Violence Prevention and Response Officer

Position Summary

The Violence Prevention and Response Officer will support the design, implementation, and monitoring of violence prevention and response interventions within Project HOPE’s Gaza Response program. In the context of active conflict, displacement, breakdown of social structures, and heightened protection risks, the role is critical in addressing risks of gender-based violence (GBV), child protection concerns, and other forms of interpersonal violence.

The position ensures that prevention and response services are survivor-centered, confidential, and aligned with international protection standards and humanitarian principles. The role coordinates closely with health, nutrition, WASH, MHPSS, and protection actors to ensure safe referral pathways, integration of services, and adherence to safeguarding, accountability, and Do No Harm principles.

Principal Responsibilities

• Support implementation of violence prevention and response programming, including awareness campaigns for women’s empowerment initiatives, and community engagement initiatives.
• Oversee the case management process, ensuring alignment with national and international standards, and provide technical guidance and support to violence prevention case managers to strengthen service quality and referral systems.
• Contribute to development and strengthening of safe referral pathways for survivors of violence.
• Cookordinate with health, nutrition, WASH and MHPSS teams to ensure integrated, survivor-centered care.
• Support risk assessments related to GBV, child protection, and other protection concerns within affected communities.
• Provide technical input to case management processes, ensuring adherence to GBV guiding principles and confidentiality standards.
• Participate in protection and GBV coordination meetings with local authorities and cluster partners.
• Support capacity building of staff and community volunteers on violence prevention and safeguarding principles.
• Facilitate group support activities (structured and non-structured).
• Participate when needed in project assessments: surveys, data collection, filling questionnaires and forms, data entry, conducting interviews, FGD, etc.
• Participate in kit distribution related to protection and conduct all data collection, reporting, and evaluation procedures.
• Participate in campaigns, events as needed
• Ensure confidential handling and secure storage of sensitive information.
• Promote accountability to affected populations through community feedback mechanisms.
• Support and strengthen inclusive programming for persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, including women and children.
• Ensure all interventions are delivered in line with safeguarding policies, protection mainstreaming, survivor-centered approaches, and Do No Harm principles.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Public Health, Law, Gender Studies, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in protection, GBV, or violence prevention programming.
• Experience working in humanitarian or emergency settings is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of GBV guiding principles, child protection standards, and survivor-centered approaches.
• Experience in coordination with multi-sector humanitarian actors.
• Good knowledge of PSEA, humanitarian and protection principles, and child safeguarding policies and standards.
• Experience in community mobilization, social work, leading focus group discussions.
• Strong case management, documentation, and reporting skills.
• Experience in implementing, creating and adapting group activities, preferably aiming at women and girl’s empowerment.
• Ability to work under pressure in high-risk and resource-constrained environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in conflict-affected or hardship contexts such as Gaza.
• Familiarity with Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) guidelines and GBV coordination mechanisms.
• Experience integrating violence prevention within health and MHPSS programming.
• Training in GBV case management, protection mainstreaming, or emergency response programming.