Job Description
Job Title: WPE Prevention and Risk Reduction
Assistant
Band / Level / Grade: 9A - Admin/Technical Support
Department: Women Protection and Empowerment
Location: West Coast
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 care and life-changing assistance to
refugees 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.
The IRC responds to people’s acute and longer-term needs
with integrated programs that improve health and safety, prioritize children’s
education, foster economic wellbeing, and empower communities to regain control
over their lives. Our work gives rise to some of the most pressing issues
facing contemporary humanitarian action, including questions of access,
conflict sensitivity, coordination, and impact.
The IRC Yemen began its programs in October 2012. Since
establishing its presence in the South of Yemen, in the Red Sea Coastal city of
Aden, the organization has grown from just an implementing small project to
handling large scale emergency and relief operations. Following the war which
broke out in Yemen in March of 2015 and the humanitarian disaster, which was
crafted by the same, IRC launched one an emergency response program in the
southern governorates of Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Shabwah and Al Dhale, and expanded
later in Sana’a and Hodeidah in the North. Currently IRC Yemen is
operating in eight governorates in the south and north of Yemen through direct
programming and through local partnerships, in Health, WASH, Nutrition,
Economic Recovery Development, Education, Child Protection, Gender and Women
Protection and Empowerment.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) have been working
in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for more than forty years. Today,
the IRC has more than 2,200 staff working across the region, including in Iraq,
Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Yemen to support those affected by some of
the world’s most complex and protracted humanitarian crises.
SCOPE OF WORK:
Under the supervision of the IRC Yemen WPE Response Officer
based in West coast the WPE Prevention and Risk Reduction Assistant will be
responsible for the implementation and monitoring the GBV work and mitigate
risks to women and girls, through community risk analysis, promoting safe
environments, and ensuring that protection principles are integrated into all
interventions. WPE Safe Spaces and other IRC surrounding facilities and conduct
community mobilization and GBV risk mitigation activities, safety assessments,
capacity building training, meetings, and community-based activities in close
collaboration with the IRC team and local partners.
JOB SUMMARY:
This position will cover the prevention services in WGCCs,
WGSSs and the field and will cover any activities related to prevention. This
position will make relations with IRCs RH, CP, MHT, nutrition team and the safe
space of the partner to improve the adolescent girls’ programing and GBV
response and mitigation activities.
This position is responsible for implementing WPE prevention and risk reduction
activities across targeted districts in the West Coast, with daily field
movement to WGSS/WGCCs and community locations.
WORKING RELATIONS:
This position will work directly with the Response Officer
and Senior Response Officer. Indirectly, will be work with MHT, CP, and partner
management in that area.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Mobilize
the community in the target locations to participate in psychosocial
activities provided by the IRC, including emotional support groups,
skills-building, non-formal education and recreational activities.
- Collaborate
with caseworkers and other WPE team members to ensure GBV responses are
taking into account specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and
girls
- Support
logistic implementation of the activities, including raising purchase
requests, handling petty cash according to IRC’s policies, working to
regular spending plans
- Use
agreed-upon monitoring and evaluation tools to supervise the community
volunteers that participation in activities and collect their
feedback
- Support
and collaborate with local partner staff, including providing
training
- Writing
and submit regular weekly and batch end report.
- Conduct
information and awareness sessions with female and male in the community
to disseminate
- Identify
and assess new communities to be engaged in WPE activities.
- Provide
close mentoring and capacity building support to community
representatives.
- Participate
in facilitating empowerment activities at the center and in the field.
- Facilitate
training for WPE curriculums volunteers.
- Management
background: managing volunteers and facilitators at the WGCC in the field,
and at the WGSS.
- Supervising
the volunteers
- Coordinate
and meet with community leaders and authorities on a monthly and quarterly
basis.
- In
close collaboration with community outreach volunteers conduct regular
safety assessments to identify key risks faced by women and girls within
their community.
- Facilitate
referral of identified needs to humanitarian organizations and other
service providers, ensuring follow up and feedback to the community.
- Promote
and actively participate in initiatives and efforts to build team
engagement, inclusion, and cohesion in IRC [team/office]
- Foster
ongoing learning, honest dialogue, and reflection to strengthen
safeguarding and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies.
- Educate/raise
awareness among the community and clients about the existing feedback
mechanisms and response processes.
REQUIREMENTS: (Qualifications, Skills and Abilities):
A. Education:
- Bachelor’s
degree.
- Courses
in Psychological Support , Psychology First Aid, prevention
certificate
B. Experience:
- Knowledge
and experience in the working environment in that area.
- Minimum
two years of experience in implementing in the protection and women’s
protection and empowerment in the context of Yemen.
- Minimum
two years of experience in implementing risk reduction activities.
- Knowledge
and experience in writing regular report
- Knowledge
in logistic implementation of the activities, including raising purchase
requests, handling petty cash according to IRC’s policies, working to
regular spending plans.
- Experience
in managing volunteers and facilitators at the WGCC, in the field, and at
the WGSS.
- Good
understanding of Gender Based Violence,
C. Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent
knowledge of the working environment.
- Personal
qualities: Empathic, works well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a
multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure well.
- Knowledge
of Microsoft word and excel.
- Flexible,
able to handle pressure well, and have strong communication skills in the
community and targeted areas.
D. Proficiencies:
- -
Understanding of gender-based violence, women’s protection, and
empowerment in the context of Yemen.
- -Works
well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural
environment,
- -
Strong background and experience in the referral mechanisms and dealing
wit GBV survivals.
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.
IRC strives to build a diverse and inclusive team at all
levels who as individuals, and as a group, embody our culture statement
creating a working environment characterized by critical reflection, power
sharing, debate, and objectivity for us to achieve our aspirations as a team
and deliver the best possible services to our clients.
Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing
the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an
enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including
parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive
benefits and allowances.
Commitment to Client Responsiveness: By
committing to Client-Centered Programming, at the IRC Yemen, we place the
people we serve - our clients - at the center of our programming and services.
The IRC Yemen Staff have an important role to play in supporting the
implementation of client-responsive programming through raising awareness among
the community and clients about the existing feedback mechanisms and how to use
them including the response processes, access, and eligibility to services, and
contribute to building an institutional culture that prompts staff to listen to
clients.
How to Apply
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