VAWG Social Worker

ORGANIZATION AND ROLE BACKGROUND

International Medical Corps provides emergency health, protection and recovery support in crisis-affected communities. This role contributes to services addressing violence against women and girls through psychosocial support, awareness raising, safe referral and community engagement.

ROLE PURPOSE

The VAWG Social Worker will prepare and conduct psychosocial-support activities, oversee awareness-raising work and supervise outreach volunteers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promote International Medical Corps’ integrated VAWG-service approach to institutions, community centres, primary healthcare facilities and individuals.
• Plan and conduct psychosocial-support sessions at Women and Girls Safe Spaces, health facilities, community centres and outreach locations.
• Identify safe opportunities for awareness raising and organize focus-group discussions where appropriate.
• Conduct community-level safety audits.
• Engage men and boys and promote equal treatment regardless of sex.
• Maintain current service mapping so VAWG caseworkers understand available referral options.
• Safely identify and refer beneficiaries, including survivors, to VAWG case managers.
• Participate in required trainings, coordination meetings and programme activities.
• Prepare timely activity reports and documentation for the VAWG Officer.
• Plan, monitor and follow up the field work of outreach volunteers.
• Prepare monthly quantitative and qualitative reports, incident or trend reports, meeting minutes and other requested documentation.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or a related discipline such as Psychology, Sociology or Social Animation; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted.
• Experience in social work.
• Experience working closely with community members across a programme cycle is desirable.
• Previous VAWG-programme experience is desirable.
• MHPSS experience is an advantage.
• Experience with or understanding of programme-accountability principles is desirable.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Psychosocial-support facilitation.
• VAWG awareness raising, safe identification and referral.
• Community engagement, service mapping and safety audits.
• Focus-group discussion and volunteer supervision.
• Respect, empathy and commitment to women’s rights and resilience.
• Strong listening, communication, interpersonal, influencing and facilitation skills.
• Quantitative and qualitative activity reporting.

CONTRACT OR ASSIGNMENT DETAILS

• Employment type: Full-time.
• Seniority level displayed by the employer portal: Entry level.
• Duty station: Abuja, Nigeria.
• Application deadline: Not specified; the employer-controlled application page was active on 10 August 2026.
• Salary, benefits, contract duration and number of positions: Not specified.

SAFEGUARDING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

The role requires safe identification and referral, respect, empathy, confidentiality and protection-sensitive engagement with survivors and communities. Role-specific equality and background-screening provisions were not specified in the accessible announcement.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Apply through the employer-controlled International Medical Corps vacancy on LinkedIn while the application remains active. Required supporting documents were not specified.