Assistant Technical Officer - GBV

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FHI 360

Hybrid
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 20/10/2023
  • Location: Nigeria, Damasak
Gender-based violence (GBV)
Duties and responsibilities:
  • Responsible for implementation of the overall GBV response, including individual case management, group support group, individual and group counselling, and psychosocial support activities for survivors of GBV in the Safe Space 
  • Adhere to survivor centered approach and GBV response guiding principles.
  • Apply all GBV case management steps to provide specialized and individualized support to survivors of gender-based violence.
  • With informed consent from the survivor, engage family members of survivors and empower them with skills to help survivors cope.
  • Provide confidential and appropriate referrals of GBV cases to critical services including child protection, clinical care, specialized mental health services          ( MHPSS), accompany of survivors to services where appropriate and do all necessary follow- ups to ensure appropriate support services have been provided to the survivor.
  • Record all GBV incidents on the primero including development of action plan and ensure that they are stored in a safe and confidential manner.
  • Deliver trainings and coaching on GBV related topics including case management and referral pathways, Psychological First Aid (PFA), men engagement in GBV prevention, community mobilization techniques.
  • Provide supportive supervision to community volunteers to monitor the application of their training knowledge.
  • Effectively play the role of “Volunteer Management System (VMS)” Focal Point  for  GBV community volunteers. 
  • Work closely with community stakeholders to establish and strengthen GBV community-based mechanisms through   capacity building on GBV prevention and response involving training, coaching, and mentoring. 
  • Oversee all GBV prevention activities at both GBV safe spaces and community level and identify GBV risk in the community as well as adequate mitigation measures.
  • Facilitate peer education sessions for religious/stakeholders and monitor CVs facilitation on peer education.
  • Conduct weekly mentoring and coaching of community volunteers on the job role and responsibilities.
  • Coordinate with a range of actors to ensure safe and confidential services are made available and accessible to survivors of GBV and other vulnerable women and girls, and those at heighten risk of GBV as well.
  • Conduct quarterly activity review sessions with beneficiaries to identify what activities are working and what activities need to be improved.
  • Serve as organizational liaison to external organizations working in GBV at coordination meetings in the LGA and conference as assigned.
  • Compile weekly and monthly community outreach and group psychosocial support activities as well as monthly specific protection reports and share with STO- GBV for review.

Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:
  • Extensive knowledge of GBV, GBV-PSS and Counselling in crisis situations.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality.
  • At least 1-3-year experience GBV case management and PSS as well as GBV prevention in humanitarian context.

Qualifications and Requirements: 
  • BA/BSc in social work, Sociology, Social Sciences, Psychology, or a similar degree with at least 1-3 years relevant experience in child protection programming including CP Case management and PSS, child protection prevention as well as setting up and management of child friendly safe spaces or SHLS. 

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