Gender Specialist

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Mercy Corps

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 18/04/2025
  • Location: Zimbabwe
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 JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 
KEY PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead gender and resilience context analyses. 
  • Develop a gender strategy that is informed by the results of the context analyses.
  • Develop gender action plans to support the implementation of the gender strategy by ZRBF consortia partners and other stakeholders.
  • Provide guidance and technical support to all ZRBF implementing partners on gender considerations and best practices. 
  • Work closely with the gender focal points of consortium members to identify and address gender-related gaps in ZRBF programming.
  • Design and deliver customized gender trainings to partners and relevant stakeholders.
  • Develop and maintain a gender-related research and knowledge databaseand tools relevant to the program.
  • Compile content for and develop innovative gender and resilience-related learning and communication tools and materials that can be shared at events, meetings and national platforms and with government ministries and counterparts in the public and private sectors to disseminate knowledge.
  • Initiate knowledge generation on gender and resilience themes and dissemination of best practices and lessons learned.
  • Support the Team Leader to report on gender and resilience program activities and lessons learned and produce internal documentation as requested/needed.
  • Support Mercy Corps’ gender organizational change initiative to create an enabling environment for program work– including a female staffing initiative, mentors-hip program and policy reform.


KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

  • University degree in gender/women studies, social sciences, rural development/sociology, agricultural economics, anthropology, development studies, or other closely related fields.
  • At least 5 to 7 years of experience in gender equality, gender mainstreaming, or related role.
  • Experience designing and facilitating training on gender issues and gender integration processes and techniques.
  • Solid experience in designing, monitoring and evaluating gender components in projects.
  • Experience in gender mainstreaming in resilience programs would be an added advantage.
  • Ability to handle multiple issues at one time, including emergency situations.
  • Must be adaptable to and comfortable with shifting priorities.
  • Experience in the Zimbabwean context is an advantage.

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