Programme Associate (Capacity Building )-SC6 (Port Sudan) – WFP

Job Description

Organization	The World Food Programme
Job Title	Programme Associate (Capacity Building )-SC6
Location	Port Sudan
Job ID	JR121728
Closing Date	12 April 2026-23:59

ABOUT WFP

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.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

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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).

BACKGROUND OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

Sudan continues to face one of the world’s most complex and rapidly evolving humanitarian crises, marked by widespread displacement, escalating conflict dynamics, protection risks, and growing constraints on humanitarian access. As needs deepen, the operating environment presents heightened risks related to exclusion, gender-based violence, safeguarding challenges, barriers to accountability, and unequal access to assistance for vulnerable and marginalised groups.

In this context, the World Food Programme (WFP) plays a critical role in providing life saving food and nutrition assistance while supporting community resilience and basic service delivery. Ensuring that WFP’s interventions are safe, inclusive, conflict sensitive, and responsive to the diverse needs of affected populations is essential to upholding the organization’s protection and accountability commitments. This includes strengthening internal systems, partner capacities, frontline practices, and community engagement approaches.

While WFP Sudan has made progress in advancing protection, gender, accountability to affected people (AAP), inclusion, conflict sensitivity, and the protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), the scale and complexity of the crisis require more systematic, field driven, and well coordinated support. Reporting to the Protection & Gender Lead, this position strengthens cross cutting systems, builds staff and partner capacity, and promotes consistent practice across area offices to ensure principled, accountable, and risk aware assistance. The assignment provides dedicated technical leadership and operational support to advance WFP Sudan’s cross cutting priorities across all field operations, driving the integration of people centered standards into programme design, delivery, monitoring, and partnerships.

ACOUNTBILITY/RESPONSIBLITY:

• provide specialized support in rolling out cross-cutting capacity-strengthening initiatives, including protection, gender, AAP, PSEA, inclusion and conflict sensitivity trainings, onboarding packages, and coaching across area and sub-offices.
• Support maintenance of safeguarding and accountability systems, ensuring WFP staff, partners, and contractors understand processes for identifying, receiving, managing, and referring sensitive allegations or protection concerns in line with corporate and CO procedures.
• Assist field offices in sustaining community engagement, ensuring focal points can conduct community consultations, awareness-raising activities, facilitate safe and accessible feedback, and contribute to risk identification and mitigation.
• Support partner due diligence and capacity strengthening through social safeguarding assessments, development of improvement plans, operational guidance, frontline training, and review of technical sections of partnership proposals.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders—including clusters, inter-agency groups, and government partners—to contribute to harmonized protection and accountability approaches, joint assessments, and collective risk mitigation efforts.
• Support information management, knowledge-sharing, and implementation of work plans for the cross-cutting team.
• Perform other tasks as required to support effective programme delivery.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRE:

Education: A bachelor’s degree in one of the following areas: Social Studies, Political Science, International Studies, Human Rights, or related field.

Experience: Minimum 6 year of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian programming, with a strong focus on protection and accountability, including gender and conflict sensitivity. 

Knowledge and Skills:

•  Strong understanding of protection principles in humanitarian response, with the ability to apply these consistently across food security and inter sectoral programming.

•  Ability to translate policy frameworks, guidance and analytical tools into practical, field-oriented solutions adapted to complex and rapidly changing contexts.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and coordination skills, including the ability to work effectively with clusters, inter agency partners, national actors and donors, and to facilitate collaboration and consensus across diverse teams.

•  Strong and practical capacity building skills to translate into improved capacity to deliver people-centred programming in challenging contexts.

•  Excellent analytical, drafting, facilitation and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and contribute positively in a remote, fast paced and multi stakeholder operating environment.

• Excellent communication, drafting, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, adaptable to diverse cultural settings.

Language: Strong command of written and spoken English and Arabi

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK

WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.

Click here to access WFP Leadership Framework

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact:  global.inclusion@wfp.org

NO FEE DISCLAIMER

The United Nations does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee, please disregard it. Furthermore, please note that emblems, logos, names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore, you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.

REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

• All applications must be submitted exclusively through our online recruiting system. We do not consider CVs or applications sent by email, LinkedIn, or any other channel.
• We strongly recommend that your Workday profile is accurate and complete, and that all sections are filled in, including your employment history, academic qualifications, language skills, and UN grade (if applicable). Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
• If you experience technical issues while submitting your application, you may contact us at global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org. Please note that this email is only for technical issues with an application – unsolicited applications or documents sent to this inbox will not receive a reply.
• At the application stage, the only required documents are your CV and Cover Letter. Additional documents (passport, certificates, recommendation letters, etc.) may be requested later in the process.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the recruitment process.

All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.