Safeguarding and Protection Coordinator at World Vision

World Vision

Position: Safeguarding and Protection Coordinator

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Gambella - Ethiopia

Posted date: 1 month ago

Deadline: Submition date is over

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience the fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Program design and implementation

• Lead the implementation of Safeguarding, gender, and protection activities of the JEOP project and actively engaged throughout the project cycle in collaboration with consortium members.
• Actively participate in concept note preparation, and proposal development from gender lenses and make sure protection and gender-specific indicators, tools, and methodologies are in place during the onset of the project.
• Lead programmatic assessments including gender and protection analysis, and protection monitoring to ensure continuous improvement mainstreaming of findings on program strategy, design, and advocacy
• Facilitate regular focus group discussions and individual interviews ensuring that issues of women, men, girls, boys, and people with different needs are identified and addressed.
• Ensures a gender-sensitive approach is taken to programming and integrated into protection assessments and activities.
• Ensure that issues of SGBV and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) are explored in sensitive ways and that services and follow-up are provided in keeping with international guidelines.

Monitoring, and Evaluation

• Work closely with the program and MEAL team to ensure gender, safeguarding, protection and other cross-cutting issues are properly assessed and integrated into JEOP programming.
• Undertake regular on-site visits to monitor the quality of activity implementation and provide technical advice to partner staff as necessary.
• Support donors, stakeholders, and other internal reporting requirements by providing accurate and timely input on gender and protection activities.

Training and capacity building

• Conduct capacity assessment of partner staff, stakeholders, and beneficiaries, plan and lead capacity-building initiatives, training and technical support
• Enhance the capacity of project staff, partner organizations, and stakeholders towards mainstreaming Gender, Protection, and Safeguarding in JEOP projects

Networking, Coordination and Reporting

• Liaise, network, and maintain good working relationships with relevant actors
• Collect analyses and produce regular reports about the implementation of WVE’s safeguarding policies, review, and audit.
• Represent JEOP within the relevant meetings, forums, and consortium meetings.
• Attend internal meetings and work in collaboration with the WVE Protection unit.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• At least five years of relevant experience in Gender, child protection, and safeguarding program design and management.
• Experience with and knowledge of mainstreaming protection in food assistance, gender integration, and gender-based violence (GBV) mainstreaming.
• Good knowledge of concepts, approaches, and application of gender markers, safeguarding policies, and best practices in gender integration and protection mainstreaming.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• MA/BA Degree in Social Science, Social work, Gender studies, and related field
• At least three to five years of experience, including three years of relevant field-based experience in development or humanitarian response settings, preferably in a conflict setting.
• Certificate in specialized training related to Gender and safeguarding and PSEA and inclusion programming

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of international protection and gender standards.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct assessments and studies, including gender audits and protection risk analyses.
• Experience with capacity strengthening and partnership building.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, and information management systems.
• Demonstrated commitment to accountability to affected populations, and experience working with and meaningfully engaging diverse populations, including pregnant and lactating mothers, persons with disabilities, older adults, and IDPs
• Demonstrated commitment to and application of gender-responsive programming and positive action measures toward gender equality, including the participation and leadership of women.

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