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Senior GBV Assistant
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Inter-governmental
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
- Renumeration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 05/08/2024
- Location: Egypt
Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
The Senior GBV Assistant supports the operations' efforts to fulfil UNHCR's mandate and associated obligations on GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response based on policy and guidance.
Duties
- Support activities in GBV prevention and response with implementing and operational partners
- Support the implementation of multi-sectorial response to GBV (including health, psychosocial support, case management, legal, and security).
- Contribute to measures to prevent and respond to GBV incidents.
- Contribute to safety audits and other relevant assessments.
- Support the implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for GBV response as well as other protection/solutions activities.
- Support the provision of case management to GBV survivors (if relevant in operation) in line with GBV Guiding Principles;
- Liaise with other protection units for relevant referrals (including to the durable solutions unit).
- Assist in drafting reports, routine correspondence, updating relevant databases and compiling statistics for the protection unit / section.
- Ensure the wishes of survivors are prioritized as per the survivor-centred approach. Enforce compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures for GBV as well as the GBV minimum standards and Guiding Principles.
The Senior GBV Assistant supports the operations' efforts to fulfil UNHCR's mandate and associated obligations on GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response based on policy and guidance.
Duties
- Support activities in GBV prevention and response with implementing and operational partners
- Support the implementation of multi-sectorial response to GBV (including health, psychosocial support, case management, legal, and security).
- Contribute to measures to prevent and respond to GBV incidents.
- Contribute to safety audits and other relevant assessments.
- Support the implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for GBV response as well as other protection/solutions activities.
- Support the provision of case management to GBV survivors (if relevant in operation) in line with GBV Guiding Principles;
- Liaise with other protection units for relevant referrals (including to the durable solutions unit).
- Assist in drafting reports, routine correspondence, updating relevant databases and compiling statistics for the protection unit / section.
- Ensure the wishes of survivors are prioritized as per the survivor-centred approach. Enforce compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures for GBV as well as the GBV minimum standards and Guiding Principles.
- Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
- Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
For G5 - 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
2 years of previous work experience relevant to the function of GBV in a local context and having experience in the field of GBV prevention, mitigation and response, broader protection or social work involving empowerment of women and girls, gender, child protection, mental health, counselling and working with survivors, humanitarian and development issues. Knowledge of GBV minimum standards, Guiding Principles and GBV case management standards.
Minimum Qualifications
For G5 - 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
2 years of previous work experience relevant to the function of GBV in a local context and having experience in the field of GBV prevention, mitigation and response, broader protection or social work involving empowerment of women and girls, gender, child protection, mental health, counselling and working with survivors, humanitarian and development issues. Knowledge of GBV minimum standards, Guiding Principles and GBV case management standards.
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