WPE Prevention Officer
Rakhine State
- Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
- Location: Rakhine State
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
- Gender-based violence
- Closing Date:
Job Overview/Summary:
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, and efforts to engage community leaders in IRC sites. The WPE Prevention Officer will provide technical support and guidance to the senior outreach workers and community focal points. This position will lead all awareness raising, long term curriculum-based activities and information dissemination activities with the community to ensure services are accessible to women and girls. The WPE 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.
Major 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 senior outreach workers and community focal points in order to enable the smooth operation of prevention activities across IRC sites.
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 supervision and ongoing training/mentoring to Senior Outreach Workers and community focal points to implement all prevention activities including ongoing assessment and risk identification activities.
- Plan and organize advocacy meeting with community leaders, IDPs and host communities including male engagement activities.
- Provide TOTs and other prevention related training for IRC staff and community focal points.
- Conduct regular 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 meetings with prevention staff and address the concerns and technical issues raised from team.
- Support WPE Manager on training for CMCs, community leaders 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.
Others
- Ensure all activities are carried out in accordance with IRC policies and procedures.
- Other duties assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programming.
Key Working Relationships: The WPE Prevention Officer will work under direct supervision of the WPE Program Manager. S/He will closely coordinate with the MEAL focal and Operation team, as needed.
Position Reports to:WPE Program Manager
Position directly supervises:Senior Outreach Workers
Minimum Qualifications:
What should you have?
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalence work experiences.
Work Experience:
- 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 Rakhine State.
- Clear understanding of and experience related to gender, human rights, and issues surrounding women and girls.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- Strong desire to work with women and girls and address the issue they face in Rakhine State.
- 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 trainings, workshop, 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 Skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Burmese, strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate in English and computer literate.
- Preferably working knowledge in local language.
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.
Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.