NGO JOBS

Organization: GOAL
Country: Turkey
Closing date: 08 Nov 2013

General Description of the Program

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2012, responding to the acute needs of conflict affected communities. GOAL is working in Idlib Governate, in close coordination with local partners, delivering food, non-food and cash voucher programming to highly vulnerable populations.

General Description of the Role

A Food Security Cluster (FSC) mission to Gaziantep and Antakya in April 2013, including intensive consultations with various humanitarian actors, determined that technical and coordination support would add great value to on-going efforts in the Food Security and Livelihood (FSL) sector. The Global Food Security Cluster has since deployed an Advisor from its Global Support Team and an Information Management Officer to provide contextualised coordination solutions and sector support to FSL actors in Southern Turkey. The FSLWG is chaired by the global FSC, with GOAL nominated by the NGO Forum as the Co Chair for a one year term from 11 September 2013.

GOAL is currently seeking an experienced coordinator to support and facilitate information exchange, learning and collaboration between FSL actors. The FSLWG Coordinator will contribute to the overall accountability of the FSLWG, ensuring that the strategic needs and capacities of the INGO community are drawn upon to assist the FSL community.

Key Duties:

• Represent the FSLWG at the NGO Forum meetings, acting as a liaison between the NGO Forum and the Cluster Secretariat at Gaziantep/Hatay level

• Work with the FSLWG Chair to engage the INGO community to identify their requirements from the FSLWG vis-a-vis the FSLWG strategic priorities

• Following a consultation with the INGOs partners, work with the FSLWG Chair to develop a FSLWG action plan to meet the critical needs of the INGOs from the FSLWG and integrate this action plan into the FSLWG annual Work plan.

• Act as the FSLWG focal point within the NGO forum

• Participate in FSLWG meetings regularly, facilitating the meeting when appropriate and / or required;

• Participate actively in the development of agendas for FSLWG meetings;

• Participate actively in the development of a crisis response strategy and action plan for the FSL sector working with partners to ensure complementarity and efficiencies with other sectoral response strategies and action plans when appropriate;

• Participate actively in sector/inter-agency contingency planning and preparedness, ensuring that FSLWG members are also contributing to and sharing responsibilities;

• Promote and support training of staff and capacity building of FSLWG partners;

• Represent the interests of the sector in discussions with stakeholders on priorities, resource mobilization and advocacy;

• Provide access to Arabic language translation as and when required;

• Bring primary information and urgent needs/issues as identified through partners working in the field to the FSLWG's attention

Requirements:

• Bachelors level degree in agriculture, community development, natural resource management or closely related discipline.

• At least three years practical experience with an international development organisation, managing agricultural/livelihoods projects under complex operating environments similar to Syria.

• Excellent technical understanding and experience in the FSL sector, particularly in an emergency context.

• Proven coordination and relationship building skills.

• Good understanding of the household livelihood security framework.

• Strong analytical, information management and presentation skills.

• Excellent IT skills, including strong knowledge of MS Office applications

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and training skills and a track record of building/developing cohesive teams.

• Willingness to take responsibility for personal security and adhere to GOAL’s security guidelines.

• Knowledge of household livelihood security framework, value chains methodology and market-based approaches to working with poor populations.

• Excellent English language skills (written and spoken), with good knowledge of Arabic (spoken and written) a distinct advantage

Desirable:• Experience of working in Syria

• Experience coordinating multi-agency working groups

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document.

If you would like to apply for the above position, please send your CV and covering letter to syriajobs@sy.goal.ie or in hard copy to the GOAL office in Harem or Antakya (Ataturk Caddesi, Cebrail mah, Ozal 5/7), ensuring that the job title and location of the role are clearly stated in the subject line of your email/letter. Thank you.

How to apply:

If you would like to apply for the above position, please send your CV and covering letter to syriajobs@sy.goal.ie or in hard copy to the GOAL office in Harem or Antakya (Ataturk Caddesi, Cebrail mah, Ozal 5/7), ensuring that the job title and location of the role are clearly stated in the subject line of your email/letter.

Organization: GOAL
Country: Turkey
Closing date: 08 Nov 2013

General Description of the Program

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2012, responding to the acute needs of conflict affected communities. GOAL is working in Idlib Governate, in close coordination with local partners, delivering food, non-food and cash voucher programming to highly vulnerable populations.

