Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Adviser

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Pacific Community (SPC)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: Not Specified
  • Right to work requirements: International contract
  • Remuneration: €3,809 EUR-€4,708 EUR / monthly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 23/07/2023
  • Location: Tonga
Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
The key responsibilities of the role include the following:

Strengthen leadership, technical, and organisational capabilities in gender transformative and social inclusion strategies in the COVID-19 recovery environment to reduce long-term negative impacts on women’s safety, health, social and economic security.
  • Develop work plan which outlines the specific interventions to be provided by the GESI Adviser.
  • Provide targeted skills development and mentoring support in gender analysis and GESI mainstreaming to identified stakeholders.
  • Strengthen systems for implementing, tracking, and reporting on gender mainstreaming and social inclusion.
Provide technical assistance, institutional strengthening and capacity development to strengthen government capabilities and PWL implementing partner capabilities, to progress national GESI commitments, policy, legislation, plans and programs.
  • Provide advice, technical assistance, and virtual training, coaching, and mentoring to the technical staff working in gender mainstreaming.
  • Provide technical assistance to support strengthened partnerships for gender equality between key stakeholders.
  • Support Women’s Affairs and Gender Equality Department to monitor progress in the implementation and revision of the Women’s empowerment National Gender Equality of
Strengthen government and civil society capacity to implement community education and social norms change programs about COVID-19 and gender equality. 
  • Assist WAD and relevant civil society organisations to design and implement GESI community awareness activities.
  • Ensure skills transfer, coaching and mentoring to GAD counterparts and other relevant partners.
  • Conduct community consultations and awareness raising on appropriate policies.
Support the capacity of WAD and PWL partners to develop and implement gender transformative and responsive policies, programs and projects across development sectors in the region.
  • Develop a portfolio of gender mainstreaming tools and test its usability with key stakeholders as required.
  • Adapt the content of the Pacific Gender Mainstreaming training kit for an online training platform.
  • Conduct training of trainers and provide mentoring where needed
External Relations and Advocacy – Partnership Management
  • Develop a relationship management matrix with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust, and mutual understanding.
For a more detailed account of the key responsibilities, please refer to the online job description.
Key selection criteria
Qualifications

  • Relevant postgraduate qualifications in gender analysis, gender mainstreaming, international development, and / or gender program management, or any other related fields.
Technical expertise
  • At least 7-10 years’ experience working in the field of human rights, gender equality and social inclusion and/or youth development, preferably in the Pacific region.
  • Experience in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming involving both statutory and non-statutory agencies; preferably in the Pacific region or small island developing states (SIDS) context. Demonstrated understanding of contemporary gender issues in the Pacific region.

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