The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) recruits committed and skilled experts for our humanitarian, resilience and peace support operations worldwide on a daily basis. MSB has a long-standing and well established experience of supporting partners in the UN and the EU in their response to crisis, conflicts or other disasters.
MSB is currently looking to recruit a French speaking Gender Advisor for deployment with WFP to Kinshasa, DRC. The duration of the mission is 12 months. The expected start of the deployment is February 2024.
The pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment is central to WFP’s mission of saving lives and changing lives and supporting countries in their quest to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. WFP has committed to tackling gender inequalities to meet the specific food security and nutrition needs of women, men, girls and boys.
WFP’s ability in DRC to achieve its strategic objectives as defined in its Country Strategic Plan (2021-2024) depends on its ability to provide food and nutrition assistance as well as to build individual and institutional capacity to meet the diverse needs and priorities of the women, men, girls and boys it serves. Simultaneously, there is a significant need to build the CO personnel and partner’s capacity and understanding of what gender entails for WFP activities and gender mainstreaming.
Duties
• Develop and adapt the WFP methodology for the baseline assessment
• Conduct a desk review and primary data collection for the baseline; assessment (gender analysis) of WFP programmes and operations in DRC. This includes an internal assessment and an external assessment that looks at the activities implemented with partners
• Preliminary report (gender analysis)
• Organise and conduct a validation workshop
Critical deliverables
The expected impact of the mission is to support WFP DRC CO’s shift from a limited gender awareness to a gender transformative programming and management. It will enabling anchoring the CSP into transformative approaches, concretely contributing to gender equality and women’s empowerment not only in programs, but in all aspects of WFP operations and processes. It will trigger gender equality mindshift and knowledge acquisition within WFP workforce and partners.
Experience
• Minimum 8 years of experience working on gender and women’s empowerment
• Experience working on mainstreaming gender in conflict and post conflict experience
• Demonstrated work with women civil society experience and training on gender
Education
Academic background in gender and gender studies
Languages
Fluency in English and French is essential, both spoken and written
Other requirements
We are looking for persons with a strong commitment towards humanitarian relief and disaster operations. It is of utmost priority that you understand, respect and act in the spirit of the mandate and core values of the MSB.
You must undergo a pre-employment medical examination, with verified results, by a licensed Physician before being contracted by MSB..
You must inform your regular employer of your potential assignment with the MSB.
MSB operations are based on the needs of populations affected by crisis, and human equality. Through my behavior and work as MSB field staff, I actively strive to prevent discrimination and harassment based on sex, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, political opinion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.opinion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.
How to apply
A direct link to the announcement below;
https://mypagesfieldstaff.msb.se/Applicationtext/Index?FileId=468
If you wish to apply to this position you first need to create an account on MyPages. Please note; the information that you provide on MyPages will form the basis for your CV. When you have created you account and registered your CV-details on MyPages you submit your application by clicking on the “Apply” button in the add, and the follow the specified steps. If you already have an account on Mypages you can go directly to Apply-botton. If you find any trouble with MyPages, please contact our mypagess support; mypages@msb.se
It is your responsibility as an applicant to document your skills in a way that allows an objective and qualitative assessment. As a government agency we are subject to the principle of public access to official records. This means that if someone requests copies of application documents, we are obliged to disclose them.
Please note that your application need to be in English.
The MSB will process the applications on an ongoing basis during the application period, which means that we wish you to submit your application as soon as possible.
