Vacancies

Sector: Gender Based Violence
Location: South Sudan
Employee Type: Regular
Employee Category: Full Time

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.

South Sudan declared independence in July 2011 following decades of brutal civil war rooted in disputes over religion, ethnicity, resources, governance and self-determination. The security situation remains fragile and testing operational challenges abound. IRC-South Sudan operates a country office in Juba, and field offices in Lakes, Unity, Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Eastern Equatoria states.
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About the Position:
Position Title: Senior Program Manager, Humanitarian Practice and Protection
Position Type: Full-time
Location: Washington, DC
Reporting to: Director for Protection
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Location: International Hub

Local Terms and Conditions, base salary GB£36,035

The Programme Coordinator for Child and Youth Rights promotes coherence between local, national and international work, linking local initiatives on the participation, voice and rights of children and youth to wider legal, policy or attitude changes to strengthen the rights of children and youth. The role supports quality programme design and coordinates multi-country projects to achieve change promise 6 in ActionAid’s global strategy. It will ensure that child rights and youth participation are mainstreamed into programming and advocacy on other change promises as well as develop resource materials and facilitate learning and sharing between programme staff and advocacy and campaigns work.
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medica mondiale is a German based feminist women’s rights organisation supporting women and girls in war and conflict regions. medica mondiale provides psychosocial and legal counselling and trauma sensitive medical consultation, and enhances protection – both through its own projects and in co-operation with local women’s organizations. At a political level, medica mondiale actively advocates the enforcement of women’s rights and interests and demands consistent punishment of crimes as well as effective protection, justice and political ownership for women survivors of sexual and gender based violence.
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The International Department of the Central Church Office in Uppsala requires a Psychosocial Specialist in Humanitarian Aid for the period 15 April 2012 to 31 December 2012, with the possibility of extension.

The international work of the Church of Sweden is broad in scope, from theological training to rapid disaster relief. Together with our partners around the world, we work for freedom and dignity for every individual, a sustainable and just society, and healing and reconciliation in the world.
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Terms of Reference
Evaluation of the ACT Psychosocial Program, Gaza

1. Evaluation Purpose

Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) seeks to conduct an external evaluation of the psychosocial program implemented by NCA in cooperation with ACT alliance members and their partner organisations during 2009-2011 as a response to the war on Gaza in December-February 2009. The psychosocial programme was implemented by NCA in cooperation with resource persons in Church of Sweden (CoS) and FinChurchAid (FCA) and with ACT alliance partners.

The purpose of conducting and external evaluation is to document results, and if possible to assess the impact of more than three years of activities. We seek to learn from this experience and will use findings and recommendations in future programming.
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UNHCR’s Policy Development and Evaluation Service has an immediate unpaid internship vacancy at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva. Candidates should have a Masters degree, fluent written and spoken English, a proven interest in refugee, humanitarian and migration issues and be able to commit at least three months to the internship.

The intern will be expected to contribute to a range of policy development and evaluation projects, to undertake editorial tasks and to prepare a paper on a subject of their choice for publication in the series ‘New Issues in Refugee Research’.

To apply for this position, please send a CV and a writing sample to hqpd00@unhcr.org by 17 March 2012.

TITLE: Psycho-Social Specialist

WORKSITE LOCATION: Sana’a, Yemen

DATES OF CONSULTANCY: 1-30 April, 2012 (Contingent on funding)

LENGTH OF CONSULTANCY: Four weeks

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Mercy Corps is an international development organization that works in countries in transition, where communities are recovering from disaster, conflict, or economic collapse. The project goal is to provide immediate psycho-social support to 3,387 children (2,633 girls, 754 boys) in four identified schools affected by the ongoing political crisis in Sana’a. The project will provide essential child protection services to address urgent psycho-social needs, as well as build a longer-term mechanism to support child and adolescent mental health to ensure conflict-affected populations have access to and use gender-sensitive prevention information, skills, and services. The project will address a critical gap currently unfulfilled within the humanitarian response in Yemen. Currently, these conflict-affected schools do not have the necessary support to create child and adolescent-friendly recreational spaces or counseling to address their needs.
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Emergency Women’s Protection and Empowerment (Gender Based Violence) Program Manager
International Rescue Committee
Yida Refugee Camp, Unity State, South Sudan

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.
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Women’s Protection and Empowerment (Gender Based Violence) Coordinator
International Rescue Committee
Juba, South Sudan

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.
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