Senior WPE Officer

Senior WPE Officer

Admin الحماية والتمكين

JOB Vacancy Announcement #: 8041

Job Title: Senior WPE Officer

Application deadline: 21.02.2023

Duty Station: Raqqa

Job Requirements:

  • A university degree in social work, psychology, humanities, other social science, or related field.
  • Clear understanding of the impact and dynamics of GBV on women and girls.
  • Demonstrated interest, enthusiasm, and commitment to working with women and girls, and their rights, safety, empowerment, and improving their access to resources and services.
  • Approximately 3-6 years direct experience in providing basic counselling, psychosocial support, case management, and delivering services to women and girls GBV survivors.
  • Experience providing training and mentoring to others.
  • Experience in supervising staff, activity design, planning and monitoring, and supervising direct services.
  • Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients.
  • Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting.
  • Ability to organize and priorities work and competing tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain composure.
  • Excellent communication, listening and observation skills, including ability to create trust, support, respect and interact with women, girls and survivors of all ages, background, and diversity.
  • Ability to discuss sensitive issues with respect, empathy, and professionalism.
  • Strengths in listening, empathy, flexibility, and creativity.
  • Knowledge and experience with community outreach and mobilization.
  • Familiarity with principles of monitoring and evaluation; experience in writing brief narrative reports and data reporting.
  • Good computer skills and familiarity with Word/Excel.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • A commitment to IRC’s mission, vision, values and IRC Way – Professional Code of Conduct.
  • Credible written, presentation and verbal communication skills; ability to convey information effectively and solid experience providing training and staff development
  • Validated sense of professional discretion, integrity, and ability to handle complex situations diplomatically and to effective resolution.
  • Excellent management and interpersonal skills and a solid ability to promote harmonious/cohesive teamwork, in a cross-cultural context.
  • Validated ability to plan long-term, organize priorities and work under administrative and programmatic pressures with detail orientation and professional patience.
  • Highly collaborative and resourceful; ability to establish positive working relationships with senior level management and all other partners to maximize cooperation and productivity.
  • Curiosity, a desire to continually learn and develop and a sense of humor is a must.
  • Analytical ability in creating effective solutions to complex matters while adhering to labor laws and internal policies.

Language/Travel:

  • A good command of English and Arabic are required.
  • Travel: 15% to field sites as well as attending regional and global workshops and meetings.

Job Description:

As part of its Syria response, the IRC has programs to support women and girls throughout Al-Hasakeh, Der Ezour, and Ar-Raqqa governorates in Syria. The IRC provides psychosocial support (PSS) and case management services to women and girls throughout northeast Syria. The WPE Senior Officer is a roving position and will require regular weekly travel to field locations, directly supporting at least two sites of WPE activities. This position will oversee and support the day-to-day WPE activities in their designated sites in static centers and/or mobile locations. They will provide technical support and mentorship to the WPE team and, working closely with the WPE Manager/Senior WPE Manager, ensure quality services and implementation of PSS and group activities aimed at building social support networks, case management for women and girl GBV survivors, risk mitigation and risk reduction activities, community-based interventions and mobilization aimed at strengthening community acceptance and support for the program and prevention. This position is based in Raqqa and will cover WPE activities in Dez Ezzor directly supported and supervised by a WPE Manager, with technical support from the Senior WPE Manager.

Responsibilities:

Technical Quality

  • Supervise and support the running of the WPE activities in your sites of operation through –
  • Ensuring that WPE program activities are women, girl, and survivor-centered, and adhere to standard methodology and GBV guiding principles, flagging any concerns to the WPE Manager in a timely manner.
  • Conducting regular weekly in-person field visits and providing remote support to supervise the successful implementation of WPE activities in the designated area of operation, which may include camps, clinics, urban women’s centers, and mobile locations.
  • Ensuring monthly site collaboration plans and weekly activity schedules are in place and updated, supervising progress with the WPE Officers, and ensuring weekly follow-up of activities against produced work plans.
  • Supporting the WPE team to continuously supervise and assess risk across all their services, activities, and sites of operations, raising any concerns immediately in line with procedures.
  • Meet regularly with the site teams to discuss, design, and plan community outreach, mobilization, and engagement activities; and support the team to identify, train, and mentor teams of community volunteers.
  • Meet regularly with the other WPE Senior Officers and Managers to discuss programming progress, successes, challenges, and responsiveness of our program; putting in place an action plan and follow up.
  • Support the team to develop Dignity Kit distribution plans and post-distribution monitoring; and provide as-needed support in distributions on site.

Case management support

  • With technical guidance from WPE Manager or Snr WPE Manager, provide technical support to the case management team on high-risk and/or complex, difficult cases.
  • Conduct weekly team case management meetings and individual supervision sessions with GBV Caseworkers at each site of operation.
  • Review all case files with the Case Workers and ensure they are carefully and safely stored in line with the Case Management Protocol, data protection protocols, ethical standards, WPE and interagency guidelines, GBV guiding principles, and standard methodology; raise concerns to the WPE Manager as needed.
  • Support the GBV Caseworkers to ensure they are tracking and following up on referrals conducted within the case management process.
  • Ensure the WPE team is using functional, survivor-centered referral pathways and conducting safe, confidential, and appropriate referrals in line with standard methodology.
  • Engage and advocate with health actors on the provision of safe and confidential access to crucial life-saving health services for survivors.

Monitoring and Reporting:

  • Ensure GBV information generated from our services is handled in line with ethical standards, the GBVIMS guidelines, information sharing, and data protection protocols.
  • In collaboration with the WPE Manager, continuously supervise activities, assessing their relevance to the needs, priorities, and interests of women and adolescent girls; raise any issues and make adaptations accordingly.
  • Weekly activity summary reporting captured from the sites; then submit a consolidated weekly bullet point report (including no case data) to the WPE Manager; and raise any challenges or concerns immediately.
  • On a weekly basis capture redacted case management data from the sites and update the master Program Data and Indicator tracker; submit in time with the deadline to the Snr WPE Manager, with the WPE Managers, to review.

Coordination:

  • Collaborate with the Humanitarian Access team, security focal points, and WPE Manager to ensure smooth access for program implementation collaboration with local partners and the ability to implement programming in multiple locations and in line with humanitarian principles.
  • Develop and maintain effective working relationships where relevant with NGOs, UN agencies, and authorities.

Other:

  • Other relevant duties as assigned by the WPE Manager to support the implementation and quality of the program.
  • All IRC staff are required to adhere to The IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.

Staff Performance Management, Learning & Development

  • Hire, supervise, and build the capacity of team members in relevant technical and management competencies.
  • Develop and implement remote management capacity-building approaches to build the strengths of the teams in Syria.
  • Coach, train, supervise, and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting annual performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented semi-annual performance reviews.
  • Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
  • Approve and lead time, attendance, and leave requests to ensure adequate departmental coverage; ensure monthly, accurate timesheet submission and carry out probationary reviews.
  • Hold high-quality meetings with each direct report on a regular and predictable basis, minimally monthly.
  • Provide a measurable development plan including on-the-job learning with the aim of strengthening technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team, and providing guidance on career paths.
  • As required, identify staff performance issues and work with Human Resources to document and address these in accordance with the National Staff Employment Policies.
  • Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to optimally perform in their positions.
  • Promote and monitor staff care and well-being. Model healthy work-life balance practices. Support appropriate interventions in response to identified staff care needs of both national and international staff.
  • Look for opportunities to support staff in their career growth, where appropriate. As part of a succession plan and nationalization goals, identify, train, and develop the capability and capacity of national staff to successfully transition roles and responsibilities, by the end of the assignment.

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