GBV Officer
Job Description
Title: GBV Officer
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master Degree (Social workers, Law, Gender, Education, Psychology, Public health, relevant degree).
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ As a GBV Officer, you will be responsible for overseeing activities implemented in collaboration with UNSW and their educational partner in camps to implement commitments made under Global Compact of Refugee (GCR) project. She will be responsible to led project activities to empower women and girls groups in camp to run independent functions of each group.
∎ Duty Station: Ukhiya/Teknaf, Bangladesh (with frequent travel to camp/field offices)
∎ Report To: GBV Manager / Protection Program Manager
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to 31st December, 2023.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Under the guidance of the GBV Manager, the GBV Officer will be responsible for-
∎ Lead the team to collect data in the field to analysis the needs and priorities of women to eliminate violence and also ensure women participation, empowerment and decision making in the camp government structure.
∎ Strengthen the function of community based women support network group to ensure independent function and also build capacity of women researchers, leaders and members to take joint initiatives as follows:
∎ The capacity development of WSN Groups:
∎ Capacity building in GBV, para-legal knowledge and arbitration,
∎ Mobilization of other women and girls to expand the network
∎ Facilitate coordination/network meetings bringing together all women
∎ Community awareness raising sessions
∎ Enhance access and availability of services for women and girls to support
∎ Case management including Safe reporting mechanisms supported by women
∎ Access to justice - especially engaging Madjis
∎ Women-to-women support to survivors of GBV
∎ Safe feedback and reporting mechanisms
∎ Building advocacy platforms for women to engage with service providers and local authorities
∎ Support women's participation in leadership
∎ Support women and girls' identification and sharing of gaps in service delivery
∎ Support women and girls to hold meetings with community leaders
∎ Collaboration with institutional partners to implement SASA! Together program. The tools and materials need to review so that it adherence to Cox's Bazar Context.
∎ Driven and support community-led initiative for ownership and sustainability and participate in M&E to continue to develop tools to support women empowerment.
∎ Support community-led groups (eg; women support network) to plan and implement their activities.
∎ Organize weekly meeting with community-led groups (eg; women support network).
∎ Supervision of GBV assistants and community based volunteers for proper function of research team
∎ Arrange awareness raising campaign and event activities as needed.
∎ Report to GBV manager weekly, bi-weekly and monthly on community based protection
∎ Contextualize different modules and other IEC materials intended to use in camp setting
∎ Maintain good coordination/ collaboration with other RI staffs, partner and other stakeholder.
∎ Ensure recognized international best practices and Relief International policies are applied in the work with women, girls and vulnerable persons.
∎ Ensure proper resources are available to the team by raising procurement request, stock release request etc to support activities in field.
∎ Support MEAL process so that all staffs understand the tool and provide timely delivery in the tool.
∎ Represent RI in Camp Coordination Meetings, Protection Coordination Meetings, GBVSS CFP meetings, Youth Working Group and other similar public platforms.
∎ Any other responsibilities as requested by supervisor.
∎ Any other responsibilities requested by supervisor.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 18 years
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ Demonstrate knowledge of community-led mechanism
∎ 2-3 years of Experience working with NGO in Cox's bazar is preferable.
∎ Experience in community mobilization in refugee camps
∎ Demonstrate faith and belief activism, good social changes, holistic engagement and community-led mechanism for ownership and sustainability
∎ Experience and skill work with community member
∎ Demonstrate facilitation skills
∎ Good communication skill
∎ Good knowledge of local context, strongly preferred
∎ Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and support unexpected task.
∎ Enthusiasm to learn
∎ Optimistic and friendly
∎ Flexibility
∎ Language Skills:
∎ Excellent communication skill in English and Bengali.
∎ Good command in Rohingya or Chittagonian, an asset.
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one Gross salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly Gross salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 2 Jan 2023
Company Information:
∎ 26 Dec 2022
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: Apt- D2, House- 39 (Sheltech Sunshine), Road-37, Gulshan-2, Dhaka- 1212 I Bangladesh.
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, headquartered in USA, is a leading international non-government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International (RI) has been working in Bangladesh since 2004, implementing programs covering emergency response, health, economic opportunity, trafficking in persons, gender equality and youth empowerment. RI has been present in Cox’s Bazar since 2014 where it was implementing a trafficking in persons project in Ukhiya and Teknaf supporting old caseload refugees as well as host communities prior to the large-scale influx. Since 2017, RI has scaled up its operations in Cox’s Bazar to support the emergency response by providing integrated, multi-sectoral programming for refugee and host communities, covering health services, including a 132 bed COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Center in Ukhiya, child protection, SGBV, complimentary food and livelihoods opportunities to support social cohesion. Relief International is currently implementing a large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, WFP, USAID.RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Category: NGO/Development
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