South Sudan: Area Coordinator

Sep 16, 2019 | Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa
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I. SIHA Background

The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) is a network of civil society organizations from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Uganda. SIHA’s Secretariat in Kampala provides programme support, guidance to active country programmes in Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Somalia in additional to carrying out regional programming and advocacy work.

SIHA’s core mandate focuses on the following:

· Work to support women’s access to justice across the Horn of Africa in line with international and regional human rights mechanisms and to challenge the concepts and practices that promote violence against women through the application of militant religion and customary/traditional law;

· Engage with women community leaders, activists and women rights defenders and provide direct support to them and contribute to their skills development and promotion of their roles inside their countries and communities;

· Engage with women living in conflict situations, particularly in Sudan, South Sudan, and Somalia and provide support that contributes to the elimination of all forms of SGBV and other forms of violence directed against them and support their participation and voices in their country’s peace and security processes;

· Recognize and support the human rights of women IDPs / migrants and racial / religious minorities through strengthening their self-reliance and access to services, enhancing their capacity for collective activism, reducing their vulnerability to violence, and promoting their social and economic well-being.

As a regional platform for activists on gender equality and women’s human rights in the Horn of Africa, we have a unique role of being one of the few indigenous networks run by Civil Society from across the region. At SIHA, we are very keen on further maintaining our work to support education on effective campaigning and lobbying to address regional and international platforms using collective and coordinated approaches to create both powerful and sustainable social change in the Horn of Africa.

II. Summary and Objectives of the Position

SIHA is currently recruiting for an Area coordinator who will be responsible for the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the SIHA project beginning currently in South Sudan, some of the projects will be around conducting of local-level advocacy, awareness, and education activities. Specific project documentation will be made available to the Area Coordinator upon agreement to this contract. The Area Coordinator will be SIHA’s main contact point for all elements of the projects occurring in and around South Sudan in addition to being involved in regional activities as requested by the SIHA Secretariat.

III. Key Responsibilities

SIHA anticipates that the Area Coordinator’s focus will be on meeting the following core responsibilities:

1. Ensure efficient and effective implementation of project tasks;
2. Monitor activities implemented in the field, ensuring effective outputs;
3. Provide financial management, ensuring transparency and accuracy in financial reporting;
4. Refine and monitor the project implementation time line, suggesting modifications as necessary;
5. Work closely with SIHA’s local-level partners in the project, supporting them in the implementation of the project or as otherwise requested by the SIHA Secretariat;
6. Uphold donor and SIHA reporting requirements in reference to the project;
7. Ensure adequate stakeholder connections are established in South Sudan, and that project activities can be safely shared with these key figures;
8. Facilitate for the planning of all SIHA public and stakeholder events;
9. Facilitate the conduct of any and all necessary SIHA research work in South Sudan.

IV. Candidate Key Competencies

In order to fulfill the role of Area Coordinator, SIHA envisions that the Area Coordinator will possess the following core competencies:

· Graduate-level degree focusing on International Human Rights, Law, International Relations, Humanitarian Aid, Development Studies, or a related field. Students currently enrolled in graduate programmes / dissertation writing can be considered;

· Familiarity, with aspects of proposal writing, project / programme management best practices, and the development of reporting templates;

· Understanding of current Horn of Africa context, particularly in references to challenges facing women and girls in terms of access to justice, human security, upholding of human rights, and social and economic well-being;

· Possessing of strong sense of initiative and ability to manage a significant work load;

· Experience with human rights instruments, State obligations in upholding human rights standards, and willingness to familiarize oneself with domestic law in horn Countries that either supports or counteracts the upholding of human rights standards;

· Sense of creativity and interest in exploring the links between grassroots activists (local scale) and broader human and women’s rights initiatives (international / global scale), with an ability to gauge how best the former can inform and guide the latter.