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SECTOR: Women’s Protection and Empowerment

GRADE LEVEL: 9A   

REPORTS TO: Psychosocial Support Officer

DUTY STATION: Mubi, Adamawa States, Nigeria        

LENGTH: 4 months

Scope of Work

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a serious human rights and public health issue affecting women and girls around the world. It impacts all aspects of women and girl’s physical, emotional, psychological and social well-being. It has harmful consequences for the individuals who experience it, their families, and communities as a whole. The IRC’s Women’s Protection Empowerment team implements a multi-sectoral GBV prevention and response program which engages multiple organizations and actors from the IDP and NGO community, UN agencies and all sectors of IRC. The Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) program has developed ‘Girl Shine’ curriculum to equip adolescent girls with key knowledge and skills to help them to reduce, prevent and respond to Gender Based Violence (GBV).

 The curriculum has been organized in a way to enable girls to develop trust amongst themselves and with the facilitators and it is separated into two parts; 10-14 and 15-19. 20 girls in a group will enroll in 24 two-hour sessions over the course of 12 weeks. Skills-building sessions address topics such as communication, decision making, confidence and problem solving, each with a specific focus on GBV, early marriage etc.

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the leadership of the Adolescent Girls Team Leader, the Adolescent Girl Assistant will provide capacity building trainings for identified female mentors, supervise and support mentors twice a week girls session on Girls Shine curriculum, Facilitate protection through positive parenting and caretaking curriculum, host community meetings on girls safety and protection and make referrals to relevant service providers when the need arises in assigned duty station.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

The Adolescent Girl Assistant will report to the Psychosocial Support officer based in Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria and collaborate with other Adolescent Girl Assistant to ensure program quality and adherence to work plan,.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: The Adolescent Girl Assistant will be responsible for:

• Working closely with other project staffs to recruit girls and mentors participants.
• Supervise and support mentors on Girl Shine twice a week curriculum facilitation with adolescent girls
• Monitor and ensure delivering Girl Shine  curriculum content.
• Provide basic psychological first aid and support adolescent girls to access social services if needed
• Promote and support girls to practice knowledge and skills acquired.
• Conduct monthly parents discussion sessions using Girl in Focus Mothers and Fathers curriculum
• Organizing group educational and social activities, and holding regular, individual meetings with mentors.
• Host coordination meetings with community stakeholders, parents etc
• Working closely with school authorities, teachers and parents to ensure that girls’ stay in school
• Collect, compile, summarize and submit weekly report on Adolescent girls activities

QUALIFICATION AND EXPPERIENCE:

• Candidates should hold, at maximum, a bachelor’s degree in social sciences, education, economic, another human development related field or equivalent of experience. 
• Have  at least two years’ experience working with girls and/or women and coordinating with social service agencies
• Participated in social groups and have an understanding of group dynamics and processes.
• Have a thorough understanding of gender based violence that affects the lives of women and girls and willingness to increase skills and knowledge to respond to reporting of GBV appropriately
• Candidates should have capacity building, facilitation and training experience
• Is able to adapt and work under pressure, possess strong interpersonal and intercultural skills that enable her to work well with a diverse team.
• Be willing to travel to and from project implementation sites regularly.

Be fluent in English and local languages

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Adamawa is security phase 3, orange. The Adolescent Girl Assistant will be required to respect the various security protocols in place in country and coordinate with other sectors for movement.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Benefits
Monthly salary, 13Month Salary Inclusive, Health Insurance Coverage for Family, Pension, Creche Facilities available for Women with babies under 24 Months.

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Grade:      8B

Program: Women Protection and Empowerment

Duration:  4 Months

Location:    Mubi

Reports to:  WPE Senior Program Manager

WPE program implement prevention and response activities to address gender-based violence.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a serious human rights and public health issue affecting women and girls around the world. It impacts all aspects of women and girl’s physical, emotional, psychological and social well-being. It has harmful consequences for the individuals who experience it, their families, and communities as a whole.

