{"id":17804,"date":"2016-10-17T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T09:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=17804"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T09:10:41","slug":"ima-world-health-jobs-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/ima-world-health-jobs-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"IMA World Health Jobs 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Preventing Violence Against Girls (PVAAG) program aims to contribute to the long-term reduction in the prevalence of VAWG as well as strengthen the evidence base on what works to mitigate violence against adolescent girls (aged 10-19) in Ghana. The Safe Spaces Lead will be responsible for developing activities related to the development of skills and social networks in safe spaces to protect girls from violence and\/or to seek support following threats or incidents of violence. She\/he reports directly to the Team Leader and will advise the Implementation Team, providing technical direction for project implementation and ensuring the project meets stated goals, expected results, and reporting requirements.<\/p>\n<p>IMA World Health is seeking applications for a Safe Spaces Lead for an anticipated DFID-funded violence against women and girls (VAWG) opportunity in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:\u00a0Safe Spaces Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Duties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collaborate with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to ensure high-quality technical programming related to the creation of safe spaces.<\/li>\n<li>Identify categories of vulnerable girls (both in-school and out-of-school girls) that the program will target and determine appropriate safe spaces.<\/li>\n<li>Develop materials (e.g. curriculum) for use in empowering girls in safe spaces.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Provide requisite and appropriate training for the mentors of safe spaces.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Ensure high quality program delivery and the cost-effective use of IMA World Health and DFID resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The position requires a competent and experienced person with the following attributes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A minimum of a university degree in Gender Studies, International Development, Global Health, or a related field is required; Advanced degree in relevant field is strongly preferred.<\/li>\n<li>A minimum of X years experience working with programming in contexts similar to Ghana; experience working in West Africa and particularly Ghana will be strongly preferred.<\/li>\n<li>A thorough understanding of the drivers of VAWG, in Ghana and\/or the region, will be an asset.<\/li>\n<li>A professional level of oral and written fluency in English language.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Strong interpersonal and communication skills.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">A demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Ghanaian nationals are encouraged to apply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Preventing Violence Against Girls (PVAAG) program aims to contribute to the long-term reduction in the prevalence of VAWG as well as strengthen the evidence base on what works to&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85],"tags":[2027],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-4Da","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}