Field Officer
ARK Group, Yemen

ABOUT ARK:

ARK is a social enterprise, empowering local communities through the provision of agile and sustainable interventions to create greater stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.

We believe that strong, resilient communities are the foundation of local, national, regional and international development and stability and ultimately a safer, peaceful and more prosperous world. At ARK, we have delivered research and programmatic interventions validating this approach in over twenty countries since 2008. As a social enterprise we work in partnership with communities, our donors, and other implementers to build local capacities, generate opportunity and bring about sustainable change.

Learn more about our impact here: https://www.ark.international/impact

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

ARK Group is seeking two Field Officers for the Yemeni Community Resilience Award (YCRA) implemented in Abyan, Aden, Al-Dhalie and Lahj governorates in south Yemen. YCRA aims to support community resilience activities and strengthen community capacity to prevent child trafficking and recruitment into armed groups and reintegrate children associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG). YCRA will prioritize building community awareness, prevention mechanisms and reconciliation, actively engaging children and youth, promoting economic empowerment opportunities to limit the drivers of recruitment, and addressing the psychological and emotional aspects of individuals through mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), including specialized assistance needs to provide care and referral services for women and girls experiencing high rates of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Yemen.

Working closely with the project coordinator, the Field Officer will provide technical and operational support and ensure that the project activities are delivered with the highest standards of quality service. The delivery of quality assurance is supported by needs assessments, lessons learned and evidence-based practices. The Field Officer will be responsible for ensuring that appropriate technical capacity processes, tools, resources, and systems are in place to enable project team, implementation partners, and stakeholders to benefit from successful experiences and implement high-quality, evidence-based interventions.

The Field Officer is expected to support efforts to technically strengthen CAAFAG prevention and re-integration capacity to improve access to adequate CAAFAG interventions and strengthen the protective environment for CAAFAG and ex-combatants; victims of human trafficking, conflict and SGBV, as well as to their families and members of vulnerable groups in target communities, through project team and dedicated civil society organizations.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILTIES:

• Provides input to the annual workplans, and to designing activities that foster positive coping skills among former CAAFAG and vulnerable children at multiple levels of children’s social ecology (individual, family, and community).
• Oversees the quality implementation of the project activities and ensures that all planned activities are carried out on time and within budget.
• Regular travel to the field to support and monitor the YCRA project activities.
• Maintain positive work relations with project stakeholders, including local authorities, line-ministries’ offices and institutions, CBOs, CSOs, community leaders, women and youth groups.
• Provides capacity building and technical support to project stakeholders to better prevent recruitment and address the needs of CAAFAG during their reintegration.
• Provides technical support to ensure high-quality implementation of CAAFAG frameworks, case management and referral tools, practical recommendations, case studies, and technical assessment, and supports activating referral focal points.
• Works closely with the project team to feed in priority CAAFAG-advocacy-related themes and ensures that relevant community awareness and advocacy messages and initiatives are well-informed.
• Supports project team and implementation partners in developing guidelines for community-level validation mechanisms (Local Action Committees) adopted and supported by the project.
• Works with the project team and stakeholders to strengthen communities’ protective factors and support meaningful participation of local women and youth in addressing CAAFAG issues by strengthening capacity-building of community-level women and youth groups.
• Boosts the understanding of project team and stakeholders of what is working, what the challenges are and where there are gaps in addressing CAAFAG prevention and re-integration interventions/activities.
• Prepares activity and regular progress reports with statistical and narrative information at fiel

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