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ROLE PURPOSE:
The Gender Equality Technical Expert will use their contextual understanding, technical expertise and relationship-building skills to advance gender equality across Save the Children Kosova/o's programmes, advocacy and organizational priorities.

Role Dimensions: The role provides strategic and technical leadership to ensure that children, girls and boys equitably access, participate in and benefit from development programming and that harmful gender norms and discriminatory practices are challenged through gender-transformative approaches. The TE will support programme design, implementation and quality assurance, strengthen evidence-based advocacy and policy engagement, and contribute to organisational learning and innovation.

The post holder will ensure that programmes are grounded in intersectional gender and power analysis, and that gender equality, safeguarding and meaningful child participation are embedded across thematic areas. Working closely with programme teams, partners, government institutions and civil society organisations, the TE will foster local ownership, strengthen capacities and support sustainable systems change.

The role includes external representation on priority issues related to gender equality, girls’ empowerment, gender-based violence prevention and child rights. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Master’s degree in Women and Gender Studies, Human Rights, Sociology, Social Policy, Development Studies, Social Work, Public Health, Anthropology or another relevant field, or equivalent professional experience.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
•    3-7 years of progressively responsible experience in designing, implementing and/or providing technical leadership for gender equality programmes.
•    Strong understanding of gender equality principles, gender-transformative approaches and key gender inequalities affecting children and young people in Kosovo.
•    Demonstrated experience in conducting intersectional gender and power analysis and applying findings to programme design, implementation and advocacy.
•    Proven experience in programme design and technical proposal development.
•    Experience in developing theories of change, logframes, technical narratives, programme strategies and results frameworks.
•    Experience generating and using evidence, research and sex-disaggregated data to inform programming, advocacy and learning.
•    Excellent report writing, policy writing and proposal writing skills in English.
•    Experience leading advocacy strategies and policy influencing initiatives.
•    Fluency in Albanian and English; knowledge of Serbian is considered an asset.