Save the Children Senior Gender Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

Save the Children Senior Gender Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

Role/ Purpose:

The Education Cannot Wait Multi-Year Resilience Program (ECW MYRP) Senior Gender Specialist will work with a number of partners mainly with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, ECW MYRP target regions, Woredas and schools, UNICEF, SCI, the Education Cluster, other local and international NGOs and UN agencies that will be involved in gender based violence in emergency and crisis affected education programme implementations.

As a senior gender specialist, s/he will ensure that during the ECW MYRP implementation phase, sufficient resources will be allocated to strengthen gender capacity in the ECW MYRP target sites and ensure dedicated gender technical support, monitoring, training, and knowledge management.

The Senior Gender Specialist will support on the GBVIE coordination mechanisms and provide all the technical support to the grantees (UNICEF & SCI), consortiums and implementing partners through creating linkages and partnerships with the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, Ministry of Education, Regional Bureaus of Gender and Social Affairs, Regional Education Bureaus, Woreda Level Gender and Social Affairs and Education Offices and school sites where ECW MYRP is implemented.

Scope of Role

Dimensions: the Senior Gender Specialist will work with a wide range of stakeholders, including the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, Ministry of Education, Regional Women and Social Affairs and Education Bureaus, UNICEF and SCI as Grantees along with their consortiums and implementing partners, the Education Cluster, the Sub-National Education Cluster, crisis and emergency affected children, teachers, parents and communities.

ECW-MYRP is implemented across all target Woredas and schools in Oromia, Amhara and Somali regions in partnership with local and international NGOs. UNICEF and Save the Children are grantees for ECW-MYRP.

Staff directly reporting to this post: 0

Key Areas of Accountability

Support Implementation of Gender Responsive ECW-MYRP

Support grantees to implement the MYRP in a gender-responsive manner (in line with the gender priorities identified in the MYRP document and global/ECW guidance on gender in EiEPC).

Ensure the implementation of all gender deliverables in the MYRP (gender mainstreaming and gender targeted strategies)

Establish the MYRP grantees and sub-grantees gender focal point team and hold a regular coordination meeting to discuss issues and find solutions.

Ensure the gender analysis in the EiEPC context is up-to-date and available to all MYRP country team.

Ensure that the IASC GAM monitoring tool is used during the implementation period of MYRP and lessons learnt are collectively identified to strengthen implementation of the program

Complete the brief MYRP gender profile in collaboration with ECW Gender Manager - Provide critical feedback and inputs on the implementation of specific program components in mainstreaming gender

Ensure gender equality and empowerment of women and girls is strongly reflected in the annual report and in the annual performance assessment review, including the provision of key human interest stories highlighting how the MYRP is contributing to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

Support grantees to identify local women’s organisations for collaboration and partnership as relevant and ensure local women’s organisations are meaningfully engaged in the implementation of MYRP

Capacity and knowledge building

Lead on capacity building and knowledge building and management on gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in EiEPC

Identify gender capacity gaps amongst the MYRP country team and ensure adequate support is provided (training of gender focal points, coaching,..) in collaboration with relevant stakeholders in-country (Gender Taskforce, Gencap, GBV Taskforce, and others) based on earmarked MYRP funding available in the MYRP budget.

Identify local and/or regional resources and network that can be accessed for knowledge building of MYRP country team on gender equality and empowerment of women and girls

Contribute as relevant to knowledge networks and communities of practice on gender in EiEPC

Organize the documentation of lesson learned and best practices on implementation of gender responsive ECW MYRP.

Networking and partnership

Support the creation of strategic partnerships and alliance building for the promotion of gender

equality and empowerment of women and girls in EiEPC

Facilitate participations in partnership with the UN Agencies, donors, government institutions, and civil society in the promotion of gender equality and women and girls empowerment in EiEPC with a particular focus on key issues (nexus, localization and local women organisations, GBV risk mitigation, etc.)

Liaise as necessary with in-country gender coordination mechanisms and actors (Gender, GBV, PSEA) as relevant.

Contribute to the overall MYRP country team effort in resource mobilization through preparation of draft project briefs, advocacy materials, presentations related to gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment in the MYRP.

External Representation

Participate in relevant global and local gender working groups and learning initiatives

Represent ECW-MYRP externally and within Ethiopia on gender-specific working groups, meetings, and workshops

Build and share internally a network of professional contacts with gender expertise including with PCU team, partners and grantees

Skills and Behaviours

Accountability:

Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling values of the Grantees- Save the Children and UNICEF

Holds the PCU team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same

Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

Future-orientated thinks strategically

Collaboration:

Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters

Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Job Requirements

Qualification

At least BA degree in gender, women studies, social science development or related fields

Deep technical expertise in gender development programming particularly in education, health, nutrition, WASH, livelihoods, migration, and child safeguarding and protection programs

Experience

A minimum of 10 years’ experience in gender mainstreaming and empowerment of women and girls in educational programs, of which a minimum of 5 years’ working in humanitarian context (refugee/IDP/Returnee response or post conflict setting) with sufficient knowledge of education in emergency programming and links to long-term programming, including standards, policies, frameworks, and relevant networks and stakeholders

Experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of gender mainstreaming projects in the humanitarian and development contexts.

Experience in coordination, monitoring and evaluation of gender development responsive programs

Previous work experience in MYRP country context

Significant Experience in planning and implementing EiE work objectives

Knowledge, Skills and Ability

Deep understanding of gender considerations in Ethiopia

Strong analytical skills

Strong communications and proposal/report style writing skills in English and Amharic

Good skill in emotional intelligence and continuous self-learning

Very good skill in communication, report writing, proposal development and facilitation

Ability to work effectively in a complex, fast-paced, matrixed, and multi-cultural environment

Ability to develop strong professional relationships and collaborations across functions, projects, and teams

Willingness to travel to remote field locations including IDP/returnee and refugee camps

Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches

Scope & complexity of decision making

Able to make decisions within a range of established alternatives

How to Apply

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