Posted on: Fri 28-05-2021

Medecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care. MdM operating in Nigeria, Borno state since October 2016.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Gender Based Violence Technical Advisor

Location: Borno

Program Objectives

Essential duties:

He/she will be responsible of ensuring GBV activities are integrated within the medical services package delivered to IDPs and host population in MdM’s clinics or supported Ministry of Health PHCC. He/she will follow-up the smooth implementation of MdM strategy for the response to GBV in Nigeria in close collaboration with the Program Coordinator, Health Coordinators and the MHPSS Technical Advisor.

She / he will receive the support of HQ Medical and GBV referents.

Human resource, capacity building / training:

• Supervise the GBV technical advisor deputies for the provision of on job technical support to clinic staff involved in the provision of services to GBV survivors (medical, counsellors, social workers) in Damboa and Maiduguri.
• Identify the capacity building needs of MdM and partner’s team related to GBV and provide trainings.
• Organize and/or facilitate trainings on the response to GBV, in line with MdM training materials available.
• Provide technical support to MdM partner for the smooth implementation of sensitization & awareness raising activities and the definition of key messages.
• Collaborate with the Health Coordinator, MHPSS Technical Advisor (and team), to set up trainings and follow-up of the activities (medical and psychosocial care) towards victims of GBV.
• Work towards the nationalization of the position of GBV Technical Advisor through capacity building and continuous support of the identified staff.

Communication & advocacy:

• Participate in the development of external and internal communication tools in order to promote MdM operational model for the response to GBV in humanitarian settings.
• Take part, if necessary, with the MdM team, partners or other actors to advocacy activities.
• Participate in the dissemination of MdM’s approach, results and lessons learnt.

Requirements

• Demonstrated 2-3 years professional experience in humanitarian settings, including at least 1 year of direct program management of GBV programs in the field.
• Excellent knowledge of international standards and guidelines on GBV in humanitarian settings and ability to implement GBV response in accordance with the guidelines
• Master’s Degree in relevant field (Public Health, Social Work, Development Studies, Humanitarian Affairs, or related Social Sciences disciplines).
• Knowledge, skills, and experience in providing/leading services to survivors of gender-based violence using a survivor-centered and multi-sectoral approach.
• Knowledge, skills, and experience in implementing primary prevention of GBV, ideally in coordination with local organizations
• Good knowledge of WHO ethical data sharing guidelines
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office.

Personal skills required:

• Individual and group training skills in GBV and SEA.
• Ability to take initiative, work independently and foster a team environment.
• Strong organizational, oral and written communication and coordination skills.
• Excellent project design and proposal development skills and developing tools for cross-organizational sharing of best practices.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good sense of diplomacy and understanding of international global political issue

Application Closing Date

10th June, 2021.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter in one single attachment via email to: [email protected] clearly indicate “Gender Based Violence Technical Advisor” as the subject of your application.

Note

• Applications without the above subject will not be treated.
• Because of the emergency relief nature of MDM work, working hours may be irregular and employees are expected to be flexible in their approach to working hours under emergency conditions.

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