General Description of the Role

A Food Security Cluster (FSC) mission to Gaziantep and Antakya in April 2013, including intensive consultations with various humanitarian actors, determined that technical and coordination support would add great value to on-going efforts in the Food Security and Livelihood (FSL) sector. The Global Food Security Cluster has since deployed an Advisor from its Global Support Team and an Information Management Officer to provide contextualised coordination solutions and sector support to FSL actors in Southern Turkey. The FSLWG is chaired by the global FSC, with GOAL nominated by the NGO Forum as the Co Chair for a one year term from 11 September 2013.

GOAL is currently seeking an experienced coordinator to support and facilitate information exchange, learning and collaboration between FSL actors. The FSLWG Coordinator will contribute to the overall accountability of the FSLWG, ensuring that the strategic needs and capacities of the INGO community are drawn upon to assist the FSL community.

Key Duties:

• Represent the FSLWG at the NGO Forum meetings, acting as a liaison between the NGO Forum and the Cluster Secretariat at Gaziantep/Hatay level

• Work with the FSLWG Chair to engage the INGO community to identify their requirements from the FSLWG vis-a-vis the FSLWG strategic priorities

• Following a consultation with the INGOs partners, work with the FSLWG Chair to develop a FSLWG action plan to meet the critical needs of the INGOs from the FSLWG and integrate this action plan into the FSLWG annual Work plan.

• Act as the FSLWG focal point within the NGO forum

• Participate in FSLWG meetings regularly, facilitating the meeting when appropriate and / or required;

• Participate actively in the development of agendas for FSLWG meetings;

• Participate actively in the development of a crisis response strategy and action plan for the FSL sector working with partners to ensure complementarity and efficiencies with other sectoral response strategies and action plans when appropriate;

• Participate actively in sector/inter-agency contingency planning and preparedness, ensuring that FSLWG members are also contributing to and sharing responsibilities;

• Promote and support training of staff and capacity building of FSLWG partners;

• Represent the interests of the sector in discussions with stakeholders on priorities, resource mobilization and advocacy;

• Provide access to Arabic language translation as and when required;

• Bring primary information and urgent needs/issues as identified through partners working in the field to the FSLWG's attention

Requirements:

• Bachelors level degree in agriculture, community development, natural resource management or closely related discipline.

• At least three years practical experience with an international development organisation, managing agricultural/livelihoods projects under complex operating environments similar to Syria.

• Excellent technical understanding and experience in the FSL sector, particularly in an emergency context.

• Proven coordination and relationship building skills.

• Good understanding of the household livelihood security framework.

• Strong analytical, information management and presentation skills.

• Excellent IT skills, including strong knowledge of MS Office applications

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and training skills and a track record of building/developing cohesive teams.

• Willingness to take responsibility for personal security and adhere to GOAL’s security guidelines.

• Knowledge of household livelihood security framework, value chains methodology and market-based approaches to working with poor populations.

• Excellent English language skills (written and spoken), with good knowledge of Arabic (spoken and written) a distinct advantage

Desirable:• Experience of working in Syria

• Experience coordinating multi-agency working groups

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document.

If you would like to apply for the above position, please send your CV and covering letter to syriajobs@sy.goal.ie or in hard copy to the GOAL office in Harem or Antakya (Ataturk Caddesi, Cebrail mah, Ozal 5/7), ensuring that the job title and location of the role are clearly stated in the subject line of your email/letter. Thank you.

How to apply:

If you would like to apply for the above position, please send your CV and covering letter to syriajobs@sy.goal.ie or in hard copy to the GOAL office in Harem or Antakya (Ataturk Caddesi, Cebrail mah, Ozal 5/7), ensuring that the job title and location of the role are clearly stated in the subject line of your email/letter.

Organization: UN Women
Country: Egypt
Closing date: 17 Sep 2013

UN WOMEN was created in 2010, giving the UN system a strong entity with a mandate to advance women´s rights globally. Specifically, UN Women´s role is to:

• Support the development of normative frameworks to promote gender equality, gender justice and women’s empowerment.
• Support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, and inter-governmental processes such as the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development and the Post-2015 development Agenda, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment
• Help Member States to implement these standards, standing ready to provide suitable, technical and financial support as necessary, and to forge effective partnerships with civil society
• To hold the UN system accountable for its own commitments on gender equality, including regular monitoring of system-wide progress

In doing this, UN WOMEN works at a country and regional level, building on the work done in the past and leveraging UNIFEM´s previous relationships with civil society and grassroots organizations on the ground, bringing women to the table in peace negotiations and supporting civil society in advancing gender equality in their countries and regions.

