Job Posting End Date: July 30, 2023 | Senior GBV Associate kenya | unhcr
Standard Job Description
Senior GBV Associate
Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
The Senior GBV Associate supports the operations¿ efforts to fulfil UNHCR¿s mandate and associated obligations on GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response based on policy and guidance.
The Senior GBV Associate works under direct supervision of a more senior GBV/Protection colleague who defines overall work objectives and provides regular advice and guidance. The Senior GBV Associate will focus on strengthening GBV case management supervision as well as safe and ethical data collection and further analysis of GBV trends. S/he contributes to designing a comprehensive GBV strategy and represents the Office externally on GBV standards and policy as guided by the supervisor. The incumbent prepares relevant documentation and follows-up on administrative requirements of GBV projects.
S/he collaborates closely with the UNHCR management and the Protection team in the country and strengthens working relations with other agencies involved in GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response. S/he promotes alignment with GBV minimum standards and respect of GBV Guiding Principles.
The incumbent may supervise some support staff.
S/he also ensures that persons of concern, in particular women and girls, are involved with the Office in making decisions that affect them, whether in accessing their rights or in identifying appropriate solutions to their problems. To achieve this, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective interfaces with communities of concern, local authorities and protection and assistance partners.
Duties
- – Assist the Associate Protection Officer or Associate GBV Officer and/or the Protection Officer or GBV Officer in the preparations and holdings of the coordination meetings of the GBV sub-working group (and/or Protection Working Group) or support follow-up required within GBV sub-clusters chaired by other organizations.
- – Support the development of coordination tools such as referral pathways.
- – Provide inputs to multi-sectoral GBV strategy as part of the operation¿s broader Protection and Solutions Strategy, coordinate timely reporting on progress including the documentation of promising practices;
- – Under the overall guidance of the Protection Officer or GBV Officer /Senior Protection Officer or Senior GBV Officer, support the development and implementation of programming for specialized GBV prevention and response based on needs, risks and capacity assessments at the onset of an emergency and throughout all phases of displacement.
- – Participate in conducting, consolidating and reporting on GBV assessments including gender equality components at least once per year, linked to annual planning processes and participatory assessments and sharing strategic trends analyses.
- – Contribute to support other sectors/units on GBV risk mitigation under overall guidance of Associate Protection Officer or Associate GBV Officer / Protection Officer of GBV Officer.
- – Support in providing technical guidance to partners and government counterparts on GBV minimum standards under overall direction of the supervisor.
- – Contribute to GBV partners¿ monitoring by undertaking regular field visits and drafting monitoring reports.
- – Contribute to drafting donor reports.
- – Provide GBV case management services for survivors at high risk and/or other complex cases (if relevant in operation) and follow-up with other units/partners as relevant.
- – Ensure technical supervision of UNHCR staff providing GBV case management (including coaching and implementation of staff care strategies).
- – Facilitate and contribute to the design of GBV capacity building initiatives, including on GBV safe disclosure and referrals.
- – Ensure the wishes of survivors are prioritized as per the survivor-centred approach.
- – Enforce compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures for GBV as well as the GBV minimum standards and Guiding Principles.
- – Perform other related duties as required.
