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UNFPA-GBV AoR Co-Coordinator-P3-Kabul, Afghanistan
Kabul, AfghanistanPosition Title: GBV AoR Co-Coordinator
Receiving Agency: UNFPA
P Level: P3
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Duration: Until Oct 31st, 2025 with a possible extension to a total of 6 months
Language: English
Background Description of Emergency
The GBV Area of Responsibility (AoR) is one of the AoRs operating through the leadership of the Protection cluster, working closely with the global, regional, and country level humanitarian architecture. The GBV AoR leads mechanisms for GBV related humanitarian actions, and it promotes, and coordinates inter agency and multisector partners for GBV response, risk mitigation and prevention. The goal of the GBV AoR is to ensure that GBV partners are accountable to the people of concern, programming systems are effective to ensure accessible and safe services, risks to GBV are mitigated and GBV prevention mechanisms are in place. According to the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC), globally GBV AoR is led by UNFPA and co-coordinated by an International NGO or a National NGO for a period agreed upon by the Terms of Reference in a location. The GBV AoR in Afghanistan is currently led by UNFPA and was co-coordinated by IRC until end of February 2025. The core functions of the GBV AoR includes supporting service delivery, informing the Humanitarian Coordinator / Humanitarian Country Team’s (HC/HCT) strategic decision-making, planning and implementing GBV AoR strategies and funding, building national capacity in preparedness and contingency planning, supporting advocacy on GBV issues, and monitoring and evaluation. For all this to happen, enablers should be in place. Funds should be mobilized, partners should be strengthened, capacity should be built while paying attention to cross-cutting issues such as gender, disability and inclusion, accountability to affected persons (AAP), prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS).
Security Situation Summary in country and main threats: (i.e armed conflict, terrorism, crime, social unrest, hazard)
Afghanistan is a country with large humanitarian needs and the living conditions might be viewed as challenging. Any candidate that applies to this post understands that Afghanistan is a non family duty station.
Afghanistan provides an interesting and enriching environment, but also requires a mature level of cultural awareness. Therefore, flexibility and the ability and willingness to live and work in harsh and potentially hazardous conditions, involving physical hardship and little comfort, are essential.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (non-exhaustive and subject to division of responsibilities within overall AoR Coordination Team):
Coordination and Promotion of Joint Action
▪ Strengthen Regional GBV AoR Coordination to promote engagement with relevant humanitarian actors including NNGOs and INGOs, UN agencies, clusters and De facto Authorities.
▪ Ensure regular space and time for the coordination meetings and timely circulation of information and updates to the national and the Regional GBV AoR.
▪ Promote shared knowledge and understanding of GBV Guiding principles, Survivor Centered Approach, do no harm approaches and globally endorsed tools for effective GBV programme management and interagency coordination.
▪ Identify GBV AoR focal points at sub-national level to engage with other relevant sectors/clusters for GBV integration, risk mitigation and referral.
▪ Conduct detailed mapping of GBV services to identify gaps and implement site specific response plans to address gaps.
▪ Coordinate the development of functional GBV referral pathways and SOPs, monitor functionality of the referral pathway.
▪ Lead the development of location-specific GBV AoR work plans in line with GBV AoR Strategy and Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP)
▪ Lead the development of strategy for effective communications with affected populations on GBV services, risk mitigation, strategies, and promote gender equality.
▪ Develop and regularly update site specific GBV preparedness and contingency plans.
▪ Promote joint action /monitoring of partners’ activities to ensure gaps, challenges in implementation are jointly identified and addressed.
▪ Proactively fundraise for joint programs to support the work plan, including through relevant humanitarian funding mechanisms.
Technical Leadership
▪ Lead the development and implementation of GBV coordination-related strategy and operational action plans.
▪ Promote awareness of access to and use of relevant tools and guidelines across clusters/ sectors to support effective GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response.
▪ Assess the capacity gaps that hinder quality and /or coverage of GBV prevention and response interventions and develop comprehensive capacity building plans to address identified gaps.
▪ Develop/adapt and conduct training to address capacity gaps.
▪ Develop/adapt and monitor implementation of GBV minimum standards and guidance notes for actors implementing GBV activities to ensure quality
Information Management and Reporting
▪ Lead and/or contribute to assessments and situational analyses, ensure GBV concerns are included in sector specific and multi-cluster assessments and link to consolidated appeals.
