Program management and implementation.

• Supervise and support the day to day running of the WPE activities in Raqqa and Dez sites. 

• Ensuring that WPE program activities are survivor-centered and adhere to standard IASC guidelines and GBV guiding principles, flagging any concerns to the WPE Manager in a timely manner.

• Ensuring smooth collaboration with IRC local partners by establishing strong working relationships. This involves providing extensive technical support to partners, aiding them in resolving any technical issues that may arise, and actively participating in joint initiatives. 

• Conduct regular weekly in-person field visits and provide remote support to supervise the successful implementation of WPE activities in the designated area of operation, which may include camps, clinics, urban women’s centers, and mobile locations.

• Ensuring monthly site collaboration plans and weekly activity schedules are in place and updated, supervising progress with the WPE Officers, and ensuring weekly follow-up of activities against produced work plans.

• Supporting the WPE team to continuously supervise and assess risk across all their services, activities, and sites of operations, raising any concerns immediately in line with procedures.

• Meet regularly with the site teams to discuss, design, and plan community outreach, mobilization, and engagement activities; and support the team to identify, train, and mentor teams of community volunteers.

• Meet regularly with the other WPE senior officers, officers and Managers to discuss programming progress, successes, challenges, and responsiveness of our program; putting in place an action plan and follow up.

• With technical guidance from WPE Manager or Snr WPE Manager, provide technical support to the case management team on high-risk and/or complex, difficult cases.

• Conduct weekly team case management meetings and individual supervision sessions with GBV Caseworkers at each site of operation.

• Review all case files with the Case Workers through GBVIMS primero and act like GBVIMS primero focal point as need base.

Monitoring and Reporting: 

• Ensure GBV information generated from the services is handled in line with ethical standards, the GBVIMS guidelines, information sharing, and data protection protocols.

• In collaboration with the WPE Manager, continuously supervise activities, assessing their relevance to the needs, priorities, and interests of women and adolescent girls; raise any issues and make adaptations accordingly.

• Weekly activity summary report captured from the sites and raise any challenges or concerns immediately.

• On a weekly basis capture case management data from the sites and cross check the activity tracker with the row data and data base

Coordination:

• Collaborate with the Humanitarian Access team, security focal points, and WPE Manager to ensure smooth access for program implementation and collaborate with local partners. 

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships where relevant with IRC internal sectors, NGOs, UN agencies, and authorities.

• Represent WPE program in coordination meetings in camp as assigned by the WPE manager. 

Staff Performance Management, Learning & Development

• Hire, supervise, and build the capacity of team members in relevant technical and management competencies.

• Develop and implement remote management capacity-building approaches to build the strengths of the teams in Hassakah.

• Approve and lead time, attendance, and leave requests to ensure adequate departmental coverage; ensure monthly, accurate timesheet submission and carry out probationary reviews.

• As required, identify staff performance issues and work with Human Resources to document and address in accordance with the National Staff Employment Policies.

Other:

• Other relevant duties as assigned by the WPE Manager to support the implementation and quality of the program.

• All IRC staff are required to adhere to The IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.

Required Experience/qualification/Skills: 

• A university degree in social work, psychology, other social science, or other related field of study.
  • At least  3-6 years’ experience in GBV prevention and response area or related areas, GBV case management, and delivering services to women and girls GBV survivors.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Validated sense of professional discretion, integrity, and ability to handle complex situations diplomatically and to effective resolution.

• Excellent management and interpersonal skills and a solid ability to promote harmonious/cohesive teamwork, in a cross-cultural context.

• Validated ability to plan long-term, organize priorities,and work under administrative and programmatic pressures with detail orientation and professional patience.

• Analytical ability in creating effective solutions to complex matters while adhering to labor laws and internal policies. 

• Familiarity with principles of monitoring and evaluation; experience in writing brief narrative reports and data reporting.

• Good computer skills and familiarity with Word/Excel.

• Demonstrated experience with capacity building and training (GBV)

Language/Travel: 

• Arabic and English are required, Kurdish is desired.
• Travel: 70% to field sites in 60% as well as attending field, regional workshops and meetings.