Position Summary:

UNFPA works in partnership with the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development (MWAGCD), Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), sister UN agencies, leading NGOs in the field of GBV and the donor community in Zimbabwe to implement a large programme to address gender-based violence (GBV).

Under the overall guidance of the UNFPA Representative and the direct supervision of the Deputy Representative, the GBV Specialist provides programmatic and technical leadership to ensure strong partnership and collaboration with the UN and national/ international counterparts to deliver a comprehensive multi-sectoral survivor-centred prevention and response joint gender-based violence (GBV) programme, ‘zero tolerance against GBV 365’.  As UNFPA is the Lead Agency on the GBV Sub-Cluster, the GBV specialist will also ensure high quality technical support to the MWAGCD to coordinate national response to GBV in the Humanitarian Response Plan to Drought. The GBV Specialist will supervise both national staff and international consultants.

The GBV Specialist will be based in the UNFPA Zimbabwe country office and will operate as integral part of the UNFPA Zimbabwe country office team.  

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Advanced university degree in law, social sciences, or gender and development or related field;
• 7 years of increasingly responsible relevant professional experience, including experience in programme management, including large multi-sectoral projects, designing and appraising proposals and actively liaising with relevant and potential project partners;
• Experience in drafting and implementing legislation, in particular, related to GBV issues;
• Knowledge of gender issues in development, particularly GBV, including relevant international human rights standards;
• Prior training in gender and GBV issues and their application in humanitarian, recovery and development settings;
• Experience in utilising the following internationals tools: GBV Standard Operating Procedures; GBV Information Management System; IASC GBV Guidelines; IASC Gender Handbook; GBV Coordination Handbook; WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations;
• Field experience in complex emergencies, including humanitarian emergency response an asset;
• Prior experience in the UN system will be a strong asset;
• Fluency in oral and written English essential; ability to communicate in Arabic an advantage.