Requisition ID: req8804
Job Title: Community Wellbeing Initiative (CWI) Assistant
Sector: Violence Prevention and Response
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Assosa, Ethiopia
Job Description
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 seven decades in the
world addressing both the immediate, life saving 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:
The Community Wellbeing Initiative
(CWI) Assistant reports to the CWI Manager, and is responsible to support all
aspects of CWI unit in Assosa.
Duties
and Responsibilities:
- Conduct trainings on GBV response and prevention to government and non-government service providers based on field sites needs, requests and scheduling.
- Be seconded at government institution and provide technical support on GBV case management and counseling support.
- Support the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of EU Trust Fund planned activities.
- Work on monthly reports and work on quarterly and annual donor reports.
- Develop CWI communication materials (brochures, leaflets) as needed.
- Establish community groups and build their capacity on GBV response and prevention.
- Establish good partnership with different actors including schools and provide technical support.
- Conduct monthly BVA reviews and make appropriate recommendations to CWI Addis team as needed.
- Support 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 provision at Assosa town.
- Support in prevention program activity design of effective community outreach and engagement strategies to strengthen the protective environment for women and girls and maximize the community impact including engaging men and boys.
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation activities including in assessments and surveys.
- Assist with all aspects of EU Trust Fund program implementation in Assosa and provide operational support (i.e., HR , Admin., Finance, Logistics) including facilitating procurement requests, following up on PR tracking, etc.
- Coordinate and organize CWI workshops and training including prepare TOR, facilitate procurement requests, and follow up on the timely implementation.
- Any other duties and responsibilities that can be given by immediate and technical supervisors
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in Social science related fields preferably in Psychology or Social
Work plus 1 year of relevant work
experience
- Diploma in Social science related fields preferably in Psychology or Social
Work plus 3 years of relevant work
experience
- NGO
experience is a plus.
- Proven
experience on GBV response and prevention, counseling, gender mainstreaming,
social work or migration;
- Good
knowledge and skill on Microsoft office particularly word, excel and publisher;
- Proven experience supporting
staff capacity development;
- Excellent oral and written
communication skills;
- Strong organizational and
interpersonal skills; and
- Ability to work with minimum supervision and also
work as part of a team
