Gender Champion at Development Exchange Centre (DEC) - 2 Openings

Development Exchange Centre (DEC) is a Non-Governmental Organisation that is non-partisan, non-profit, and established in 1987. It is Incorporated by Trust with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)- (IT/Cert: 10826). The organization has an overarching mandate of providing socio-economic development services to women, groups, communities, and NGOs[1]. DEC’s Head Office is in Bauchi State, and it is currently operational in all Northern States of Nigeria including FCT, Enugu, and Cross Rivers States, with a staff strength of 868 permanent employees. DEC’s socio-economic enhancement programs cut across several sectors that touch the basic fabric of its target beneficiaries and include education, health, economic/livelihoods, water/environment, good governance & peacebuilding, and microfinance.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Gender Champion

Locations: Bauchi and Nasarawa
Employment Type: Full Time

Summary of Position

• Gender Champions under direct supervision of the Gender Technical Officer, is responsible for facilitating SAA sessions at the community level, supporting gender mainstreaming activities; and leading activities that support gender equality, enhance the protection of community members and raise awareness on key GBV issues/topics.
• The Gender Champions will support the Gender Officer during gender activities, facilitate referrals to other partners and support community health workers to conduct sensitization sessions on health, gender, protection and GBV topics in the safe spaces and through community outreach. The position holder will also participate and preparing for special days commemorations    

Key Responsibilities

• Support the program team to identify and establish a gender-sensitive and community-appropriate accountability and referral mechanism for beneficiaries at community level.
• Ensure close interaction with the M&E team and provide assistance in mobilizing community members during data collection exercise.
• Build up a collaborative network of peers, government agencies and local NGOs engaged in issues related to gender, coordinate and collaborate on research, programming and advocacy
• Support Gender Officer during training  
• Facilitate SAA session with women, men, girls and boys and provides group sessions on gender equality, GBV, protection topics and other NGOs providing services in the communities.
• Providing door to door awareness raising on gender discrimination, GBV, child right/marriage and all other protection related topics.
• Assist in supervising the community health workers and conduct meeting with women of reproductive age and me
• Participate in weekly meeting with supervisor and provide weekly work plans and report to supervisor.
• Document best practices and lessons learned.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationship with relevant stakeholders including partner organizations, community structures and service provider.
• Identify and report success stories/ case study.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by DEC’s Management.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree / HND in law, Social Science, Administration or any related field.
• At least two years of experience in gender programming including Protection or GBV and women’s economic empowerment
• Commitment to enhancing human rights and gender equality
• Proficiency in MS Office application particularly Excel, word processing, and database packages
• Ability to work under pressure, independently and in a team environment

Other Requirements:

• Good interpersonal skills, good communication, organizational & analytical skills & ability to work well in a team.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their resume / CV and cover letter in a single file (word document or PDF format as any other format would not be considered) to: hr_recruitment@dexcentre.org using the job title as the subject of the mail.
Or
Submit the hard copies of their detailed resume / CV and cover letter to:
The Human Resources Department,
DEC Head Office,
No. 5 Kaduna Road GRA,
Bauchi State.