Programme Assistant/Protection/SCL5 (Kosti) – WFP

Job Description

Organization	The World Food Programme
Job Title	Programme Assistant/Protection/SCL5
Location	Kosti
Job ID	JR125860
Closing Date	25 August 2026

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

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).

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, and recipient of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. WFP works to save lives in emergencies and use food and cash assistance to change lives and empower people to meet their essential needs.
WFP is committed to ensuring food assistance is accessible and is delivered safely and with dignity to the right people at the right time through the right way. To achieve this, WFP has an established country office people-centred programme quality (PCPQ) team, which provides strategic direction and technical support to the network of suboffice PCPQ staff.
To ensure WFP programming in Sudan is efficient and effective, WFP seeks a Programme Assistant (PCPQ) to ensure food assistance is accessible, equitable and accountable and is delivered safely and with dignity to the right people at the right time through the right way. This requires supporting the roll-out and implementation of the Unified Case Management system (UCM), which integrates key monitoring and community feedback mechanism (CFM) responsibilities and establishes the necessary systems and processes to manage and take timely corrective action for individual issues.
The Programme Assistant will report to the Programme Associate, responsible for leading the people-centred portolio (protection, including accountability to affected people, gender, conflict sensitivity, and environmental and social safeguards) or as otherwise designated by WFP management in line with evolving organizational structures, and will be supported by country office technical teams.

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  Job Description Summary

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, and recipient of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. WFP works to save lives in emergencies and use food and cash assistance to change lives and empower people to meet their essential needs.
WFP is committed to ensuring food assistance is accessible and is delivered safely and with dignity to the right people at the right time through the right way. To achieve this, WFP has an established country office people-centred programme quality (PCPQ) team, which provides strategic direction and technical support to the network of suboffice PCPQ staff.
To ensure WFP programming in Sudan is efficient and effective, WFP seeks a Programme Assistant (PCPQ) to ensure food assistance is accessible, equitable and accountable and is delivered safely and with dignity to the right people at the right time through the right way. This requires supporting the roll-out and implementation of the Unified Case Management system (UCM), which integrates key monitoring and community feedback mechanism (CFM) responsibilities and establishes the necessary systems and processes to manage and take timely corrective action for individual issues.
The Programme Assistant will report to the Programme Associate, responsible for leading the people-centred portolio (protection, including accountability to affected people, gender, conflict sensitivity, and environmental and social safeguards) or as otherwise designated by WFP management in line with evolving organizational structures, and will be supported by country office technical teams.

Accountabilities/ Responsibilities

• Support people-centred assessments by integrating protection, gender, disability inclusion, conflict sensitivity and accountability considerations to promote safe and dignified assistance delivery.
• Organize and facilitate community consultations, focus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs) and other engagement activities to inform programme planning and operational decision-making.
• Collect, compile, verify and maintain assessment, monitoring and feedback data, records and supporting documentation in accordance with organizational standards.
• Document and analyze information on protection risks, gender dynamics, disability inclusion concerns, community priorities, operational risks, challenges and emerging issues to feed into operational decision making.
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