Gender and Safeguarding Specialist

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Heifer International

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 17/11/2023
  • Location: Uganda
PSEA/ Safeguarding
A. Technical leadership on gender strategy, analysis, advocacy, and mainstreaming gender in all project activities (40%)
  • Conduct technical gender analysis and audits across the country program and advise project teams on practical strategies to increase women, girls, boys, and men involvement across the project.

  • Liaise with the Heifer Africa Women Development Lead to review and facilitate adoption of the gender strategy.

  • Support the operationalization and integration of the project gender strategies during implementation and project closure.

B. Partnerships, Engagement, and coordination of gender activities. (25%)
  • Identify, actively engage, and represent Heifer International and partners on the SAYE project in strategic partnerships, networks, platforms, coalitions, and spaces that are relevant and instrumental for delivering a gender transformative project.

  • Engage with partners and stakeholders to foster collaboration to promote gender equality and assist in the preparation of project reports to partners and donors.

  • The job holder will be required to identify and contribute to relevant learning networks including the Mastercard Foundation’s Gender and Safeguarding Community of Practice and facilitate the exchange of learnings on safeguarding and gender across the Young Africa Works programs across the Continent.  

C. Promoting gender and safeguarding practices. (20%)  
  • Overseeing all areas of safeguarding to include policy formulation and implementation, raising awareness, training on compliance, advise and support project teams to ensure that safeguarding is embedded in all stages of the program lifecycle, from design to completion.

  • Provide orientation and on-job training of project staff and partners on gender mainstreaming, gender core concepts, and safeguarding. Support contextual adaptation, design and roll-out of information, education, and communication (IEC) materials on gender and safeguarding for the project, including delivery of trainings on different aspects.

  • The specialist shall be the focal person tasked to receive safeguarding concerns related to the project. He/she will be responsible for leading establishment of a robust system for reporting safeguarding concerns.

D. Capacity building (10%)

  • Support project partners on developing gender modules, tools and related policies/Strategies.

  • Review and provide input in project related training manuals and ensure they address specific gender issues that directly affect target populations.

  • Plan for and conduct gender capacity assessments and develop tailor made gender plans for project staff and partners including training and coaching. In doing so, identify capacity gaps in terms of delivering gender programs and addressing issues of masculinity and engaging men and boys in promoting gender equality and equity.
 
E. Performs any other duty as may be assigned by the supervisor (5%)

Requirements

  1. Bachelor’s Degree in Gender and Women studies, social sciences, or community development studies plus five (5) years’ experience managing and implementing development activities including those related to gender integration and focusing on sexual exploitation and abuse of women, youth, and vulnerable groups
  2. Familiarity with national youth and gender policies in Uganda as well as diversity, equal opportunities, and inclusion principles.
  3. Experience in developing private-public partnerships especially at national and district levels.

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