Gender Specialist

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Save the Children

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Renumeration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 08/09/2024
  • Location: West Asia/ Southwest Asia
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
 
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Save the Children-led consortium with funding from Education Cannot Wait (ECW) will implement a Multi-Year Resilience program in Syria-GoS, NES and NWS for 3 years. The MYRP 2024-2027 is designed to adopt a gender transformative and intersectional approach to focus on how gender interacts with other power differentials to impact educational access and achievement in Syria. T

SCOPE OF ROLE:
The Gender Specialist will support the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Multi-Year Resilience Program (ECW-MYRP) to provide technical support to guide and inform gender-based programming through leading the implementation of targeted gender transformative initiatives and integrated approach across the consortium in the whole of Syria.

Role Dimensions:
Overall responsibility for guiding and informinggender-responsivee programming across the integrated approach described within this MYRP. SC as the GLO, will work on building the capacity of consortium and implementing partners to ensure that gender and disability inclusion is considered across the entire project cycle. He/she will support data-driven gender responsiveness and ensure that course correction is taken as needed to further improve programming and reporting. Specific duties and responsibilities:

Lead capacity development of MYRP partners on gender transformative EiEPC
- Identify gender capacity gaps amongst the MYRP consortium and implementing partners and ensure adequate support is provided in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.   
- Set up a gender focal point system within the MYRP consortium and implementing partners 

Support strategic partnership building with LWOs
- Support MYRP consortium members to identify LWOs for collaboration and partnership in the implementation of the MYRP.
- Ensure LWOs are meaningfully engaged in the MYRP implementation with support for institutional capacity strengthening.

Support cross-sectoral collaboration for shared gender equality outcomes
- Initiate and support capacity-strengthening initiatives from other sectors (GBV training from GBV sub-cluster, training on CSE from SRHR WG…)
- Set up partnerships for cross-sectoral partnerships within the MYRP (GBV referral pathways developed by the GBV sub-cluster, re-entry of married girls in GBV safe spaces, and education institutions)

Monitoring and Learning
-Conduct regular light gender assessments to inform MYRP programming
 -Develop advocacy materials for gender equality in MYRP
 
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE 

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in Social Science, development studies, gender & development or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience. 
  • An advanced degree will be an added advantage.
  • Proven 5-year experience working on normative change for gender equality and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sensitive contexts
  • Proven experience in supporting the designing, implementing and evaluating gender-transformative social and behavioural change communication interventions.
  • Experience in supporting the implementation of gender-transformative approaches in a humanitarian context.  Fluency in Arabic & English. 

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