Overview
Provides regional technical expertise and coordination support to strengthen gender-based violence (GBV) risk mitigation, protection analysis, and localization efforts. The position leads and supports GBV risk analyses, safety audits, service mapping, and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support GBV risk analyses, safety audits, protection assessments, and contextual analyses.
- Represent IRC in GBV, Protection, and inter-agency coordination mechanisms.
- Maintain and regularly update service mapping, referral pathways, and referral directories.
- Establish, strengthen, and maintain strategic relationships with specialized GBV service providers, local authorities, women-led organizations, civil society organizations, and community-based actors.
- Support partnership development and localization efforts.
- Conduct partner monitoring visits and support programme quality assurance processes.
- Contribute to the design, coordination, and implementation of awareness-raising and community outreach initiatives.
- Support operational processes related to the recruitment, onboarding, management, and supervision of incentive workers, volunteers, and community facilitators.
- Serve as a co-facilitator and technical resource person during trainings, workshops, learning events, and capacity-strengthening initiatives.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring on GBV programming, survivor-centred approaches, psychosocial support, safe referrals, and GBV risk mitigation.
- Monitor emerging protection trends, service gaps, and contextual developments.
- Contribute to the development and adaptation of technical tools, guidance documents, assessments, reports, and learning products.
Required Experience
Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in GBV prevention, risk mitigation, and response programming within humanitarian and/or development settings. Demonstrated experience conducting GBV risk analyses, safety audits, assessments, and contextual analyses. Experience supporting partner-led implementation and providing technical oversight and capacity strengthening to local partner organizations. Proven experience representing organizations in inter-agency coordination mechanisms, including GBV, Protection, and related working groups. Experience developing and maintaining referral pathways, service mapping, and coordination with specialized GBV service providers. Demonstrated experience designing and facilitating trainings, workshops, and capacity-strengthening initiatives for staff, partners, and external stakeholders. Experience supporting advocacy initiatives, community engagement activities, and localization efforts is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in social work, psychology, law, human rights, gender studies, social sciences. Specialized training and certifications in Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Protection, Case Management, Psychosocial Support (PSS), and/or humanitarian programming are considered a strong asset.
