Fresh Jobs at Norwegian Church Aid ('NCA')

Brief introduction

• NCA is seeking to hire a GBV Officer-Prevention to support a pilot project, Engaging Men to End Men’s Violence Against Women and Girls. This project will focus on reducing risk and mitigating consequences related to three forms of GBV in humanitarian emergencies: sexual violence, interpersonal violence, and forced marriage. This will be accomplished through developing, piloting and evaluating innovative social norms change work that focuses on addressing male violence against women and adolescent girls and the attitudes men hold towards survivors.
• The GBV Officer-Prevention will share responsibility for community mobilization, pilot testing curricula, liaising with women’s groups, and facilitating/supporting the facilitation of Men’s Discussion Groups. All of these things will be done using an accountability framework centering women and girls.
• The GBV Officer-Prevention will support specific program components related to social norms, transformative behavior change and other elements that go beyond awareness raising and into the social change needed to ensure women and girls can access their rights.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Support community conversations with women’s groups to ensure their voices and needs inform programming – specifically the curricula development.
• Work closely with the Male Engagement consultant and provide input into transformative prevention materials including curricula and training guides that help men understand, reflect on and start to change attitudes around power, gender, masculinities and male privilege.
• Facilitate and support Men’s Dialogue groups that encourage men to reflect on a change attitudes and behaviors related to violence against women and girls.
• Support ongoing community engagement to facilitate acceptance of activities and approaches.
• Manage through facilitators disclosures of violence in a survivor centered manner including referrals for services. activities.
• Monitor and report on program activities.
• Develop program activity plans
• Performing other duties as required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any Social Science course, Public Health, or Humanities course.
• Minimum of 3 years working on GBV programming with a focus on prevention preferred
• Knowledge of international humanitarian standards for GBV prevention, protection and response
• Previous experience working on social norms change
• Experience with developing and implementing GBV programmes, particularly monitoring and evaluation
• Demonstrated understanding of the needs of survivors.
• Demonstrated experience working with men to end violence against women and girls

Desirable Experiences:

• Strong training and capacity building experience, particularly using participatory techniques for training related to different components of GBV programming.
• Prior experience with SASA or EMAP.
• Experience with working with civil society actors and faith-based actors.

Required Skills and Competences:

• Strong participatory community mobilization skills
• Computer literacy a must with strong knowledge of Access, Excel and Word
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relations with local staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders
• Openness to introducing new ideas while also committed to building on existing experience and all learnings through extensive consultation processes;
• Solution oriented and self-motivated;

Job Purpose

• Serve as M&E officer responsible for the programs at field level. Ensure quality programming and in line with overall program goal and objectives.

Main Duties

• Develop standardized monitoring and evaluation tools and ensure their mainstreaming within projects (GBV, WASH and other possible projects).
• Always work with project team and partners for accurate and reliable data collection including its storage, validation, analysis and timely reporting.
• Monitor partner activities in various project locations as required and ensure working closely with partner M&E staff for effectiveness
• Support the caseworkers and GBV staff in the GBVIMS data management processes.
• Support in the analysis of data process for assessments conducted.
• Develop and collate regular updates, reports.
• Lead in the overall documentation and improved learning process for the organization
• Develop and regularly review M&E plans as necessary to ensure consistency and standard data collection and in accordance with project goals and objectives.
• Review partner monitoring reports and indicator tracking table Actors (NSA) Fund and identify the causes of problems in projects implementation and necessary corrective actions. As needed
• Always provide updated information to program managers and country Director on progress, challenges on programmatic issues.
• Participate in program assessment.
• Design M&E matrices and logical frameworks.
• Any other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Collect feedback from communities and report to the concerned body:

• Answer the record the complaints/feedback applying the template/s prepared for the purpose
• Regularly update herself/himself with NCA projects to understand the areas of thematic and geographic areas of operation
• Understand well and brief staff and others on NCA Nigeria Community Complain Mechanisms
• Regularly update herself/himself with the new policies and procedures of ACT Alliance particularly in relation to accountability
• Respond to those like information requests or answer questions if it is within her/his mandate specified in the NCA Nigeria Community Complain Mechanism document;
• Summarize the information and report to the concerned body as stated in the Community Complain Mechanism document;
• Whenever needed and got approval from her/his supervisor, share relevant information that can be used in the new project’s designs;
• Whenever needed, clarify the questions reported to the Complain/Feedback Analysis Committee
• Make preliminary analysis and share the summary to the respective sector concerned staff (following the Community Complain Mechanism)
• Participate in lesson sharing meetings/bazars/workshops and
• Systematically and securely document the reports

Maintain the Complain services:

• Make sure the weekly / monthly supervision of Partners Complain mechanism and other NCA location is on time so that the system is always up and running
• Report any technical problems to her/his supervisor on time and follow up its maintenance
• Design a strategy and regularly check whether all the target communities have access to the Complaint services

Requirements, Skills and Experience

• University Degree in Statistics, Communication, Psychology, Sociology, or equivalent is a requirement.
• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar position
• Project management experience in similar position
• Have a strong sense of analysis, well organized and probing.
• Previous experience in the development of logical frames and planning
• Has both qualitative and quantitative analysis approach in programming
• Uses M&E plans as a guideline basis for result driven projects
• Strong skills in micro soft office packages
• Experience using strong data analysis software tools/packages in M&E
• Excellent English speaking and writing. Experience in Hausa, Kanuri, Shuwa and advantage and other Nigerian local languages.
• Must be willing to stay in the field/remote areas.
• Must be able to maintain confidentiality
• Good training and facilitation skills necessary
• Flexible and can adapt to prevailing environment

Nca’s Commitments
NCA is committed to following the following policies, standards and commitments and all staff are equally expected to conform to their requirements:

• Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP)
• Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief
• ACT Alliance Code of Conduct
• SPHERE Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Relief
• NCA Nigeria Security Plan
• NCA Nigeria Staff Handbook