The IRC Women Protection and Empowerment  Program is a multi-sectoral prevention and response program involving multiple organizations and actors from the IDP and NGO community, UN agencies and all sectors of IRC.

The focus of this program is to provide good quality health and psychosocial response services to conflict-affected women and girls in Adamawa, North-Eastern Nigeria in a timely manner.

SCOPE OF WORK

The GBV Capacity building Officer will be based in Mubi . He/ she will work in collaboration with the community mobilization officer will work with support from the Senior program manager work in coordination with the response teams design strategies using EMAP and SASA modules to prevent gender-based violence. He/she takes leads in all the training activities in Adamawa state. Will work in coordination with other IRC sectors including the M&E, actors to conduct assessments (baseline and end line) and share reports with senior program manager and program coordinator to inform program design.

Responsibilities

Training

• Take lead in all GBV training activities.
• In collaboration with IRC Local partners, community mobilizer and case worker plan and conduct prevention activities including but not limited to awareness raising campaigns and community mobilizations.
• Carry out a GBV training needs assessment for WPE staff, IRC sector staff, Partners, Women’s groups, Men’s group, and other community stakeholders.
• In collaboration with community mobilizer, case worker, conduct sensitizations and Trainings to Women’s groups, Men’s group and CBOs on GBV issues.
• Develop and implement prevention strategies.
• Promote the involvement of men and youth in GBV activities using the EMAP curriculum
• Ensure pre and post testing are done and documented.
• Seek out new material(s) that will improve training content.

PLANNING, COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION

• Design, implement and evaluate quality GBV training in a systematic and consistent manner by establishing GBV training procedures.
• With community input, develop community education methods, which may include workshops, drama, games, debates, poster contest, youth clubs, and other creative methods.
• In collaboration with WPE community mobilizer,   case worker and local partners, Conduct focus groups and keep detailed documentation about information gathered, sensitizations and to design IEC materials.
• Ensure that all work is done in accordance with established protocols and within ethical guidelines.
• Promote women’s active participation in the leadership and decision-making of the community.
• Communicate with the WPE Senior Manager on progress, constraints, and training needs identified and any other matters pertaining to the operations of the GBV Program.
• Assist WPE Program Senior Manager/Coordinator in strategic planning to ensure ongoing Programming.
• In coordination with staff create a database for all program activities including but not limited to: trainings, awareness raising sessions, psychosocial activities, gender and make weekly and monthly analysis and share with senior program manager and program coordinator.
• Be always consistent in providing  accurate  data to senior program Manager and coordinator for report  Writing.
• Actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with IRC WPE Response teams,  
• Government actors, UN agencies, NGOs, and other relevant actors.
• Any other duties as assigned by the GBV Senior Program Manager/Coordinator.

REPORTING

• Compile and summarize weekly and monthly statistics and narrative reports and submit to Senior Program Manager in a timely manner.
• Submit statistics of trainings conducted to M&E officer for data analysis.
• Attend GBV monthly meetings and other IRC meetings as required by WPE Senior Program Manager, and/or Program Coordinator.
• Properly file all reports on trainings and meetings conducted.

Requirements

• Must have attained at least University degree in Sociology from a recognized Institution.
• Prefer experience with participatory /adult learning techniques
• Positive and professional attitude, able to organize, maintain composure and prioritize work under pressure, work overtime when necessary and be able to coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
• Must be  able to read, write and understand English, ability to speak other local languages like Hausa is an added advantage.
• Must possess interest and commitment to human rights, gender equality and gender issues.

Must be a TEAM PLAYER.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The position will work in the Mubi Field Office. The program site in Northern Adamawa state is security level 3 – orange

Benefits
Monthly salary, 13Month Salary Inclusive, Health Insurance Coverage for Family, Pension, and Crèche Facilities available for Women with babies under 24 Months.