Country: Nigeria
Closing date: 22 Oct 2018
Organizational Background:
Heartland Alliance International (HAI) is the global arm of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, a family of organizations that has been leading anti-poverty and social justice work in Chicago for more than 125 years. HAI’s offices in nearly a dozen countries implement programs on a range of global human rights issues, as well as the Chicago-based Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture, which serves individuals from more than 50 countries. HAI has significant expertise in the fields of trauma-informed mental health care and access to justice for survivors of rights abuses. It is also an industry leader in access to high-quality and stigma-free health care. Across all of its programs, HAI promotes progressive, innovative approaches to human rights protections and gender equality.
About the Project:
With support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria, HAI is implementing the Sexual and Reproductive Rights for All (SARRA) project. The two-year project aims to reach 8,000 marginalized women and girls in Lagos and Benue, build the capacity of local civil society organizations (CSOs), and ultimately target national and global policymakers and service providers. This project builds on HAI’s extensive experience providing HIV prevention, treatment and care services for marginalized populations in seven states in Nigeria. SARRA will pilot and document promising practices to advance the rights of these marginalized communities, developing the foundation for locally driven advocacy, and launching models that could be scaled up in the future. This project is therefore is in need of a consultant for a rapid assessment as detailed below.
Job Title: SRHR Consultant
Reports to: Deputy Chief of Party
Location: Lagos and Benue states, Nigeria
Start Date: 29th of October, 2018
Duration: 4 weeks
Scope of Work:
- Meet and liaise with local, state and national government agencies, civil society organizations engaging in sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls in Lagos and Benue states, and nationally.
- Develop a comprehensive list of sexual and reproductive health service providers and women and girls’ rights advocates in the area and assess the relevance of services to the greatest extent possible.
- Carry out a rapid capacity assessment of collectives (including target group gatekeepers) and organizations that best represent women and girls most in need of sexual and reproductive health services and at risk of neglect, in the two locations. The assessment will also provide critical information on SRHR needs, gaps and resources in services, as well as key target groups and their locations, and key actors to target with advocacy
- Tailor a comprehensive curriculum on SRHR (including previous GBV modules, family planning methods and techniques, basics of childcare, sexual and reproductive rights, etc. in simple articulated modules).
- Develop presentation slides based on the above curriculum and train staff, project collectives and partners on the basics of SRHR.
Qualifications and Experience:
Trained social services, legal or mental health professional with a minimum of seven years of demonstrated experience working with marginalized populations on sexual and reproductive health services and rights, gender and women’s empowerment.
Experience working with female sex workers, injecting drug users and other key and vulnerable populations is an added advantage.
Experience working with local, state, and national government and civil society
Familiarity with concepts around SRHR, Gender and GBV.
Comfortable traveling and working in a low-resource and potentially insecure environment.
Good knowledge of the political and geographical environments of Lagos and Benue states.
Expertise in research and evaluation
Experience in gender based violence management
Strong English language writing skills are required
Strong commitment to human rights and gender equity, with cross-cultural experience and cultural sensitivity required
Experienced in core gender transformational activities specifically for the target population and have passion in working with women and girls.
Heartland Alliance makes all hiring and employment decisions without regard to race, creed, color, age, gender, gender identity, marital or parental status, religion, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, sexual identity, immigrant status, political affiliation or belief, ex-offender status (depending on the offense and position to be filled), unfavorable military discharge, membership in an organization whose primary purpose is the protection of civil rights or improvement of living conditions and human relations, height, weight, or HIV infection, in accord with the Organization's AIDS Policy Statement of September, 1987. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should contact the Employee Services Office at +1 (312) 660-1431.
How to apply:
https://chk.tbe.taleo.net/chk01/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=HEARTLANDALLIANCE&cws=1&rid=5419