Organization: CANADEM
Country: Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Closing date: 07 Nov 2017
CANADEM is seeking a Gender Based Violence Specialist for one of its partners to provide urgent surge capacity in Venezuela.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Preparedness and Assessment
- Consolidate existing assessments on the GBV situation and/or work with relevant agencies and communities to conduct sector-specific GBV assessments (in line with safe and ethical practice for the collection and dissemination of GBV data) to identify vulnerability factors; national capacities to address GBV; availability and accessibility to GBV-related services and facilities; as well as population coping strategies and help seeking behavior.
- In collaboration with national and international GBV actors, map current institutional response capacities and conduct training as needed.
Programme Development and implementation
- Contribute to the development and inclusion of GBV prevention, mitigation and response efforts in funding appeals and proposals (e.g. EF)
- Support implementation of the emergency preparedness and response strategy and action plans as required.
Strategic Planning
- Lead a process to develop a realistic, multi-sectoral and inter-agency GBV prevention and response plan. Promote engagement of a range of sectors and ensure realistic benchmarks and timelines for achieving set objectives. Regularly monitor progress against plan during coordination meetings. Allow space for new actors to engage with plan.
- Support development of strategy/action plan on GBV in emergencies, including preparedness and response components.
Building Interagency Coordination
- Establish and facilitate inter-agency, multi-sectoral GBV working group. Proactively engage with relevant stakeholders to ensure working group reflects the range of actors addressing GBV, including across multiple sectors (health, psychosocial, legal, security, etc.) and categories of actors (UN, NGO, government, civil society, etc.).
Capacity Development
- Develop technical capacity of staff and implementing partners on GBViE and the Minimum Standards for prevention and response to GBV.
- Work with partners to develop and implement an inter-agency GBV capacity development strategy that meets the needs and priorities of key national and local stakeholders to facilitate implementation of agreed work plan.
- Revise existing training materials according to local context and ensure partners' access to relevant training sessions.
- Work with the GBV working group to develop and implement the GBV referral pathway, standardized GBV incident report/intake form, reporting forms and other relevant tools.
- Document best practices and approaches for responding to issues of GBV in order to deepen the knowledge base among relevant partners.
Qualifications and Skills required:
- Advanced degree with specialization in areas such as social work, public health, gender, law/human rights, international relations, and/or other related social science disciplines.
- At least five years of specialized experience addressing GBV at the international level; experience in this field in emergency context an asset.
- Demonstrated leadership and management experience within a multinational and multicultural environment.
- Proved experience in the survivor-centred approach
- Direct experience providing support to GBV survivors an asset.
- Fluency in Spanish and English.
How to apply:
If you have all of the above-mentioned skills, please register with CANADEM before contacting us. This can be done on our website at www.CANADEM.ca/register . Then send an email no later than the 7th of November, 11:59 pm EDT to pantiwa.naksomboon@CANADEM.ca with a Subject Line: " UNFPA-GBV Technical Advisor :" Times New In your email, please include an updated resume, date of availability, your current location, and a phone number where we can reach you.
