Women And Girls Safe Spaces - Coordinator

 ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality  Women and Girls Safe Spaces Coordinators     JOB PROFILE   JOB TITLE:   Women and Girls Safe Spaces Coordinator Location: Mount Lebanon   ABAAD PURPOSE: ABAAD aims at achieving gender equality as an essential condition to sustainable social and economic development in the MENA region. ABAAD has a proven record in working in addressing GBV in emergency settings. “Ending Gender-Based Violence: towards standardization and strengthening quality of services and direct response” is an initiative aiming at reducing the risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through women, boys and girls empowerment and improving the quality of multi-sectorial assistance for women and girls survivors or at risk of GBV among the host and Syrian refugee population. BACKGROUND: ABAAD aims at achieving gender equality as an essential condition to sustainable social and economic development in the MENA region. ABAAD has a proven record in working in addressing GBV in emergency settings. “Ending Gender-Based Violence: towards standardization and strengthening quality of services and direct response” is an initiative aiming at reducing the risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through women, boys and girls empowerment and improving the quality of multi-sectorial assistance for women and girls survivors or at risk of GBV among the host and Syrian refugee population. The WGSS Coordinator position in ABAAD is responsible to oversee the day to day implementation of the Women & Girls Safe Spaces’ within the communities, providing technical support to various community-outreach activities, coordinating with local stakeholders, and ensuring buy-in of the local population and oversee establishment and operation of community-led initiatives as well as ensure mentoring for provision of quality case management services to women & girls affected by GBV. The coordinator is also responsible to supervise all programs’ components related to awareness-raising on protection, prevention, response and self-protection for boys/girls and adolescents and ensure representation at various local coordination groups. The coordinator will work 50% of the time in center and 50% in the field. JOB PURPOSE: The WGSS Coordinator is responsible for working within the SDC and supervises technically and the admin/financial work of the psychosocial social workers, child care attendant and the drivers. REPORTING LINES: Post holder reports directly to: Women and Girls National Safe Space Manager KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:          -          Provide ongoing supervision, leadership and technical support and guidance to all WPE program staff in their respective areas of coverage -          Organize regular meetings with the SDC team (director and  shadow person and WGSS team) to oversee the weekly and monthly work plans -          Organize weekly technical capacity meetings with SDC team for transfer of knowledge and skills around WGSS model -          Support the conceptualizing and rolling out of work plan as needed and in response to identified needs and project goals and objectives -          Attend on weekly basis the mobile psychosocial support activities and information/awareness sessions with women and girls planned and those implemented within the SDC -          Support COMs to identify gateways for the provision of community outreach activities -          Assess and evaluate the quality of implemented work on a monthly basis & submit reports -          Collect, compile and analyze monthly reports from the  team and submit to central level -          Work closely with the WGSS PM  on all issues related to programs and activities -          Write monthly reports pertaining to the activities -          Provide on the job coaching to employees in the field and identify training needs and ensuring organizing regular capacity development trainings to team members as needed -          Work with team members on setting up performance objectives and conduct regular performance appraisal on bi-annual basis -          Attend regularly the GBV and CP working group  Other Activities: -         Collaborate closely with ABAAD TEAM at large. -         Participate in monthly staff meetings. -         Submit weekly and monthly reports. -         Respect ABAAD Code of Conduct and its PSEA Policy. -         Other duties as assigned by the manager and ABAAD Director.   Skills and Competencies: -          MA in social work or BA with at least 2-3 years of experience in GBV programming, preferably in an emergency context or any closely related field -          At least 1 year of experience supervising a team providing GBV related services -          Knowledge of GBV prevention and response in emergencies programming -          Experience working directly with refugees and other groups -          Experience working directly with women and girls -          Strong communication and interpersonal skills -          Commitment to human rights, gender equality, non-discrimination -          Flexible pro-active attitude -          Ability to work well as an individual and in a team -          Ability to manage an unpredictable workload in a challenging environment -          Ability to work across socio-cultural and religious contexts -          Experience drafting reports -          Belief in ABAAD’s mission and vision -          Languages: Fluency in spoken and written Arabic and English. French is a plus. -          Must be computer literate, including Microsoft word and excel.