Adolescent and Gender Officer at Pro-Health International

Job Description

• Conduct an analysis of the experiences, risks and challenges for children--- girls and boys, including disabled children--- in the targeted states / communities.
• Design and conduct gender assessments at regular intervals
• Develop a gender mainstreaming plan and keep it up-to-date annually. The plan must include activities, indicators and means of verification, deadlines and resources for each activity;
• Collaborate with other colleagues and CBO partners to ensure gender integration throughout the implementation of the project in accordance with the USAID donor policies / strategies and gender requirements;
• Provide technical support to CBOs in raising awareness in target communities about the sexual risk’s adolescents
• Support CBOs to identify and address the difficult issues of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and GBV through culturally acceptable and age-appropriate content and highlighting the key role parents can play in protecting their children from CSA and GBV and responding to abuse.
• Support CSOs to establish and strengthen referral mechanism and linkages between the communities and health facilities for ASRH and gender-based violence, including implementation ofclinical pathway for treatment of sexual assault survivors;
• Contribute to the documentation and dissemination of project efforts, achievements, lessons learned and innovations within PHI and to the larger Nigerian and global community, as appropriate;
• Facilitate capacity development for partner CBOs, community volunteers, child protection committees and other key stakeholders on gender integration and child protection;
• Provide regular supportive supervision to CBO staff to ensure the achievement of expected results;
• Monitor and evaluate program performance on gender-related goals and objectives, and contribute content for internal and external reporting.
• Collaborate with the Gender and Adolescent Program Advisor and other PHI ICHSSA team to drive the implementation of Gender and Adolescents in Bauchi.

Required Travel:

• Ability to travel up to 50 % of time

Minimum Qualifications / Skills

• BSc in Social Sciences, Education
• 2 - 4 years work experience.
• Must have good knowledge of Gender mainstreaming
• Good working knowledge of current Nigeria’s HIV Response, HIV prevention and treatment adherence principles, particularly for children
• Knowledge of GON and PEPEAR current OVC guidelines and ability to address the guidelines using the project's strategy.
• Must understand the principles of 95-95-95towards zero HIV transmission and contribution of Community OVC programs to this goal.
• Experience working closely with other IPs and government personnel at several levels.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.