Gender Specialist

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Plan International

  • 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: 06/01/2026
  • Location: Bangladesh
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
Join Us at Plan International Bangladesh: Make a Lasting Impact!
 
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And its girls who are most affected and mostly during crisis. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.
 
Over the 30 years journey in Bangladesh, we envision a 2030 where children and youth, particularly girls and young women, are recognized as leaders of change in gender norms and can make decisions about their lives.
 
Since 24 September 2017, Plan International has been responding to the Rohingya refugee influx in Cox’s Bazar with special focus on protecting girls and boys from violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation; improving hygiene and sanitation; and restoring access to safe, quality, and inclusive education for refugee children and adolescents. Guided by our core values, we remain unwavering in our commitment to advancing children’s rights and equality for girls so that children, especially girls, and their communities can learn, lead, decide, and thrive. 
 
For the past three decades, our work in Bangladesh has made a significant impact, and we are now looking for a Gender Specialist.
 
 
 
The Role
The Gender Specialist leads the integration of Gender, Diversity, Inclusion, and Protection (GDIP) principles across Rohingya Response and Nexus programming, ensuring gender-responsive and inclusive humanitarian action. The role provides strategic leadership in implementing the Gender in Emergencies Action Plan, strengthening staff and partner capacity, and embedding GDIP approaches across multi-donor projects in a complex operational environment. The position also plays a key role in resource mobilization through the development of high-quality, evidence-based funding proposals, represents Plan International Bangladesh in national, regional, and global coordination platforms, and upholds feminist, value-based leadership to foster an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable workplace culture.
 
 
What we’re looking for 
  • Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Women & Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies, or another relevant field.
  • Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive professional experience in gender-based program interventions, preferably within humanitarian or Rohingya response contexts.
  • At least four (4) years of experience in Cox’s Bazar in protection interventions in humanitarian or development contexts.
  • Demonstrated experience in providing gender-focused technical support in large and complex projects.
  • Strong track record in proposal writing, concept note development, and business development.
  • Advanced skills in donor liaison, proposal writing, and consortium coordination.

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