L’IRC recrute un responsable de l’initiative de bien-être communautaire (CWI), Ethiopie

 

Requête nº : req13741

Intitulé de poste : Community Wellbeing Initiative(CWI) Manager

Secteur d’activité : Gender

Type de contrat : Régulier

Taux d’occupation : Plein temps

Ouvert aux expatriés : Non

Lieu de travail : Ethiopia

About The IRC :

We are, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international Non-Governmental organizations, providing relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 30 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in six regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response

Job purpose :

Under the direct supervision of the Field Coordinator and Community Well-being Initiative (CWI) Coordinator, the CWI (GBV) Manager will provide program/technical and operational support for gender-based violence response in Adi Harush and Mai Ayni refugee camp in Shire at Tigray region. The Manager mentors, supervises, coordinates, and manages the team and oversees the project activities in a professional manner. She/he will demonstrate technical capability and support the program team to ensure the program is holistic, upholding according to standards, procedures, and principles of safeguarding and will be responsible to enhance the coordination of basic services, case management/psychological first aid to our clients.

 

Key Job functions/responsibilities :

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

  • Supervise the implementation of Shire CWI programming to ensure the program is implemented according to well- plan schedule annual, quarterly, month work plan and budgets-spending plan, and that program objectives are well-met ;
  • Lead in the update/establishment of a functional GBV referral system, Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs), maintain good GBV coordination mechanism with Implementing Partners (IPs), Operational partners (OPs) ARRA and UN agencies to ensure comprehensive response intervention, risk mitigation and GBV services provision ;
  • Lead prevention program activity design of effective community outreach and engagement strategies to strengthen the protective environment for women and girls and maximize the community impact including engaging men and boys ;
  • Contextualize, conduct, lead and supervise trainings on GBV case management training, referral pathways, GBV Guiding Principles for working with survivors, basic counseling, Clinical Care for Sexual Assault Survivors, Clinical Care for Child Survivors, GBVIMS and other response related trainings for CWI staffs, IPs, OPs, ARRA, UN Agencies and service providers for ethic and quality of services ;
  • Lead/oversee CWI trainings/workshops on GBV related-prevention issue for CWI staffs, IPs, OPs, ARRA, UN agencies, community leaders, religious leaders, youth groups, women’s group, CBOs, community members for GBV-community based prevention and awareness ;
  • Oversee women’s safe spaces and activities to ensure women and girls access to information and group/psychosocial activities in a safe, secure and dignified manner, including lead in the design and with the Response Officers to implement age-appropriate psychosocial activities at the safe space and other specific safe-space interventions to meet the needs of women and adolescent girls ;
  • Oversee GBV safety audit activity and ensure consistency of its implementation, and ensure the recommendation are followed and effective through coordination mechanism and community solution ;
  • Lead the overall quality of CWI program assessment, assessment tools design/contextualize, methodology and final quality assessment report ;
  • Directly responsible for CWI program timely and quality monitoring and evaluation, ensure good project monitoring and evaluation tools are in place/update, and evident based documentation is in practices to demonstrate quality project progress, impact, learning and recommendation ;
  • Provide ongoing supervision, leadership, training and technical support and guidance to all CWI staffs. Leading staffs’ capacity building activity to ensure a sustainable transfer of skills in which all staffs practices follow to GBV best-practice and principles when working with beneficiary especially GBV survivors and that all staffs use participatory approaches to working with the community in addressing beliefs and practices that condone or perpetuate psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls, an ongoing support include structured-meeting and site visits ;
  • Provide consistent technical guidance, oversight, and support to the response team in provision of quality case management and psychosocial support services to ensure that; timely and quality services are provided, Training and consistently supervising and mentoring Response Officers, ensure safe referrals to health care services, protection/safety services and others as needed through regular auditing of case files and providing feedback to Response Officers ;
  • Mentor and support staff’s capacity needs and their professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming include a concrete formal and informal capacity planning and training for staff once every quarter ;
  • Responsible for all Shire CWI grants, in collaboration with field/camp team; develop and maintain work plans, spending and procurement plans. Participate in all grant opening, and closing meetings, tracking expenditures and ensure they are allowable and allocable according to IRC and donor compliance and regulations; review monthly BvA and bring any over/under expenditure, miss-charge, or double charging issues etc to the attention of the Field Coordinator/Finance team in a timely manner and jointly develop corrective plans ;
  • Provide timely, informative, and quality inputs to funding proposals, including writing, log frames, and budgeting; and timely, and quality inputs to project reports this include the completion of all section required CWI inputs ;
  • Responsible for GBV ethical and accuracy data collection and GBV information management systems (GBVIMS) are accurately collected, entered with data protection and confidentiality – for analysis, planning, evaluation, and coordinate with other stakeholders, accordingly to Data Sharing Protocol (DSP) and to informed  CWI future programming in Shire  with timely internal and external monthly submission and participate quarterly GBVIMS data analysis and review meeting with DSP signatories/agreed partners ;
  • Lead the establishment of effective working relationships with all stakeholders at all level by best representing IRC/CWI Program with ARRA, community leaders, IPS, OPs, LNGO, UN Agencies, CBOs to enhance multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination, ensure that relevant information from coordination meetings is shared internally with the CWI Shire team, other IRC sectors and Field Management team ;
  • Support the IRC Ethiopia Country SAP implementation at Shire field office, coordinate with other IRC actors particularly WASH, Health, CYPD, ERR (if applicable) and Operational Department to achieve the IRC strategy outcome with support of the Field management and CWI Coordinator.

Key working relationships : The CWI Manager reports to the Field Coordinator, and the CWI team at Addis.

Profil :

Job Requirements :

  • MA/MSc or equivalent in psychology, Social Science, Humanities, or other related social science field of study with 3 years of relevant experience. 4 years of relevant experience with the first-degree BA. With significant psychosocial support and counseling experience and training considered ;
  • NGO experience is a plus ;
  • Proven management skills ;
  • Project management experience ;
  • Proposal and report writing skills ;
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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