Senior WPE Officer

Job Description

Job Overview/Summary: The position requires a personal commitment to advancing women’s issues and working on behalf of women and girls in the community. The WPE Senior Officer will be responsible for ensuring the overall GBV response and prevention technical quality of the program and partner. She will contribute to the strategic planning and vision of WPE programs and ensure the continued provision of quality prevention and response services. Additionally, she will serve as the lead and focal point in representing village activities to donors, visitors, and external partners, as well as in coordinating special events at program sites. This role will report directly to the WPE Manager and will be situated in Myitkyina, Kachin. Through coordination, training and supervision of partner staff, the WPE Senior Officer in Kachin is responsible for ensuring GBV service delivery adheres to GBV guiding principles of confidentiality, safety, non-discrimination and respect for the self-determination of GBV survivors.

Represent the IRC WPE program as a GBV technical advocate and liaise on all Gender Based Violence issues; provide technical support to partner and capacity building for the Kachin humanitarian community.

Coordinate, plan, and technically supervise partner staff and IRC WPE officers to ensure program quality.

With the support from WPE Manager, Technical Specialist, coordinate, plan, and technically supervise partner staff to ensure program quality for both prevention and response.

Assist WPE Manager in Design and implement mobile GBV service delivery to reach targeted IDP camps according to IRCs Guidelines for Mobile and Remote Service Delivery.

Support partner organization for sub-grants management.

Major Responsibilities:

Technical Quality and Supervision

- Provide guidance and technical support to key implementing partners through regular field monitoring visits. - Develop capacity building plans for individual partner staff, community focal points and IRC WPE officers. - Provide technical capacity building and training to key partner organizations and other actors in Kachin State. - Ensure all training materials and plans are aligned with IRCs global and contextually adapted guidelines. - Ensure response work with survivors, including case management and psychosocial interventions, adheres to best-practice principles when working with survivors of GBV.

Human Resource

- Collaborate with HR department for recruitment of staff who will work for the WPE program, when needed. - Ensure positive relationships with IRC and partner staff. - Supervise, and provide performance management feedback for WPE Officers.

Coordination and Program Management

- Work with WPE team to develop detailed monthly work plan, procurement plans, and cash projection. - Assist WPE Manager to track the progress of activities against the work plan and coordinate with Supply chain and finance on procurement of program supplies and services and logistics. - Understand grant indicators and work with WPE Manager to monitor M&E and indicators to ensure that targets are being met. Work closely with the M&E team to ensure progress against indicator targets are updated. - Assist WPE manager in writing donor reports including monthly reports, quarterly reports and compiling different reports from WPE team. - Support partner organizations to oversee outreach activities designed to provide communities with information on where women and girls can access GBV services. - Supervise Program Support Staff in managing stock items and ensure the documents are in line with IRC policy.

Other

- Ensure all activities are carried out in accordance with IRC policies and procedures. - Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programming.

Key Working Relationships: Position Reports to: WPE Manager

Position directly supervises: WPE Prevention Officer, WPE Adolescent Girl Officer, WPE Response Officer and WPE Program Support Officer

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

- Bachelor of Arts or Science in Social Science, Public Health, Humanities or other related field, desirable. - At least two-three years of experience in direct/indirect service provision or working in programs that focus on violence against women. - Strong understanding of basic gender-based violence (GBV) and women’s protection concepts and an interest in reducing GBV in the community. - Experience in partner support and management. - Having experience of managing GBV Case Management is preferred. - Commitment to learning and taking initiative to ensure programming reflects best practices and is adapted to contextual needs. - Clear understanding of gender equality, human rights, and issues surrounding violence against women and girls - Strong coordination and partnership skills; knowledge and best practice around partnership principles - Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting as well as work with implementing partners. - Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients. - Knowledge and experience with community outreach and mobilization - Experience facilitating trainings and workshops and mentoring others. - Experience living and working in a high pressure and provide positive track record of adapting to sensitive contexts. - Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks, and maintain attention to detail. - Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong interpersonal skills - Strong communication in English, fluency in Burmese and local languages preferred.

Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.

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Added 13 days ago - Updated 1 day ago - Source: rescue.org