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GENDER LEAD

  • Full Time
  • Amman Jordan
  • TBD USD / Year
  • CARE USA profile




  • Job applications may no longer being accepted for this opportunity.


CARE USA

JOB SUMMARY:

The Syria Resilience Initiative (SRI) is a partnership of organizations working together to increase the resilience of people affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria. The SRI is led by three multi-mandate agencies – CARE, IRC, and Mercy Corps –working together with local and international partners in all geographies.

We are looking for highly experienced Gender Lead with a strong desire to work in a diverse team within the Program Management Unit of the SRI (PMU) to drive the consortium’s efforts in gender transformative programming. This postholder will establish the SRI as a leader on gender-focused programing and ensure the SRI is maintaining high standards on gender mainstreaming. This post will be responsible for the SRI’s Gender Action Plan and ensure the SRI’s actions on gender uphold global best practice and guidance. The Gender Lead is required to build the capacity of SRI partners on gender and provide technical oversight and quality control of gender assessments, gender-specific actions and gender in monitoring activities conducted by partners.

Key responsibilities:

Lead Gender Transformative Programming

  • Lead the development of SRI’s Gender Action Plan, in collaboration with the SRI Gender Working Group;
  • Support SRI partners in the implementation of the Gender Action Plan within their organizations and across SRI programs;
  • Monitor implementation of the Gender Action Plan and donor-specific gender requirements;
  • Lead the design of gender pilot programs and provide support for partner implementation, including initiatives such as the FCDO-funded VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) pilot;
  • Lead the development and adoption of standards for SRI on gender mainstreaming and transformative approaches, in collaboration with the SRI Gender Working Group;
  • Ensure gender assessments, studies, training, and monitoring data on gender implemented by SRI partners are of high quality and meets the required standards and practices;
  • Facilitate and chair the SRI Gender Working Group, setting Terms of Reference and annual priorities with the Working Group.
  • Work closely with other SRI technical advisors to establish connections between SRI’s gender, safeguarding, and protection interventions and approaches.

Generate evidence and learning on SRI impact on gender

  • Assess the SRI’s impact on gender equality across the portfolio by establishing and rolling out measurement tools and analyzing findings, in collaboration with the Monitoring & Evaluation Lead;
  • Capture SRI-wide learning and best practice on gender, and use findings and lessons to adapt SRI programming, working with the Program Quality & Learning Lead;
  • Support partners to monitor impacts on gender and consolidate lessons and guidance.

Partners capacity building

  • Assist Gender Working Group members to be supported within their own organizations to roll out gender standards and the Gender Action Plan;
  • Conduct regular assessment of partners’ understanding and capacity on gender mainstreaming and gender approaches in programming;
  • Establish effective and efficient ways to increase capacity on gender across SRI partners.

Reporting to external stakeholders

  • Provide donor reporting on gender, working with the Gender Working Group;
  • Work with PMU communications support to produce SRI communications content on gender (e.g. blogs, case studies, videos, social media content, etc.);
  • Produce documents (e.g. learning briefs, papers, studies) to share SRI’s work on gender in Syria to wider audiences.

Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience

  • Degree in social sciences, gender and development, or any other related technical field. An equivalent combination of education and work experience may also be considered.
  • Minimum 8 years work experience in gender, women’s economic empowerment or women’s rights in the humanitarian / development sector.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in the Syria context, Middle East or countries with similar conflict context.
  • Strong background in advancing gender equality, gender transformative approaches or gender mainstreaming in resilience/early recovery/humanitarian programming.
  • Experience developing gender standards, guidance, or programmatic approaches, particularly leading multiple agencies to harmonize practices.
  • Experience producing and conducting training and presentations on gender for a range of stakeholders and targeting different audiences.
  • Experience measuring impact on gender and making programmatic recommendations to strengthen gender outcomes.
  • Proficiency in English.
  • Experience producing reports and assessments for donors, funding proposals and written work for different audiences (e.g. NGOs, researchers, public audience, etc.)
  • Ability to work well with diverse teams, build respect, trust and positive working relationships among colleagues, and successfully encourage participation and contributions from others.
  • Ability to influence and facilitate consensus between different organizations.
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to establish timelines, workplans and processes to meet deadlines and keep stakeholders on track.

Application link below:

https://www.akhtaboot.com/en/jordan/jobs/amman/160436-Gender-LEAD–open-ONLY-for-national-in-Jordan-or-National-in-Lebanon—at-Care-International

** We welcome applications from nationals of Jordan or Lebanon based in either of these countries with the ability to travel to all locations of SRI partner offices (Gaziantep, Beirut, Syria, Amman). **

How to apply

https://www.akhtaboot.com/en/jordan/jobs/amman/160436-Gender-LEAD–open-ONLY-for-national-in-Jordan-or-National-in-Lebanon—at-Care-International

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Deadline: 1-Apr-24


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