Gender Equality and Disability Inclusion Specialist

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Save the Children

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 0-5 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: 15/05/2025
  • Location: Yemen
Disability rights Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
 The Organisation
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child-safe organization by fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and improve their living standards of the child.


KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Lead on systematic integration of gender equality into strategic, technical and operational processes 
  • Input into and review all internal humanitarian response strategies, sectoral plans, emergency preparedness and contingency plans ensuring integration of GEDI (inc. PSEA) considerations;
  • Represent the response in organisation-wide gender equality processes and platforms to share learning with others

Provide technical advice to existing sectors to mainstream GEDI
  • Train and mentor Save the Children staff and partners broadly on GEDI for non-specialists and specifically on the SCI Humanitarian Gender Equality Marker, the IASC GBV Guidelines and IASC Gender Handbook;
  • Advocate for consistent use of SC’s Gender Equality Marker;
  • Develop a response-wide Gender Action Plan (with accompanying accountability mechanisms);
  • Support COs with disclosure management and safe referrals; 

Design GEDI targeted interventions 
  • Support the design of stand-alone targeted gender equality interventions with a specific emphasis on girls’ protection and empowerment;
  • Support the identification and development of strategic partnerships with women’s rights, girls’ rights, gender equality and disability inclusion organisations;
  • Support integration of GBV response within Child Protection and Health sectors: including providing oversight and quality control for relevant training to be cascaded by deployable staff to Child Protection (on CCS) and Health (on CMR), and advocating for necessary resources (including a technical advisor with GBV response skills) to ensure quality control for survivor-centred approaches and practices for the implementation of CMR and Case Management 

Engage in advocacy to address GEDI
  • Advocate for gender-sensitive and transformative humanitarian response design and implementation;
  • Represent Save the Children in relevant humanitarian coordination platforms, including within the cluster system;
  • Coordinate with peer organisations and women’s rights organisations to identify gaps and develop advocacy messages to influence the response;

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Bachelor’s degree in behavioural or social sciences or relevant field experience
  • Experience of addressing gender inequality including through women’s and girls’ empowerment;
  • Experience of working in humanitarian settings;
  • Demonstrates knowledge of multi-sectorial response to GEDI;
  • Demonstrates knowledge of current GEDI prevention theory and identifies and applies appropriate GBV prevention and behaviour change strategies at different stages of the humanitarian response;
  • Proven record of enabling/facilitating change through influencing, inspiring and mobilising others;
  • Experience conducting assessments - including gender analysis;
  • Effective communication skills, written and verbal, and the ability to present arguments clearly and effectively to a wide range of internal and external audiences;
  • Creative, strategic and analytical thinker;
  • Fluent written and spoken English
  • Commitment to comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, PSEA, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

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