Global Adviser- Gender Policy

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HelpAge International

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Not specified
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: £43,000 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Permanent
  • Deadline: 28/01/2024
  • Location: United Kingdom
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
About the Job 
As Global Adviser for Gender Policy you will be responsible for driving forward HelpAge’s thought leadership, convening, and technical support on gender advocacy, policy influencing and gender mainstreaming with staff, partners and network members. 
 
You will be based in the Society For All Ages (SFAA) portfolio but work across all portfolio teams and with Regional Representatives, Country Directors, Business Development and Communications teams, and HelpAge’s Supporting Members. 
 
The SFAA team currently comprises 5 Advisers on Voice and Ageism, Rights, Gender Policy, Inclusion, and Older People’s Associations (OPA) Development, with a Portfolio Development & Quality Manager, a 0.5 Portfolio Support Officer, and the Portfolio Lead.  

 
As Gender Policy Adviser you will work with all portfolios to: 
•            Provide advice on gender related issues and ensure gender dimensions are considered in the assessment/analysis, design and management of partner-led programmes; this includes supporting portfolio teams to ensure both partnership and programme development are informed by gender analyses and address HelpAge’s gender mainstreaming commitments within the context of its ongoing transition to localisation and partner-led programming; 
•            Develop and disseminate relevant papers and think-pieces relating to the intersection of ageing and gender issues and to programming practices supported by research and data from across the portfolios that seek to improve the lives of older women and older men; 
•            Produce strategic positions, policies, approaches and guidance on gender to inform advocacy on ageing and gender within HelpAge, the global network, and across the sector;  
•            Support improved Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning on gender from across the portfolios and the sharing and use of related information, data, learning and evidence across the global network. 
•            Develop the capacity of HelpAge staff, partners and network members through training (including coaching, mentoring and accompaniment), further development and promotion of HelpAge’s gender equality training toolkit, and webinars and guidelines that promote gender equality and inclusion for older people. 
•            Identify and develop new gender specific partnerships, collaborations and programming and funding opportunities to increase the resourcing and impact of HelpAge’s gender and ageing advocacy and support to partner-led programmes. 
•            Engage with the women’s rights movement and wider gender networks and maintain relationships with key agencies who work on gender equality. 

 
Skills and experience required 
•       Substantial experience in all aspects of Project Cycle Management; experience of partner-led programming approaches is desirable; 
•       A degree in a related field or equivalent in experience in gender, inclusion, intersectionality, feminism, LGBTQI or other diversity rights-based programming in development/humanitarian contexts or commercial settings; 
•       Knowledge and understanding of gender-based issues in both development and humanitarian contexts 
•       Experience in working with women rights organisations and women’s movements; 
•      Demonstrable skills and/or experience in conducting analysis, research, report writing and dissemination of information to a broad range of audiences; 
•       Demonstrable skills and/or experience in working with, advocating to or influencing decision-makers in governments, donors, the UN or other international institutions;  
•       Demonstrable skills in public speaking and representation; 

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