ARC, Women Support Officers Jobs Vacancies

VACANCY–
WOMEN SUPPORT OFFICERS (3)
ARC
seeks to work with partners, communities and displaced persons and refugees, in
all therefugee sites in Rwanda to address risk of SGBV – through prevention and
mitigation strategies and promoting resilience, and strengthening national and
community-based systems that will prevent and mitigate SG

BV. The program will
also enable survivors and those at risk of SGBV to access care and support. ARC
will support local and national capacity to create lasting solutions around
SGBV.

ARC
islooking for qualified, self-driven and committed individuals to be part of
and contribute to accomplishing this NEW ambitious and exciting project – in
the position of Women Support Officers. This position is full time, and
field based at the assigned Refugee site or Reception Centre.
PRIMARY
PURPOSE
Key
responsibilities:
  • Responsible
    for ensuring effective day to day planning, implementation and
    management of women support center and activities at camp level.
  • Organization
    and monitoring of daily activities at the center
  • Orientation
    of clients to center activities
  • Organization
    of group psychosocial support activities
  • Referrals
    of clients to Case Workers, as relevant
  • Direct
    support and training of outreach support team
Minimum
qualifications:
  • Bachelor
    degree in gender, social work or any other similar field
  • Four
    years’ direct experience in gender related programs, focused on women
    and youth empowerment, livelihoods required.
  • Previous
    training/experience with GBV programming an asset
  • Cultural
    understanding and context preferred.
  • Excellent
    communication skills, with good spoken and written English& local
    language required. MS Computer competency.
APPLICATION
GUIDELINES:
Submit
1 page Cover letter, an updated CV (maximum three pages) and names, title and
contacts of three professional referees, to include most current
employer/supervisor – via email to RWJobs@arcrelief.org
with the POSITION applied for clearly indicated in the subject line. The
deadline for submission of applications is 25th November, 2017 at
17:00hrs
. Only applications received through the stated email address will
be considered.Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
American
Refugee Committee is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering employment without
regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity,
age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental disability, or protected
veteran status.  American Refugee Committee complies with all applicable
laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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