Senior GBV Officer (Prevention & Response) at Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)

Norwegian Church Aid ('NCA') is a member of the ACT Alliance and works with people and local actors, especially Faith-based actors in many countries where it works in their struggle to eradicate poverty and injustices. We provide humanitarian assistance in disasters and work for long-term development in local communities and societies. In order to address the root causes of poverty, we advocate for just decisions by public authorities, businesses and religious leaders.

NCA has a presence in Nigeria to respond to the Humanitarian crisis in Northeast Nigeria. NCA has its core competencies in Gender Based Violence and Water Sanitation and Hygiene. NCA has its strengths in works and invest in local partners ensures building their capacities are built from the onset of response, in order to enable them to have the capacity to respond in a long-term intervention including recovery and development.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior GBV Officer (Prevention & Response)

Location: Borno

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support to national partner staff for program start up, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all GBV emergency response activities.
• Providing technical assistance to the field staff and partners, by designing and rolling out capacity building activities and trainings on all GBV/protection, ensuring on the job coaching and mentoring.
• Undertakes regular (weekly, bi-weekly) field monitoring visits to assess progress and identify technical quality and/or other implementation issues, flag these to the GBV PM, provide solutions and implement modifications as required.
• Guides and support implementation of all project activities (including overseeing case management, PSS, Skills acquisition, age-appropriate engagement, prevention, and risk mitigation), providing affirming feedback, highlight strengths and weaknesses, and make recommendations for improvement.
• Supports NCA and its partner in adapting case management tools and implementing the GBVIMS/ Primero, ensuring strict compliance with confidentiality policy and guidelines for information sharing of GBV data.
• Assists with monitoring of activities and implementation of databases and data collection tools to systematize and streamline ethical and safe data collection and reporting across partners.
• Under the supervision of PM Work with GBV staff and partner to assess training needs and develop a training and capacity develop plan for to ensure successful transfer of skills, knowledge, and attitudes to improve GBV responses. Organise trainings as per learning needs assessment and co-facilitate trainings.
• Prepares weekly and monthly reports as per agreed templates documenting all mentoring activities, success and challenges, and support partner in developing monthly/quarterly reports.
• Participates in the review of documents submitted by partners (i.e., narrative reports, work plans, spending plans, etc.).
• Develops monthly work plan and regular reports in line with the goals and objectives of the program.
• Works with other sector staff to promote integrated programming across sectors to maximize the impact of response and recovery programming and avoid knowledge and performance gaps, paying attention to ASRH, gender, disability, and child protection
• Works closely with the M&E team to establish and submit effective field level activity and indicator tracking, weekly and monthly tracking, CFM, ensuring GBV complaints are managed appropriately and in a timely manner.
• Ensures strong information management and sharing, pro-active teamwork and coordination with GBV teams (including volunteers).
• Reinforces adherence to the GBV guiding principles throughout all GBV activities through the national partner.
• Provides technical support and implementation of GBV prevention/ risks mitigation including SASA! Together, Male Engaged and facilitate mainstreaming GBV/ ASRH /risk mitigation, prevention, and response in NCA WASH and ASRH sectors
• Collaborates with finance/admin and logistics to ensure program supplies and resources are available in a timely manner to support program implementation.
• Performs other duties, as needed, or requested by the supervisor.

Working Relationships

• Maintains frequent communication with GBV Officers and GBV Program Manager to ensure GBV activities and objectives are communicated.
• Works with other program and operations staff at the field locations to ensure the coordination of GBV activities are managed smoothly.

Security:

• Ensures application and compliance of security protocols and policies.
• Facilitates emergency and non-emergency security expenditures.
• Actively promotes PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within NCA and amongst beneficiaries served by NCA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Social work, Nursing, Public Health, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Humanities, Law, or other related discipline.

Experience:

• 2-3 years’ experience with minimum of one year’s relevant experience in GBV in emergencies, protection, and gender programming.
• Language skills: fluent verbal/written English and local language.
• Experience of supervising field staff required

Experience & technical skills:

• Must have strong GBV Minimum Standards knowledge.
• Strong knowledge of IASC GBV Guidelines and Gender Handbook, Humanitarian Principles, IASC Protection and CP minimum standards and guidelines.
• Strong understanding of case management principles, procedures, and practices, psychosocial support, and life skills programming to promote survivor healing and recovery.
• Knowledgeable about GBV, crisis intervention, counselling skills and techniques.
• Must be comfortable to attend and facilitate internal/external meetings, representing GBV issues.
• Practical field experience working in camps or spontaneous/informal/makeshift settlements required.
• Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in team setting.
• Strong ability to organise work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritise work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and competing priorities and maintain attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and staff management skills, problem-solving skills, creativity, and flexibility.
• Ability to communicate sensitively and without judgment, good diplomatic and persuasion skills.
• Ability to use good judgment when making decisions and to take accountability for decisions made.
• Emotional maturity and stability to resolve conflicts in non-violent way and maintain appropriate boundaries.
• Good interpersonal skills including ability to gain trust and build relationships.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, proven self-initiative and problem-solving abilities.
• Good report writing skills in English and local language
• Strong computer skills on MS word, Excel.
• GBVIMS/Primero experience high advantage.

Core Competencies:

• Strong commitment to human rights, gender equality, and understanding of issues surrounding violence against women and girls.
• Commitment to and understanding of NCA core values and principles.
• Must adhere to and encourage PSEA and NCA Code of Conduct and ensure timely reporting.
• Strong belief in and commitment to human rights and gender equality.
• Demonstrated competency to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Resilient, flexible and gender sensitive.
• Commitment and energy to work across multiple sectors and with a variety of actors.
• Ability to work effectively in a culturally diverse organization.
• Ability to communicate ideas in a culturally sensitive manner.
• Ability and willingness to travel and stay in the field, regularly.
• Ability to manage conflict and reach and build consensus.
• Willingness to live and work in difficult and rapidly changing conditions.
• Constructive and pro-active communication with a wide variety of actors and stakeholders.

NCA's Commitments
NCA is committed to following the following policies, standards and commitments and all staff are equally expected to conform to their requirements:

• Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP)
• Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief
• ACT Alliance Code of Conduct
• SPHERE Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Relief
• NCA Nigeria Security Plan
• NCA Nigeria Staff Handbook

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within Norwegian Church Aid and amongst beneficiaries served by Norwegian Church Aid

Compliance & Ethics:  

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout Norwegian Church Aid.
• As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of Norwegian Church Aid’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.
• Conducts work with the highest level of integrity. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values
• Other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all inclusive

Application Closing Date
28th December, 2021.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application Letter and CV in a single document (saved in their name) to: Recruitment-Ng@nca.no using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the email.

• All applications should be addressed to the Human Resources, Norwegian Church Aid
• Application letter and curriculum vitae should be in a single Microsoft Word Document, otherwise applications will not be considered.
• Note that background checks will be conducted thorough the HR offices of your current and previous employers
• Your three PROFESSIONAL referees MUST be your current or previous line managers and MUST be official emails.  
• Qualified Borno State indigence are encouraged to apply. 
• Position opens to both female and male candidates.
• Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.