Technical Advisor – Gender and Safeguarding Specialist
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Role Summary
Join ACTED as a Technical Advisor specializing in Gender and Safeguarding, contributing to strategic support for crisis-affected populations in Syria.
About the Organisation
Acted is committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential.
Acted endeavours to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. The commitment of ACTED and that if our teams are guided by 4 core values:
(1) Responsibility: we ensure the efficient and responsible delivery of humanitarian aid with the means and the resources that have been entrusted to us.
(2) Impact: we are committed to having the most sustainable impact for the communities and the people with whom we engage.
(3) Enterprising spirit: we are enterprising and engage in our work with a spirit that creates value and overcomes challenges.
(4) Inspiration: we strive to inspire all those around us through our vision, values, approaches, choices, practice, actions, and advocacy.
Key Responsibilities
The Technical Advisor for Safeguarding, Protection and Gender is responsible for providing strategic, technical and operational support in the areas of gender, Safeguarding, Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH), and the protection of crisis-affected populations. He/she ensures the effective integration of the principles of protection mainstreaming, gender and safe programming across all of Acted's activities and departments, with a particular initial focus on Acted’s climate portfolio. He/she also ensures the technical quality of the gender and protection interventions implemented, supports the development of projects in line with international standards and Acted's institutional commitments, and contributes to strengthening prevention mechanisms, risk mitigation, and accountability to affected populations, including vulnerable groups.
- Serve as a technical advisor at field level, monitoring preventive actions, developing awareness sessions and providing technical support, and reporting monthly to the Country Director and HR Manager (PSEAH focal point) for trend analysis and risk identification, based on field observation and coordination with teams.
- Ensure understanding of Acted teams in how to ensure safe referral of Safeguarding cases to specialized protection services and and appropriate first response, including initial psychosocial support, with the safety and dignity of survivors at the centre.
- Jointly develop the annual PSEAH Action Plan with the Country Director and the HRM, translating Acted's four operational pillars - deterrence, prevention, identification and response - into concrete, measurable actions with defined processes, expected results, indicators, responsibilities, deadlines and implementation status.
- Contribute from a technical perspective, through any necessary review of AFM and PSEAH sensitization materials used with communities at project inception and throughout implementation, as recommended by relevant internal focal points, for such processes.
- Conduct technical reviews, field missions and targeted mentoring activities with project protection teams, and other technical teams in mainstreaming PSEAH considerations.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Protection, Sociology, Psychology, Gender Studies, or another related field;
- Fluent English and Arabic (written and spoken);
- Excellent writing and communication skills;
- At least 5 years’ work experience with an INGO in an emergency and/or development setting.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to gender and protection programming, safeguarding, and/or gender equality programs – including developing relevant monitoring tools.
- Demonstrated experience working with an I/NGO on relevant programs, including those with a gender focus.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience conducting gender and safeguarding assessments.
- Willingness to travel to Acted office and project locations across Syria.
- Ability to work under pressure in a high-pace environment;
- Good organisational and prioritisation skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel and Publisher;
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
Eligibility Criteria
Only applicants with the legal right to work in Syria are eligible.
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