Location: Tak
Country: Thailand
Category: Technical Units
Employee Category Fixed Term
Job Type: Full Time
Work Arrangement: In-person
Open To Expatriates: No

Application Deadline: 9 January 2025

Background/ IRC Summary

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

The IRC has been operating in Thailand since 1975 and currently provides assistance to displaced persons in Tak, Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi and Mae Hong Son provinces.

Job Overview/Summary:

The Protection and Empowerment Program is composed of the Protection and Legal Assistance Center Program, Women Protection and Empowerment Sector, Livelihood Sector, Emergency Response, and DRR project. The IRC’s program for Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) improves and expands community-based services to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in the seven refugee camps. The program supports and strengthens community-based efforts to respond to and prevent violence against women and girls through comprehensive and holistic programming, including case management. This program coordinates a network against GBV that ensures a comprehensive and multi-sectoral response for survivors, increasing the safety and power of women and girls through promoting community leadership and provision of technical training on GBV core concepts.

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Women’s Protection and Empowerment Program Manager. The WPE Training Officer is responsible for all aspects of capacity building including training focusing on prevention and response to gender-based violence, gender equality, including Training of Trainers and capacity development of camp-based staff and partner organizations. The position is also responsible for developing training materials, outreach strategies and implementing activities in cooperation with partners.

Major Responsibilities:

Training and Technical Support

• Design, coordinate and deliver training on gender-based violence (GBV) and related issues to project beneficiaries and conduct training of trainers (TOT) for local NGOs, CBOs, community leaders and civil society organizations (CSO), who are working with GBV survivors.
• Deliver training on healthy communication and maintaining positive relationships to couples in the refugee camps and implement training activities in partnerships with relevant community-based organizations.
• Deliver trainings focusing on men engagement in promoting gender equality and behavior change to targeted men and boys from targeted community by collaborating with local community-based organizations and community leaders.
• Conduct Training of Trainers and implement systematic training observations and constructive feedback mechanisms for camp-based staff.
• Develop training materials, community awareness-raising materials and other educational materials as necessary based on the project design and objectives.
• Monitor training outcomes through baseline surveys, pre- and post-tests, and follow-up interviews, and continually reflect on training experiences and monitoring data to improve future training.
• Translate training materials into English, Karen, and Burmese and vice versa ensure training documents are current and up to date.
• Provide support to the development and implementation of strategies for community outreach activities.
• Strengthen the capacity of community-based actors, local NGOs and CSOs on service provision to survivors of gender-based violence and ensure a comprehensive and multi-sectoral response for survivors.

Program Support and Administration

• Collect information/data relating activities under this position including data necessary for project indicators as well as record on the successes and challenges and report the progress of the project at regular intervals to the Senior WPE Program Manager.
• Organize regular coordination meeting with partners to identify challenges faced by women and girls and develop mitigation plan.
• Assist in preparing monthly activity plans together with all other project staff in order to ensure close integration of project activities.
• Complete all administrative work and timely submit reports related to training and outreach activities.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Senior WPE Program Manager

Position directly supervises: Camp Based Assistants

Indirect Reporting: N/A

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: Protection and Empowerment Team, Grants and Partnership Unit, Finance Unit, Operation Unit and IRC-Health team.
External: Non-governmental organizations, community leaders, community-based organizations, civil society, government/ministries, and UN agencies.

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Social Science or High school diploma or post-10 certificate required, coupled with a strong interest in refugees and related issues.
• Experience in training design and conducting training, including Training of Trainers, and proficient in using participatory methods.
• Experience in GBV work, including working with men for the behavior change related programming.
• Experience in translation of written documents and administrative work
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Flexible and willing to learn and develop.
• Strong written and spoken Burmese, Karen, and Thai is essential.
• English language proficiency is an advantage.

Working Environment:

The position will be based in the IRC office in Mae Sot district, with frequent and regular travel to the refugee camps, and with travel along Thailand-Myanmar border as required for IRC business.

**Standard of Professional Conduct:**The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.

Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures.