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Director, Gender and Youth Associate Award - TRaQ Unit
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Mercy Corps
Remote (local)- Location: United States , United Kingdom, Colombia
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 10+ years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Renumeration: $90,000-$114,000 / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 09/09/2024
- Location: United States , United Kingdom, Colombia
About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.
Essential Job Responsibilities
TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & PROGRAM QUALITY
- Lead Gender and Youth Associate Award technical discussions with USAID representatives in the US, including bringing in program implementer perspective and IDEAL’s sectoral accomplishments into the discussions.
- Ensure quality results and coordinated efforts across all components of the AA and activities.
- Coordinate with BHA, IDEAL and its associated support mechanisms, and gender and age related agencies, fora and communities of practice in the food and nutrition security areas. This includes AAs supporting annual Gender Consultations.
LEARNING AND IMPACT
- With the team, track and monitor progress across all workstreams. Review indicators on a regular basis and convene regular reflection workshops to: review progress; identify challenges, barriers and gaps, discuss new and emerging opportunities for learning and skills development; and adapt workplans as needed.
- Collect, analyze and use on-going feedback from implementing partners on the status of their knowledge, skills and capacity around gender and youth integration, as well as feedback from participants of food and nutrition security programming to improve activities under the AA.
REPRESENTATION
- Contribute to knowledge management through participation in larger food security networks to facilitate the dissemination of products and project learning around effective gender and positive youth development integration into development and emergency programming.
- Lead on representing and fostering relationships with implementing partners with BHA funding.
TEAM MANAGEMENT
- Develop the capacity of the team, deepen understanding of their roles and assist with career development.
- Assist team members with information, tools and resources to improve performance & reach objectives.
- Promote accountability, communicate expectations and provide constructive feedback informally and formally via regular one on ones and performance reviews.
SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES
- Actively learns about safeguarding and integrates it into their work, including safeguarding risks and mitigations related to their area of work
Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills
- Per USAID requirements, an advanced degree at Masters level or above (M.A., M.S., MPP, MPA, MBA, or Ph.D.) is required to be considered.
- USAID requires that candidates have at least 10 years of experience managing gender and age issues, food and nutrition security programming and org learning in a variety of contexts.
- At least five years experience directly supporting gender and/or age activities. Strong knowledge and experience with integrating gender equality and the Positive Youth Development approach and framework into programming.
- Experience with food and nutrition security programming, notably those of BHA and its requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to liaise with donor agencies, and USAID in particular at senior levels
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically in difficult environments, and negotiate solutions
- Demonstrated ability to function productively within a consortium.
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