Director, GAYA Award - Gender and Youth, 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
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian & Development Nexus
  • Experience level: 5-10 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: 09/11/2024
  • Location: United States , United Kingdom, Colombia
Youth Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
 
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. 
 
General Position Summary 
The Director Gender and Youth Activity will direct and manage the IDEAL Associate Award (AA) on Gender and Youth Capacity Building, Learning and Small Grants.  IDEAL works to support BHA’s goal of improving food and nutrition security programming for the most vulnerable by strengthening the technical and operational capacity of implementing partners through promotion of best practices and support for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. The AA seeks to improve the quality of gender and youth programming and integration within food and nutrition security activities.  The Director will manage this AA, providing strategic vision, leadership and oversight.  The Director/Sr Advisor is the lead technical position and a key personnel role, guiding the team to identify practitioner gaps, test new approaches, expand innovations, build capacities and share learnings and practices that improve food and nutrition security by challenging and shifting the structures that perpetuate inequality and that holistically support and engage young people as positive change agents. The GAYA Director will be joining an established, high functioning and collaborative team.  
 
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. 
  • Demonstrated ability to provide capacity building within teams and/or with government partners, such as ministries and NGOs so that the team is better able to achieve results. 
  • Strong existing network within the Gender and/or Youth community. 

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