Gender Officer at Center for Community and Health Development International (CHAD INT'L)

Job Summary:

The purpose of this role is to provide strategic and technical support for the mainstreaming of gender equality/equity and protection and safeguarding in the CHAD Education project in Northeast Nigeria. The post holder is expected to have a strong Gender and Protection background, with great report writing, communication, and ability to influence and build capacity of program staff on Protection, gender and safeguarding, PSEA standard principles.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Support robust mainstreaming of gender and protection/Safeguarding into CHAD Education projects including systematic age and gender analysis, monitoring and evaluation and reporting, including in the targeting of beneficiaries, choice of transfer modalities, making sure the projects do no harm.
• Provide advice, guidance, and follow-up in relation to protection and gender aspects of the Community Feedback Mechanism.
•  Ensure referral mechanisms are established and functional
• Provide trainings to staff on gender mainstreaming, how to integrate gender equality, inclusion and protection principles into their work, employing diverse learning methods in daily operations
•  Advocate for addressing gaps in GBV prevention and response services with the GBV sub- cluster, Nutrition, WASH and FSL cluster
• Produce weekly and monthly data and regular narrative reports for Project Manager to feed into overall program and donor report (information on target beneficiaries must be disaggregated by age and sex). Also, tracking all gender and protection related indicators and benchmarks in the project.
• Make weekly field visits to the target locations to monitor implementation of activities and train the implementing partners and beneficiaries.
• Provide guidance to the project team on the development and dissemination of key communication messages on Gender Based Violence including harmful cultural, traditional norms and practices in line with best practices
• Support the project team in developing strategies to engage men and boys as champions of change in addressing Gender Based Violence and violence against women and girls
• Support the design and delivery of training on Gender Based Violence prevention and risk mitigation, Code of Conduct, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, for project staff, CHAD INT`L Staff, and community members.
• Support reporting and referral of protection concerns identified in the target locations and ensure proper follow up of all referred cases to other actors and report accordingly.
• At the local level, represent CHAD International in GBV coordination meetings and liaise with local authorities, international and national NGOs to facilitate successful coordination of activities and ensure transparency and accountability.
• Participate in other responsibilities as may be assigned to you by your supervisor from time to time.
• Work closely with Sector leads/ managers to review and highlight opportunities for Protection, safeguarding and Gender mainstreaming in the proposed education activities; And follow up to ensure, education team integrate the protection principles during activity design and implementation.

 Coordination and Representation

• Represent CHAD INT`L at Protection, PSEA and GBV sector working group meetings and coordination forums, international and national NGOs for educational coordination as needed at the LGA and state level
• Ensure good coordination with other CHAD INT`L partners staff, Protection, Gender  field teams and provide frequent feedback and updates
• Develop new and manage existing relationships with key stakeholders and potential collaborators for education programs.
• Good understanding of Protection and GBV sector reporting requirements, templates and timelines.

 Reporting

• Support the development of field-based reports to CHAD INT`L, Protection and GBV sectors sector and/or external donors, as necessary.
• Develop reporting templates for supervisees to aid in tracking progress of program activities and key indicators
• Conduct any other programming responsibility delegated by the supervisor.

Required Languages

• English, Hausa, Kanuri preferred.

 Travel - Willingness to travel about 70% of the time.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must possess ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability and desire to work well with diverse employees and beneficiaries in a cooperative and friendly manner.
• Proactive, results-oriented and service-oriented.
• Solid analytical, writing skills, and communication skills.
• Sound knowledge and skills in training and facilitation.
• Team spirit and excellent interpersonal relations.
• Good coordination, creative and innovative skills.
• Should be very adaptive and responsive, due to the fragile nature of Program context.
• Experience working with partners, participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Staff supervision experiences a plus.
•  Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Qualifications Basic Qualifications and Experience  

•   University degree or equivalent in Education, Social Science, Social Work, Psychology or related fields.
• Minimum of 4 to 5 years relevant working experience in GBV, gender, protection prevention and response programming, humanitarian affairs or human rights.
• In-depth knowledge of gender and protection in humanitarian and resilience settings, including gender-based violence, humanitarian policy issues.