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This role will provide technical assistance to IPPF’s Humanitarian and Development Programs and Member Associations on SGBV and its intersections with SRH, while representing the Federation in regional and global fora.
It is an exciting and strategic role at the heart of transforming how SGBV services are delivered — strengthening norm change efforts according to context-specific opportunities, developing robust implementation principles, and ensuring safe, effective monitoring systems.
Deliverables:
- Advise the Head of Humanitarian Quality Services to ensure that the SGBV portfolio is integrated with IPPF’s broader SRHRJ mandate.
- Provide evidence-based technical support to Regional Offices and MAs to build their capacity on prevention of and response to SGBV within SRH programs, including activities to reduce and mitigate the health consequences of SGBV, maximizing opportunities to reach women, youth, people with disabilities, people who are of diverse SOGIESC to engage them to advocate for their rights and better respond to the needs of survivors.
- Contribute to delivering the ambitious outcomes of IPPF’s new Strategic Framework (Locally Owned: Globally Connected: A Movement for Change) and oversee SGBV technical assistance in humanitarian and development programs.
- Develop and coordinate planning and implement specific SGBV interventions as an essential component of IPPF integrated package of essential services (IPES) and MISP, ensuring collaboration across the Secretariat and MAs to maximize program delivery and impact.
- Collaborate closely with technical colleagues across the Secretariat to inform SGBV strategic, programmatic and technical direction and support development and rollout of technical guidance, tools and other products. This may involve participation in technical workstreams, action teams or taskforces on specific thematic areas and technical priorities.
- Provide SGBV technical assistance in the development of proposals, program design, work plans, implementation, reporting and M&E and compliance with the requirements and regulations of respective funding streams.
- Support the preparation of reporting documents for each of the different humanitarian projects/programs, taking as input the reports of the Humanitarian Team and the MAs.
- Accompany field visits when required and in the logic of technical monitoring of processes and qualification of the teams in the development of their projects and/or programs.
- Work in coordination with the Senior Sexual and Reproductive Health Technical Advisors, the Senior M&E Humanitarian Advisor, Program managers, Architects of Cooperation and RO humanitarian advisors to ensure project progress.
- Work closely with the Communications Team to elaborate technical documents and/or materials for the development of tools, key information to make IPPF’s SGBV programming visible (e.g. life stories, case studies, videos IEC materials, posters, leaflets, etc).
- Work in coordination with the Performance, Learning and Impact Team to leverage IPPF’s expertise and learning for the benefit of IPPF Members Associations and the wider SRHR community.
- Build partnerships where appropriate with specialist external partners to progress and strengthen SGBV services in SRH programs and represent IPPF effectively in relevant global/regional technical and advocacy groups in the humanitarian/development sectors.
- Contribute to the implementation of IPPF’s gender equality policy, working in close collaboration with the Global Lead, Gender & Inclusion and the gender steering group.
- Contribute be spoke technical support to restricted projects that include SGBV, including IPPF’s flagship humanitarian SPRINT program:
- Supporting MAs in South and South-East Asia to strengthen their SGBV work as part of the implementation of their annual workplans.
- Providing support to MAs and Humanitarian team colleagues to provide technical advice, offer training and coaching, and provide evidence sources relating to SGBV.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned to facilitate the efficient functioning of the IPPF Humanitarian Team.
Reporting/Management Responsibility:
- N/A
Expertise/Skills:
For this technical advisor role, IPPF seeks a professional in social, human and/or clinical sciences with significant experience in gender, SGBV, protection in humanitarian settings. The successful candidate will have:
- Significant experience in comprehensive SGBV, program design, implementation, capacity building and advocacy in humanitarian and development settings.
- Significant experience developing organizational guidance and promoting reflective learning on technical issues, relating to SGBV.
- Advanced understanding of gender transformative programming and inclusion, and on how humanitarian crises affect different segments of a population, including women and men in their diversity, youth, people with disabilities, including those of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity etc.
- Significant experience of training and mentoring teams on SGBV programming with the ability to bring diverse actors together across cultures and geographies to create an aligned and powerful force for change.
- Experience in integrating SGBV and SRHR programs desirable.
- Strong track record of technical leadership, and proven ability to produce demonstrable result
- Experience of working in diverse cultural contexts
- Experience working in comprehensive SGBV programs in Health Sector settings, including prevention and response; reproductive coercion, intimate partner violence, sexual violence and female genital mutilation
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills to internal and external audiences.
- Sound judgement, particularly in constrained and pressured situations and environments.
- Fluent in English, other IPPF languages desirable.
Your Ethos:
- Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
- Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.
- An intersectional (pro) feminist passionate about sexual reproductive health care rights + justice, including safe abortion.
- Supportive of people’s rights regardless of sexuality or gender identity/expression and supportive of workers’ rights and access to health care in sex work.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested individuals should fill the application form attached below and submit a 1-page cover letter to: [email protected] with the job position you are applying for as the subject of the email by 16th May 2025. Please note that IPPFAR will not consider applications that are not done in the requested format.
