Protection Specialist (Gender Based Violence Specialist)

The Gender Based Violence (GBV) Specialist will provide leadership and advice on planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of DRC’s GBV activities in Ukraine. The role includes ensuring technical quality of GBV prevention and response activities, capacity building, coordination with stakeholders, and development of tools and strategies.

Responsibilities

• Ensure DRC GBV programming is aligned with regional and internal strategies.
• Attend relevant coordination meetings at national and area level, including the GBV sub-cluster meetings.
• Develop strong relationships with GBV and related actors, including CSOs, within DRC’s areas of intervention.
• Work with all sectors within DRC to identify and implement joint activities/strategies and mainstream GBV risk mitigation measures.
• Lead on the development of DRC’s GBV strategy at country-level.
• Develop required tools, guidelines and SOPs for DRC’s protection team.
• Regularly review and share emerging evidence from international standards and tools including GBV AoR Minimum Standards, IASC GBV Guidelines.
• Provide direct technical supervision to ensure the quality of the GBV programming.
• Support the protection team to ensure all GBV prevention and response programming are underpinned by GBV guiding principles and responsive to women and girls’ needs.
• Provide technical supervision and support to all protection team members involved in GBV prevention and response activities.
• Develop and facilitate training on core gender and GBV concepts, including training of the protection team, governmental partners, CSOs, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders including national and international NGOs, CSOs, governmental partners.
• Develop, maintain and share a service mapping.
• Complete donor quarterly reports and draft sections of project proposals related to GBV.
• Support the protection managers in identifying context based information to develop context specific activities, awareness sessions and curricula implemented in the Women and Girls Centers.
• Contribute to the conception, development and production of IEC materials.
• Support the Psycho-Social Support team in developing gender-sensitive modules and material adapted to women and girls’ needs.
• Contribute to development of tools and indicators for monitoring and evaluation.
• Design assessment tools and coordinate the organization of the collection, compilation, data analysis and dissemination of results.
• Fill and submit Purchase Requisitions, Travel Authorizations and any other DRC administrative forms as needed.
• Coordinate with other DRC departments to ensure the effective use of the logistical and financial resources.

Requirements

• University (BA/BSc) degree in relevant field to include gender, social work etc., and evidence of further specialist training.
• At least 3 years' relevant experience working with a protection or health, humanitarian or development organization.
• At least 1 year experience working with GBV case management.
• Demonstrated practical experience in GBV/SRH work including case management, prevention activities and community engagement.
• Previous experience in working with displaced and conflict-affected communities, running GBV prevention curricula, raising awareness and providing services in village settings.
• Solid experience in building staff capacity.
• Advanced English proficiency (C1).
• Experience working in challenging environments with good personal resilience (desirable).
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (desirable).

Skills

• GBV Case Management
• GBV Prevention
• Community Engagement
• Capacity Building
• Protection Programming
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Humanitarian Program Execution
• Working with Displaced Communities
• Conflict-affected Community Support
• GBV Awareness
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Development of GBV Tools
• Planning and Implementation
• English Proficiency C1

Languages

English