MDM is hiring a Gender Based Violence (GBV) Advisor

       Essential Duties:

1.      Organization, coordination and supervision of GBV activities

• Advise and monitor the quality of prevention and treatment of GBV (monitor and adapt protocols, identify training needs, organise the referral procedure, etc.)
• Plan and monitor GBV activities and implement corrective action where necessary
• Create and disseminate tools, guidelines and training and awareness-raising materials
• Maintain mapping of all actors responding to GBV up to date
• Identify national and regional actors on GBV and leading the relevant network
• Make recommendations and proposals to modify and adapt activities and identify opportunities to develop new activities
• Plan resources (logistics, finance, HR)
• Design and conduct need and impact assessments
• Support the design and planning of activities
• Monitor the budget for these activities and contribute to the construction of the budget
• Increase and enhance program monitoring and evaluation, and determining impact, wherever possible, including the use of standard indicators
• Understand national issues around GBV

2.      Human resource, capacity building / training

• Identify the capacity building needs of this team, the medical team in general, MDM partner related to GBV and provide trainings.
• Provide technical supervision, capacity building and support for teams (MdM and partners)
• Collaborates with the medical team and particularly the sexual and reproductive health department of MdM to set up trainings and supervision of the activities and the quality of the medical care for victims of GBV.

3.      Advocacy

• Take part, if necessary, with the MDM team, partners or other actors to advocacy activities.

4.      Reporting, information management, coordination / representation

• Share to the general coordinator and the medical team any difficulties met in the field and propose solutions or adjustments.
• Write and analyze activity reports, capitalisation reports, summaries, etc.
• Participate to internal MDM meetings
• Participate to the GBV sub sectors meetings and actively contribute to coordination efforts.
• Contribute to MDM monthly report and bimonthly sitrep.
• Contribute to the preparation of new proposals or reports to donors.

Skills required:

• 3-5 years of experience in GBV programs management, and/or in GBV case management
• Master’s degree in relevant field (public health, social work, development studies, humanitarian affairs, or related social sciences disciplines).
• Knowledge, skills, and experience in providing/leading direct services to survivors of gender-based violence using a survivor-centered and multi-sectoral approach.
• Knowledge, skills, and experience in implementing primary prevention of violence against women and girls
• Experience with vulnerable people and people living in extreme poverty in Moldova
• Excellent knowledge of Romanian civil society / women organizations and GBV context in Moldova
• Experience with refugees is an asset
• Individual and group training skills in GBV
• Ability to take initiative, work independently and foster a team environment.
• Strong organizational, oral and written communication and coordination skills.
• Excellent project design and proposal development skills and developing tools for cross-organizational sharing of best practices.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good sense of diplomacy and negotiation with authorities
• Communicate MdM values and positions
• Master English and Romanian languages
• Russian or Ukrainian languages are an asset
• Use the Microsoft Office Pack

Starting date: February 2023

Please send us your CV to mdm.moldova@gmail.com  indicating in the email subject: GBV Advisor

Médecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organisation whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care.

Following a regional fact-finding mission in the neighbouring countries of Ukraine to assess the needs of people displaced by the conflict, MdM Moldova was registered in June 2022 to respond to the health and psychological needs of people in Moldova affected by the war. Current activities include health promotion, individual and group psychosocial support sessions for Ukrainian refugees, as well as targeted psychosocial support for Ukrainian and Moldovan NGO responders working on the Ukrainian crisis in Moldova. MdM Moldova has secured funding to support improved quality health service delivery at 8 health facilities and surrounding communities, identified in collaboration with the Ministry of Health; furthermore, MdM Moldova will contribute to improving emergency preparedness efforts, in line with national contingency plans, through partnership with a Moldovan medical university. MdM Moldova activities will include a range of health and mental health and psychosocial support services, including support to community mental health centers, provision of mental health services within refugee accommodation centers and local communities, and psychosocial support to volunteers or other Moldovans who are serving refugee communities.

In the context of MDM mission in Moldova to facilitate access to medical services for highly vulnerable people in Moldova, Médecins du Monde France is hiring a gender-based violence advisor to provide technical supervision of the implementation and integration of the GBV theme in the mission's activities. The GBV advisor will ensure the operational roll-out of the intervention strategy, technical support, quality of treatment and relevance of prevention and responses to GBV, as well as information relating to GBV. He/she will indirectly lead teams on GBV (MdM or partners).