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EMERGENCY Protection and GBV Technical Advisor

Congo (the Democratic Republic of)full_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Jan 2025

About the role

EMERGENCY Protection and GBV Technical Advisor Location: Goma, DRCPosition Status: Full-time, 12 monthsSalary Level: L5 InternationalCurrent Team Member: New positionProjected start date: 01/03/2025

About Mercy CorpsMercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact. The Program / Department / Team Mercy Corps has been operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since August 2007, with a staff of around 400 people working in North and South Kivu and Ituri, with the overall country goal to support vulnerable communities through crises, while fostering programs that build resilience and promote long-term change. Mercy Corps’ key programming areas include a combination of longer-term development and immediate humanitarian response programs in order to: 1) Improve water service delivery and ensuring equitable access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene services, in urban and rural areas; 2) Improve food security and nutrition; 3) Promote diversified livelihoods, economic recovery and development Mercy Corps DRC’s humanitarian programs aim to assist populations affected by conflicts and crises in Eastern Congo. With funding from FCDO, ECHO and Humanitarian Pooled Fund an expanding portfolio of over USD 20 million, Mercy Corps currently delivers multi-sectoral cash and voucher assistance, emergency WASH and protection support to displaced populations and host communities in North Kivu and Ituri. Mercy Corps is the lead agency for the SAFER Consortium (Strategic Assistance for Emergency Response). The Consortium, funded by FCDO and ECHO, is composed of ACTED, Concern Worldwide, Mercy Corps, NRC and Solidarités International. SAFER has the overall goal of allowing the population affected by conflict and shocks to cover their basic needs. The program supports the specific outcome of delivering a coordinated humanitarian response that enables vulnerable households affected by conflict and shocks to have safe and equitable access to multi-sectoral emergency assistance and basic WASH services to reduce reliance on negative coping mechanisms. All Mercy Corps interventions in DRC are implemented in a conflict, protection and gender sensitive manner. Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

The Position

The Protection and GBV Program Technical Advisor (TA) will be providing technical support to the manager responsible for designing, coordinating and supervising implementation of all Protection program activities in South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri. The position holder will mainly be responsible to support Protection Manager his/her team members in the daily implementation including working with community members to identify protection and GBV risks and to develop strategies to mitigate protection risks and to strengthen response capacity of various actors. In addition, the TA will support Manager in lead consultation with government agencies, humanitarian actors, and actively participate in humanitarian coordination mechanisms to ensure MC is well informed and positioned to design, implement and coordinate its programing. The position holder will also be responsible to provide capacity building trainings on different protection topics including basic protection principles, GBV prevention and response mechanisms, PSEA and safeguarding, community representatives and other humanitarian actors. S/He will also be supporting the manager in documenting the achievement of the protection and GBV related activities, compile reports (weekly, and monthly); and present key achievement in protection and GBV related coordination forums, CP/GBV, PSEA Network and so on. The TA will support the manager in overseeing the work of protection team currently composed of 5 staff. The TA will be based in Goma with regular travel to all implementati