Title: Prevention Officer
Company Name: DanChurch Aid, Bangladesh office
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in relevant field (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Social science, Gender Studies, Law etc.) with 2 (Two) year of relevant experience working with the issue of GBV.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ With support from GBV Coordinator and WGSS Team Leader, initiate, and carry out all community outreach, mobilization, and risk mitigation activities in selected communities.
∎ Conduct community awareness sessions, COVID 19'and GBV risk mitigation sessions, mobilize new and existing community-based protection groups, and carry out training and capacity building of community members on issues relating to women and girls, focusing on GBV in refugee camps.
∎ Provide information sessions with women and girls in the community to disseminate information about available services.
∎ Conduct safety audits by means of community-level interviews with key informants such as community and religious leaders, local service providers, and focus group discussions with FDMN and host community women and girls on needs and problems faced by women and girls.
∎ Carry out service mapping of all available services and assistance provided to women and girls by INGOs, NGOs, other humanitarian actors and government agencies.
∎ With support from the outreach volunteers from refugee communities, plan and conduct a GBV awareness raising sessions, that target adolescent girls in the camps. Furthermore, working on reporting the GBV concerns of adolescent girls with GBV Program team and the stakeholders to be addressed.
∎ Implement coordination meetings between service providers to establish a referral pathway.
∎ Make regular trips to assigned refugee camps and maintain a regular field presence.
∎ Develop work and movement plans outlining what tasks will be completed and when.
∎ Document all outreach and mobilization activities in an accurate and timely manner using agreed tools
∎ Organize and participate in frequent and regular monitoring visits including with donors, if required.
∎ Hold regular planning and debriefing sessions with team members at community based safe spaces.
∎ Carry out performance evaluation and ensure the documentation for direct reports is in place and followed up regularly.
∎ Mentor and support staff professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming.
∎ Ensure timely reports and follow DCA and donor Policies and Procedures.
∎ Support dissemination of information on existing WGSS services including working with other service providers to ensure community is aware of the available services.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Knowledgeable in GBV and women's rights.
∎ Experience working with refugees, women and girls, and implementing programs in vulnerable communities.
∎ Understands the challenges and obstacles women and girls face regarding cultural practices, norms, and society pressures.
∎ Understands sensitivities of conducting outreach and awareness on violence related issues.
∎ Ability to communicate sensitively and without judgment.
∎ Emotional maturity and stability to deal with conflict and confrontation in non-violent way and maintain appropriate boundaries.
∎ Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, and age sensitivity and adaptability.
∎ Good communication and facilitation skills to work with community members and leaders on sensitive topics.
∎ Ability to speak Bangla and Chattogram local language.
Salary: Negotiable
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 7 May 2022
Company Information:
∎ 2 May 2022
∎ DanChurch Aid, Bangladesh office
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com