PGAAP Team Lead

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Position Title: PGAAP Team Lead
Location: Kyiv
Country: Ukraine
Deadline Date: 24 February 2025-23:59-GMT+02:00 Eastern European Time (Kiev)

Job Details

Job Posting Organization:
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, established to save lives in emergencies and to use food assistance to build pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters, and the impacts of climate change. WFP operates in numerous countries around the globe, employing thousands of individuals dedicated to humanitarian efforts. The organization is committed to diversity and equal employment opportunities, encouraging candidates from various backgrounds to apply. WFP's mission is centered around the values of Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion, ensuring that its workforce is skilled, diverse, and high-performing, working in a healthy and inclusive environment.

Job Overview:
The PGAAP Team Lead will play a crucial role within the Programme Unit, focusing on integrating protection aspects, gender-sensitive and transformative approaches, conflict sensitivity, and accountability to affected populations (AAP) into WFP’s operations in Ukraine. This position is vital for maximizing safety, dignity, and equality while minimizing social tensions and unintended discrimination or exclusion. The team lead will oversee advocacy and capacity building efforts related to protection, gender, and AAP for WFP staff and partners, ensuring that these principles are embedded in all aspects of WFP’s work. The role requires a technically strong candidate with excellent collaboration and partnership skills to lead the PGAAP team effectively.

Duties and Responsibilities:
The PGAAP Team Lead will be responsible for managing the PGAAP team, ensuring that work plans are in place, guiding team deliverables, and supervising staff. The lead will develop staff capacity within the team and represent WFP in relevant inter-agency bodies. They will support the alignment of policy and program operations with WFP policies and guidelines related to Protection, Gender, and AAP. The team lead will also work closely with the partnerships team to evaluate NGO partners on aspects related to PSEA, AAP, gender, and protection, identifying capacity gaps and developing improvement plans. Additionally, the lead will conduct functional trainings, identify research gaps, and ensure that community engagement plans are developed and followed up effectively. They will act as the focal point for PSEA issues and ensure that cases are handled according to corporate protocols.

Required Qualifications:
Candidates must possess strong practical knowledge in integrating humanitarian protection, gender equality, women’s empowerment, accountability to affected populations, and conflict-sensitive programming into humanitarian assistance. They should have supervision, mentoring, and capacity-building skills, along with strong management, analytical, writing, and communication skills. Knowledge of UN system policies and functions of protection-mandated agencies is an asset. Candidates should demonstrate client orientation with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships across functions.

Educational Background:
An advanced university degree in law, international development, gender studies, human rights, political or social sciences, or a related field is required. Alternatively, a first university degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training may be accepted.

Experience:
Candidates should have at least three years of postgraduate professional working experience in the humanitarian and/or development sectors. Experience in capacity building of colleagues or partner organizations, as well as in humanitarian and/or development project management, is essential. Engagement with multiple stakeholders is also required.

Languages:
Fluency in both English and Ukrainian is mandatory, with a working knowledge of another UN language being advantageous.

Additional Notes:
The position is a Service Contract with a duration of 11 months, renewable. It is only open to Ukrainian nationals or residents of Ukraine with a legal work permit. The role offers competitive salaries, pension contributions, medical insurance, danger pay, annual leave, parental leave, remote working options, and various learning and development opportunities.