Gender Justice Lead
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Christian Aid
Hybrid- Location: Nigeria, Colombia, Bangladesh, Kenya, India
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Hybrid
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Part-time/ Pro-rata
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 22/12/2025
- Location: Nigeria, Colombia, Bangladesh, Kenya, India
About us
Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.
About the role
Some of the main responsibilities of the Gender Justice Lead include:
- Co-develop, create and deliver a thematic strategy for the whole of the Gender Justice thematic priority, including policy and advocacy components, clear measures of progress and impact/success which are then reported against at regular intervals aligning with organisational values and goals.
- Manage the Senior Gender Adviser to clearly contribute to the delivery of the strategy, and to support and collaborate with programmes and partners to achieve organisational standards on gender mainstreaming, protection and inclusion.
- Lead as the organisational technical expert on gender justice programming, particularly as a standalone thematic focus, and collaborate with staff across all 5 Multi-Country Clusters (MCC) and the broader Impact department and Income & Public Engagement department so they are able to draw on gender justice expertise – ours and our partners’ – in order to design, fundraise for and facilitate the delivery of strong signature programme
work on gender justice, maximising impact and income. - Provides strategic oversight of the organisation’s policy and advocacy work on gender, supported by the Senior Gender Adviser, to maximise impact.
- Develops, shapes, steers and delivers Christian Aid’s thematic public policy analysis on gender, positioning, and research and writing, rooting this in programme experience and theological reflection, and promotes the exchange of ideas and knowledge, to maximise impact.
- Foster a culture of learning and improvement by identifying best practice among our partners and facilitating knowledge sharing across partners; by commissioning (or directly undertaking when appropriate) research and learning reviews to evidence good practice and course correct where needed.
- Build strong relationships with key policy and advocacy colleagues focusing on ensuring insight and learning from programme practice feeds into, and influences public policy development, and provides evidence for advocacy materials.
About you
- Postgraduate or equivalent in International Development or relevant discipline.
- Detailed understanding gender concepts, theory and practice, and of current thinking/debates on gender and social norms, at global levels East and Southern Africa, West and Central Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asian and the Middle East, in line with Christian Aid's 5 MCC coverage.
- Detailed understanding of the role of faith-based actors in gender justice.
- Extensive experience of programme design, management and implementation on gender at country and local level and exposure to a range of gender programmes in a multi-country setting and preferable in more than one region.
- Extensive experience of influencing global spaces and global institutions
- Highly developed communication skills in English (written and orally).
- Extensive experience of International Development, including familiarity with strategic planning and programme management.
- Detailed understanding of current thinking in sector-specific M&E, including adaptive management.
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