Closing date: October 11, 2021
HIAS Refugee Trust of Kenya (HRTK) – Kenya
Office
Vacancy Notice – Open to Refugees only
Job Title: Protection Monitors (10 positions)
Report to: Project Officer
Liaises with: Gender and GBV Program Manager
Duration : 1 Year Contract with possibility of
renewal subject to availability of funding and performance
Location : Nairobi
Introduction :
HIAS is an international non-profit organization that stands for a world in
which refugees find welcome, safety, and opportunity. HIAS’ operation in Kenya
was established in 2002 with the mission to serve the most vulnerable refugees
through community-based protection including psychosocial support, Gender Based
Violence (GBV) Prevention and Response, resilience building and the provision
of durable solutions.
Organizationally, HIAS is guided by its Refugee Rights Framework. This
rights-based approach, based on international human rights and humanitarian and
refugee law and practice, provides a programming framework for HIAS’ focus on
refugee protection. HIAS’ programming impact seeks to ensure that forcibly
displaced people become contributors to society through the realization of
their legal and civil rights and social and economic rights, to include 1) the
right to protection from harm, violence and discrimination, 2) the right to
recovery from the shock of displacement, and 3) the right to economic
self-sufficiency and inclusion.
The overall goal of HIAS’ global GBV Prevention and Response programming is
for forcibly displaced refugee women, girls, sexual and gender minorities to
pursue their potential and to access their human and legal rights, free from
violence and oppression. This means HIAS GBV programming works to ensure;
(1) Forcibly displaced women, girls, sexual
and gender minorities face a reduced risk of GBV,
(2) Survivors of sexual and physical
violence have access to coordinated psychosocial, health, and legal services,
(3) Family, community, and institutions
support refugee women, girls, sexual and gender minorities in accessing and
using their rights.
HIAS Kenya seeks to recruit 10 protection monitors to contribute to a
project, whose goal is: ‘Improved access to, and uptake of, Sexual and
Reproductive Health (SRH) services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and
Queer (LGBTQ) refugees of reproductive age in Nairobi’. The project seeks to
contribute to:
· Improved enabling environment among LGBTQ refugees in Nairobi
· Enhanced capacity of LGBTQ refugees to address their Sexual and Reproductive
Health and Rights (SRHR) issues
· Enhanced capacity for LGBTQ community based organizations (CBOs) to
advocate for their SRHR in Nairobi
The protection monitors will be drawn from the areas surrounding the 3 HIAS
site /outreach offices. These include Isinya, Rongai, Matasia, Kasarani,
Githurai, Gikambura, Njiru, Kawangware, Mwiki, Eastleigh etc.
Key duties and responsibilities:
· Assist in the mobilization of community members for the project roll-out
and close-out meetings, relevant trainings and community-based discussions on
Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)
· Assist in mobilization for registration and enrolment of sexual and
gender minority refugees and asylum seekers into the National Hospital
Insurance Fund (NHIF), provision of cash-based transport allowance to LGBTQ led
CBOs for access to SRH services, provision of personal protective equipment
(PPEs) and hygiene packs to the LGBTQ refugee and asylum seeker community
· Participate in relevant trainings relating to SRHR as guided by HIAS
project team
· Support in collection of accurate data and dissemination of information
to the sexual and gender minority community as guided by HIAS
· Work with peer educators to monitor and document interventions regarding
SRHR and HIV/AIDs within the sexual and gender minority refugee community and
report findings in follow up meetings with designated HIAS staff
· Facilitate access to, and referrals for, appropriate LGBTQ-friendly
medical/health services for the sexual and gender minority refugees and asylum
seekers that is inclusive of counselling, HIV testing and administration of
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)
· Assist in creating and establishing sustainable community networks with
sexual and gender minority refugees and asylum seekers within the urban area
· Create and support with the collaborative opportunities that sexual and
gender minority refugees and asylum seekers can benefit from
· Link the sexual and gender minority refugee and asylum seeker community
to community-based psychosocial support from designated CBOs
Required qualification:
· O – Level education certificate
Demonstrated experiences:
· Not less than three
months’ work experience, preferably with an NGO.
Experience in the field of refugee protection and assistance to sexual and
gender minorities from the refugee community is an added advantage
Required skills and competencies:
· Must be part of the sexual and gender minority community.
· Must not be in leadership or management, including the boards, in any
refugee-led CBO.
· Must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.
· Demonstrated experience on working with gender issues and/or SRHR.
· Should be well integrated to the dynamics, needs and challenges of
members of the sexual and gender minority community.
· Ability to work with members of the community with little or no
supervision.
· Good/basic working knowledge and experience of navigating STI/HIV care
services.
· Demonstrated experience on SRHR.
· Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
· Basic computer literacy.
· Strong training skills in community development and working with
refugees.
Language:
· Proficiency in English or Kiswahili and either, Luganda, Kinyamulenge,
French, Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo and Kinyarwanda or any other major language
spoken within the refugee community.
· Proficiency in English is MANDATORY
and will be an added advantage
How to Apply
Please send a cover
letter and resume to recruitment.kenya@hias.org indicating the
Vacancy Number HRTK/PM/10/21 on
the subject line.
Closing Date:11th October 2021
Applications not bearing
this subject label will not be considered
Note: Only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted.
HRTK is an equal
opportunity employer, does not charge candidates for recruitment and
dissociates itself from
any entity defrauding candidates.