▪ Ensure standardized approach to data gathering with an emphasis on ensuring safe and ethical considerations promoted by the GBV Information Management systems, the Guiding principles for working with GBV survivors and the WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Researching, Documenting and Monitoring Sexual Violence in Emergencies.
▪ Establish a system for information sharing and dissemination, including for advocacy purposes.
▪ Develop and regularly update an inter-agency M&E framework to guide work of GBV Coordination body and support accountability.
▪ Prepare standardized periodic reports and progress updates on on-going GBV working group for inclusion in OCHA SitReps, Humanitarian Bulletins, Protection Advisories, Global GBV AoR Weekly Updates, internal and external meetings, and advisories etc.
▪ Collaborate with Partners in the location to collect their views for the Humanitarian Need and Response Plan (HNRP) and ensure all partners receive relevant GBV AoR documents, Guidelines, SOPS, Strategy, and Reports, etc.
▪ Ensure that partners send monthly reports, 5W reports, training reports, safety audit reports and all other assessment reports.
Supporting Advocacy
▪ Draft key messages and advocacy notes to promote consistent communications that emphasize the life-saving nature of GBV-related interventions in the crisis-affected context.
▪ Attend meetings with donors or any relevant stakeholders to highlight the shortfalls in funding for GBV programs.
▪ Support the organization of advocacy events in collaboration with other GBV AoR.
▪ Advocate the localization agenda on various platforms
Technical Leadership and Capacity Building
▪ Establish working relationship with other relevant GBV actors, particularly with national and local organizations, and women’s groups, and takes initiative in leading, promoting collaboration, providing capacity building, documentation of best practices among WLOs/WROs both at national and subnational level.
▪ Support capacity assessment of GBV partners and support the organization of tailored capacity building training to identified partners informed by capacity building strategy.
▪ Contribute to the development/ updating and the implementation of Afghanistan GBV AoR strategy, support in development of Action plans, and disseminate the strategy.
▪ Work with the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) to steer the strategic direction of GBV AoR coordination work and GBV in emergency programming in Afghanistan.
▪ Support GBV AoR Regional Coordinators to develop tailored Action Plans in line with the GBV Strategy.
▪ Promote shared knowledge and understanding of the GBV guiding principles and globally endorsed tools for effective GBV programme management and inter-agency coordination including GBV minimum standards.
GBV AoR Coordination Representation
▪ Represent the GBV AoR in various coordination platforms including Inter Cluster Coordination Team (ICCT), Protection Cluster (PC), HCT, Cluster specific meetings as and when needed.
▪ Support GBV coordination structures in all the regions, to assess their capacity, provide tailored training and support sub-national level meetings.
▪ The GBV AoR Co-Coordinator task division will be further developed during GBV AoR work plan development exercise and weekly planning meetings where tasks and responsibilities are shared among the entire Afghanistan GBV AoR Coordination team members.
Qualifications and Skills Required
Education:
Advanced university degree in international development studies, gender studies, human rights, social sciences, law, or other related fields.
In lieu of advanced university degree a degree at bachelor level will be accepted with 2 years additional work experience, making the total years of work experience seven years
Knowledge and Experience:
● At least five years of increasingly responsible professional experience in GBV programming and coordination, including specific experience in programme management of GBV service provision, or other relevant fields;
● Background in gender, women's issues, protection and humanitarian response, knowledge of the UN System, in particular in Afghanistan
● Strong analytical ability and experience in coordination;
● Excellent writing and oral communication skills;
● Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills are necessary in this position;
● Good knowledge of humanitarian response, prior experience of working in challenging and complex humanitarian response is desirable.
Core Competencies:
● Integrity, commitment, cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity
● Developing people, coaching and mentoring
● Building and managing relationships
● Personal leadership and effectiveness
Functional Competencies:
● Business acumen
● Implementing management systems
● Innovation and marketing of new approaches
● Client orientation
● Organizational awareness
● Strategic alignment of human resource practices
● Promoting organizational change and development
● Impact and influence
● Job knowledge/technical expertise
CANADEM and its partners have a no-tolerance policy for inaction to prevent, respond to and follow up on alleged cases of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (SEAH). For this reason, we adhere to all policies, procedures and training of the United Nations on The Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH). CANADEM mandates all deployees successfully complete the PSEA online course. This e-learning course is composed of a set of lessons designed to raise awareness about SEAH, become familiar with a range of measures to combat SEAH, understand the impact on victims and the consequences for UN Personnel who commit Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment.
