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• Design and monitor GBV prevention
  activities, ensuring these activities are informed by target beneficiaries
  and correspond to their priorities and safety.
• Carry out training and dialogues with WPE
  volunteers, Women committees, male & female community leaders, and key
  informants on the topics of GBV, women’s rights, gender equality in line
  with priorities identified by women and girls.
• Conduct outreach efforts to disseminate
  information on services available to women and girls and raise awareness
  with the Community Volunteers and the Women Committees.
• Provide support in capacity building and
  coordination activities by delivering training sessions to GBV service
  providers on GBV core concepts and guiding principles, safety audit and
  service mapping tools, reporting and advocacy skills, and community
  mobilization.
• Implement prevention and community‐based advocacy initiatives based on
  identified needs and Safety Audit reports that reflect the voices
  of women and girls.
• Implement prevention programs and conduct
  dialogues with male community members.
• Facilitate Information Sessions (IS), Door‐to Door outreaches, Focus Group
  Discussions (FDGs), Awareness Sessions (AS), and other sessions for
  women and girls at the Women Center and via mobile teams.
• Manage the implementation of the
  Rotational Savings activities, business advisory, life‐skills training and job
  placement assistance offered to women and girls at the Women Center and
  via the mobile teams.
• Organize Male Engagement Groups and host
  programming targeting men and boys.
• Implement Adolescent Girls Programming
  including facilitation of the IRC adolescent girls curriculum and other
  planned activities, selection of target girls, relationship building with
  key gatekeepers and monitoring of activities.
• Work closely with WPE Social Workers to
  provide targeted psychosocial support to adolescent girls to promote the
  development of their social and economic assets and to better protect them
  from violence as they transition into adulthood.
• Work with families, caregivers and
  communities to support in building and strengthening a more protective
  environment for adolescent girls and by providing parenting skills
  trainings.
• Collaborate with finance and logistics to
  ensure program supplies and resources are available in a timely manner to
  support program implementation.
• Update and maintain work and spending
  plans that support the achievement of activities.
• Support in the development and
  contextualization of curriculum and GBV content.
• Constantly monitor activity
  implementation, compile daily & weekly reports, and attend weekly
  staff meetings.
• Attend WPE and IRC meetings and trainings
  as needed and as requested by senior staff.

• The ideal candidate for the IRC WPE
  Assistant Prevention Officer job vacancy should hold a University degree in social sciences
  (i.e. sociology, psychology, gender studies, law, human rights, etc.).
• A
  minimum of two years of experience in working in the social sector,
  particularly working with refugee and IDP populations.
• Previous
  experience working in humanitarian responses targeting vulnerable women
  and girls.
• Experience
  conducting participatory trainings on women’s protection and
  empowerment.
• Excellent
  communication and analytical skills and ability to present ideas
  effectively, in both oral and written form.
• 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.
• Excellent
  interpersonal skills including ability to gain trust and build
  relationships.
• Ability
  to handle multiple tasks; proven self‐initiative and problem solving abilities.
• High
  standard of spoken and written English.
• Good
  computer skills including Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, and
  Power Point.
• Ability
  to work in a stressful setting and adapt quickly to changing
  environments.

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