Project Officer Sr - Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)

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Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 11/11/2024
  • Location: Nigeria
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:
  • Conduct gender analyses, risk analyses, and/or other relevant studies to support STaR teams in achieving technical excellence in gender and protection programming and gender integration in ongoing programs/projects. 
  • Provide remote and on-site support to STaR teams with technical solutions for strategic planning and how best to apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E to help ensure successful and high-quality implementation in gender and protection.
  • Support business development, including project design and proposal review, to ensure the integration of gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches and activities and protection mainstreaming in programs and projects. 
  • Develop program/project documents and tools, as well as technical manuals or guidance, training materials, and quality improvement and assessment guidelines.
  • Support capacity-building initiatives in programming that include protection and gender as a cross-cutting aspect for employees and partners by helping to develop learning and training strategies, agendas, and curricula, conducting training and workshops, and providing some mentorship.
  • Prepare presentations and coordinate project communication needs through writing and editing communication resources, such as case studies, brochures, briefs, peer-reviewed articles, or reports, for both internal and external audiences.
  • Coordinate and/or perform various activities supporting program/project design and implementation, including but not limited to needs assessment, strategic planning, program design and proposal writing, monitoring and evaluation, and technological solutions.
  • Collect and disseminate gender and protection-related information and resources to CRS staff and partners. Assist with organizing, designing, coordinating, and delivering training workshops to support capacity-building efforts. Identify new approaches and methods for online learning.


Basic Qualifications
  • Master’s in international development, gender studies, social sciences, or a field(s) related to gender and/or protection required.
  • Minimum of three years of relevant work experience with an international NGO, with at least one year of field-based programming experience.
  • Additional experience may substitute for some education.
  • General knowledge of technical principles and concepts in gender and protection
  • Knowledge of program design requirements and regulations of major donors. 
  • Knowledge of project design and proposal development.
  • Knowledge of latest technological tools that have the potential to be applied in gender and protection.
  • Strong English writing skills.

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