Gender Champions at Development Exchange Centre (DEC)

Summary of Position:

• Gender Champions under direct supervision of the Gender Technical Officer, is responsible for facilitating SAA sessions at community level, support gender mainstreaming activities; and leading activities that support gender equality, enhance the protection of community members and raise awareness on key GBV issues/topics. The Gender Champions will support the Gender Officer during gender activities, facilitate referrals to other partner and support community health workers to conduct sensitization sessions on health, gender, protection and GBV topics in the safe spaces and through community outreach. The position holder will also participation and preparations for special days commemorations    

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the programme team to identify and establishing a gender-sensitive and community appropriate accountability and referral mechanism for beneficiaries at community level.
• Ensure close interaction with the M&E team and provide assistance in mobilizing community members during data collection exercise.
• Build up a collaborative network of peers, government agencies and local NGOs engaged in issues related to gender, coordinate and collaborate on research, programming and advocacy
• Support Gender Officer during training  
• Facilitate SAA session with women, men, girls and boys and provides group sessions on gender equality, GBV, protection topics and other NGOs providing services in the communities.
• Providing door to door awareness raising on gender discrimination, GBV, child right/marriage and all other protection related topics.
• Assist in supervising the community health workers and conduct meeting with women of reproductive age and me
• Participate in weekly meeting with supervisor and provide weekly work plans and report to supervisor.
• Document best practices and lessons learned.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationship with relevant stakeholders including partner organizations, community structures and service provider.
• Identify and report success stories/ case study.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by DEC’s Management.

Qualifications and Experience for the position:

• Bachelor’s Degree/HND in law, Social Science, Administration or any related field.
• At least two-year experience in gender programming including Protection or GBV and women’s economic empowerment
• Commitment to enhancing human rights and gender equality
• Proficiency in MS Office application particularly Excel, word processing, and database packages
• Ability to work under pressure, independently and in a team environment

Other requirements for the Job role:

• Good interpersonal skills, good communication, organizational & analytical skills & ability to work well in a team.