Job Responsibilities

• Working closely with GBV Analyst and team to lead GBV through close partnership with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, UN agencies and other stakeholders. 
• Under the technical supervision of the GBV Regional Specialists, implementing the strengthening of GBV case management services delivered by government and non-government actors through close partnership, this includes the strengthening of GBV administrative data management and strengthening and scaling up a national GBV database system. 
• Oversee the implementation of activities in GBV health and case management services including improved quality, timeliness, and accessibility. 
• Under the guidance of the GBV Regional Advisor, contribute to the development and contextualization and institutionalization of health and case management service protocols, standards and tools and policies. 
• Support to referral pathway strengthening work at national and subnational levels including through the implementation of referral pathway standard operating procedures. 
• Working closely with national UNFPA officers to ensure the linkages with GBV response services including safe and timely service referrals. 
• Working closely with Government, civil society, and UN partners to advance the national action plan on GBV prevention. 
• Advocacy and Coordination 
• Under the technical supervision of the Regional GBV Specialist and GBV colleagues in the office, ensure that all advocacy and communications messaging is in line with best global practice 
• In close partnership with relevant government partners, support to coordination of GBV response services along the referral pathway, particularly in health and social services. 
• Under the technical supervision of the Regional GBV Specialist, providing guidance in the GBV in Emergency, planning, monitoring, and reporting integration in the humanitarian sector. 
• Support existing GBV coordination mechanisms including the joint UN and partners GBV coordination groups.
• Partnerships and Programme Management 
• Managing UNFPA’s GBV programme interventions and supporting the GBV team in working with implementing partners’ workplans and budgets, monitoring, evaluation and reporting. 
• Working with the chair and secretary of GBV related  multi-sectoral coordination mechanisms at the national, and sub-national levels to strengthen their management, planning and reporting capacity. 
• Ensuring management oversight of the GBV programme budgets, expenditures and reports in line with the programme manager delegation of authority.
• Lead and chair as necessary GBV partners groups or inter-agency GBV working groups as needed.  Support the work of the UN interagency Gender Theme Group.
• Capacity Development
• Support coordination of technical assistance and institutional capacity building support to Implementing Partners (IP) and other stakeholders towards ensuring quality GBV services.
• Deliver     orientation for project staff and other relevant stakeholders on GBV concepts (prevention and response) and GBV case management, 
• Under the technical guidance of the Regional GBV Specialist, arrange training including on GBV Data, Case Management and other topics.
• Jointly with the GBV team, mentor and coach the project staff of Implementing Partners to apply GBV Guiding Principles and best practices in staff development approaches.
• Contribute to the implementation of  UNFPA PSEA protocols and       procedures.     
• Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation
• In close cooperation with the Programme Analyst      monitor GBV prevention and response activity through Implementing Partners.
• Oversee and ensure the timely preparation of regular quarterly progress reports, after action reports, annual report, and donor reports - document lessons learned, challenges, and share with relevant units as necessary.
• Ensure reporting in the system as per the WP and result resource framework (RRF) of the project including expenditure and implementation rate.
• Support knowledge management through the creation, documentation and sharing of knowledge, including lessons learned, best practices and replicable strategies and approaches, by evaluating programmes, projects.
• Produce high quality content for communications and visibility to share with donors, UNFPA regional office and Headquarters (HQ) as needed.
• Undertake regular monitoring visits to project intervention sites.
• Coordination, Partnership Building and Resource Mobilization
• Develop and maintain partnership and collaboration with external counterparts, including the UN/development/national partners for advocacy, technical cooperation, programme coordination, resource mobilization, and knowledge sharing in the area of gender equality and gender-based violence.
• Support the coordination around the development of joint UN proposals related to GBV including GBViE. 
• Ensuring positive relationships with donors and partners ensuring communications and donor reporting is accurate and accountable. 
• Support the GBV coordination of work under the UNSDCF including through the joint UN Sub Working Group on GBV, GBV partner group and actively join the UN GTG together with national GBV analyst.
• Coordinate with health sector response to GBV focal points in SRHR component in UNFPA.
• Represent UNFPA in relevant development and humanitarian coordination bodies, including the GBV Sector/sub cluster to ensure that GBV issues are adequately considered in the context of both humanitarian and development efforts.
• Supervision and Performance management
• Overall lead of the GBV team which includes the implementation of UNFPA performance management system.
• Ensuring accountability on programme management, financial reporting and donor reporting for the GBV team
• Initiate timely recruitment of necessary human resources to implement the GBV component of the Country Programme Action Plan. 
• Support the management of national and international consultancy work for the GBV component.
• Supervise, mentor, and coach team members in order to strengthen their capacity.