Programme Policy Officer (Gender and Youth Inclusion) at World Food Programme (WFP)

JOB PURPOSE:

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.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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 – Gender and Youth Inclusion will be expected to perform the following duties:

• Ensure alignment and integration of the WFP gender policy by all staff and stakeholders and across the projects

• In collaboration with the Head of programme /DCD and technical guidance from the Food Systems Coord...