Gender Based Violence Case Worker

Your responsibilities:

• WGSS Coordination: Support the coordination and supervision of activities in Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSS).

• Case Identification and Management: Maintain regular contact with community-based social workers and monitoring officers to identify cases requiring support and provide timely case management from initial assessment to case closure.

• Psychosocial Support: Provide basic emotional and psychosocial support to women, girls, and their family members as needed.

• Needs Assessment and Material Assistance: Assess individual needs and facilitate access to material assistance, non-food items (NFIs), dignity kits, and transportation for medical treatment where necessary.

• Referrals and Service Coordination: Refer and, when necessary, accompany clients to appropriate service providers while maintaining effective relationships with service providers and community stakeholders.

• Case Monitoring and Reporting: Lead weekly case management meetings, follow up on cases, report progress, and promptly escalate emergencies or cases requiring special attention to the Protection Officer

• Professional Conduct and Compliance: Promote teamwork, maintain a respectful and non-judgmental attitude, represent Malteser International professionally, adhere to organizational policies and codes of conduct, and perform other assigned duties.

Your profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• At least two years of relevant experience in GBV case management, protection, social work, psychosocial support, or humanitarian programming.
• Experience in community outreach, awareness-raising, or data collection, preferably in humanitarian or crisis-affected settings.
• Understanding of GBV guiding principles, survivor-centred case management, referral pathways, confidentiality, informed consent, and the do-no-harm principle.
  Experience working with women, girls, survivors of violence, and other vulnerable groups.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), and accountability to affected populations.
• Experience using Inter-Agency Case Management forms and the GBVIMS/Primero platform is highly desirable.
• Strong communication, active-listening, interpersonal, counselling, and teamwork skills, with the ability to work respectfully with diverse communities.
• Good organizational, planning, and time-management skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel, and good written and spoken English.
• Knowledge of relevant local languages is an advantage, including Hausa and Kanuri.

What we offer:

• Start Date: November 2026
• Duty Station: Borno State
• Duration of contract: November 2026 - September 2027
• Salary according to Malteser international salary grade
• Other benefits: Group Life Insurance premium, Health insurance Package (Single/family Plan), 13th Month pay. Annual Leave + Compensation Leave + Academic Leave + Wedding Leave + Compassionate Leave - applicable.

Working for Malteser International

Malteser is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all people, regardless of gender, confession or origin.

Malteser International is committed to safeguarding people within our programmes from exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment and has specific policies on this commitment (including a Code of Conduct) which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, consultants and other organisational representatives. Malteser International conducts reference and background checks for all staff (including criminal records check for specific roles). Any candidate offered a job with Malteser International will be expected to sign MI’s Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

Whether you work as a specialist on overseas service or in one of our regional offices - we offer you a challenging working environment in an experienced international team. More than 1,000 national and international staff are currently deployed in various crisis and disaster areas around the world as well as in our regional offices in Cologne and New York City. For more information please have a look here.