Mobile Support Technician - Response to Violence Sahel

Under the responsibility of Cell 2 and in close collaboration with the Medical, PCA, Safeguarding and Humanitarian Affairs teams, support in the design and direct implementation of the strategy for responding to violence in Tera and Diffa (Niger) and Koro and Menaka (Mali) with the overall objective to assist direct and indirect victims of violence and integrate protection measures to alleviate suffering, restore dignity, create safe spaces of humanity.

Responsibilities

• Lead in the design, delivery and analysis of assessments to understand lived experience of violence (patterns, objective and subjective needs from survivors and co-survivors, capacities and coping mechanisms, local contextualised expression of suffering and grief, support mechanisms and barriers of access to care).
• Co-lead the development of a programmatic response to violence, ensuring response strategies and services are informed by assessments and trauma sensitive.
• Work closely with CMT to integrate the programmatic response to violence into the project’s Logframe.
• Design and lead participatory workshops to seek community preferences regarding service provision and adapt circuits accordingly.
• Lead and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration at project level to set up effective holistic care for survivors of violence, including case management and collaboration with local actors.
• Promote protection mindset within projects by leading reflection spaces, participating in meetings, and leading protection risk analysis.
• Support or lead targeted analysis and propose strategies to mitigate community level protection risks with community participation.
• Design strategies of engagement and negotiation with those responsible for violence to mitigate risk.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with other actors and integrate a network approach in the programmatic response.

Requirements

• University degree in Health, Social Sciences or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a manager in a humanitarian response in a conflict setting.
• At least 3 years of experience in project management related to protection and response to violence in humanitarian contexts.
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative assessment methods, report writing, and knowledge of Logical Framework (Logframe) design will be considered an asset.
• Fluency in French is required.
• English will be considered an asset.
• Availability and willingness to be deployed to MSF projects in the Sahel region is required.
• Previous field experience with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be considered a strong asset.

Skills

• Humanitarian Response Management
• Project Management
• Protection Programming
• Violence Response
• Quantitative Assessment
• Qualitative Assessment
• Report Writing
• Logical Frameworks
• Field Deployment Experience
• Conflict Setting Experience

Languages

French, English