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Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Project development, implementation and reporting

• Support protection risk assessment in the GBV field and ongoing risks analysis to design adequate responses.
• Engage men, boys, women, and girls to promote positive gender norms and GBV risk mitigation.
• Work closely with community leaders and structures to strengthen GBV prevention mechanisms.
• Oversee the daily quality implementation, monitoring and evaluation of GBV- related activities in Bidi-Bidi.
• Make sure that all the protection projects adhere to the highest protection standards and principles as well as DRC guidelines and accountability standards.
• Strengthen prevention and response mechanisms to all forms of abuse through sensitizations, trainings, Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) materials, capacity building of community structures etc.
• Facilitate structured individual and group Psychosocial Support (PSS) sessions for women and girls.
• Support the operation of Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSS) and ensure safe, inclusive programming.
• Support survivors to access medical, psychosocial, legal, and safety services through established referral pathways.
• Maintain accurate and confidential GBV case files in line with data protection protocols.
• Identify and manage high-risk and emergency GBV cases and escalate as per Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Support rapid GBV risk assessments and emergency response activities.
• Facilitate and support awareness-raising activities and advocate for the prevention of GBV within the communities
• Ensure GBV Standard Operating Procedures are in place and followed by all parties
• In collaboration with the Protection Team Leader proactively contributes to quality and timely weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
• Ensure all registered GBV cases are timely updated in ProGres V4 and the GBV case tracker.
• Coordination and representation
• Develop relationships with a range of key stakeholders, including donors, Local Government, and other stakeholders on the GBV thematic areas at the field level in close cooperation with the Protection Team Leader.
• Representation of DRC and active participation in the local GBV working groups and any other protection coordination meetings at field level.
• Ensure close co-ordination in project implementation with partners (UN agencies and national/international NGOs), including referrals, protection gap analysis, and advocacy.
• Actively liaise with other DRC sectors and ensure the integration of the GBV intervention in all the activities.
• Link with the legal aid sub-sector/Partner and ensure access to justice for the GBV survivors.
• Support mapping and updating of GBV services and referral pathways.

Staff development and management

• Provide technical and programmatic leadership for the GBV case workers and GBV community-based mechanisms in Bidi-Bidi settlement area as needed.
• Provide technical leadership to the GBV case workers in the case management work.
• Ensure all cases are up to date (filling system and proGresV4) and progressing well and in line with UNHCR and DRC standard tools.
• Develop performance measurement and targets for case workers and prevention assistants, and appraise them based on the set targets on request from the team leader.
• Conduct regular team meetings, case review, and case shadowing with the case worker to ensure compliance with case management standards.
• Foster a positive, ethical, and safeguarding-compliant working environment for the team.
• Provide technical support to staff members in linking DRC GBV prevention and response to relevant protection standards, best practices, and policy documents, ensuring a rights-based approach, Programme framework.
• Uphold DRC’s code of conduct, Values, and principles of accountability.

Logistics /Finance

• Support the Protection Team Leader to monitor financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-ups.
• Proactively plan and coordinate logistics and movements of staff to and from different zones.