Gender Senior Advisor

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Save the Children

  • 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: International contract
  • Renumeration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 30/07/2024
  • Location: Panama
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Health
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

The Gender Senior Advisor will serve as a focal point for facilitating the integration of gender considerations into commitments, programs, budgets, training, monitoring and evaluation, and other learning activities and a resource person for FP2030 LAC Hub on gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women empowerment, consistent with operationalizing a rights-based approach to family planning and in support of the universal health coverage agenda. 


Strategic Outcomes:
  • Work collaboratively within the FP2030 LAC Hub to increase the understanding of and promote solutions to critical gender gaps or barriers hindering progress towards reproductive power for women, girls, and couples, including those affected by crises.  
  • In collaboration with FP2030 colleagues and across thematic areas, drive implementation of FP2030’s gender strategy, including supporting FP2030 regional hubs to use findings from gender analyses (existing or new) to integrate gender in their workplans and activities. 
  • Provide technical support on FP-related gender analysis, gender integration into programs, and gender related monitoring and evaluation, for FP2030 regional hubs and commitment making countries, as requested. 

Technical leadership:
  • Lead the implementation of Gender Equality assessments for existing FP2030 Commitments.
  • Support commitment reviews with a gender perspective.
  • Lead processes of gender integration within new FP2030 commitments and CIPs. 
  • Support the implementation of gender-related family planning High Impact Practices (HIPs), providing insights and lessons learned. 
  • Identify points for strategic engagement for FP2030 within global dialogues related to gender equality, gender integration and women’s and girls’ empowerment. 

Advocay and civil society engagement:
  • Lead dialogue among key stakeholders to ensure the development of an advocacy strategy and related messages to promote gender integration and gender equality in SRHR programs. 
  • Support global advocacy and strengthen alliances with women rights advocacy coalitions and other stakeholders.   
  • Support advocacy efforts to advance the gender equality agenda in FP/SRHR programming at the country and regional levels and ensure the work is in alignment with FP2030 vision and measurement frameworks. 

Child Safeguarding 

Children who come into contact with Save the Children as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of child abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. 

Education & qualifications
  • Master’s degree in public health, Public Policy, International Development, Business Administration, Economics or related field, or equivalent standard of education. 
  • Written and spoken fluency in English and Spanish required. 
  • Fluency in oral and written Spanish and English. 
  • Minimum 5 years of experience and success working on and addressing gender issues.
  • Strong understanding/experience with gender mainstreaming, gender integration, women’s rights, women empowerment, and/or family planning.
  • Excellent communication skills 
  • Experience with advising and training staff of differing experience levels and seniority. 
  • Experience in humanitarian and development contexts. 
  • Experience in providing technical advice, capacity building and facilitation of training. 
  • Documented experience from work in policy, thematic and/or knowledge development
  • Experience working with multi-stakeholder partnerships including donors, multi-lateral agencies, developing countries and civil society organizations.

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