WPE Prevention Officer

Overview

Oversee prevention and risk reduction activities for women and girls in the community.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (Social Science, Humanities, Public Health or other related field) or equivalent professional experience
• At least 2 years of professional experience in NGOs in community mobilization, social work, counseling, or psychosocial programs. Work experience in Emergency Response is preferred.
• Clear understanding of and experience related to gender, human rights, and issues surrounding violence against women and girls
• Strong desire to work with women and girls and address the issues they faced
• Demonstrated working experience in community engagement and behavior change activities
• Demonstrate understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients.
• Previous work with or within a women’s organization, preferred
• Experience facilitating training, workshops, or mentoring others
• Strong ability to organize work, coordinate multiple tasks, meet deadlines, work in a professional environment, work under pressure, and work within a multi-culture team
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders including community leaders and other implementing partners

Job Description

Scope of Work:

The WPE Prevention Officer will oversee prevention and risk reduction activities such as safety audits and awareness sessions, and efforts to engage the community in IRC sites. The WPE Prevention Officer will provide technical support and guidance to the community focal points. This position will lead all awareness raising and information dissemination activities with the community to ensure services are accessible to women and girls. The Prevention Officer will also seek to ensure data collection and entry is completed accurately and according to GBV confidentially best practices, for monitoring and evaluation purposes, and will review and submit to WPE Manager/M&E Manager on a regular basis. The position requires a personal commitment to advancing women’s issues and working on behalf of women and girls in the community. Further, s/he will assist with the facilitation of awareness-raising sessions. This position will be based in Southern Shan.

Duties and Responsibilities

Technical Quality

- Conduct Emergency Response in Southern Shan State including providing information sessions, mobilizing communities, distribution of dignity kits, and safety checks with women and girls - Identify the needs of women and girls, and provide PFA, PSS and facilitate referrals in emergency context - Work closely with WPE Senior Response Officer to identify community volunteers and provide capacity building training and coaching to the volunteers. - Work closely with volunteers to facilitate GBV prevention discussions with community leaders, IDPs and host communities including male engagement sessions in emergency context - Support for establishment of temporary safe spaces for women and girls including safe space assessment - Promote GBV Guiding Principles of safety, confidentiality, non-discrimination, and respect throughout all WPE activities. - Assist in the delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid in effected communities. - Conduct field assessments, collect data, and report on urgent needs. - Facilitate community engagement and ensure beneficiaries’ participation in Emergency Response activities. - Identify challenges in the field and propose solutions to improve response effectiveness. - Perform any other duties related to emergency response activities as assigned

Grant Monitoring & Reporting

- Prepare and submit regular work plans and activity reports for supervisor review and feedback - Prepare and submit financial and MEAL documentation as required by IRC policies.

Coordination & Representation

- Assist with monthly supervision and coordination meetings. Make sure meeting updates and decisions are shared with the wider group. - Partner with other government actors, other humanitarian agencies, and communities to identify, address and respond to community concerns related to service provision and access to services and to promote the needs of women and girls. - Attend meetings on behalf of the WPE program as relevant or requested.

Key Working Relationships

This position reports to the WPE Senior WPE Officer. The WPE Prevention Officer will work closely with WPE ER team and Community volunteers. The Prevention Officer will engage local Partners/organizations, community leaders, IDP and host community stakeholders in their work. The Prevention Officer will engage with other sectors in the IRC to deliver integrated programming.

Qualifications

What should you have?

Job Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree (Social Science, Humanities, Public Health or other related field) or equivalent professional experience - At least 2 years of professional experience in NGOs in community mobilization, social work, counseling, or psychosocial programs. Work experience in Emergency Response is preferred. - Clear understanding of and experience related to gender, human rights, and issues surrounding violence against women and girls - Strong desire to work with women and girls and address the issues they faced - Demonstrated working experience in community engagement and behavior change activities - Demonstrate understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients. - Previous work with or within a women’s organization, preferred - Experience facilitating training, workshops, or mentoring others - Strong ability to organize work, coordinate multiple tasks, meet deadlines, work in a professional environment, work under pressure, and work within a multi-culture team - Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders including community leaders and other implementing partners. - Especially Female encourage to apply.

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

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality 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 Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons. IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff are suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy. Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children. IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback. IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

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Added 11 days ago - Updated 3 days ago - Source: rescue.org