WPE facilitator( Knitting and Handicrafts)
Al Hasakah
- Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
- Location: Al Hasakah
- Grade:
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Occupational Groups:
- Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
- Sustainable trade and development
- Gender-based violence
- Food Security, Livestock and Livelihoods
- Closing Date:
Background/Context:
The IRC has operated in Syria since 2012, providing protection, health, economic recovery, and early childhood development programs in Idleb, Aleppo, Ar-Raqqa, Hassakeh, and Deir ez-Zor, with new programs expanding into Hama, rural Damascus, and Homs. With a team of over 700 members, the IRC has established trust and strong community relationships, ensuring access and effective service delivery. It plays a significant role in Syria’s NGO, donor, and coordination forums, holding key positions and adapting to the evolving context.
With the new realities under the new government, as of December 2024, the IRC has deployed a team to Damascus to set up operations and engage in coordination structures for newly accessible areas across Syria—including parts of NES, NWS, and other previously unreachable locations in South and Central Syria, adjusting operations to maximize coverage and efficiency.
Protection
The IRC has been delivering protection programs in the northwest since 2013 and in the northeast of Syria since 2014, focusing on Protection/Rule of Law (PRoL), Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE), and Child Protection (CP). These efforts include specialized case management, PSS, protection monitoring, service mapping, and advocacy. Collaborating with partners, IRC improves access to protection services, raises community awareness, and strengthens referral pathways. Protection capacity building, community outreach, and rapid response through mobile protection teams have also been provided since 2017.
Job overview:
As part of Syria's response, the International Rescue Committee has programs to support women and girls across Syria's Hasakah and Raqqa governorates. The Sewing Coordinator works to support and empower women within safe spaces for women, girls and the community to teach women and girls in Raqqa the basics of knitting, weaving, and handicrafts.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct a prior knowledge assessment of beneficiaries.
- Divide beneficiaries according to their age and knowledge levels.
- Curriculum preparation at 3 levels (beginner - intermediate - advanced)
- Measure the development of women and girls and report it to the supervisor.
- Teaching women and girls to combine the skill of knitting for all models to suit the culture and context
- Teaching women and girls to install buttons in different ways
- Teach women and girls how to recycle and make use of leftover old fabrics and garments to make suitable new things
- Teaching women and girls how to craft and recycle old materials to make suitable new things
- Teaching girls on basic embroidery stitches
- Teaching women and girls to make accessories from beads fit the context
- Teaching women and girls to embroider the fabric of the orphans and the kanfa
- Teaching women and girls to embroider on ribbons and satin in frames
- Teach women and girls to knit wool using one crochet needle and two crochet needles (knitting)
- Sending weekly and monthly reports to the line supervisor
Minimum Qualifications:
Education: Preferably, a high school diploma and/or a certificate of craftsmanship in knitting
Work Experience: Previous experience in training women and girls in knitting techniques will be helpful.
- At least one year of experience in knitting and handicrafts.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- A commitment to IRC’s mission, vision, values and IRC Way – Professional Code of Conduct.
- Credible written, presentation and verbal communication skills; ability to convey information effectively and solid experience providing training and staff development.
- Validated sense of professional discretion, integrity, and ability to handle complex situations diplomatically and to effective resolution.
- Excellent management and interpersonal skills and a solid ability to promote harmonious/cohesive teamwork, in a cross-cultural context.
- Validated ability to plan long-term, organize priorities and work under administrative and programmatic pressures with detail orientation and professional patience.
- Highly collaborative and resourceful; ability to establish positive working relationships with senior level management and all other partners to maximize cooperation and productivity.
- Curiosity, a desire to continually learn and develop is a must.
- Analytical ability in creating effective solutions to complex matters while adhering to labor laws and internal policies.
Language/Travel:
- Arabic is required.
- Travel: Moving between IRC women's centres when needed, as well as attending regional and global workshops and meetings.
Key Working Relationships:
- Position Reports to: Women Protection and Empowerment Officer
Position directly supervises none - Indirect Reporting: none
Key Internal Contacts: Liaise with the women's team of case managers, adolescent girl assistance, activity facilitators and community mobilizers within the center - Key External Contacts: none
Professional Standards: IRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Global Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, IRC operates and carries out policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti-Workplace Harassment, Respect at Work Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
Returning National Candidates: We strongly encourage national or returning national candidates to apply for this position. If you are a citizen of the country where this position is based and are currently residing outside of your home country, you may be eligible for an attractive relocation package. Eligibility is determined based on IRC's operational needs and specific role requirements. IRC strives to attract, motivate, and retain qualified national staff in our programs.
Accountability to Clients: IRC staff must adhere to the commitment of contributing to the sustainability and development of its (CR) Client Responsiveness Mechanisms, preserving the culture of prioritizing the needs of our clients and affected communities by systematically listening to their perspectives and using their feedback to make programmatic decisions and give them greater influence over program design and delivery.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.