Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 22 Jun 2017
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our 42,000+ staff members working in more than 90 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.
Here’s where you come in:
As Protection and Gender Specialist, South Sudan, you will have a dual role of providing technical leadership and oversight to World Vision South Sudan’s Protection programming, encompassing Protection, Child Protection and Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response, as well as ensuring Protection and Gender Mainstreaming across all sectors and programming. Key areas of focus for this role will include:
- Grant acquisition and resource mobilization in the Protection Sector, with a specific focus on Child Protection and GBV sub-sectors.
- Technical support to ensure Protection and Gender Mainstreaming in Program / Proposal Development.
- Donor and partner engagement, representation, and networking with respect to Protection and related sub-sectors.
- Technical guidance and quality assurance of Protection, Child Protection, GBV programming, as well as mainstreaming of protection considerations, gender analysis and approaches for achieving gender sensitive and transformative outcomes in programming.
Requirements include:
- Master degree in Social Work, Human Rights or relevant field. Postgraduate qualifications in Project Planning and Management is highly desired. Certificate courses in IASC Guidelines and key training packages preferred (Caring for [Child] Survivors of Sexual Violence; mhGAP-HIG, Psychological First Aid in Emergencies, CPiE Minimum Standards and MRM, GBV IMS, International Humanitarian & Human Rights Law Foundations, etc).
- Extensive experience in Protection and Gender foundations, theory, practical application of minimum standards, delivery of services to children in emergencies and survivors of GBV, particularly in conflict settings. Experience in MHPSS considered a plus.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, including report writing.
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World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position online and apply by the closing date 22 Jun 2017. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org. Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be contacted. dy>