Position: Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Officer

Position: Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Officer

Organization: Global Action Nepal (GAN)

Deadline: 05 July 2020

 

JOB SUMMARY

GBV officer is mainly responsible for ensuring the best standards and wide dissemination of professional expertise, skills and knowledge on child rights, safeguarding from gender-based violence. S/he will responsible with particularly experience in GBV programming, case management, child protection and safeguarding issues.

Key Responsibilities:

R 1. Planning and Implementation

 

§  Ensure the Participatory Planning and effective implementation of GBV initiatives in close coordination with PC and project team as per the work plan and project objectives.

§  Providing day to day technical guidance to team on GBV to the Programme specialized interventions to ensure standards and procedures are followed.

§  Under the guidance of PC, work closely with EDCU officials, municipal education officials, Gender Networks at rural municipalities and schools while implementing project activities.

§  Work closely with school head teachers and gender focal teachers to conduct project activities.

§  Work closely with community-based organizations, including Community learning center and plan to conduct training and interaction.

§  Support in developing training plan, support professionally and technically in facilitating training sessions to the teachers, students, and other stakeholders.

§  Support GBV champions and school authorities in the process of updating SIP incorporating GBV.

§  Mentor GBV Champions for planning, implementing and reporting progress of field activities.

§  Supervise and provide on the spot support for GBV champions, ensuring their efficient and effective mobilization.

 

R 2. Management

 

§  Conducting training to school’s teacher/HT, students and community leaders to build their capacity and activate their role in GBV related issues.

§  Developing awareness raising and staff training programs to raise awareness on GBV.

§  Develop IEC materials (leaflets, posters, brochures) to raise awareness on GBV in the wider community.

§  Support the collection and analysis of sex- and age- disaggregated data to reach the most marginalized beneficiaries.

§  Ensure timely completion of planned project activities.

§  Support PC and implementing team to develop and use standard criteria to identify project beneficiaries.

§  Work in close collaboration with the team: Project coordinator, finance officer and MEAL officer to achieve the set goals.

§  Support project team to select GBV champions.

§  Support in the process of implementation through supervising and providing inputs to GBV champions.

§  Act as the focal point for child protection, safeguarding, GBV related issues and establishing CRM at project level.

 

 

R 3. Coordination and communication

 

§  In close collaboration and coordination with EDCU, Municipality level education focal point and school authorities’ roll out the project activities.

§  Develop, maintain, and improve mutual and beneficial relationships with key stakeholders through regular coordination and frequent communication and advocate for gender-sensitive programming.

§  Facilitate community dialogues on promoting safe education environment and gender inclusive education, with special focus on child rights and safeguard from GBV.

§  Work closely with schools’ head teachers, female mentors, and Gender Focal Points to promote safe education environment.

§  Provide regular follow up and support to GBV champions through meetings, dialogue, and interactions.

§  Coordinate and facilitate the process to provide training to GBV champions and project beneficiaries.

 

 

R 4. Monitoring and reporting

 

§  Coordinate and facilitate the process and initiate monitoring interventions to achieve project activities according to the action plan.

§  Document and report the progress of project activities, challenges/way forward respecting agreed standards and timeframe.

§  Coordinate and facilitate the process to disseminate information to target communities.

§  Support to collect evidences, exemplary practices, real stories to disseminate them to transfer project learning in a wider context.

§  Closely monitor the activities of the GBV champions and provide timely feedback to them for the remedial actions.

§  Support the assessment team while conducting the baseline, mid line and end line assessment.

§  Maintain proper documentation of the project activities and timely upload means of verifications for each activity carried out in the field.

§  Carry out regular follow up visits to monitor the progress of the project implementation.

 

 

R 5. GBV, child protection and safeguarding

 

§  Act as the focal point for child protection, safeguarding, GBV related issues and establishing CRM at project level.

§  Ensure that child protection cases in targeted schools are reported, referred, and followed up.

§  Assist implementation team to set up child protection and referral mechanism in schools, resource class and or assessment center.

§  Support implementation team (Big sisters, adult champions) to maintain risk register from the GBV , child protection and safeguarding points of view.

§  Closely work with available network to reduce the GBV, child protection and safeguarding issues in schools and community level.

 

 

Qualification and other requirements:

§  Bachelor’s Degree in Social science, Development studies, Gender/Women studies or Relevant subjects.

§  At least two years of experience of working relevant to the functions, preferably in sector of girls education.

§  Fluent in English and Nepali both.

§  Fluent with Microsoft office package..

 

Essential Skills:

§  Strong English communication skills required for the role and will be tested at interview.

§  Ability to work at pace across multiple work streams.

§  Strong management and people skills.

§  Excellent ability to work across cultures, time zones and disciplines with a wide range of stakeholders.

 

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