Overview
The Protection Specialist (Gender Based Violence and Psychosocial Support Specialist) will support protection partners implementing gender-based violence (GBV) and psychosocial support (PSS) activities through monitoring, capacity building, and tracking of programme activities and budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development of capacity development plans for partner organizations implementing GBV and PSS activities.
- Provide capacity building, including training and coaching, for partner staff implementing GBV and PSS activities.
- Collaborate to do national level technical trainings for all DRC partners based on needs identified.
- Support partners to develop new proposals and budgets for GBV and PSS activities.
- Develop a monitoring plan and conduct monitoring visits to assess the technical quality of partner led implementation and draft technical recommendations and reports.
- Review partner narrative and financial reports and workplans, raising any challenges or delays.
- Track partner procurement processes to ensure they are in line with programmatic needs and according to the workplan.
- Review technical requirements during the partner procurement process.
- Track partner indicators and budgets and highlight any challenges.
- Conduct mapping of potential partners at area level.
- Participate in internal Protection and coordination meetings.
- Collaborate to organised lessons learned sessions.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of experience in Protection programming with focus on GBV / PSS within a humanitarian context.
- Demonstrated practical experience in GBV, including case management, prevention activities and engaging with adolescents.
- Demonstrated practical experience in psychosocial support activities, including individual and group activities.
- Strong facilitation skills and experience in delivering GBV and PSS trainings.
- Experience in conducting monitoring visits to partner organisations.
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft office.
- Experience working in Ukraine in similar operating contexts is highly desirable.
