Saferworld Senior Gender Adviser Jobs in Uganda

Saferworld Senior Gender Adviser Jobs in Uganda

Job purpose:

The Senior Gender Adviser will work strategically across the organisation and be responsible for shaping Saferworld’s approach to gender transformative peacebuilding practice, research, policy influencing and internal organisational policies and practice.

They will help to ensure that Saferworld delivers on its Strategic Objective on Gender Equality and related work within Saferworld’s Strategic Plan 2021- 2031: Working in solidarity for a safer world.

The job holder will work within the Programme Support and Learning (PS&L) team and will work functionally with the Policy Team and Conflict Advisory Unit. They will provide ongoing accompaniment and technical support to Saferworld teams and their partner organisations in the quality design and delivery of their strategies and implementation plans - including on cross-organisational approaches and commitments on gender equality and equitable partnerships.

The Senior Gender Advisor will lead in delivering Saferworld’s Gender Equality Strategy, through policy and programmes as well as internally in coordination with the Saferworld core functions teams. They will provide thought leadership and oversight in developing and implementing organisational policy, practice and programming on gender, peacebuilding and security.

Key areas of responsibility

Organisational leadership on gender equality

Lead in the implementation and MEL of the Gender Equality Strategy: provide accompaniment and technical support to teams in the implementation of the strategy across the organisation, including by developing implementation and tracking/measuring tools and leading internal communications around it.

Strengthening organisational capacities for meaningfully integrating gender across research, policy and advocacy, communications and programmes.

Lead in identifying where there are gaps in knowledge, and working with the Gender Team and the Knowledge and Learning Hub and Saferworld Advocacy Group to find innovative or different ways to learn and adapt our peacebuilding work from a gender perspective, and create linkages across the multiple levels and locations where we work.

Influence and inform organisational decision-making through a gender lens, through formal and informal engagement with leadership teams across the organisation.

Actively support and advise on internal efforts and initiatives on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Policy and programming leadership on gender transformative peacebuilding and gender, peace and security

Provide technical support in the design, oversight and/or leadership/management of gender-specific cross-organisational programmes and approaches, and on gender integration and transformation in broader peacebuilding programmes. This includes:

“Resourcing Change: supporting Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) in Fragile and Conflict Affected Setting”, which provide core, flexible and accessible funding to WROs in FCAS.

Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Helpdesk, a call-down facility that aims to provide flexible, responsive and easy-to-use technical advice and support on WPS and gender in conflict and crisis contexts to the UK government.

Develop programmatic approaches, tools and training materials in relation to the gender, peace and security according to organisational and team-specific strategic priorities.

Provide technical and thought leadership on our gender and peacebuilding policy work, including our policy and advocacy on gender, peace and security. This includes leading or overseeing research and related advocacy and communications on gender, peace and security in coordination with policy, advocacy and communications colleagues.

Embed learnings from Saferworld programmatic work and research into future planned policy and programming priorities and approaches.

Sit on the Board of Trustees for Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS UK), the main UK WPS advocacy network, which is hosted by Saferworld, and provide strategic support to the GAPS

team and its Director based on our MoU.

Cross-organisational representation and strategic stakeholder engagement

Represent Saferworld at conferences, seminars and other events in relation to strategic objective on gender equality.

Engage with donors, wider NGO and policy community, and diverse partners in relation to driving positive change in Saferworld’s gender, peace and security work.

Scope and accountability

Decision making and limits of authority

The post-holder is expected to show considerable leadership within the organisation and to make a significant contribution to strengthening Saferworld’s gender equality strategic objectives.

Financial resources

Some budget and financial management support of cross-organisational specific programmes, and/or oversight particularly during periods of ‘surge support’ to country teams.

Other resources

Responsible for cross-regional and organisational information-sharing and lesson learning regarding research resources and guidance in particular.

People management

Gender advisors & project/programme managers as relevant, as well as consultants as per required

Legal, regulatory and compliance responsibility

Developing research ethics guidance that comply with safeguarding and legal obligations.

Person specification

Knowledge, qualifications and experience

Extensive experience and knowledge of gender integration in peacebuilding (preferred), development and/or humanitarian policy and practice and into organisational policies, systems and processes

Extensive experience of providing practical advice, expertise and accompaniment to staff and partners in developing gender-transformative programmes, with a strong intersectional feminist approach to gender.

Experience and skills in training and facilitation of learning in gender-transformative peacebuilding practice and the provision of capacity-strengthening support to culturally diverse audiences.

Experience of gender, peace and security policy formulation, advice and successful high-level advocacy in the areas of gender, conflict, security or gender in international development. Experience doing this in the UK setting desirable.

Relevant Qualification in political science, gender studies, conflict or peace studies or similar area; or equivalent gender integration, programming and policy experience,

Experience of working in partnership with other NGOs and NGO networks, and preferably women’s rights organisations (WROs) through principles of power-sharing, accompaniment and on feminist movement-building.

Lived experience or experience living and working in a conflict-affected setting desirable.

Skills and abilities

Excellent writing and verbal communication skills in English. An additional language is desirable, in particular a working language of a country(ies) where Saferworld operates (e.g., Arabic, Russian, Somali, Burmese).

Experience of training, mentoring, peer support and/or other capacity-strengthening techniques on research design and implementation

Able to ensure that research is designed and produced/packaged in the most efficient way for influencing policy and practitioner audiences.

Knowledge of policy-making processes and of interacting with government policy-makers, particularly in the UK desirable.

Good organisational and planning skills and the ability to work under pressure with the ability to manage multiple and complex priorities to deliver on objectives effectively.

Ability to work in a non-partisan and impartial manner, particularly in high-stress and highly politicised environments, appreciating gender, cultural and ethnic diversity.

How to Apply

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