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JOB PURPOSE

To develop and coordinate the Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) programming and advocacy portfolio, providing guidance and a framework for interventions at MemberAssociation level and represent the federation in regional and global fora. The portfolio willinclude providing close technical support to MAs within the South – South East Asia region under the SPRINT project, as well as humanitarian and development SGBV activities under core and restricted funds.

KEY TASKS

• Advise the humanitarian technical lead to ensure that the SGBV portfolio is integrated with IPPF’s broader SRHR mandate.   

• Provide evidence-based technical support to Regional Offices and MAs to build their capacity on prevention of and response to SGBV within SRH programs, including activities to reduce and mitigate the health consequences of SGBV, maximizing opportunities to reach women, youth, people with disabilities, people who are of diverse SOGIESC to engage them to advocate for their rights and better respond to the needs of survivors.

• Contribute to delivering the ambitious outcomes of IPPF’s new Strategic Framework (Locally Owned: Globally Connected: A Movement for Change) and oversee SGBV technical assistance in humanitarian and development programs.

• Develop and coordinate planning and implementing specific SGBV interventions as an essential component of IPPF integrated package of essential services (IPES) and MISP, ensuring collaboration across the Secretariat and MAs to maximize program delivery and impact.

• Collaborate closely with technical colleagues across the Secretariat to inform SGBV strategic, programmatic and technical direction and support development and rollout of technical guidance, tools and other products. This may involve participation in technical workstreams, action teams or taskforces on specific thematic areas and technical priorities.

• Provide SGBV technical assistance in the development of proposals, program design, work plans, implementation, reporting and M&E and compliance with the requirements and regulations of respective funding streams.

• Support the preparation of reporting documents for each of the different humanitarian projects/programs, taking as input the reports of the Humanitarian Team and the MAs.

For this technical advisor role, IPPF seeks a professional in social, human and/or clinical sciences with significant experience in gender, SGBV, protection in humanitarian settings. The successful candidate will have: 

Skills/Expertise

• Significant experience in comprehensive SGBV, program design, implementation,capacity building and advocacy in development and humanitarian settings. 

• Significant experience developing organizational guidance and promoting reflective learning on technical issues, relating to SGBV.

• Advanced understanding of gender transformative programming and inclusion, and on how humanitarian crises affect different segments of a population, including women and men in their diversity, youth, people with disabilities, including those of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity etc.

• Significant experience of training and mentoring teams on SGBV programming with the ability to bring diverse actors together across cultures and geographies to create an aligned and powerful force for change.

• Sound judgement, particularly in constrained and pressured situations and environments.

• Fluent in English