Under the direct supervision by the Gender Officer and overall supervision by the Assistant Representative and Deputy Representative, the consultant will work closely with both the Gender Team and the SRH Team of UNFPA Country Office in Malawi. More specifically, the consultant will fulfil the following responsibilities, among others:
- Support the Ministry of Gender at the Lilongwe District offices and the Implementing partners in executing the programme.
- Facilitate and Monitor Psychosocial support counselling and referral activities. These may include Interactive group and individual sessions for psychosocial support and counselling for survivors, updating referral pathways for survivors of gender based violence including counsellors and information points. Support to capacity building for psychosocial counsellors and social networks for psychosocial support to adolescent girls and young women. Spearhead entrepreneurship, vocational and livelihood trainings with community driven business solutions.
- Support widening Information, prevention and outreach activities .through strengthening mentorship sessions for young women and adolescent girls on sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender based violence in safe spaces, support campaign to promote awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender based violence; engagement of religious and community leaders and men and boys in gender based violence prevention and the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights linked to safe spaces as well as supporting Intergenerational dialogues with adolescent women and girls, families and communities through the training of community leaders
- Support Technological innovation, learning and scaling up of TEEN activities. This will include continuous monitoring of digitalization techniques and use of the digital tools for information gathering and dissemination in the safe spaces for mentors and mentees in Lilongwe including basic digital and online skills on how to use a tablet, MS Office packages, internet and email; Comprehensive sexuality education digital application tool for use on tablets in safe spaces (maintenance and upgrade);
- Facilitate Research and field trips with institutions for research including assessment of digital literacy needs.
- Support the establishment and maintenance of digital reporting platform on beneficiaries receiving counselling and mentoring using tablets including development of scaling up plan of the digitalisation beyond the project life span.
- Document learnings from data collected from Digital reporting system for evidence based programming
- Support UNFPA’s strategic engagement and advocacy with the Ministry of Health through the Reproductive Health Directorate, Ministry of Gender both at Headquarters and District offices.
