Gender Specialist and Climate Change and Health

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World Health Organization (WHO)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: $7,000 USD-$9,980 USD / monthly
  • Deadline: 11/12/2025
  • Location: Fiji
Climate & Environmental justice Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
Purpose of consultancy

The World Health Organization’s Division of Pacific Technical Support (WHO-DPS) is seeking a qualified individual to serve as Gender Specialist - GEF Building Resilience of Health Systems in Pacific Island LDCs to Climate Change Project. The successful applicant will undertake a review of the Gender Action Plan that has been developed for the project, to align it with the WHO guidance on conducting gender analysis within the WHO framework of Mainstreaming Gender in Health Adaptation to Climate Change Programmes. This alignment is essential to ensure that the project is not only gender-sensitive but also responsive to the specific needs and contexts of each participating country. To support this process, the consultant will assist project countries (Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu) in contextualizing the WHO guidance, tailoring it to their national realities and implementation strategies, and developing country-specific gender analyses and gender action plans (GAPs). This will help enhance the gender responsiveness of project activities and ensure that gender considerations are meaningfully integrated into health adaptation efforts.

Job Description

The selected Consultant will undertake the following:

  1. Conduct a comprehensive gender analysis, critically reviewing the existing Gender Action Plan, and ensuring its alignment with the latest WHO and UNDP standards and frameworks. This includes identifying gaps, recommending actionable improvements, and integrating best practices to promote gender equity and responsiveness across programme implementation.
  2. Develop a revised Gender Action Plan for the project to facilitate implementation of activities that promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, covering both technical aspects of project activities and operational aspects of the project (i.e., Project Results Framework, Social and Environmental Safeguards and Grievance Redress Mechanisms, Risk Register, and reporting requirements).
  3. Provide tailored technical support to each country in the development of country-specific Gender Action Plans. These plans will be designed to reflect the unique needs, capacities, and institutional arrangements of each national context, ensuring relevance, feasibility, and alignment with international gender equality frameworks. The support will include promoting inclusive approaches that strengthen national ownership and sustainability.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
 First university degree in gender studies, international development, sociology, community engagement and research, or relevant field.
  • Demonstrated understanding of issues related to gender and sustainable development with at least 5 years of practical working experience in gender mainstreaming, women’s empowerment and sustainable development.
  • Experience carrying out participatory gender analysis; experience collecting and formulating gender responsive indicators and sex-disaggregated data and preparing gender responsive project analysis; developing gender action plans.
  • Proven experience in the analysis of gender issues.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the links between sustainable development, social and gender issues.
  • Demonstrated experience working on policy and programmatic issues with national and local governments and civil society organizations, including community organizations.
  • Experience with project development and results-based management methodologies.
  • Excellent analytical, writing, advocacy, presentation, and communications skills are required.
  • Expert knowledge of spoken and written English is essential.

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