The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the process of identification and registration of male advocates in two kebeles.
• Work closely with kebele administration and food security task force members in identifying male advocators and organizing male groups in two kebeles
• Provide male engagement training to male advocators.
• Provide supportive supervision and guidance to male advocators in facilitating the men’s engagement sessions in two kebeles.
• Ensure quality of implementation through facilitating periodic review meetings with the male advocators.
• Organize community campaign on male engagement along with the male advocators and male groups using the Men Engagement Community Campaign Guide developed by SPIR II
• Facilitate and oversee other Gender interventions or activities at the kebele level
• Closely follow up on the GSD provision consideration and other gender implementation at the kebele level
• Identify and screen men with depression and admit them to interpersonal psychotherapy for groups (IPT-G) sessions.
• Identify and screen PSNP clients with common mental health problems and admit them to group problem management plus (G-PM+) sessions.
• Conduct 12-week IPT-G and 5-weeks G-PM+ sessions (meeting every week) for depressed men and PSNP clients with common mental health problems.
• Track the IPT-G and G-PM+ participation, recovery, discharge, and link participants to other SPIR II services.
• Handle referral of complicated or severe cases to the nearest health facility and hospitals.
• Link treated and recovered clients to available BCC sessions and Livelihood activities, and any other relevant economic and social opportunities.
• Closely follow and support client until full functional restoration in post IPTG and G-PM+ sessions and encourage Health, Nutrition, WASH, and livelihood behavioral adoption.
• Ensure MHPSS client confidentiality and proper documentation at all levels.
• Frequent and close monitoring of the men’s engagement activities through using the monitoring tools on the ground level and report to the Gender and Youth Officer
• Collect information on the status of the men’s engagement discussion for periodic reports and communicate the result to the gender officer
• Monitor the progress of the MHPSS activities at the field level and provide ongoing feedback and recommendations to the MHPSS officers, project management, and community leaders.
• Keep quality records and documents and report to supervisors and also use the information for MHPSS data input.
• Effectively work with people (staff, clients, experts, agencies, etc) from diverse backgrounds in reducing cultural and socio-economic barriers between clients and institutions
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with the clients, service providers, government representatives, supervisors, and SPIR staff.
• Participate in learning and reflection programs.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

Required Professional Experience

• Previous experience in community development and/ or community health programming is highly desired
• Experience in interactive adult training and conducting quality field-level data collection
• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, conceptual understanding of the participatory approach, and sustainable development.
• Ability to work in teamwork with people of different educational and cultural backgrounds;
• Demonstrates respect for the local culture, traditions, and local values;

Qualification Required

• BA in Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, Social Psychology, Gender Study, BSc in public health & other related fields.
• 2 years of work experience in a rural setting.
• NGO Experience is desirable

Preferred Knowledge And Qualifications

• Fluency in Afan Oromo for Oromia region implementation area/ Fluency in Amharic for Amhara implementation area is required as the position needs direct communication and interaction with the local community.
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English.

Working Environment / Conditions

• Frequent travel to the designated kebeles and villages for group activity facilitation, follow-ups, home visit etc.

Applicant Types Accepted

Local Applicants Only