VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS / VAWG/ PREVENTION OFFICER

Youth Impact Labs East Africa; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A global humanitarian organization is seeking a VAWG/CRSV Prevention Officer in the UK to implement risk mitigation interventions. The role involves supporting prevention activities and engaging with stakeholders. Candidates should have a BA in Sociology or related fields and at least four years' experience in protection roles. This position emphasizes training facilitation and community engagement.

Qualifications

• Minimum four years’ work experience in protection and VAWG/CRSV-related roles both in development and humanitarian settings.
• Demonstrated experience in different prevention strategies.
• Strong report writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members to ensure effective protection mainstreaming.
• Support VAWG/CRSV prevention activities, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Facilitate training on protection-related issues.

Skills

Community engagement

Training facilitation

Report writing

Education

BA degree in Sociology, Psychology, Social Work or similar

Job description

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, hardship, and in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within—now and for the future.

Mercy Corps Ethiopia exists to alleviate suffering and poverty by helping people build secure, productive, and sustainable livelihoods. Since 2004, we have worked in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in five regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amhara, and the capital city of Addis Ababa.

General Position Summary

Violence against women and girls and conflict-related sexual violence VAWG/CRSV Prevention Officer plays a crucial role at Mercy Corps Ethiopia by implementing risk mitigation and prevention interventions. This position is responsible for ensuring the technical quality and integration of these activities across humanitarian programs, identifying and addressing related concerns through direct service and referrals.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate and engage proactively with all Mercy Corps team members to ensure effective protection of mainstreaming, social integrity, and VAWG/CRSV concerns across all humanitarian programs.
• Work alongside relevant government and non-governmental actors to effectively address protection, VAWG, and social norm issues, informing project designs and activities.
• Directly support VAWG/CRSV prevention activities, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the program.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate training, dialogues, and workshops on protection-related issues and VAWG/CRSV for various groups.

Minimum Qualification And Transferable Skills

• BA degree in Sociology, Psychology, Social work, or other similar social science field of studies
• Minimum four years’ work experience in protection, and VAWG/CRSV-related roles both in development and humanitarian settings
• Demonstrated experience in different prevention strategies, community engagement and report writing,

Mercy Corps is an equal-opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis.

Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants, or others, are treated with respect and dignity.