This position is open for Bangladeshi Nationals only

The Position:

After September 2017 unrest in Myanmar and the following crack down of the security forces on Rohingya villages close to the border to Bangladesh, an estimated 670,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have crossed over to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh until present. This sudden population influx has made the provision of life-saving gender-based violence response and prevention programming and safe, ethical data management essential. 

The life-saving services GBV survivors require are not up to scale and are not fully prepared to meet the needs associated with the crisis. There is a gap in both basic services, such as post-rape care and psychosocial support, and in comprehensive, high-quality survivor-centred care, including case management. In part, due to the inadequacy of GBV services, reliable data on GBV is lacking. Even in situations where some data is available, these figures represent only a small proportion of the actual number of incidents due to the stigma often associated with reporting GBV and/or the lack of available services. The lack of reliable data limits our understanding of trends and patterns in GBV incidents to improve prevention and response programming, diminishes the impact of inter-agency coordination mechanisms, weakens advocacy efforts, and hinders fundraising. 

UNFPA has been supporting the deployment of the Gender-Based Violence Information Management System (GBVIMS) in Cox’s Bazar since May 2018 and 18 organizations (including UN and NGO) are now part of the signatory partners of the GBVIMS Information Sharing Protocol (ISP). This is with a view to facilitate and enable a mechanism to harmonize data collection protocols and procedures across intervening organizations, to monitor the effectiveness of existing GBV referral pathways and strengthen other coordination and programming interventions. On the other hand, 6 GBVIMS organizations are going to pilot the Primero/GBVIMS+.

The GBVIMS was created to harmonize data collection on GBV in humanitarian settings, to provide a simple system for actors providing services to GBV survivors to collect, store and analyze their data and to enable the safe and ethical sharing of reported GBV incident data within and between relevant entities. The intention of the GBVIMS is both to assist service providers to better understand the GBV cases being reported as well as to enable actors to share data internally across project sites and externally with agencies for broader trends analysis and improved GBV coordination and response. The GBVIMS is also intrinsically linked to case management capacity strengthening, as the GBVIMS cannot be used in isolation to quality case management services, and therefore all GBVIMS rollout activities include a comprehensive case management capacity building component, based on the Inter- Agency Case Management Guidelines spearheaded by the GBVIMS Steering Committee in 2017.

GBVIMS+ is a web application digital tool that was developed to enable GBV actors to safely collect, store, manage and share data for incident monitoring and case management. It contributes to timelier and more efficient GBV case management. Caseworkers can use it on laptops, tables, and mobile phones to conduct day-to-day case management work and aggregate analysis and reporting to child protection and GBV coordination mechanisms and donors. 

The National GBVIMS Coordinator will support the implementation of the GBVIMS/GBVIMS+ in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh, supporting the organizations and agencies using the GBVIMS/GBVIMS+ for data collection through their service provision to GBV survivors. The National GBV IMS Coordinator should work in close collaboration with the GBVIMS Specialist to ensure engagement with GBVIMS/GBVIMS+ organizations and appropriate dialogue and coordination with relevant stakeholders such as the Sub-Sector Coordinator, Child Protection Sub Sector, Protection Sector, Health actors to respond to key gaps highlighted by through the GBVIMS data analysis. The National GBVIMS Coordinator will also support the GBV Sub Sector’s input to the Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Arrangements (MARA) on Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) and the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) if such mechanisms exist. The National GBV IMS Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the successful implementation of the GBVIMS/GBVIMS+ in Cox Bazar District, Bangladesh, providing case management technical support to GBVIMS user organizations. The National GBV IMS Coordinator will be responsible for providing on-going technical support to organizations using the GBVIMS/GBVIMS+, including on case management, and support improvement and expansion the use of the GBVIMS/GBVIMS+ if need be.

Requirements:

Qualifications and Experience

• MA required in public health, social work, humanitarian or development work, human rights, or other related degree, or equivalent programming experience;

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, information/database management, statistics or other relevant experience, working in a GBV program in a humanitarian context preferred 

• Experience developing and facilitating workshops;

• Demonstrated capacity to analyze data/statistics for humanitarian operations;

• Excellent Computer skills: MS Word, Excel, Access and database software, including in depth knowledge of pivot table/chart analysis;

• Demonstrated organizational skills: the ability to work independently and productively, with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment;

• Flexible work attitude: the ability to work productively in a team environment and independently, and to handle requests or issues as they arise;

• Demonstrated understanding of issues related to confidentiality, data safety and other ethical concerns related to the sharing on sensitive data between humanitarian agencies;

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: the ability to successfully and effectively liaise with people in a wide range of functions in a multi-cultural environment. 

• Fluency in English and Bengali strongly preferred