REGA Team Lead UNFPA ASRO Bangkok P5 At Norwegian Capacity

BACKGROUND

NORCAP builds partnerships with international organisations and national actors to protect lives, rights and livelihoods. We have more than 30 years’ experience delivering stand-by and crises response to the UN and other partners. We are increasingly developing new projects with partners to improve how the aid system delivers. We have reaffirmed our commitment to protecting people in crisis and conflict by making this part of our Strategic Objectives 2022-2025. One of the ways we will do this is by enabling stronger leadership on gender equality, protection, and gender-based violence. This strategic objective is relevant in the Asia and Asia Pacific region, considered the most disaster-prone region in the world.

MISSION

To meet these challenges, we are therefore in search of a Regional Emergency Gender Based Violence (REGA) Team Lead. The successful candidate will function as the lead of a team including a regional GBV Coordinator and a regional Information Management Officer. S/he will be hosted by UNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO) and engage in interagency regional capacity building activities, provide technical support to country GBV coordination mechanisms, and contribute to global level processes linked to the GBV AoR. At the national level, REGAs work with GBV coordinators will be in support of national preparedness capacity wherever this is feasible and appropriate. Moreover, the REGA ensures that GBV coordination at country level can deliver on all core cluster functions in line with cluster accountabilities. In addition, the REGA will provide remote and in-country support to GBV sub-clusters, and cluster-like GBV working groups.

As a representative of the global AoR in the region, the REGA focuses on GBV prevention and response in humanitarian action. In the Asia region, this work will be carried out in collaboration with the Emergency Response Program and OCHA, for prioritisation and ensuring inter-agency focus. The REGA will also develop the capacity of local actors to strengthen GBV prevention and response. The REGA will deploy up to 50% to country offices (COs) within the region including other official travel. On the occasion that a REGA will deploy to a system-wide scale up in emergency, the length of deployment will be a maximum of six weeks, and the GBV AoR will do its best to complement with other rapid response capacity.

Essential to the REGA’s capacity building and preparedness efforts, respectively, are the 2019 GBV AoR Manual for Coordinating GBV in Emergencies and the 2015 IASC Guidelines for GBV Interventions in Humanitarian Settings.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Working at a strategic level by supporting GBV sub-clusters and advising Humanitarian Country Teams (HCT), expected outcomes of the REGA’s work is strengthened GBV sub-cluster capacity to deliver life-saving coordinated response with a survivor-centred approach, in line with cluster accountabilities. In order to accomplish these outcomes, the REGA TL will engage in:

Advocacy and Resource Mobilisation

• Advocate with regional decision makers the best practices to reduce risks of GBV, increase access to services available for survivors, incorporate GBV prevention and response programming into all technical sectors, and coordinate funding and programming needs effectively.
• Promote the integration of GBV prevention and response in humanitarian planning processes by all regional technical sectors, including in contingency planning processes as well as regional humanitarian platforms such as Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) and in regional IASC fora.

Cluster Coordination Participation

• Support country level coordination mechanisms to engage local organisations and increase participation and decision making of local women organisations in the coordination structure.
• Promote ways of engaging diverse representation within the GBV coordination mechanisms such as youth organisations, women-led disability organisations, SOGIE related and others context specific organisations.

Capacity Building

• Conduct and support capacity building activities, that targets specifically GBV coordinators and GBV sub-cluster/working group member organisations with a focus on local and civil society organisation.
• Collaborate with GBV coordinators, UNFPA and Humanitarian Country Teams, and IASC principles on regional level (in consultation with UNFPA) to ensure adequate integration of GBV into HCT Protection Strategies (drafting, revision and implementation) and advise on strategic decision making so that Humanitarian Coordinators deliver on the new HC TORs that include leadership on GBV.

Contingency Planning/Preparedness

• Actively engage in disaster risk reduction discussions to ensure inclusion of GBV prevention and response actions as life-saving activities.
• Support and/or lead capacity mapping exercises to identify available resources and expertise as well as critical capacity gaps that need to be addressed in advance of the onset of an emergency.

Knowledge Management

• Actively share regional good practices with country level actors and ensure that global guidance reflects field challenges and good practice, and the take up of global resources at country level.
• Track integration of GBV-specific actions in relevant regional guidance related to contingency planning and preparedness.

Region Support

• Effectively represent the GBV AoR with regional senior members, regional cluster lead agencies, regional donors, and key decision makers, to ensure awareness and prioritization of GBV prevention and response as a life-saving issue.

For other duties and information not mentioned in this ad, we recommend that you read the full ToR before applying.

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications and experience

• A higher-level University degree in Social Sciences or related disciplines
• A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience preferably from leading or being part of GBV coordination at country level, in at least two or three contexts
• Line management experience.
• Proven skills and experience in capacity building and facilitation and a broad understanding of capacity building modalities and adult learning
• Experience in effectively managing and leading inter-agency processes, inclusive consultations and demonstrated coordination leadership

Core Competencies

• Demonstrates knowledge of the GBV Guiding Principles, the application of a gender “lens” to humanitarian programming, the survivor-centred approach, and gender-equality.
• Clear understanding of how power and violence impact the lives of women and girls.

Professional Competencies

• Experience in locating and sharing key GBV resources and contributing to policy documents and leading on strategic planning
• Proven advocacy experience within GBV programming and risk mitigation focusing on a survivor and human rights-based approach
• An understanding of the basics of ethical safe assessments, data collection and information-sharing
• Experience in analysing contexts, trends and vulnerabilities related to GBV
• Understands and can implement multi-sectoral prevention and response programs within the humanitarian architecture.
• Demonstrated skills in coordination of GBV in multiple emergency settings, including roles of coordinators, government, key actors.
• Excellent understanding of IASC humanitarian architecture and global GBV initiatives.
• Understands and uses participatory approaches to engaging with and mobilizing communities.
• Provides strategic planning and funding appeals for GBV prevention and response.
• Facilitates a collaborative culture to promote coordination.
• Fluency in English Language – essential.
• Knowledge of a local language, or second UN working language – desired.

Behavioural Competencies

• Able to adapt and cope to high-stressful and pressure situations.
• Fosters effective communication
• Excellent interpersonal skills – including, but not limited to, fostering effective communication and maintaining a positive and professional attitude.
• Sensitivity to political and cultural contexts and dynamics and ability to communicate strategically with humanitarian leadership.
• Ability to share successes, and take a less visible leadership role, in order to promote the ownership and leadership of GBV actors in the region, including governments.

We can offer

• A great opportunity to work in an international setting for a world recognized organisation
• Personal and professional growth which will be spurred by the challenging work you will undertake
• Access to a unique network of humanitarian and development professionals
• A rewarding opportunity in which you will meet some of the world’s challenges head on