The relationship with civil society is critically important. The GA has requested the head of UN WOMEN to continue the existing practice of effective consultation with civil society organizations, and encourage(d) their meaningful contribution to the work of the Entity (GA/64/289)

Furthermore, UN Women’s Global Strategic Plan 2011-13 lays out in paragraph 57, output 1.2 that “Effective strategic partnerships between UN Women and CSOs, particularly women’s organizations and coalitions, will continue to be critical and effective partners. UN Women will work to ensure more systematic consultations with civil society at all levels, including establishing a civil society advisory group at the global level and, where required, at national and regional levels. In coordination with UN partners, UN Women will develop joint advocacy initiatives with women’s organizations and civil society partners, including women’s rights networks, religious and traditional leaders, men and boys, youth groups, grassroots and non-governmental organizations.

UN WOMEN´s executive director is also making this commitment a priority. In her Vision and Action Plan, she said “in recognition of the special relationship I envisage between UN Women and women’s organizations, I will be forming an NGO Advisory Group to advise me as Executive Director of UN Women. This will be a body through which NGOs can share their perspectives, expertise and knowledge from the country level and a channel for our ongoing collaboration.”

The Arab states witnessed many transformations during and following the Arab Spring. Civil Society, as a whole, has a unique role to play as an actor and mechanism for change in the region, one of the key drivers behind the political and social revolutions that are taking place. Many of these changes saw women at the forefront of demonstrations holding their governments accountable, including in countries where women traditionally remain in the private sphere. In light of the role of women’s leadership and civil society in the Arab Spring and the low levels of women’s formal political participation across the region, UN WOMEN Arab States places support for this area at highest priority. UN WOMEN works with the emerging civil society movements to ensure that there is no regression on the women´s agenda post Arab Spring and that women’s civic activism can translate into sustained and meaningful engagement in all areas of public life. It is vital that all regional programming comes from an informed perspective in which the priorities on the ground, and from the ground, are taken into consideration. It is with this background that UN WOMEN Arab States is creating a Regional civil society advisory group.

Objectives:

The Advisory Group will be a consultative forum for regular dialogue between civil society and UN Women. More specifically the objectives will be:

i. To keep UN WOMEN up to date on the political changes that have taken place, are undergoing, and that might still happen, both in the Arab spring countries, and in countries that did not undergo a transformation in the last year;
ii. To foster dialogue and engagement between UN Women and civil society, on national development issues and trends related to gender equality, women’s rights and empowerment;
iii. To enable UN Women to benefit from civil society’s expertise, experience, perspective and knowledge and strengthen UN Women’s programme and priorities; and
iv. To serve as a consultative forum of ideas and strategies on key policy, knowledge and advocacy issues.

Role of the group:

• Provide strategic advice to UN Women and, when appropriate, on its thematic priorities and policies, including during the strategic planning process;
• Provide guidance on political, economic, social and cultural developments and trends to UN Women regional/national programming;
• Provide information on issues as they are observed and emerge, specifically in relation to political changes/unrest;
• Provide analysis on the socio-economic and political environment at the country/regional levels and its impact on gender equality and women’s rights issues;
• Provide inputs to UN Women’s programmes and policies, including the Regional Strategic Plan;
• Provide guidance and inputs to regional advocacy strategies;
• Assist UN Women in strengthening its engagement and dialogue with civil society at all levels.

Structural Framework:

The group will be managed from the UN WOMEN Arab States regional office and will meet twice a year with the opportunity to provide inputs electronically on a regular basis.
The ongoing collaboration with UN Women will take place via a web-based platform (the Civil Society Extranet), set up by UN Women, for group members to engage with each other and with all the country and regional Advisory Groups.

The civil society extranet platform that is being developed will facilitate knowledge and experience sharing with civil society experts and UN Women on key thematic issues of strategic importance to UN Women.

