GBV Officer
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Trocaire
- Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Fundraising/ Grant management, Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL, Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 2-5 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 17/09/2026
- Location: Somalia
Trócaire is one of Ireland’s top International NGOs having over 50 years of experience in international Development. Trócaire works through local partners and is a member of worldwide networks such as Caritas and Cooperation Internationale pour le Development et la Solidarité (CIDSE).
The GBV Programme Officer is responsible for supporting local partners in implementing a gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response programme with internally displaced communities and host communities in Gedo region. The program includes the establishment and management of Women and Girls Centres (WGC), social norm change interventions, particularly on FGM, GBV case management, health responses to GBV including clinical management of rape (CMR) and psychosocial support. Through these WGCs, a range of group-based psychosocial support, basic adult education, life skills and vocational activities are provided to women and girls.
The GBV Programme Officer is responsible for supporting local partners in implementing a gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response programme with internally displaced communities and host communities in Gedo region. The program includes the establishment and management of Women and Girls Centres (WGC), social norm change interventions, particularly on FGM, GBV case management, health responses to GBV including clinical management of rape (CMR) and psychosocial support. Through these WGCs, a range of group-based psychosocial support, basic adult education, life skills and vocational activities are provided to women and girls.
The GBV Programme Officer is responsible for managing grants to a local partner that uses a Communities Care approach (a survivor centred approach) to its intervention, along with supporting partners in all aspects of implementation and reporting to ensure programme quality and compliance with donor requirements. This will include ensuring that partners are supported with capacity building and ongoing accompaniment, based on mutual respect & solidarity.
The GBV Programme Officer is also responsible for supporting partner Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), including data collection, analysis and reporting, and is also responsible for representing the organisation at UN, NGO and other coordination meetings at regional and national level as required.
Additionally, The GBV Programme Officer will directly supervise staff working in the WGCs and support health workers training implemented by Trocaire.
Requirements
Requirements
Third level qualification in Humanitarian or Development Studies, Gender, International Relations, Human Rights Law or similar
- 3 years of programme management experience with at least 1 year of GBV programming.
- Experience working in humanitarian or insecure settings.
- Experience working with capacity building of local NGOs.
- Experience working in Somalia and/or deep knowledge of Somali preferred.
- Strong commitment to and understanding of Gender Equity.
Skills:
- Proven strategic thinking and planning skills including ability to think creatively, analyse and be innovative, set priorities, manage work plans and evaluate progress.
- Proven technical skills in data management, M&E and assessments with experience related to monitoring and evaluation of projects
- Ability to work in a complex organisation & consortium/partner structure.
- Demonstrated ability to lead & work in a team.
- Excellent and proven organisational skills.
- Highly developed relationship, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent facilitation & capacity building skills and experience of applying them when working with individual organisations or groups of organisations.
- Excellent written, oral and presentational communications skills.
- Computer literacy skills in word, excel, PowerPoint and statistical software.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English.
- Ability to speak Somali would be an added advantage
- Experience in an IDP/Refugee setting
- Female Applicants are strongly preferred for this role
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