World Vision Ethiopia began its first intervention in Ethiopia in 1971 with relief and opened the Ethiopia office in 1975. Relief, rehabilitation and small community development projects dominated the decade that followed. During the 1984/85 drought, World Vision Ethiopia participated in a massive relief operation that saved the lives of millions of people.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Program design and implementation

• Lead the implementation of Safeguarding, gender and protection activities of JEOP project and actively engage throughout the project cycle in collaboration with consortium members.
• Actively participate in concept note preparation, proposals development from gender lenses and make sure protection and gender-specific indicators, tools and methodologies are in place during the onset of the project.
• Lead programmatic assessments including gender and protection analysis, and protection monitoring to ensure continuous improvement mainstreaming of finding on program strategy, design and advocacy.
• Facilitate regular focus group discussions and individual interviews ensuring that issues of women, men, girls, boys, and people with different needs are identified and addressed.
• Ensures a gender-sensitive approach is taken to programming and integrated into protection assessments and activities.
• Ensure that issues of SGBV and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) are explored in sensitive ways and that services and follow-up are provided in keeping with international guidelines.

Monitoring, and Evaluation

• Work closely with program and MEAL team to ensure gender, safeguarding, protection and other cross-cutting issues are properly assessed and integrated into JEOP programming.
• Undertake regular on-site visits to monitor the quality of activity implementation and provide technical advice to partner staff as necessary.
• Support donors, stakeholders, and other internal reporting requirements by providing accurate and timely input on gender and protection activities.

Training and capacity building

• Conduct capacity assessment of partner staff, stakeholders, and beneficiaries, plan and lead capacity-building initiatives, training and technical support
• Enhance the capacity of project staffs, partner’s organizations and stakeholders towards mainstreaming Gender, Protection and Safeguarding in JEOP projects.

Networking, Coordination and Reporting

• Liaise, network and maintain good working relationships with relevant actors.
• Collect analyses and produce regular reports with regard to the implementation of WVE’s safeguarding policies, review and audit.
• Represent JEOP within the relevant meetings, forums and consortium meetings.
• Attend internal meetings and work in collaboration with WVE Protection unit.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification.

• MA/BA Degree in Social Science, Social work, Gender studies and related field
•  At least three to five years of experience, including three years of relevant field-based experience in development or humanitarian response settings, preferably in a conflict setting.
• Certificate in specialized training related to Gender and safeguarding and PSEA   and inclusion programing.

Required professional Experience.

• At least five years relevant experience in Gender, child protection and safeguarding program design and management.
• Experience with and knowledge of mainstreaming protection in food assistance, gender integration, and gender-based violence (GBV) mainstreaming.
• Good knowledge of concepts, approaches, and application of gender marker, safeguarding policies and best practices in gender integration and protection mainstreaming.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of international protection and gender standards.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct assessments and studies, including gender audits and protection risk analyses.
• Experience with capacity strengthening and partnership building.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.
• Demonstrated commitment to accountability to affected populations, and experience working with and meaningfully engaging diverse populations, including pregnant and lactating mothers, persons with disabilities, older adults, and IDPs.

•  Demonstrated commitment to and application of gender responsive programming and positive action measures towards gender equality, including the participation and leadership of women.