Composition:

The Arab States Civil Society Advisory Group will consist of 25 members. 12 of these will be from women´s equality networks, 8 will be from grassroots organizations, and 5 members will be high level experts in the field of gender equality and women´s rights, including, but not limited to, members of academia. All members will have a geographical distribution in the region, including members from North Africa and the Gulf States. UN WOMEN will ensure that a wide range of ideas and ideologies are represented in the group to best reflect the many perspectives that exist in the region.

The members will sit on the group on a rotational basis for two years. After two years, members, should they be nominated again, can be selected for an additional term of two years. Note that membership in the group is honorary and members will receive no remuneration, however, UN WOMEN will cover all travel expenses related to group meetings.

Selection criteria:

Civil society organizations and individuals will be invited to nominate members to the group. A committee composed of the UN agencies Arab States regional directors, and members of regional civil society, including, but not limited to regional members of the global Civil Society Advisory Group, led by the UN WOMEN Arab States Regional Director, will evaluate all nominations. The selection process will be duly documented ensuring transparency.

A member of the group can be a member of an organization, but their participation in the group will be in their individual capacity, not as a representative of their respective organization. They will be selected based on the following criteria:

• Strong connection to national or regional women’s organizations and networks, concerned with matters within the mandate of UN Women and with extensive experience in national and/or regional advocacy and policy development;
• Thematic expertise in UN WOMEN´s regional priority areas;
• Demonstrable understanding of the needs and interests of diverse groups of women, particularly following the Arab Spring;
• Good knowledge of development patterns among countries with diverse socio-economic status;
• Experience in policy, legislation and/or human rights treaties is valued, particularly at the regional level;
• Efforts will be taken to incorporate men in the group;
• There will be sufficient representation of young women, their organizations and networks;
• Members of the group must be nationals of and current residents of a country in the Arab States region
• Observers can be invited to meetings on a need basis

How to apply:

Please send the attached application form and your CV to vacancy.asro@unwomen.org and NOT later than September 17, 2013.

The post title should be placed in the email subject.
For more information, please download attached.

Organization: Darfur Women Action Group
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 25 Aug 2013

The Darfur Women Action Group is taking a unique approach to fighting and preventing genocide. DWAG believes that empowering the most affected and building strong leadership among those who are historically excluded to enable them to lead and foster positive change in their communities is the most crucial approach to end genocide sustainably.

DWAG is current seeking interested interns and/or volunteers who are passionate about advancing the goals we are trying to achieve.

Internships are available for undergraduate and graduate students, recent graduates, or others interested who are available for at least 20 – 30 hours per week for duration of at least 2-3 months (Sept.– Dec. 2013). Internship program areas include:

• Development intern/volunteer
• Social Media and Multi-media intern
• Campaigning, Advocacy & Outreach intern

Development intern/volunteer

Major Responsibilities:

• Support the identification of potential donors and supporters.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with foundations, organizations, and individual supporters.
• Manage donation entry and tracking process. Analyze trends in donations, gift giving, and fundraising.
• Assist with grant proposals including researching potential grants, editing proposal reports, and tracking submission deadlines.
• Become familiar with fundraising opportunities and all other aspects of the organization.
• Strong writing and communication skills are a plus.
• Assist in recruiting supporters and expanding DWAG supporters circle.

Social Media and Multi-media intern

Major Responsibilities:

• Maintain all social media accounts with relevant and up to date information concerning the organization and related news.
• Be aware of current opportunities for advertising and content management on the internet.
• Utilize social networks to maintain contact with current and future supporters as well as similar organizations.
• Assist with drafting press releases and statements.
• Monitor social media websites to track trends and impact.
• Assist with videotaping and editing as needed.
• Strong writing and communication skills required.

Campaigning, Advocacy & Outreach intern

Major Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the collaboration between DWAG and its partners and stakeholders.
• Assist research associates in tracking related news and areas of opportunity for intervention.
• Maintain blog for DWAG website.
• Attend meetings, seminars, and workshops to remain up to date on information involving armed conflicts and government involvement.
• Assist in campaign development and implementation.
• Assist in expanding DWAG’s reach to the largest audiences.

Notes:

• DWAG interns works for 20 hour a week or more as needed
• Remote working environment option is available for those who live outside of the DC area

How to apply:

Application process: to apply please email resume, cover letter and a writing sample to info@darfurwomenaction.org