Gender and Protection Technical Advisor

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Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

  • Career category: Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL, Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 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: 16/08/2023
  • Location: Ghana, Accra
PSEA/ Safeguarding Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. Support the design and contribute to the implementation of Country Program strategies, standards, tools and best practices in cross cutting protection, safeguarding and gender that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
  2. Provide technical solutions to CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
  3. Contribute to, and in some cases lead, the development of the technical design for proposals.  Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full-fledged proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach.
  4. Support capacity strengthening initiatives in protection, safeguarding and cross-cutting gender  programming for staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching.
  5. Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to the <cross-cutting protection, accountability and gender> learning agenda.
  6. Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in the <field of protection, safeguarding and cross-cutting gender > to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
  7. Prepare presentations and coordinate project communication needs by writing and editing communication resources such as case studies, brochures, briefs, articles or peer-reviewed reports for internal and external audience.
  8. Collect and disseminate gender and protection related informational resources to CP staff and partners and assist in the organization, design and coordination of training workshop to support capacity-building efforts. Identify new e-learning approaches and methods.
  9. Lead CP events/celebrations with aim of advancing knowledge and impact related to gender and protection.
  10. Document gender and protection successes and lessons learned and organize periodic learning events to share lessons with consortium members and other partners.
  11. Participate in gender community of practice meetings for the West Africa and other gender-related learning events and training workshops.

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