ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the largest humanitarian agencies in the world, providing relief, rehabilitation and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of oppression and violent conflict. IRC has worked for over eight decades in the world addressing both the immediate, lifesaving needs of conflict affected people in an emergency and the reconstruction needs in post conflict societies. IRC is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships and thorough accountability to those we serve.
SCOPE OF WORK/ JOB PURPOSE:
Under direct supervision of the Field Coordinator and program technical support from the CWI Coordinator, the CWI Program Manager is responsible for the initiation and implementation of the CWI program in the four Shire refugee camps, ensuring program goals and objectives of the program are met. And that the program adheres to international best practice standards and the guiding principles around survivors: ensuring their physical safety, guaranteeing confidentiality, respecting their wishes, rights, and dignity, and practicing non-discrimination. S/He will provide supervision and direction to the CWI project team, with an emphasis on coaching and mentoring the staff to build their capacity.
DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
1. Provide ongoing supervision, leadership, training and technical support and guidance to all CWI staffs. Leading staffs’ capacity building activity to ensure a sustainable transfer of skills in which all staffs practices follow to GBV best-practice and principles when working with beneficiary especially GBV survivors and that all staffs use participatory approaches to working with the community in addressing beliefs and practices that condone or perpetuate psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls, an ongoing support include structured-meeting and site visits.
2. Oversee the implementation of Shire CWI programming to ensure the program is implemented according to well- plan schedule annual, quarterly, month work plan and budgets-spending plan, and that program objectives are well-met.
3. Provide consistency technical guidance, oversight and support to the response team in provision of quality case management and psychosocial support services to ensure that; timely and quality services are provided, Training and consistently supervising and mentoring Response Officer, Ensure safe referrals to health care services, protection/safety services and others as needed through regular auditing of case files and providing feedback to Response Officer.
4. Lead in the update/establish of a functional GBV referral system, Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs), maintain good GBV coordination mechanism with other actors to ensure comprehensive response intervention, risk mitigation and GBV services provisions.
5. Lead in prevention program activity design of effective community outreach and engagement strategies such as SASA!, coffee discussion, campaign, IEC/BCC development etc to strengthen the protective environment for women and girls and maximize the community impact including engaging men and boys.
6. Contextualize, conduct, lead and supervise trainings on GBV case management training, referral pathways, GBV Guiding Principles for working with survivors, basic counseling, Clinical Care for Sexual Assault Survivors, Clinical Care for Child Survivors, GBVIMS and other response related trainings for CWI staffs, IPs, OPs, ARRA, UN Agency, community members, and service providers for ethic and quality of services.
8. Lead/oversee CWI trainings/workshops on GBV related-prevention issue for CWI staffs, IPs, OPs, ARRA, UN agency, community members, community leaders, religious leaders, youth groups, women’s group for GBV-community based prevention and awareness.
8. Direct responsible for GBV ethical and accuracy data collection and GBV information management systems (GBVIMS) are accurately collected, entered with data protection and confidentiality - for analysis, planning, evaluation, and coordinate with other stakeholders, accordingly to Data Sharing Protocol (DSP) and to informed CWI future programming in Shire with timely internal and external monthly submission (as agreed by the DSP) and participate quarterly GBVIMS data analysis and interpretation meeting with signatories/Gov/agreed partners.
9. Oversee women’s safe spaces and activities to ensure women and girls access to information and group/psycho social activities in a safe, secure and dignified manner, including lead in the design and with the Response Officer to implement age appropriate psycho-social activities at the safe space and other specific safe-space interventions to meet the needs of adolescent girls.
10. Oversee GBV safety audit activity and ensure consistency of its implementation, and ensure the recommendation are followed and effective through coordination mechanism and community solution.
11. Lead in overall quality of CWI program assessment, assessment tools design/contextualize, methodology and final quality assessment report.
12. Direct responsible for CWI program timely and quality monitoring and evaluation, Ensure good project monitoring and evaluation tools are in place/update, and evident based documentation is in practices to demonstrate quality project progress, impact, learning and recommendation.
13. Direct responsible for all Shire CWI grants, in collaboration with field/camp team; develop and maintain work plans, spending and procurement plans. Participate in all grant opening, and closing meetings, tracking expenditures and ensure they are allowable and allocable according to IRC and donor compliance and regulations; review monthly BvA and bring any over/under expenditure, miss-charge or double charging issues etc to the attention of the Field Coordinator/Finance team in a timely manner and jointly develop corrective plans.
14. Timely, informative and quality inputs to funding proposals, including writing, log frames, and budgeting; and timely, and quality inputs to project reports this include the completion of all section required CWI inputs.
15. Lead in effective coordination and working relationships with all stakeholders at all level in best representation of IRC/CWI Program with Government of the Ethiopia, ARRA, community leaders, IPS, Ops, LNGO, UN Agencies, Community Based Organizations to enhance multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination, ensure that relevant information from coordination meetings is shared internally with the CWI Shire team, other IRC sectors and Field Management team.
16. Support the Ethiopia Country SAP implementation at Shire level coordinate with other IRC actors particularly WASH, Health, CYPD, ERR (if applicable) and Operational Department to achieve the IRC strategy outcome with support of the Field management and CWI Coordinator.
17. Mentor and support staff’s capacity needs and their professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming include a concrete formal and informal capacity planning and training for staff once every quarter.
18. Any other duties and responsibilities that can be given by immediate and technical supervisors