Save the Children Nigeria Sexual and Gender Based Violence Response Assistant Jobs
Save the Children Nigeria Sexual and Gender Based Violence Response Assistant Jobs
Role Purpose The: SGBV Assistant is responsible for ensuring that quality psychosocial support services and case management for GBV survivors and other children at risk are provided to internally displaced persons under the age of 18. Build the staff capacity to provide direct meaningful support to GBV survivors, mentor, supervise and monitor team activities and ensure effective coordination and networking system establishment to the rest of child protection team.
The SGBV assistant will be expected to support on child protection sectoral assessment, project planning and coordination with other actors of GBV clusters. In most circumstances, the post holder will be expected to mentor and / or build capacity of implementing partners on the field.
Key Areas of Accountability:
With support from the lead GE Coordinator and / or other senior programme staff, develop monthly and quarterly plans and costed plans, contributing towards an overall thematic programme plan. From the strategy initiate programming in the following areas as appropriate:
Support to the psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) wellbeing of children with GBV survivors and their families.
Build volunteers’ capacity to provide direct and appropriate support services to GBV survivors
Prevention and response to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking
With support from the Coordinator, supervise project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against individual performance management work plans).
With support from the lead Coordinator and / or other senior programme staff, prepare and review timely monthly reports submitted by partners and SCI Staff.
Work with the MEAL plan to ensure links to reporting requirements where possible, refer the MEAL framework to build an evidence-base for child protection programming interventions including GBV survivors.
With support from the CRM / Accountability Officer put in place accountability activities for your project, ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design.
Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings and the Sphere standard
Ensure survivors of gender-based violence are timely identified and provided counselling and other appropriate response services.
Ensure relevant referral forms are in place, implemented accordingly and coordinate monthly meetings including, parent’s forum and child protection committee
Provide essential psychosocial first aid support to children and adults when needed and ensure partner staff are supervised regularly to ensure activities are carried out in line with minimum standard guidelines.
Consistently update the referral pathway of project locations
Capacity Building:
Provide capacity to implementing partners that have less CPiE experience
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
With support from the Lead Child Protection Coordinator and / or other senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers in-country.
In collaboration with the Humanitarian Technical Unit and Child Protection team, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy objectives.
Contribute to communications and media work as required.
General:
Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
Other ad hoc tasks as requested by Line Manager.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential Criteria:
University degree or equivalent in Social Work, Social Science, Development Studies or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience
Minimum 1-year post NYSC work experience in GBV and child Protection work, supervision,
community mobilisation and distributions and solid understanding of the actual Nigeria Emergency context.
Proven ability to supervise a CP project with a holistic approach and integrated to child protection right
Fluent in English
Working knowledge of Hausa and/or Kanuri
Computer literate
Desirable Criteria:
Female with high level of personal integrity, commitment and professional responsibility with GBV exigencies.
Excellent communication skills,
Team player with strong leadership skills
Mature personality with life experience is an advantage
Able to be a self-starter and work in challenging contexts and fragile environment.
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated, thinks strategically.
Collaboration:
Actively listens to different perspectives and experiences of stakeholders
Actively participates in networks to access and contribute to good practice
Establishes and maintains clear communication and dialogue with disaster and conflict-affected people and other stakeholders
Establishes clear objectives with partners
Creativity:
Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Commitment to Save the Children Values
Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:
Ensure that programme goals and activities uphold the principles of the key national and international humanitarian frameworks, codes and commitments
Integrates beneficiary accountability principles into the approach
Participates in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation mechanisms
Leadership - Action; Thinking; Self; Inspiring;
Developing Others:
Demonstrates approachability and trust by listening carefully to others and valuing their contribution, and making others feel comfortable by being open and honest about their thoughts and feelings
Demonstrates self-development and management by taking responsibility for own development, and actively seeking out feedback to better understand their own strengths and weaknesses
Makes positive statements about work
Effectively influences others by understanding their interests and showing how they will be met by own preferred solution
Gives constructive feedback to enhance capabilities and responsibilities to partners and others
How to Apply
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