Women Empowerment Officer

The IRC has been present in Tanzania for 25 years, supporting refugees and Tanzanians with health, education and protection. With a National Office in Dar es Salaam and field offices in Kasulu, Kibondo and Kigoma, the IRC serves over 200,000 people each year.

The IRC currently has over 200 staff and employs a further 2,000 refugee workers to enable the frontline delivery of its programmes. Together, we aim to provide the best possible impact for some of the most vulnerable children, women and men. In all that we do, IRC strives to deliver through IRC’s core values of Integrity, Accountability and Service.

The Women’s Protection and Empowerment program in Tanzania has worked to strengthen gender-based violence (GBV) service delivery, help survivors heal, mobilize communities to prevent violence, and promote women and girls’ inclusion. The IRC works to ensure GBV survivors have access to life-saving care, improved protection and envisions a country in which women and girls are respected, have access to essential services and opportunities, and live free from violence. The IRC Tanzania has been implementing GBV programs in refugee camps. 

 Scope of Work

The GBV Women Empowerment Officer is responsible for all direct implementation of women empowerment activities in the assigned refugee camp. This includes women groups’ supervision and trainings for the incentive staff and women/adolescent girls groups on GBV issues affecting women and adolescent girls in the assigned refugee camp aim of empowering women. She will work closely with other WPE members, other IRC sectors and partners. The position reports to the Women Empowerment Supervisor.

Program Responsibilities:

• Conduct women empowerment activity in accordance of the women centers activity guideline, women and girls’ feedback and consultation.
  
• Identify and recruit adolescent girls age 10 -19 to participate in Girl Shine activities
• Recruit and train Girl Shine Mentors
• Facilitate Girl shine Life Skills curriculum as well as parent/care giver curriculum
• Enroll age appropriate, participants in different identified activities and monitor activities at the women centers
• Empower the women in leadership role, leadership learning and exercise throughout women and girls participation in the women center.
• Participate in the design, planning and development of women empowerment program workplan.
• Conduct quarterly women and girls’ needs/interest assessment in the women center for women empowerment program planning, and regular assess women and girls’ feedback, consultation for activity design and planning.
• Ensure the enhancement, utilization, and taking to scale of innovation and women participation, Women owned-empowerment activities.
• In collaboration with the Psychosocial Officers, develop and support professional, effective and appropriate GBV psychosocial programming, including direct individual and group counseling support at the women center, including confidential and timely referral to services.
• In collaboration with M&E Manager, participate in GBV rapid assessment and/or other WPE program related-assessment, and contribute to the WPE overall intervention strategy based on feedback received from women and girls throughout women center.
• Engaging women leader, women group, adolescent girls group, creating women and girls’ network, peers support, to promoting accessing to GBV service and empowerment activities.
• Adhere GBV guiding principle, conduct women center activities to ensure women and girls’ access to GBV and GBV services information, empowerment activities or other psychosocial support/skill building activities in a safe, secure and dignified manner.
• Promote timely referral and GBV services information in women center activity, creating information dissemination on protection / GBV critical issue for women center session.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders including community leaders, women’s groups and other implementing partners to advocate for the needs of women and girls and work with partners to enhance multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination.
• Planning and update Women Empowerment Supervisor for women center activities’ supplies on a timely manner/Quarterly basis.
• Integrate GBV critical knowledge and service information in every women activities.

Data collection and reporting;

• Track indicators, maintain, update and analyze data on WPE empowerment activity and indicator.
• Track all data related to Girl Shine interventions on a timely manner
• With support from supervisor, prepare and submit timely and quality weekly, monthly, quality and other donor reports as per the donor requirements. Accountable to meet reporting deadline.
• Support and working closely with WPE M&E Manager on program data collection.
• In collaboration with M&E Manager, participate in GBV rapid assessment and/or other WPE program related-assessment, and contribute to the WPE overall intervention strategy based on feedback received from women and girls throughout women center activities.
• Use of WPE Women Empowerment M&E tools sufficiently and systematically.

Program management

• With support and the supervision of WPE Manager participate in all women empowerment budget planning; accountable for develop and maintain work plans, spending and procurement plans, tracking expenditures and ensure all prevention activities are allowable and allocable according to IRC and donor compliance and regulations; review monthly BvA and bring any over/under expenditure, miss-charge or double charging issues etc to the attention of the supervisor in a timely manner and jointly develop corrective plans and prepare prevention activity cash projection submit to supervisor.
• Build the knowledge and skills of women empowerment incentive social workers and community based groups to be able to advocate, empower women and girls, response and prevent GBV.
• Engaging with women’s group, women leaders, women activist and women volunteers to obtain the network and working relationship.
• Communicate any incentive staffs issue to supervisor in a timely manner. Any recruitment of the new incentive staff must obtain supervisor approval.

General Responsibilities:

• Attend and participate in trainings identified organized by your supervisor.
• Follow any new procedures and guidelines designated in circulars from Country Director.
• Support the IRC Tanzania Country SAP implementation in Kibondo field office, coordinate with other IRC actors particularly Health, Education, MHPSS and Operational Department to achieve the IRC strategy outcome with support of WPE Sr. Manager and WPE Coordinator.
• Report any violations of the IRC Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Code of Conduct (Tanzania and worldwide) as per the IRC Tanzania reporting mechanism. The reporting of violations is an obligation on the part of all staff members.
• Assist where necessary in undertaking activities that aim to prevent the occurrence of sexual abuse and exploitation of refugees by IRC and other humanitarian workers.
• Represent IRC at interagency meetings as assigned.
• Assist in control and proper usage of stationery and other items relating to work.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by your supervisor.