusion in Ethiopia.

• Collaborative work with the pillar leads and local partnerships and/or consortium with NGOs, on technical priorities and important topics under all cross-cutting scope.

• Within Gender, Protection, AAP, conflict sensitivity, AAP and disability team, compile data and support analysis and preparation of reports (e.g., food assistance needs, resource utilization, program status, performance) to support operational decision-making.

• Any other tasks as assigned by the head of the Unit. Represent WFP’s priorities in national advocacy initiatives putting the cross-cutting lens, especially gender, protection, AAP and disability inclusion in Ethiopia.

• Collaborative work with the pillar leads and local partnerships and/or consortium with NGOs, on technical priorities and important topics under all cross-cutting scope.

• Within Gender, Protection, AAP, conflict sensitivity, AAP and disability team, compile data and support analysis and preparation of reports (e.g., food assistance needs, resource utilization, program status, performance) to support operational decision-making.

• Any other tasks as assigned by the head of the Unit.

How to Apply

• Register using THIS LINK

This internship opportunity is only open to persons with disability. 

Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action