Women and Girls Safe Space Coordinator (Choueifat)

ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality

JOB TITLE:  Safe Space Coordinator

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. 

BACKGROUND:

In order to increase vulnerable women and girls’ (from all nationalities) access to prevention and response services, ABAAD operates safe spaces for women and girls in various locations in Mount Lebanon, Northern, South, and Bekaa Governorates. The GBV Case Worker position is a key position in ABAAD’s Women and Girls Safe Spaces program, ensuring the provision of appropriate case management services available to vulnerable women and girls, including survivors of gender-based violence (GBV).

REPORTING LINES:  Program Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

-           Provide ongoing supervision, leadership and technical support and guidance to all  program staff in their respective areas of coverage
-          Organize regular meetings with the team to oversee the weekly and monthly work plans
-          Organize weekly technical capacity meetings with the team for transfer of knowledge and skills 
-          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 center

-         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

-          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 program manager

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.

ABAAD is an equal employment opportunity organization