Blumont is a global organization working with local communities to design and implement innovative approaches to building infrastructure, delivering lifesaving humanitarian assistance, and bridging the gap from early recovery through long-term stability and development. Blumont serves underserved populations, refugees, internally displaced persons, victims of conflict, and tackles development challenges through programming tailored to local contexts and needs in order to empower communities from relief and recovery to sustainable resilience.

Blumont is looking to hire 3 Protection Assistants for BHA SAFER III Program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in North East Syria:

• One in Mahmoudly Camp
• One in Twehiniya Camp
• One in Tel Saman Camp.

POSITION SUMMARY

Gender and protection assistant under direct supervision of the Gender and Protection officer, is responsible for supporting protection and gender mainstreaming practices; and leading activities that support gender equality, enhance protection of community members, and raise their awareness on key GBV and protection topics. The Gender and Protection Assistant will support the Gender and Protection Officer to deliver gender and protection mainstreaming trainings, including referral pathways to Blumont staff and other key community stakeholders in the areas of implementation support community mobilizers to deliver awareness raising sessions on gender, protection and GBV risk mitigation topics in the community centers and through outreach.  leads the preparations for special days celebrations. Gender and Protection Assistant will also be working as a referral focal point for Blumont in camps, out of camps and or collective centers and for referring/receiving the protection cases from/to the relevant service provider in the respective locations.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

• Provide advice and support to the Project Team to ensure that all project activities are implemented with gender sensitive and protection-integrated approaches, with the needs of women, girls, boys, and men considered.
• Support the programme team on establishing a gender-sensitive accountability and referral mechanism for beneficiaries.
• Ensure close interaction with the M&E team and provide assistance in data collection, compiling lessons learned, establishing indicators to support knowledge sharing.
• Working as a referral focal point for Blumont, receiving and referring all the protection cases to the relevant service provided in the region.
• Build up a collaborative network of peers, government agencies and local NGOs engaged in issues related to gender/protection and coordinate and collaborate on research, programming, and advocacy.
• Support Gender and Protection Officer in preparing training materials and providing trainings for project staff on gender and protection mainstreaming.
• Assist in providing group sessions on gender equality, GBV, protection topics and other NGOs providing services in the region.
• Providing door to door awareness raising on gender, GBV, child marriage and all other protection related topics.
• Provide weekly work plans and report to supervisor outlining caseload and movements.
• Document best practices and lessons learned.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationship with relevant stakeholders including partner agencies, community structures and service provider.
• Identify and report success stories.
• Perform other duties, as required by the gender and protection supervisors.

Qualifications and Education:

• Diploma/bachelor’s degree in social science, Economics, or relevant field is required.

Experience and skills

• Minimum 1 year of experience in protection /Gender Positions Preferably in Humanitarian NGOs.
• knowledge of gender and protection in humanitarian and resilience settings, including gender-based violence, humanitarian policy issues, and their linkage with Food assistance, NFIs, WASH and CCCM.
• Proficiency in MS Office (MS Excel and MS PowerPoint, in particular).
• Excellent English and Arabic languages (writing and speaking) are required.
• Good reporting skills.

Success Factors

• Commitment to and understanding of Blumont’s core values and principles; and Strong organizational skills.
• Motivated and fair with Healthy leadership skills.
• Pro-active and helpful attitude, ready to take on variety of new tasks; with the ability to multi-task; Ability to manage competing priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal and team skills; and capable of working collaboratively with team members to achieve objectives.

Preventing Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, and Abuse:

Blumont in NES staff are committed to each other and to the protection of the people we serve.  We do not tolerate sexual misconduct within our organization or external to our organization. Protection from sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse are fundamental to Blumont NES’s relationships, including employment, and our recruitment practices are designed to ensure we recruit people who are committed to our work and the people we serve.  We will use the recruitment and reference process to ensure all potential staff understand and are aligned with these expectations.

Other Considerations:

• Candidates will be required to provide educational certification to Blumont’s satisfaction as a requirement for this role
• Candidates from the local area are encouraged to apply