Senior GBV Associate at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

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.

Minimum Qualifications

Years of Experience / Degree Level

• For G7 4 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 2 years relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher 

Certificates and/or Licenses 

• Human rights,  Social Anthropology,   Social work,
• Law,     International Development,  Social Sciences,  or other relevant field.
• HCR Protection Learning Prg;
• HCR Gender Equality Lrng prg.
• HCR Gender-Based Violence
• (Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential) 

Relevant Job Experience
Essential

• 4 years of previous work experience relevant to the function of GBV in a local context, having experience in the field of GBV prevention, mitigation and response, broader protection or social work involving empowerment of women and girls, gender, child protection, mental health, counselling and working with survivors, humanitarian and development issues.
• Applied experience in survivor-centred approach, GBV guiding and Case management principles related to GBV programs.
• Demonstrated knowledge in gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and apply, promote and integrate gender analysis into humanitarian programming.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and implementation of multi-sectorial responses to GBV and support to other sectors to mainstream GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of GBV prevention theory and appropriate GBV prevention and behaviour change strategies at different stages of the humanitarian response.
• Knowledge and demonstrated use of UNHCR and Interagency GBV tools and Guidance. 

Desirable

• Demonstrated understanding of critical issues around GBV data and knowledge of safe and ethical data collection and analysis and conducting assessments.
• Demonstrated knowledge of engagement with GBV Interagency humanitarian architecture.
• Knowledge and experience of participatory approaches to engaging with and mobilizing communities Good understanding of displacement and protection issues including, child protection, education and the application of the Age, Gender and Diversity Policy

Functional Skills 

• IT-Computer Literacy
• PR-Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD)
• PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Capacity development and training
• PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Coordination
• PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention programming
• PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) response programming
• PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) risk mitigation
• TR-Training Virtual and face to face
• (Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential) 

Language Requirements 

• For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
• For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
• For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.