Save the Children Gender Technical Specialist, Regional Programming Unit Jobs in Kenya
Save the Children Gender Technical Specialist, Regional Programming Unit Jobs in Kenya
The Gender Technical Specialist will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical and practical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for advancing gender equality within the SIDA CSO Program.
The role will lead gender strategy development and guide gender mainstreaming efforts to ensure implementation of a high-quality programme that advances gender equality. The role will support organisational strengthening efforts ensuring gender is strongly grounded in partners' policies and systems. The role supports regional and national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for gender equality.
It provides leadership to ensure our work is grounded in intersectional gender and power analysis, and supports the design and implementation of gender transformative monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across focus countries, teams and partners.
The role will work closely with other technical colleagues and with partners, especially women's/girls' rights and gender equality-focused organizations in the five country offices, gender machineries within the African Union and Regional Economic Communities, fostering the building of ownership and agency of local organisations, and strengthening their efforts to navigate and expand civic space. It will provide leadership to design/adapt and deliver gender transformative content for capacity building and organisational system strengthening.
This role includes a focus on external representation on priority issues including child-centred gender and power analysis, girls' empowerment, gender-based violence and other topics central to gender transformative child rights-based approaches across thematic areas.
In order to be successful, you will bring/have:
Qualifications
Masters degree in Women and Gender Studies or related degree with focus on gender equality in international and Africa regional development, social work, public health, sociology, anthropology or related area, or equivalent experience.
Experience and Skills
At least 5 years' experience (including field experience) providing technical leadership for the design and implementation of development programmes focused on advancing gender equality
Strong understanding of gender equality principles and practices, the gender equality sector, policy priorities and key gender inequalities impacting children in Africa.
Significant experience in gender equality training, capacity building, and
mentoring, and a demonstrated ability to make complex concepts compelling and accessible.
Demonstrated knowledge and skills related to intersectional gender and power analysis, and to the design, piloting, implementation and evaluation of innovative technical tools and resource to advance gender equality.
Track record in contributing to institutional development, designing and pitching gender transformative approaches, models and programs.
Demonstrated strong knowledge and skills related to gender sensitive and transformative program design, monitoring and evaluation, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
Experience of strategy development and planning to advance gender equality and social justice.
Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, grounded on intersectional gender and power analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to advance gender equality and realise children's rights.
Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn't work for transforming the root causes of harmful gender norms and promoting gender equality for and with children.
Demonstrated thought leadership expertise such as contributions to academic journals, books, articles; speaking engagements, workshop facilitation, leading conference presentations and panels.
Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: resilience and climate change; adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery.
Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.
How to Apply
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