A. Strategic Technical Support

• Support local government efforts in Kigoma to ensure that the response to GBV and harmful practices are aligned to national policies and strategies and implemented in an equitable and efficient manner.
• Provides technical input to the development of relevant advocacy and policy documents to ensure a comprehensive response to GBV and harmful practices in the context of broader gender inequality issues and the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus in the Kigoma Region.
• Identifies vulnerable groups among adolescent girls and women and supports the designing and implementation of targeted programmes that address their needs with a focus on GBV and harmful practices.
• Participates in multi-sectoral coordination of GBV responses through the UN Humanitarian Protection Cluster and GBV Sub-Working Group and ensures the integration of gender equality, GBV and harmful practices priorities into local development and humanitarian response plans and implementation. 
• Establishes and maintains a network of partners, including key local government authorities, Civil Society Organizations and Development Partners and provides assistance in organizing and conducting meetings and public information events to promote UNFPA leadership and visibility of the organization’s programme in Kigoma.
• Provides technical support in relation to GBV and harmful practices in the preparation of Regional Response Plans, appeals and other resource mobilization processes and documents.

• Provide overall strategic and technical guidance to ensure quality implementation, monitoring and supervision of interventions on GBV and harmful practices being implemented within development and humanitarian contexts in the Kigoma region.
• Works closely with Implementing Partners to ensure the timely development and implementation of development and humanitarian work plans and identify and address any barriers to implementation. 
• In close collaboration with the UNFPA Country Office Gender Advisor, national and regional Humanitarian focal points, and the UNFPA Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and in coordination with the Implementing Partners, develops appropriate checklists/monitoring tools.
• Carries out regular visits to sites and to health units, service delivery points and community centers, to check the main needs and to ensure that partners are implementing high-quality programmes to respond to the GBV and harmful practices needs of the affected population. 
• Monitors and prepares UNFPA GBV and harmful practices programme/work plans, budgets for Kigoma based programmes; and quarterly and annual progress reports on implementation of activities, funds being expended at the programme level and agreements being made with local partners for submission to the UNFPA Country Office Gender team and Senior Management.

• Supports development/adaptation and implementation of GBV in Emergencies and GBV Essential Service Package programme guidance, manuals and standard operating procedures and Information Systems.
• Supports capacity building and knowledge sharing for Implementing Partners on GBV and harmful practices programme policies and procedures, particularly in areas of girls and women’s empowerment, community mobilization, referral and system strengthening (health, mental health and psycho-social support (MHPSS) and justice and legal aid), prevention of sexual exploitation and assault (PSEA) and for a comprehensive and multi-sectoral response in line with UNFPA’s programme priorities and principles.
• Continuously guides Implementing Partners on UNFPA programming and operational policies and procedures and implementation of assigned programmes/projects, including adherence to programme and financial quality assurance measures, and on quality and timely reporting.Participate in the identification and formulation of gender equality, GBV and harmful practices programme proposal and work plans and support the integration of these issues in sectoral and regional policy and planning frameworks and support for increased and sustained support to women and girls’s empowerment and engagement
• Provide substantial input to develop a comprehensive GBV and harmful practices programme including referral and reporting mechanisms, information sharing, coordination, and monitoring/evaluation.

• Contributes to regular UNFPA CO Situation Reports and Environmental Mappings.
• Helps to strengthen and operationalize the evidence base on current and emerging GBV and harmful practices in the context of the HDP nexus to inform national, sub-national and sectoral policy development, planning and monitoring networks and coordination.
• Contributes to the creation and sharing of knowledge by synthesizing and documenting research findings, lessons learned, success stories, best practices, strategies and approaches of the Country Office on GBV and harmful practices, and prepares relevant materials for dissemination.
• Supports the communication and resource mobilization strategies of the Country Office by compiling and synthesizing relevant background materials on GBV and harmful practices for use in discussions, public events and social media platforms.
• Strengthen partnerships and coalitions with the local government partners, humanitarian actors and other organizations working in the Kigoma region and in Tanzania more generally by  representing UNFPA in multi-partner coordination platforms, including humanitarian protection groups and GBV sub-working groups.

Carry out any other duties as may be required by UNFPA leadership. 

• At least three years professional experience in working on gender equality, with a focus on Gender Based Violence and harmful practices. Additional experience in the humanitarian programme context is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in working on sexual and reproductive health and rights, disaster risk management and/or human rights will be a strong advantage.
• Experience and a thorough understanding of government systems (national, sub-national) especially in the areas of gender based violence and harmful practices, gender equality; sexual and reproductive health and rights planning and programming.