Receiving Agency: UNFPA
P Level: P3
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Duration: Until Oct 31st, 2025 with a possible extension to a total of 6 months
Language: English
Background Description of Emergency
The GBV Area of Responsibility (AoR) is one of the AoRs operating through the leadership of the Protection cluster, working closely with the global, regional, and country level humanitarian architecture. The GBV AoR leads mechanisms for GBV related humanitarian actions, and it promotes, and coordinates inter agency and multisector partners for GBV response, risk mitigation and prevention. The goal of the GBV AoR is to ensure that GBV partners are accountable to the people of concern, programming systems are effective to ensure accessible and safe services, risks to GBV are mitigated and GBV prevention mechanisms are in place. According to the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC), globally GBV AoR is led by UNFPA and co-coordinated by an International NGO or a National NGO for a period agreed upon by the Terms of Reference in a location. The GBV AoR in Afghanistan is currently led by UNFPA and was co-coordinated by IRC until end of February 2025. The core functions of the GBV AoR includes supporting service delivery, informing the Humanitarian Coordinator / Humanitarian Country Team’s (HC/HCT) strategic decision-making, planning and implementing GBV AoR strategies and funding, building national capacity in preparedness and contingency planning, supporting advocacy on GBV issues, and monitoring and evaluation. For all this to happen, enablers should be in place. Funds should be mobilized, partners should be strengthened, capacity should be built while paying attention to cross-cutting issues such as gender, disability and inclusion, accountability to affected persons (AAP), prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS).
Security Situation Summary in country and main threats: (i.e armed conflict, terrorism, crime, social unrest, hazard)
Afghanistan is a country with large humanitarian needs and the living conditions might be viewed as challenging. Any candidate that applies to this post understands that Afghanistan is a non family duty station.
Afghanistan provides an interesting and enriching environment, but also requires a mature level of cultural awareness. Therefore, flexibility and the ability and willingness to live and work in harsh and potentially hazardous conditions, involving physical hardship and little comfort, are essential.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (non-exhaustive and subject to division of responsibilities within overall AoR Coordination Team):
Coordination and Promotion of Joint Action
▪ Strengthen Regional GBV AoR Coordination to promote engagement with relevant humanitarian actors including NNGOs and INGOs, UN agencies, clusters and De facto Authorities.
▪ Ensure regular space and time for the coordination meetings and timely circulation of information and updates to the national and the Regional GBV AoR.
▪ Promote shared knowledge and understanding of GBV Guiding principles, Survivor Centered Approach, do no harm approaches and globally endorsed tools for effective GBV programme management and interagency coordination.
▪ Identify GBV AoR focal points at sub-national level to engage with other relevant sectors/clusters for GBV integration, risk mitigation and referral.
▪ Conduct detailed mapping of GBV services to identify gaps and implement site specific response plans to address gaps.
▪ Coordinate the development of functional GBV referral pathways and SOPs, monitor functionality of the referral pathway.
▪ Lead the development of location-specific GBV AoR work plans in line with GBV AoR Strategy and Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP)
▪ Lead the development of strategy for effective communications with affected populations on GBV services, risk mitigation, strategies, and promote gender equality.
▪ Develop and regularly update site specific GBV preparedness and contingency plans.
▪ Promote joint action /monitoring of partners’ activities to ensure gaps, challenges in implementation are jointly identified and addressed.
▪ Proactively fundraise for joint programs to support the work plan, including through relevant humanitarian funding mechanisms.
Technical Leadership
▪ Lead the development and implementation of GBV coordination-related strategy and operational action plans.
▪ Promote awareness of access to and use of relevant tools and guidelines across clusters/ sectors to support effective GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response.
▪ Assess the capacity gaps that hinder quality and /or coverage of GBV prevention and response interventions and develop comprehensive capacity building plans to address identified gaps.
▪ Develop/adapt and conduct training to address capacity gaps.
▪ Develop/adapt and monitor implementation of GBV minimum standards and guidance notes for actors implementing GBV activities to ensure quality
Information Management and Reporting
▪ Lead and/or contribute to assessments and situational analyses, ensure GBV concerns are included in sector specific and multi-cluster assessments and link to consolidated appeals.
