Oversee and be responsible for all Gender and youth mainstreaming activities of the Ghana Country office. The incumbent will play a key role in developing strategies, identifying, and implementing gender and youth integration strategies into WFP Food systems activities especially those aimed at strengthening commodity value chains, smallholder farmer access to markets, and capacity strengthening of all value chain actors.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title: Programme Policy Officer (Gender and Youth Inclusion)<\/strong><\/p>\n MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n Under the overall supervision of the Head of Programme\/DCD and the technical supervision of the Sustainable Food Systems Coordinator in Accra, the Programme Policy Officer \u2013 Gender and Youth Inclusion will be expected to perform the following duties:<\/p>\n \u2022 Ensure alignment and integration of the WFP gender policy by all staff and stakeholders and across the projects Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n Education<\/p>\n \u2022 A Bachelor\u2019s degree (or its equivalent) in development studies\/economics, gender, rural development, social sciences, or related fields. Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 A minimum of 3 years\u2019 experience in community development, conducting gender analysis and developing gender strategies in the agricultural sector. Language:\u00a0<\/strong>Fluency in English language is essential. Knowledge of local languages spoken in Ghana will be an advantage.<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Accra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oversee and be responsible for all Gender and youth mainstreaming activities of the Ghana Country office. The incumbent will play a key role in developing strategies, identifying, and implementing gender…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-hd3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 In collaboration with the Head of programme \/DCD and technical guidance from the Food Systems Coordinator, the incumbent will develop a gender Integration strategy for WFP country office and ensure that gender issues are appropriately mainstreamed in project implementation.\u2022 Take lead and support in conducting gender assessments and analysis across all WFP activities and ensure that strategies and approaches in gender mainstreaming are evidence based and respond to the real gaps, challenges and ever-changing needs of beneficiaries and stakeholders.
\n\u2022 Lead the implementation of gender and youth engagement strategies across activities
\n\u2022 Identify and develop innovative activities related to gender equality and youth engagement that contribute to social changes in the project areas and facilitate the gender and youth learning agenda
\n\u2022 Lead in review, design, and implementation of gender capacity building \/strengthening activities amongst internal stakeholders (WFP staff) and external stakeholders (project beneficiaries and partners)
\n\u2022 Liaise with the WFP gender result network and strengthen capacity of all WFP staff, for better understanding of the importance of gender and youth mainstreaming in projects, and ensure gender and youth are mainstreamed across programmes including agricultural value chain activities with clear gender and youth indicators.
\n\u2022 Draft regular progress reports and contribute to donors and corporate reports as required.
\n\u2022 In collaboration with the RAM unit oversee the monitoring of programme\/project outputs related to gender and youth. Monitor and track progress on youth and gender related indicators, identify gaps and recommend solutions. Provide appropriate feedback, technical advice and support to the programme staff and partners during the implementation
\n\u2022 Document and disseminate gender equity and youth engagement best practices to WFP staff, smallholder farmers and other value chain actors, partners, and Government. Propose and create educational and communication materials, to highlight gender and youth issues.
\n\u2022 Liaise with RBD Gender Advisor, GRN and external partners to facilitate gender advocacy sessions at all levels to gather support for gender mainstreaming across programmes by other partners.
\n\u2022 Contribute to the development of Concept Notes and proposals for gender and youth mainstreaming as required
\n\u2022 Perform other related duties as required.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 A master\u2019s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Demonstrated expertise in gender issues in development and humanitarian context.
\n\u2022 Demonstrated experience on working with stakeholders in the government, private sector, development partners and UN organizations on gender issues.
\n\u2022 Demonstrate understanding and experience in youth programming
\n\u2022 Computer knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point.<\/p>\n