SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR GENDER NORMS

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

The Senior Technical Advisor, Social Norms Change plays a technical leadership role on the Gender Justice team within the Program, Strategy, and Impact (PSI) department at CARE USA. In support of Vision 2030, the CARE International Gender Equality Impact Area Strategy, and the ‘Gender-Equal’ Pillar of the CARE USA Strategy, the Gender Justice team works with CARE colleagues across the globe in both development and humanitarian settings to ensure that gender equality and social justice are at the heart of all CARE does as an organization.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and harness existing skills and experience in the confederation to collaboratively conceptualize and implement social norms change at scale.
• Develop and oversee a community of colleagues within CARE to enhance capacity and alignment for social norms change approaches.
• Design new programs and research to increase the impact and evidence base of social norms approaches.
• Provide technical support and advice to country office colleagues and global teams, as a part of long-term strategic programming initiatives as well as ad hoc strategic opportunities.
• Social norms strategy and thought leadership – 35%
• Social norms capacity strengthening, learning, and research – 30%
• Social norms project design, fundraising, and technical assistance – 30%
• Social norms project design, fundraising, and technical assistance – 30%

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of gender programming experience in international development and/or humanitarian settings
• Extensive knowledge of gender equality theory and approaches within international development and humanitarian assistance
• Deep expertise in social norms change for the promotion of gender equality, across sectors and geographies
• Strong network and connections within the community of academics, funders, and practitioners working on social norms change
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to translate theory into practice and explain complex ideas and change pathways to development practitioners, senior management, and lay audiences/donors
• Excellent skills collaborating, influencing, and building community with diverse stakeholders
• Self-starter, highly motivated and comfortable creating clarity out of ambiguity
• Experience living/working in multiple countries
• Fluency in English required. Second language desired; French preferred.
• Candidates from/living in the global south preferred.