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Job no: 578073
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Juba
Level: NO-2
Location: South Sudan
Categories: Child Protection
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
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For every child, a champion
UNICEF South Sudan
How can you make a difference?
The GBV Officer, under the Chief of Field Office and in collaboration with the GBViE Specialist in Juba, ensures quality assurance and alignment with UNICEF’s global GBViE guidelines and international standards. This role adheres to UNICEF's Core Commitment for Children, Strategic Plan, and Gender Action Plan. The Officer develops, executes, monitors, and evaluates GBV prevention and mitigation strategies in South Sudan, ensuring compliance with national and international standards.
Additionally, the GBV Officer supports UNICEF's GBV partners in case management, psychosocial support, and referral systems, focusing on women and adolescent girls. They contribute to the Communities Care program, enhancing community-based GBV services and combating harmful practices. This role involves collaboration with UNICEF sections, the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, and the PSEA Specialist, with regular field visits.
Primary duties include:
● Program development and planning
● Management, monitoring, and delivery of program results
● Technical and operational support for program implementation
● Networking and partnership building
● Innovation, knowledge management, and capacity building
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: Download File GBV Officer-ToR (Juba).doc
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
Education:
● A university degree or equivalent in public health, the social sciences or other relevant field related to GBViE in emergency programming.
Work Experience:
● A minimum of 2 years of GBViE programming experience with either the UN and/or NGO in emergency settings.
● Proven experience working on GBV prevention, response and risk mitigation
Skills (optional):
● Strong understanding of GBV case management including care for child survivors and programming approaches, practices, and applications i.e., GBViE Minimum Standards and Interagency GBV Case Management guidelines.
● Proven experience with effective GBV Prevention approaches e.g. EMAP, SASA!, Communities Care
● Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to effectively liaise with people in a wide range of functions in a multi-cultural environment.
● Ability to collect, collate and analyse data in an effective manner and strong writing skills.
● Proven experience of planning and facilitating trainings, workshops and other capacity building modalities.
● Ability to work independently and productively, with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
● Strong planning, project management and budget skills required.
● Ability to work productively in a team and independently, and to handle requests or issues as they arise.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English. Fluency in Arabic and other local languages an asset.
Desirables:
● Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
Advertised: 20 Dec 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
Deadline: 03 Jan 2025 E. Africa Standard Time
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