GESI Officer

Background/IRC Summary:

• 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.
• IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 30 years, and manages and delivers large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, protection, environmental health, and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities.
• IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and currently works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces.
• IRC Pakistan will be implementing five years “leveraging Inclusive WASH For Empowerment in Pakistan (LIFE-Pakistan) project i.e.
• Water For Women Fund supported by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian government.
• With an overall goal of gender equitable and socially inclusive WASH services for improved health conditions of marginalized groups, this project aims to directly improve the lives of 168,000 beneficiaries in 75 villages in three districts of KP, Pakistan.

The project will reach its goal through three pillars:

•  Inclusive community level WASH
• Improved WASH governance
• Strengthened decision making around WASH.
• The project will focus on schools and health centers that serve communities, as well as community and household WASH.
• A process of participatory training and discussion will be utilized to strengthen women’s role in the community and will be supported with life skills training and gender protection programming.
• Knowledge management and learning through ongoing monitoring, periodic evaluations and research will keep the project on track, provide evidence for advocacy for improving legislative environment, and draw learning for future programing.
• Job Overview/Summary: GESI Officer is responsible to provide project and administrative support to the implementation of activities within the LIFE program.

Major Responsibilities:

• Provide support to Assistant Manager GESI in implementation of key gender and inclusion components at office and field level.
• Provide support in preparing work plans and project reports.
•  Regularly mentor inclusive WASH Jirgas and self-help groups and conduct monthly meetings within program.
• Identify GESI actors/organizations in the district and further engaging them for varied capacities.
• Identify and collect policy-related and other relevant information, documents and data, compile and analyse data for further use in project management.
•  Linking vulnerable groups/individuals with Public & Private Sectors (Govt. EHSAAS Program/NAVTEC/TEVTA/Social Welfare/SME etc) for improved living.
•  Provide Life Skills trainings to PWDs, Women & Girls; and Transgender persons in target areas.
• Support organization and coordination of meetings, training sessions, workshops, conferences, and project events and prepare reports and meeting minutes, as required.
•  Draft correspondence on project issues, as required.
•  Maintain cooperation and communication with projects’ partners and beneficiaries on the implementation of the agreed activities, especially for the events, trainings, workshops, etc.
• Facilitate knowledge building and knowledge sharing within the program.
•  Provide support in data collection, compiling lessons learned and sharing with the supervisor.
•  Support MEAL for monitoring unintended consequences of transformation process in communities.
• Facilitate the community to pass their complaints to the management through CRM in a transparent manner.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to: Manager-GESI
• Position directly supervises: None

Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelors/ Master’s Degree in Gender studies/Inclusion/Psychology or other relevant field

Work Experience:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in GESI projects, preferably in an NGO environment

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Effective written and verbal communications skills
• Strong interpersonal, and communication skills

Language Skills:

• Must be fluent in Urdu & Pashto languages
• Proficiency in English

Others:

Gender Equality and Diversity:

• IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission.
• As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs.
• Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this dedication.
• Women, ethnic & religious minorities, persons with disability (PWD) and transgender are highly encouraged to apply.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
• Please contact us to request accommodation.