Gender & Protection Officer South Sudan Wau

Position:                           Gender and protection Officer

Reports to:                       LFS Coordinator

Supervision of:                 None

Duty station:                    Twic County

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity, and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.

1. Roles and responsibilities summary

 Designated Gender and Protection Officer would ensure all gender and protection related concerns are taken care of, and gender is mainstreamed throughout the project cycles. Putting in place measures to ensure that both men and women benefit equally from the project interventions.

1. Generic responsibilities 
2. Ensure adherence to NRC policies, tool, handbooks, guidelines, and donor requirements.
3. Implement WFP integrated project activities according to strategy, proposal, budget, and plans.
4. Prepare periodic status reports and other documents as required by management
5. Ensure proper filing of documents 
6. Break down the annual operational plan into weekly, monthly, and quarterly implementation plans.
7. Coordinate with relevant partners and stakeholders.
8. Ensure that procurement, development and delivery of materials and equipment are timely and according to procedures
9. Train and guide GFD, BSFP, PMCs and BDCs on gender mainstreaming concept
10. Promote and share ideas on Safe and Inclusive Programming to improve the quality of project intervention.
11. Ensure proper design of training manual and content meeting both NRC and Donor specification and standard.
12. Specific responsibilities 

• To ensure all gender and protection related concerns are taken care of, and gender is mainstreamed throughout the project cycles.
• Put in place measures to ensure that both men and women benefit equally from the project. 
• To promote participatory planning to enable women and other disadvantaged groups meaningfully participation in project planning and their voice is heard. 
• Strengthen women representation in numbers and leadership positions of project management committees.
• To identify the specific challenges, barriers and opportunities for women and men in ensuring their safety, health, livelihoods, food security and educational needs.
• Ensure women receive additional focus as experience shows that they face challenges specific to their gender roles and the power dynamics in the society.
• Support implementation of project activities with all due care to avoid causing harm to people in need.
•  To ensure meaningful access to services provided during project implementation.
• Facilitate trainings and reports on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and basic protection concepts to community extension workers, Project management committees, PTAs, and SMC so they can identify protection risks and concerns and ensure safe, dignified, and confidential referral of girls and boys at risks and those with protection concerns to appropriate services.
• Focal for complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM) to ensure that the community can pass forward any complains and feedback they may have pertained the project but also any protection issues in general which will then be referred to relevant institutions to address them.
• Attend bi-weekly review meetings in WFP office.
• Active participation in gender and protection related assessments in County and State.
• And any other assignments given by line manager, specialist, and Area Program Manager.

1. Critical interfaces 

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are: 

• LFS 
• Education 
• ICLA

Scale and scope of position

1. Competencies 

1. Value driven competencies

Values are aspirational attitudes and beliefs that influence the way people conduct themselves. NRC’s values are: Dedicated, Innovated, Inclusive and Accountable. 

2. Behavioral competencies

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. Of the 12 behavioral competencies, the following are essential for this position:

• Managing resources and achieving results
• Handling insecure environments
• Working with people
• Coping with change

3. Professional competencies 

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance. 

Generic professional competencies for this position: 

• University degree in social sciences/ development studies.
• Having minimum of 3 years of experience and skills in gender mainstreaming, GBV and protection.
• Previous experience with international INGOs in the similar role is an advantage.
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Fluent in both English, Arabic and Dinka, both written and verbal 
• Valid driving motorcycle license and national identity documents are important requirements.

1. Context related skills: knowledge and experience (shall be adapted to the specific position): 

• Knowledge of the context 
• Knowledge of Juba Arabic and other local languages an advantage. 
• Good-level competency in computer skills (common Microsoft Windows and Office applications)
• Proven skills and experience in report writing 
• Strong organizational and logistical skills and the ability to work with little infrastructure and to function in difficult situations including limited transport options

1. Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for and evaluation on the responsibilities and the competencies, based on NRC’s Performance Management System. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

• The Job Description
• The individual Work- and Professional Development Plan
• The Competency Framework