Women Movement Building Officer

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Women Movement Building Officer.

Band/ Level / Grade:8B

Department: WPE

Location: Based in Aden with frequent visits to Programming sites.

Background:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving and life changing assistance to refugees and persons of concern forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. Operational since May 2012 in Yemen, the IRC has been providing essential lifesaving services to conflict-affected populations and has quickly scaled up its response to the current food insecurity crisis through an integrated, multi-sector response. To help ensure that vulnerable households are able to access food to meet their immediate consumption needs, the IRC has mobilized funding to provide food vouchers in Abyan, Aden, Hodeida, Sana’a, Al Dhale’e, Lahj and Shabwa governorates

Scope of Work:

Under the direct supervision of the WPE Coordinator, the WMB Officer will be responsible for the development and implementation of capacity-building plans to increase IRC’s staff and its local partner’s knowledge and skills to deliver quality GBV response and prevention services. She will promote women’s movement building between local partners and IRC to foster a network of support and to learn what actions can be taken collectively to promote women’s resilience, recovery, and rights.

Responsibilities:

- Facilitate trainings in technical development topics, including GBV case management, GBV core concepts, adolescent girls programming, Women Rise, etc…reporting for IRC staff and local partners etc… - Ensure that all necessary requirements to ensure a successful training session are prepared in a timely manner including material, equipment, venue, and transportation in coordination with the Admin support. - Develop and adapt training materials (handouts, presentations, etc.) and tools to monitor effectiveness of trainings, including pre and post-tests. - When needed, work on updating training material, modules and tools, develop facilitation guides, etc… - Ensure proper documentation of all training and capacity building session, keep track of the attendance sheets, training reports, training tracker and fill in the training database for trainings. - Send the follow up survey email to participants. keep track of the participants’ emails. - Participate in the mapping and assessment of local partners working in the target area. - Maintain regular contact as the focal point with local partner to establish a relationship based on trust and reciprocal respect and to ensure their regular involvement in IRC’s activities. - Conduct regular coaching and mentoring sessions with local partner staff and mobilize other IRC’s team members to provide technical input and expertise. - With the support of the quality assurance manager/senior capacity building officer develop a capacity building plan based on the analysis of the needs assessment and discussions with of local partner’s. - Utilize agreed tools to monitor quality of implementation by local partners and provide recommendations to address gaps.

· Develop with partner shared ways of working/core principles for collaboration.

- Develop work plans and benchmarks with local partners. - Ensure proper documentation for all local partners activities. - Support Sub grantees during administrative and reporting processes, including recruitment of staff, submission of financial and narrative report to ensure adherence to IRC’s standard and build capacity of local partner. - Provide feedback to the Manager on how to best support local partner’s capacity building process. - Provide feedback to local partners focal points on the capacity building process. - Work closely and coordinate with the mangers and the partnership focal points.

Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programsUpdate

Qualifications

Requirements (Qualifications, Skills and Abilities)

· Bachelor Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other relevant training

· Good working knowledge of English language is preferable.

- Minimum one year experience in implementing GBV response programs. - Excellent knowledge of the working environment

· Personal qualities: Works well in and promotes teamwork, uses power with and power to with partners, collaborative, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible, able to handle pressure well, and strong communication skills

- Knowledge of Microsoft word and excel.

· Deep understanding of gender-based violence, women’s protection and empowerment in the context of Yemen

Work Environment

Based in Aden with 70% travel to programming sites.

Professional Standards

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.