▪ Ensure standardized approach to data gathering with an emphasis on ensuring safe and ethical considerations promoted by the GBV Information Management systems, the Guiding principles for working with GBV survivors and the WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Researching, Documenting and Monitoring Sexual Violence in Emergencies.
▪ Establish a system for information sharing and dissemination, including for advocacy purposes.
▪ Develop and regularly update an inter-agency M&E framework to guide work of GBV Coordination body and support accountability.
▪ Prepare standardized periodic reports and progress updates on on-going GBV working group for inclusion in OCHA SitReps, Humanitarian Bulletins, Protection Advisories, Global GBV AoR Weekly Updates, internal and external meetings, and advisories etc.
▪ Collaborate with Partners in the location to collect their views for the Humanitarian Need and Response Plan (HNRP) and ensure all partners receive relevant GBV AoR documents, Guidelines, SOPS, Strategy, and Reports, etc.
▪ Ensure that partners send monthly reports, 5W reports, training reports, safety audit reports and all other assessment reports.
Supporting Advocacy
▪ Draft key messages and advocacy notes to promote consistent communications that emphasize the life-saving nature of GBV-related interventions in the crisis-affected context.
▪ Attend meetings with donors or any relevant stakeholders to highlight the shortfalls in funding for GBV programs.
▪ Support the organization of advocacy events in collaboration with other GBV AoR.
▪ Advocate the localization agenda on various platforms
Technical Leadership and Capacity Building
▪ Establish working relationship with other relevant GBV actors, particularly with national and local organizations, and women’s groups, and takes initiative in leading, promoting collaboration, providing capacity building, documentation of best practices among WLOs/WROs both at national and subnational level.
▪ Support capacity assessment of GBV partners and support the organization of tailored capacity building training to identified partners informed by capacity building strategy.
▪ Contribute to the development/ updating and the implementation of Afghanistan GBV AoR strategy, support in development of Action plans, and disseminate the strategy.
▪ Work with the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) to steer the strategic direction of GBV AoR coordination work and GBV in emergency programming in Afghanistan.
▪ Support GBV AoR Regional Coordinators to develop tailored Action Plans in line with the GBV Strategy.
▪ Promote shared knowledge and understanding of the GBV guiding principles and globally endorsed tools for effective GBV programme management and inter-agency coordination including GBV minimum standards.
GBV AoR Coordination Representation
▪ Represent the GBV AoR in various coordination platforms including Inter Cluster Coordination Team (ICCT), Protection Cluster (PC), HCT, Cluster specific meetings as and when needed.
▪ Support GBV coordination structures in all the regions, to assess their capacity, provide tailored training and support sub-national level meetings.
▪ The GBV AoR Co-Coordinator task division will be further developed during GBV AoR work plan development exercise and weekly planning meetings where tasks and responsibilities are shared among the entire Afghanistan GBV AoR Coordination team members.
Qualifications and Skills Required
Education:
Advanced university degree in international development studies, gender studies, human rights, social sciences, law, or other related fields.
In lieu of advanced university degree a degree at bachelor level will be accepted with 2 years additional work experience, making the total years of work experience seven years
Knowledge and Experience:
● At least five years of increasingly responsible professional experience in GBV programming and coordination, including specific experience in programme management of GBV service provision, or other relevant fields;
● Background in gender, women's issues, protection and humanitarian response, knowledge of the UN System, in particular in Afghanistan
● Strong analytical ability and experience in coordination;
● Excellent writing and oral communication skills;
● Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills are necessary in this position;
● Good knowledge of humanitarian response, prior experience of working in challenging and complex humanitarian response is desirable.
Core Competencies:
● Integrity, commitment, cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity
● Developing people, coaching and mentoring
● Building and managing relationships
● Personal leadership and effectiveness
Functional Competencies:
● Business acumen
● Implementing management systems
● Innovation and marketing of new approaches
● Client orientation
● Organizational awareness
● Strategic alignment of human resource practices
● Promoting organizational change and development
● Impact and influence
● Job knowledge/technical expertise
CANADEM and its partners have a no-tolerance policy for inaction to prevent, respond to and follow up on alleged cases of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (SEAH). For this reason, we adhere to all policies, procedures and training of the United Nations on The Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH). CANADEM mandates all deployees successfully complete the PSEA online course. This e-learning course is composed of a set of lessons designed to raise awareness about SEAH, become familiar with a range of measures to combat SEAH, understand the impact on victims and the consequences for UN Personnel who commit Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment.