Deadline: 04 November, 2020
Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria
Save the Children is seeking to fill the role of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) Response Assistant.
Save the Children’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Responsibilities
- Provide psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) support to children with GBV survivors and their families
- Build capacity of volunteers to provide direct and appropriate support services to GBV survivors
- Prevent and respond to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking
- With support from the coordinator, supervise project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities
- With support from the lead coordinator and/or other senior programme staff, prepare and review timely monthly reports submitted by partners and SCI staff
- With support from the CRM/accountability officer, put in place accountability activities for project, ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design
- Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the minimum standards for child protection in humanitarian settings and the sphere standard
- Ensure survivors of GBV are timely identified and provided counselling and other appropriate response services
- Provide essential psychosocial first aid support to children and adults when needed and ensure partner staff are supervised regularly to ensure activities are carried out in line with minimum standard guidelines
Requirements
- University degree or its equivalent in Social Work, Social Sciences, Development Studies or combination of relevant training and experience
- One year, minimum, of post NYSC work experience in GBV and child protection work, supervision, community mobilisation and distribution and solid understanding of the actual Nigeria emergency context
- Fluency in English
- Working knowledge of Hausa and/or Kanuri
- Computer literacy
- Excellent communication skills
- Team player with strong leadership skills
- Mature personality with life experience is an advantage
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