Requisition ID: req33525

Job Title: EMAP
Sector Assistants: Protection and Empowerment of Women

Employment Category: Fixed Term

Employment Type: Full time

Compensation: XOF 0.00 – 0.00 Salaried

Location: Maroua, Cameroon

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION
EMAP Assistant – Minawao Camp – Protection and Empowerment of Women
Position: EMAP Assistant – Protection and Empowerment of Women (Position subject to funding approval by the donor)
Program: Protection and Empowerment of Women (PAF)
Location: Mokolo
Type of contract: Fixed-term contract
Duration: 10 months
Supervisor: WPE Senior project officer
Start date: 1st December 2022
 

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Background

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the initiative of Albert Einstein, the IRC provides life-changing care and assistance to refugees forced to flee war or disaster. Present today in more than 40 countries, we restore safety, dignity and hope for millions of people affected by crises and struggling to survive. The IRC’s mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are disrupted by conflict or disaster to survive, recover and take charge of their future.

The IRC began operations in Cameroon in 2016 to meet some of the growing needs of people affected by Boko Haram-related violence in the Far North of the country. Assistance to displaced populations extends across the Far North, including Mayo Sava, Mayo Tsanaga and Logone & Chari, providing assistance to increase access to water and improve hygiene practices in displaced communities and vulnerable hosts, cash support programs to enable poor families to meet basic needs and improve food security, and protection programs, including addressing the specific needs of women and girls. The coordination office is in Yaoundé with field bases in Maroua and Kousseri.
 

Following the growing crisis in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon, the IRC expanded its operations to the South West region in August 2018 and to the North West region in December 2019. The he IRC provides lifesaving humanitarian assistance to internally displaced populations, with a field base in Buea, Kumba Ekondo Titi and Bamenda.
IRC Cameroon is committed, as expressed in its 2020 strategic action plan, to continue to provide essential humanitarian services, emphasizing the need to secure communities and ensure that affected populations can meet their basic needs, while building the resilience of beneficiaries, especially women and girls. L’

Context of the project

From December 1, 2022, IRC will implement an EMAP (Engaging Men in Accountable Practices) project. EMAP is an innovative prevention model, developed by IRC and inspired by the voices and priorities of women, to engage men in transformative individual behavior change. It includes three programming elements: a three-week training of trainers, an eight-session program for women, and a 16-session program for men. As part of this project, the IRC will strengthen and expand its evidence-based approach. In Mayo Sava, where the IRC has implemented EMAP since 2020 with previous funding from GIZ as well as USAID, the IRC will interview a sample of 246 participants to assess the medium-term impacts of the ‘ approach and begin to measure lasting change in men’s behaviours, attitudes and beliefs regarding gender norms and relations, power sharing, dialogue and communication, and more specifically regarding gender-based violence, their understanding and their involvement in preventing such violence and promoting positive masculinity at the community level. The key findings, evidence and lessons learned collected will inform future programming in these locations. their understanding and involvement in preventing this violence and promoting positive masculinity at the community level. The key findings, evidence and lessons learned collected will inform future programming in these locations. their understanding and involvement in preventing this violence and promoting positive masculinity at the community level. The key findings, evidence and lessons learned collected will inform future programming in these locations.

In addition to evaluating the impact of EMAP activities carried out in the above locations, under the proposed project, the IRC will introduce the EMAP approach in the Minawao refugee camp, targeting 240 people. The whole community will indirectly benefit from this project through changes at the household level and the social change created in the wider community by the women and men graduating from EMAP; they will serve as role models and advocate for gender equality and non-violence in their community.

Job Overview – EMAP Assistant

Under the responsibility of the senior project manager and with the latter’s technical support, the EMAP assistants ensure the implementation of the awareness and communication component for behavior change, via the EMAP approach, at the within Minawao Camp (Mayo Tsanaga)

RESPONSIBILITIES

– Identify and mobilize male and female participants for EMAP activities;

– Identify and support the training of EMAP facilitators in the Minawao camp;

– Ensure the technical supervision of EMAP facilitators, organize coaching sessions, prepare sessions with them, organize debriefings and define future strategies together;

– Ensure reporting of EMAP activities on a weekly basis, highlighting all implementation challenges;

– Support the EMAP team’s continual introspection and learning about accountable practices by participating in weekly facilitator-supervisor accountability meetings;

– Incorporate women’s feedback and priorities into the men’s focus group curriculum;

– Collect feedback from female participants regarding their experience in the EMAP intervention;

– Participate in writing the end of intervention report by evaluating feedback and program data;

– Propose community awareness strategies and animate them, following the recommendations of the EMAP group sessions;

– Facilitate the understanding and dissemination of IEC tools and other communication tools;

– Ensure the link with the Minawao Camp APS, ensure that the community is well informed about the services available and ensure knowledge and fluidity of the referral scheme for GBV cases;

– Organize information and sensitization sessions with women and men in the community to disseminate information on the services available and the main protection concerns.

– Maintain regular contact with community focal points and community outreach volunteers to ensure a constant flow of information and feedback.

– Collect feedback at the community level regarding the provision of WPE services and share information with the WPE manager.

– Identify and engage key stakeholders within the community to ensure access for WPE teams and promote community participation in activities.

– Lead the community mobilization process, implement a participatory community targeting approach for the identification and registration of project beneficiaries.

– Prepare and organize all training materials for the women protection and empowerment workshops that will be organized in each village for community volunteers and conduct community campaigns to end gender-based violence.

– Initiate, organize and commemorate international events related to GBV prevention at the community level;

– Perform any other ad hoc task deemed useful by his direct superior or by the IRC;

– Ensure that all activities will be implemented in accordance with the operational policies of the IRC;

– Participate in the distribution of EMAP kits to beneficiaries in target locations;

– Collaborate closely and effectively with the heads of other components within the PAF program;

Organize meetings with community leaders and make advocacy calls during these meetings.
Qualifications
CANDIDATE PROFILE

The skills and knowledge acquired through a combination of job-related training, practical on-the-job experience and some form of formal education including:

Education

· A bachelor’s degree is required.

Skills and Abilities

· Minimum 2 years of implementing community outreach activity in a humanitarian context.

· Good knowledge and mastery of protection, GBV (minimum standards, guiding principles).

· Experience in raising awareness on GBV and / or with gender transformative approaches will be an asset.

· Good ability to facilitate behavior change sessions

· An open view on social gender norms will be expected.

· Have a good presentation and a respectful attitude towards beneficiaries, local authorities, community leaders, colleagues and superiors;

· Very good level in English, good level of French, and mastery of the local languages ​​of Nigerian refugees (In particular Kanouri, Mafa, Glavda, Hausa) is an asset.

· Be flexible; ability to work in a team, sometimes under pressure and often in an unstable security environment.

· Ability to report and use IT tools.

· Have a sense of organization and a strong capacity for time management.

· Have excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.

· Be of Cameroonian nationality.

For operational reasons, two people will be recruited: 1 woman and 1 man.

COMPOSITION OF THE APPLICATION FILE

Letter of motivation addressed to the Country Director of IRC Cameroon
CV
Photocopy(s) of the diploma(s) required;
Photocopy of national identity card
Photocopies of documents justifying the candidate’s experience (training and employment certificate, work certificate).

NB: Deadline for admissibility of files: November 10, 2022

Apply ONLY online via the Internet link whose address is: https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/requisition/33525/application?c=rescue&jobboardid=0#1