Gender and Protection Officer

Help - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe, is seeking a Gender and Protection Officer for an anticipated USAID-BHA funded Action against hunger and food insecurity (Aahfis) Project in Zimbabwe. The Aahfis will seek to sustainably improve the humanitarian food insecurity situation in Gwanda rural district. The estimated implementation timeframe for the Aahfis is 2023-2024.

Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the project and USAID approval of the candidate.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties):

Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, she/he will be responsible for the development of community protection and gender mainstreaming practices, programs, and activities focusing on social and gender equity as well as community protection. The post of gender and protection officer is key to achieving project goal and objectives in empowering disadvantaged and vulnerable women and girls to exercise socioeconomic, civil, and cultural rights, as well as the goal of addressing and mitigating key gender and protection concerns in rural Gwanda.

Technical support to the project team

• Provide advice and support to the Project Manager and other personnel to ensure that all project activities have been designed with gender-sensitive and protection-integrated approaches, with the needs of women, girls, boys, and men having been considered and included in the design.
• Provide advice and ongoing support to project staff on gender and protection related issues during project
• Support the program team on establishing a gender-sensitive accountability mechanism for beneficiaries
• Collaborate with program implementing team on integrating the GBV in the program implementation.
• Take a lead role in raising awareness about the organization’s PSEA policies and procedures (as above) and provide advice to staff, project participants, and other stakeholders on these matters, ensuring that all understand their obligation to report a breach of policy.
• Raise awareness on reporting procedures and occasionally receive reports on PSEA, responding per the organization’s policies and procedures, providing referral, or next steps advice and support.
• Make sure all reports are reported to the project MEAL and organizational management and any other duties as requested by the supervisor.
• Responsible for managing all project Humanitarian Accountability including Feedback and Complaints mechanisms (including suggestion boxes, and the project toll free hotline).

Monitoring and reporting on gender issues

• Working closely with the M&E team in assessing gender trends within project activities and being able to explain these and to provide recommendations on these.
• Prepare tools and set up a system allowing regular monitoring and reporting on the project related to gender and protection issues
• Assist in data collection, compiling lessons learned, establishing indicators to support knowledge sharing
• Support project research, surveys, and other documentation activities on gender empowerment/protection with technical advice and guidance.

Qualifications:

• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree preferably in a relevant area (e.g., gender and social sciences, sociology, anthropology, psychology, or politics) at least one year working experience in gender and protection programming. Experience in an NGO will be a distinct advantage.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and fluency in English. Knowledge of Ndebele (Both spoken and written is a plus) Abilities:
• Sharp time management skills.
• Strong ethics, with an ability to manage confidential data.
• The ability to work in a systematic and organized manner.
• The ability to use Microsoft Office programs including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint in a professional way.
• Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Good organizational, multitasking, and time-management skills.  Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.

Submission of applications:

Interested candidates should send their CV and applications to: mhlanga@help-ev.de  Deadline for applications: 26/08/2023.

We thank all applicants; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.