Adolescent Girls Assistant – Abo Qobaih, Raqqa

Adolescent Girls Assistant – Abo Qobaih, Raqqa

JOB Vacancy Announcement #: (2899)

Job Title: Adolescent Girls Assistant – Abo Qobaih, Raqqa

Application deadline: 18.04.2020

Other Information’s:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

CVs should be in English Language and in Word or PDF format.

Job Requirements:        

  • Minimum six months professional experience in Protection or GBV
  • Clear understanding of gender, human rights, and issues surrounding violence against women and girls
  • programming, preferably in an emergency context
  • Demonstrated experience working with adolescent girls, including facilitating trainings and/or activities targeting adolescent girl
  • Professional experience in GBV prevention and response programs in emergency
  • Experience in working with adolescent girls in empowerment, life-skills or risk mitigation programs
  • Experience training, mentoring and coaching staff on new program approaches and core competencies
  • Thorough understanding of best practices in GBV response and GBV primary prevention and risk reduction
  • Clear understanding of gender, human rights, and issues surrounding violence against girls.
  • Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, prioritize work under pressure
  • Fluency in English, Arabic and Kurdish(written and spoken)
  • Fulfill any other duties and responsibilities as assigned
  • Respect the code of conduct and policies of the MRFS and the standards of the GBV team
  • Adhere and uphold the MRFS principle and policies (integrity, accountability and service) at the respective areas of work
  • Consistently and proactively monitor the safety and security of the team, promptly reporting concerns or incidents to MRFS management

Job Description:

  • Participate in assessment exercises to identify vulnerable communities that the team will target
  • Participate in and lead community mapping and safety planning exercises to ensure risks faced by adolescent girls are adequately captured
  • Participate in and lead community-wide safety planning exercises to ensure involvement of adolescent girls and their caregivers
  • Provide regular updates to GBV Officer, GBV Manager and Adolescent Girls Officer on common threats and needs of adolescent girls to inform program design and advocacy initiatives
  • Identify and train adolescent girls focal points in the community to enable them to support other girls in the community assess and respond to common risks and threats
  • Use agreed-upon reporting formats to ensure risk mitigation activities.
  • Implement the different components of the Adolescent Girls Toolkit
  • Outreach and introduce MRFS services to Adolescent girls to participate in life-skills curriculum, non-formal education and recreational activities.
  • Facilitate parts of the curriculum with female caregivers
  • Engage with the community through the Community Participation process from the toolkit with the support of team leader and male community mobilizer aiming to create girls committees.
  • Collaborate with team members to ensure GBV responses are taking into account specific needs and vulnerabilities of adolescent girls and basic facilitation techniques are used
  • Support logistic implementation of the activities, including by raising purchase requests and contributing to regular spending plans
  • Use agreed-upon monitoring and evaluation tools to track adolescent girls’ participation in activities and collect their feedback
  • Support and collaborate with local partner staff, including by providing coaching and training on how to work with adolescent girls
  • Be involved in the MRFS GBV reporting modalities

Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop MRFS programs

Advertiser :Confidential 

Duty Station: Abo Qobaih,Raqqa

How to Apply:
Please send your CV to the following email/Link:

 nes-recruitment@medicalreliefforsyria.org

Please consider to mention the advert ID (Above) and the job title in the email subject.