WPE Prevention Officer

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Job Description

Scope of Work:

The WPE Prevention Officer will oversee prevention and risk reduction activities such as safety audits, awareness sessions, behavior change curriculums including travel to the field on average four working days a week, and efforts to engage 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 TOT activities and facilitation of awareness raising topics and behavior change curriculums. This position will be based in Maungdaw.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Oversee all prevention activities designed to provide communities with GBV services information and GBV awareness on where women and girls can access services. Provide technical guidance and support to the new community focal points in order to enable the smooth operation of prevention activities across IRC sites in Maunddaw and Buthidaung.

Technical Quality

- Reinforce adherence to the GBV guiding principles throughout all WPE activities. - Ensure the voices of women and girls are integrated into all activities and discussions. - Carry out and analyze information from safety audits and community consultations to identify risks faced by women and girls. - Engage the community in understanding the IRC WPE program to ensure by-in and support for associated activities. - Provide training/mentoring to partner organization staff to implement all prevention activities including assessment and risk identification activities. - Provide TOTs and other prevention related trainings for both IRC and partner staffs. - Conduct twice a month facilitation spot-checks for prevention staff_ community focal points in GBV awareness sessions and behavior change curriculums. - Review weekly work plans with prevention team. - Conduct regular team meeting with prevention staff and address the concerns and technical issue raised from team. - Support WPE Manager on training for CMCs and other INGOs staff as necessary. - Develop strategies for sharing information with communities, particular women and girls, about free services available to them.

Grant Monitoring and Reporting

- Prepare and submit weekly, monthly, and quarterly work plans in a timely manner for supervisor review and feedback. - Compile and develop monthly activity report for submission to the WPE Manager. - Ensure that all prevention relevant financial documents are accurately completed and submitted, as required by IRC policies. - Ensure data collection and M&E measures are carried out correctly and turned in monthly.

Coordination & Representation

- Identify concerns related to camp/ community layout, safety and security, water and sanitation access, etc., and develop strategies for constructively sharing these concerns with relevant actors. - Support other stakeholders, including government actors, other humanitarian actors, and communities/leaders in identifying strategies that reduce risks faced by women and girls. - Communicate regularly with other WPE and operations teams to ensure that the program's operational needs are met in an organized and timely fashion. - Collaborate with WPE Officers and Managers to streamline procedures and develop ways to improve program efficiency. - Support M&E Manager for keeping documentation in a systematic manner. - Contribute to the strategic vision and planning of WPE program and activities in collaboration with WPE Senior Manager, Manager, and other officers. - Coordinate closely with WPE Manager for advocacy issues. - Attend meeting on behalf of the WPE program as relevant or requested. - Serve as a focal of IRC WPE response team to the external community.

Others

- 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.

Qualifications

Education

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Skills and Qualifications

- At least 2 years of professional experience in NGOs in community mobilization, social work, counseling, or psychosocial program. - Familiarity with emergency contexts and issues, particularly in Northern Rakhine State. - 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 face in Northern Rakhine State. - Demonstrated working experience in community engagement and behavior change activities. - Demonstrate understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for client's. - Previous work with or within a women’s organization, preferred. - Experience facilitating trainings, worships, 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.

Language:

- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Burmese, strong interpersonal skills. - Ability to communicate in English and computer literate. - Preferable working knowledge in Rakhine and Rohingya languages.

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

Added 1 year ago - Updated 8 months ago - Source: rescue.org