Gender, Inclusion and Safeguarding Officer

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Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT)

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 20/03/2024
  • Location: East Africa
PSEA/ Safeguarding Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) is seeking an enthusiastic, creative individual to fill the important role of Gender, Inclusion, and Safeguarding Officer for DOT’s Going Beyond project. 

Responsibilities:

Gender Equality (GE) (50% LOE)

  1. Collaborate with DOT’s network-wide Gender team to deliver high-quality GE technical assistance to diverse teams across the organization, including program design, delivery and measurement teams; 
  2. Provide technical support to the design and facilitate the delivery of gender equality and social inclusion training and capacity strengthening programs for staff of youth-serving and youth-led organizations, and youth leaders deployed to deliver Going Beyond training to their youth peers; 
  3. Provide regional support and monitoring of project activities and outcomes to ensure implementing partners’ accountability for program quality and impact for young women, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and refugee youth in the Going Beyond project; 
  4. Support the implementation of Going Beyond’s M&E systems to document the reach and impact using gender-sensitive and intersectional approaches, and qualitative tool design and analysis, building a solid evidence base for DOT’s gender-responsive and gender-transformative work;  
  5. Support the documentation of learning around performance, challenges, and proposed recommendations for improvement, and the iteration of project design and implementation approaches to improve relevance, accessibility, and impact of the Going Beyond project for underserved groups of youth, especially young women, PWDs, and refugee youth;  
  6. Support the development, evaluation and revision of strategies for gender equity and the inclusion of diverse groups of youth, and provide support to localize project strategies, activities, and implementation plans;
  7. Contribute to project reports and documents as required;
  8. Participate in project coordination meetings and workshops as required. 

Safeguarding (50% LOE)

  1. Provide awareness-raising sessions on PSEAH for DOT staff, Youth-serving and Youth-led organizations and other project personnel on a regular basis;
  2. Support the design and delivery of training on safeguarding, DOT’s PSEAH policy, approaches to keeping people safe, and reporting mechanisms for all program participants, including Youth-serving and Youth-led organization staff, and youth participants; 
  3. Work with DOT teams and Youth-serving and Youth-led organizations to develop and maintain localized and vetted referral systems, and provide support to maintain and improve systems to respond to any incidents of SEAH;    
  4. Provide survivor-centered and trauma-informed support to staff, participants and community stakeholders, serving as a trusted focal point to receive safeguarding complaints/reports, support survivors of SEAH, and collaborate with safeguarding response team (DOT staff and Youth-serving and Youth-led organization staff); 
  5. Work with DOT teams and Youth-serving and Youth-led organizations to monitor the implementation of safeguarding policies, codes of conduct, and procedures;
  6. Ensure that all materials pertaining to complaints are handled in strict confidence and in line with applicable grievance and complaint handling procedures.

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