Gender Equality and Inclusion Advisor

CVPeople Tanzania • Full-time • Dar es salaam, Dar es Salaam • 6m ago

The Gender Equality and Inclusion Adviser will provide technical advice to ensure the institutionalisation of gender transformative and inclusiveness, and efficacy across organization's programs implementation and management, and implementation of gender equality policies, and systems. S/he will provide technical guidance on gender equality and inclusiveness and women's empowerment, integrating gender perspectives into policies and programs, and promoting gender-transformative approaches.

Responsibilities

Ensure the design and management of all projects are in line with the donor and Plan International inclusive gender equality standard and policy

Ensure the capacity building of project staff, both of partners and Plan on gender and inclusion
Provide input to the development of orientation and gender and inclusion training materials for community facilitators, staff and other partners and stakeholders;

Ensure the integration of gender and inclusion components in the project activities
Contribute to project reporting, including on the production of technical narrative analysis of gender aspects in all project.
Ensure that all gender equality related activities have a clear focus on addressing gender inequalities and discrimination, gender norms and the specific needs of youth, adolescent girls and young women

Lead in the gender equality and persons with disability policy influencing & advocacy initiatives
Present and share lessons and best practices to further scaling up and reach wider beneficiaries as well as influencing and attracting more resources;
Provide technical support in project cycle management in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluations and close-out process;
Provide technical support on budget planning and utilization as well as grant management;
Lead in the local adaptation and implementation of gender equality and persons with disability strategy and action plan, including engagement with all relevant partners

Provide technical guidance to the Project implementation, performance monitoring and reporting.

Guide projects teams both sponsorship and grants in activities implementation through orienting on Inclusive gender equality strategies and tools
Work closely with the MERL Manager to ensure that all project plans are complete with outcome-level monitoring and evaluation plans with Inclusive gender equality lenses;
Integrate sustainability plans, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all project activities as appropriate.
Draft and/or review scopes of work to hire and manage gender equality technical consultants, including review for technical capacities and contract budgets
Play an active role in organisation wide reviews of strategy and operational plans, and organisational learning processes, bringing gender and inclusion perspectives to the fore.
Advise teams through practical suggestions and guidance on incorporating gender-sensitive and inclusive approaches into research, programme design and concept development.
Provide technical support for gender-related programme implementation as required, including through the delivery of training and capacity building for teams and partners,
Advise on the integration of gender into organisational systems, processes and practice including finance, human resources, partnerships and monitoring, evaluation and learning.

Ensure all projects are Gender Transformative and interventions are reported against Gender marker.

Ensure organization's gender transformative and inclusive approach is imbedded in all project cycle and that we generate and use learning.
Ensure the all projects utilizes key accountability tools and processes (e.g. the Gender Score Card, Gender Marker) to ensure that the organization tracks and is accountable for gender equality and women’s empowerment;
Ensure that a gender equality and inclusion lens is applied to all capacity development modules and project resources.
Promote power and youth leadership, particularly girls, to shift norms and behaviours as critical drivers of systemic change and create lasting change.
Ensure that gender transformative change outcome is reflected in all project documents.

Provide technical support in the Resource Mobilisation initiatives:

·Provide technical support in the development of high-quality concept notes and proposals for funding.

·Effective linkage and relationship established and maintained with National Offices, internal and external donors and development partners through fast and speedy communication as well as seeking of new opportunities in liaison with the Business Development Unit.

·Good relationship established with new/ existing proposed partners for upcoming resource mobilization opportunities.

Maintain and Strengthen Strategic Partnership Development, Networking and Advocacy:

Identify key implementing and strategic partners working in the field of gender equality and inclusion with whom we can work to leverage meeting its CSP objectives
Effective linkage with the government’s relevant departments and ministries and strategic networks and technical committees are established and maintained to influence the agenda
Represent organizationin various forums (meetings, conferences, etc.) and during partner and donor representative in-country visits related to gender equality and inclusion;
Strategic representation of the organization in relevant platforms, networks, and technical groups to raise the profile of the organization
Networking and advocacy to address gender inequality and gender-based violence, including internal and external advocacy and collaboration for gender-sensitive and transformative response design and implementation
Represent organization in relevant humanitarian coordination platforms, including within the cluster system, working groups and gender and inclusion networks
Support communications and advocacy teams to develop advocacy messages and ensure all communications are gender-sensitive
Support the identification and development of strategic partnerships with women’s rights, girls’ rights, gender equality and disability rights organizations with support from the partnership section
Support sector-specific colleagues to advocate in clusters and other forums to identify and address gaps related to gender equality and SGBV, with an intersectional lens

Strategic Advice in Promoting Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in the Country:

Provide analysis and strategic advice on current gender issues and opportunities to support inclusive engagement of women in the development and humanitarian assistance including through preparation of regular analytical briefs;
Identify and advise on entry points for new initiatives to strengthen national and local capacities for gender equality and to support the advancement of women’s empowerment and gender equality in the country
Advise and support the organization in forging strategic partnerships at the national and local level to promote gender equality, women’s advancement and women’s representation.
Lead all gender equality advocacy agendas, including advocacy and internal and external representation including meeting with partners, government, donor and initiatives on community-based interventions
Develop gender strategy and gender action plan for project roll out

Requirements

Knowledge and Experience

·Master’s degree or equivalent in gender, women’s studies, social sciences, international development, international relations or other development-related fields.

A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in development, focused on providing policy advice, technical assistance and/or programming around gender equality, women’s empowerment and women’s rights issues; part of which should include previous field experience with international development organization;

·Experience in the development of Gender Transformative programs and projects, including translating design into solid implementation with sound results;

·Experience in planning and facilitating training/workshops on Child Protection and Safeguarding

·Experience in writing/ contributing significantly to successful grant proposals;

·Understanding the application of rights-based approaches in both development and humanitarian

·This position requires high computer literacy with full knowledge of office applications.

·Experience in Civil society strengthening and engagement

·Experience of integration of gender into organisational management processes and systems, such as finance, human resources, governance and MERL.

·Extensive experience in designing and implementing gender equality programming, with demonstrated experience in using an intersectional approach

·Experience in developing guidelines, tools and SoPs for integrating gender equality considerations across different sectoral programs (Child Protection, WASH, Nutrition, ASRH, SOYEE)

·Demonstrated gender responsive and intersectional program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills

·Significant experience in gender equality and SGBV training, and capacity building.

·Commitment to comply with organization's policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, PSEA, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

·Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize competing priorities across multiple complex contexts

·Ability to multitask and work under pressure with minimal supervision

·Ability to technically support in the design of Gender program and implementation including monitoring and evaluation.