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Gender Equality & Social Inclusion (GESI) Adviser
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Pacific Community (SPC)
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: 10+ years
- Organisation type: Inter-governmental
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Renumeration: $4,111-$5,138 / monthly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 04/08/2024
- Location: Fiji
Jobholder is accountable for: Jobholder is successful when KRA#1:
Provide technical assistance and advice on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI)
• Provides advice and programme support to PWL at SPC activities in the areas of promoting women and girls’ leadership; realising women’s rights to health, economic empowerment and ending gender-based violence; and promoting Pacific ownership and effectiveness of regional gender equality efforts.
• Work closely with the PWL at SPC team to ensure the Annual Work Plan entails a strategic and inclusive approach to gender and social inclusion, including disability inclusion.
• Provide support to Pacific Girl (a PWL at SPC funded programme to support adolescent girls in the region) on gender equality and social inclusion.
• Conduct analysis on key and emerging regional gender and social inclusion issues in line with the PWL at SPC programme and the priorities of SPC and Pacific Island countries and territories.
• Research, develop and write concept notes, thematic briefs and other knowledge and communication products for PWL at SPC to deliver identified needs for the programme, government partners and other stakeholders.
• Engage in national, regional, and international fora, mechanisms, and processes for the purposes of integrating Pacific GESI perspectives in policies and programmes.
• Develop and implement measures to ensure a strategic approach to disability inclusion across PWL at SPC initiatives, aligned with HRSD’s broader disability inclusion agenda.
KRA#2: GESI capacities, skills development and people management
• Assist the PWL at SPC in identifying GESI capacity development needs for the implementing team, other HRSD colleagues, implementing partners and other stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver capacity building on GESI, disability inclusion, safeguarding and child protection through diverse modalities for relevant SPC staff and key implementing partners, in coordination with other HRSD capacity building initiatives.
• Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of capacity building initiatives
• Ongoing review and adaptation of capacity building and skills development initiatives.
KRA#3: Support stakeholder engagement, networking, and coordination
• Support stakeholder engagement, networking, and coordination to advance programme and divisional objectives at national, regional, and institutional levels.
• Actively engage in working groups, communities of practice, task forces, and other technical committees.
• Represent and promote SPC, HRSD and PWL at SPC at national, regional, and international forums, as delegated
Qualifications Essential:
• A postgraduate qualification in development, human rights, gender, international relations or other relevant social science from a recognised university.
• 10 years of development experience working in the field of human rights, gender equality and social inclusion, child protection and safeguarding and/or youth development with experience working in the Pacific region.
• Experience in mainstreaming gender, social inclusion and human rights in development programming.
• Programming, developing, delivering, and reporting against work plans. • Working in a multi-disciplinary and crosscultural team.
• Experience developing capacity building resources and delivering sessions for diverse government and non-government audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work with a wide range of individuals
Provide technical assistance and advice on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI)
• Provides advice and programme support to PWL at SPC activities in the areas of promoting women and girls’ leadership; realising women’s rights to health, economic empowerment and ending gender-based violence; and promoting Pacific ownership and effectiveness of regional gender equality efforts.
• Work closely with the PWL at SPC team to ensure the Annual Work Plan entails a strategic and inclusive approach to gender and social inclusion, including disability inclusion.
• Provide support to Pacific Girl (a PWL at SPC funded programme to support adolescent girls in the region) on gender equality and social inclusion.
• Conduct analysis on key and emerging regional gender and social inclusion issues in line with the PWL at SPC programme and the priorities of SPC and Pacific Island countries and territories.
• Research, develop and write concept notes, thematic briefs and other knowledge and communication products for PWL at SPC to deliver identified needs for the programme, government partners and other stakeholders.
• Engage in national, regional, and international fora, mechanisms, and processes for the purposes of integrating Pacific GESI perspectives in policies and programmes.
• Develop and implement measures to ensure a strategic approach to disability inclusion across PWL at SPC initiatives, aligned with HRSD’s broader disability inclusion agenda.
KRA#2: GESI capacities, skills development and people management
• Assist the PWL at SPC in identifying GESI capacity development needs for the implementing team, other HRSD colleagues, implementing partners and other stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver capacity building on GESI, disability inclusion, safeguarding and child protection through diverse modalities for relevant SPC staff and key implementing partners, in coordination with other HRSD capacity building initiatives.
• Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of capacity building initiatives
• Ongoing review and adaptation of capacity building and skills development initiatives.
KRA#3: Support stakeholder engagement, networking, and coordination
• Support stakeholder engagement, networking, and coordination to advance programme and divisional objectives at national, regional, and institutional levels.
• Actively engage in working groups, communities of practice, task forces, and other technical committees.
• Represent and promote SPC, HRSD and PWL at SPC at national, regional, and international forums, as delegated
Qualifications Essential:
• A postgraduate qualification in development, human rights, gender, international relations or other relevant social science from a recognised university.
• 10 years of development experience working in the field of human rights, gender equality and social inclusion, child protection and safeguarding and/or youth development with experience working in the Pacific region.
• Experience in mainstreaming gender, social inclusion and human rights in development programming.
• Programming, developing, delivering, and reporting against work plans. • Working in a multi-disciplinary and crosscultural team.
• Experience developing capacity building resources and delivering sessions for diverse government and non-government audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work with a wide range of individuals
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