Grants and Communications Officer
Kasulu, Tanzania, United Republic of
Requisition ID: req14370
Job Title: Psychosocial Support Officer
Sector: Women Protection & Empowerment
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
We have been present in Tanzania since 1993 when we responded to an influx of refugees from Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since the initial influx, we have continued to tirelessly serve the needs of both refugees and host communities in the country. In 2020, we reached 250,000 people across three refugee camps and the Tanzanian population.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Communication with Previous working experience in similar humanitarian setting.
- Excellent analytical report writing skills.
- Experience and skills in budgeting and budget supervision and management
- Flexibility at work
- Cultural sensitivity
- Budget management skills
- Team player
- Computer literacy- Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel proficiency
IRC is an equal opportunity employer and considers all job applicants on the basis of merit, without regard to race, nationality, tribe or place of origin, colour, national extraction, social origin, political or religious opinion, gender, pregnancy, marital status or family responsibility, sexual orientation, disability, HIV/Aids, age, or station of life.
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.MODE OF
Kasulu, Tanzania, United Republic of
Requisition ID: req14369
Job Title: PlayMatters Officer
Sector: Education
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee (IRC)
responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to
survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of
Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing
assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work
today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety,
dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure.
The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
Qualifications
- Degree in Education from a recognized institution (preferably qualified teacher)
- Minimum two years’ work experience.
- A commitment to IRC’s mission and humanitarian principles.
- Receptive to building and maintaining positive relationships with people from all backgrounds, genders, cultures, and viewpoints.
- Experience working with refugee communities desirable.
- Knowledge of Education in Emergencies.
- Experience working with children, preferably in a teaching capacity.
- Experience in planning and delivering training.
- Experience in community mobilization and coordination.
- Highly collaborative and consultative approach.
- Good IT skills: knowledge of MS Word; Excel and Outlook required
- Swahili and good English; written, and oral skills required. French and Kirundi a plus.
IRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Global Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti-Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
Psychosocial Support Officer
Kasulu, Tanzania, United Republic of
Requisition ID: req14370
Job Title: Psychosocial Support Officer
Sector: Women Protection & Empowerment
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
Program Responsibilities:
- GBV survivors must be provided services with supportive environment in which there are respected and treated with dignity, following survivor-centered approach that survivor are engaged, and their best interest, rights, needs and wishes are respected, as outlined in the IRC’s WPE Case Management Guidelines.
- Adhere to GBV guiding principles: ensure the safety of the survivor and their children; and staff involve at all times, respect the confidentiality of the information provided by GBV survivors, if using interpreters, interpreters must be trained on respecting confidentiality, and conduct interviews in private settings. Maintain a non-judgmental manner and respect the survivor decision.
- Provide professional psychosocial and confidential services to survivors of GBV, grounded in the IRC’s holistic, survivor-centered case management approach.
- Provide case management services in accordance with the case management steps, conduct safety assessment and planning, conduct consent based, timely multi sectoral response referrals for GBV survivors including access to justice, working closely with the WPE legal team.
- Ethically and confidentially document client information through accurate filling of IRC provided intake forms and ensure confidential and safe storage
- Ensure cases that need life-saving services are prioritized for immediate medical or security related action.
- Ensure proper and safe documentation of reported GBV incidences through utilization of GBVIMS tools and coding system; consent form, case intake form, action plan, follow up plan, client satisfaction tool and other case management tools accurately and appropriately, strictly follow data protection protocol and confidentiality. Secure document storage in a lockable cabinet and location at all time.
- Conduct GBV ethical and accuracy data collection in GBV information management systems (GBVIMS) entered with data protection and confidentiality – working with supervisor for analysis, planning, evaluation to inform WPE programming
- Conduct effective working relationships with all GBV services providers including police, and MHA at camp level in best representation of survivors’ best interest and needs, use and follow of GBV referral pathway and GBV SoPs.
- Attend internal weekly case review meeting with supervisor.
- Attend Case conference meeting as assigned by supervisor.
- Ensure that IRC support center is safe, confidential, and accessible in supportive environment for GBV survivors.
- Advocate on survivors’ needs and best interest, ensure actions are immediate taken especially medical and safety issues, and other survivors’ needs are met by services providers.
- Promote networks with community leaders, women leaders, women’s group, service providers and camp management to ensure that survivors receive compassionate support from the community.
- Conduct regular administration of client satisfaction surveys for survivors accessing GBV services
- Conduct regular IRC case management supervision tools with officer and case worker.
- Regular check data quality and accuracy, review case files on a regular basis, focusing on active cases to make sure that a) forms are being used and filled out appropriately; and b) to monitor the services that are being provided (as documented in the case file).
- Track indicators, maintain, update and analyze data on WPE response activity and indicator
- Prepare and submit timely and quality weekly, monthly, quality and other donor reports as per the donor requirements, including assist in proposal input. Accountable to meet report deadline.
- Support and working closely with WPE M&E Manager on program data collection.
- Use of WPE Response M&E tools and GBVIMS tools sufficiently and systematically
- Participate in data analysis, interpretation of the analyzed data on GBV reporting trends to inform intervention areas.
Program management
- With support from supervisor participate in all response 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 response activity cash projection submit to supervisor.
- Build the knowledge and skills of case worker/incentive staff on GBV cases management emphasis on safety assessment and planning, and psychosocial support/counseling, referral to other services.
- Communicate any incentive staffs issue to supervisor in a timely manner. Any recruitment of the new incentive staff must obtain supervisor approval.
- Participate and support in building the capacity of community based groups to provide ongoing psychosocial support to emotionally distressed persons
- Participate in capacity building of other service providers and community based structures to ensure that survivors receive compassionate support as assigned by supervisor.
- Conduct transparent and accountable records of beneficiaries issued with non-food items distribution at the IRC support center. Inventory of all materials support must be regular update and accurate.
- Participate the identification for material needs of GBV survivors in collaboration with Supervisor and initiate purchase requests to respond to the needs in line with approved budgets, and in advance of the quarterly procuring.
- Direct manage assets/inventory assigned to the support centers
- 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.
- Bachelors Degree in counseling and/or psychology. Diploma holders with extensive work experience will also be considered.
- Minimum 2 years of direct psychosocial/counseling experience with a reputable agency; experience working mental health cases preferred.
- Clear understanding of psychosocial support, psychosocial care, counseling and support service for survivor of GBV.
- Must maintain confidentiality, working ethics, GBV guiding principle and uphold rights and survivor best interest, respect survivor decision at all times.
- Positive, highly motivated, innovative, with strong organizational and inter-personal skills.
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Strong knowledge of computer applications, including MS Word, Excel and power point
- Willing to work in a remote location.
- Fluency in Swahili and English, knowledge of French or Kirundi is a plus.
IRC is an equal opportunity employer and considers all job applicants on the basis of merit, without regard to race, nationality, tribe or place of origin, colour, national extraction, social origin, political or religious opinion, gender, pregnancy, marital status or family responsibility, sexual orientation, disability, HIV/Aids, age, or station of life.
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.MODE OF
