Senior GESI Advisor

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Mercy Corps

  • Location: Senegal, Burkina Faso
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 25/12/2024
  • Location: Senegal, Burkina Faso
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.
Essential Responsibilities 
Strategy & Vision
  • Lead the GESI working group within the program, ensuring regular meetings to develop guidance, plan activities, share lessons learned, and incorporate learning into program activities.
  • Support internal and external communications to highlight SRRA's GESI work and learning.
  • Participate in the development of the program's advocacy and CLA strategy to advance key GESI issues with external stakeholders.

Technical Leadership
  • Lead the program's GESI Analysis, sense-making workshops, work plan, and strategy to inform and adjust programmatic activities across all objectives, with a particular focus on Objectives 1 and 2.
  • Provide oversight and guidance to the program implementation team to ensure that thematic components are technically sound and grounded in an intersectional feminist perspective; and ensure that implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, feminist principles, and acknowledged good practice.
  • Deliver regular training and ongoing mentorship to team members and partners to promote capacity, ownership, and commitment Safe, Diverse and Inclusive programming

Team Management
  • Support in recruiting, mentoring, and onboarding new team members, ensuring they are set up for success and familiar with the program's gender equality, diversity and inclusion strategy and how this relates to their role.
  • Support the incorporation of gender equality, diversity, and inclusion requirements within the program's job descriptions and performance management systems.
  • Train team members on GESI requirements, plans, and concepts.

Coordination and Representation
  • Represent Mercy Corps and SRRA at relevant external meetings and events, including in coordination bodies connected to protection and GBV.
  • Document and coordinate information dissemination activities that share SRRA’s GESI achievements and results with the aim of influencing decision and policymakers.
  • Prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders about program approaches, best practices, and learnings related to gender equality, diversity, and inclusion. 
 
Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills
  • Advanced academic qualification in Women and Gender Studies, Social Sciences, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • At least 7 years of experience providing technical leadership for the design and implementation of GESI approaches in the context of food security, water security, peace & good governance, and economic opportunities programming.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and skills related to intersectional gender and power analysis, and to the design, piloting, implementation and evaluation of innovative technical tools and resources to advance gender equality in emergencies and development contexts.
  • Significant experience in gender and inclusion training, capacity building and mentoring, and a demonstrated ability to make complex concepts compelling and accessible..
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and French.

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