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Jordan: Regional Gender Equality / GBV Advisor

Jan 19, 2022 | Save the Children International
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Save the Children International, formerly known as the International Save The Children Alliance, is a worldwide non-profit organization that aims to improve the living of children. There are 30 Save the Children member organizations around the world.

The Regional Gender Equality /Advisor provides technical leadership and support to SCI’s country programs in the Middle East and Eastern Europe (MEEE) region, in line with Country Office, Regional and SCI global priorities.  The role will lead strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high quality programmes that advance gender equality and ensure that children, girls and boys can equitably access, participate within, benefit from and act as decision makers for both emergency and development programming. Working in close coordination with regional advisors, this position will play a key role to strengthen gender equality outcomes, primarily through hands on technical assistance, strategic and programmatic support, coordination, external engagement and advocacy, fund-raising, capacity building (training / mentoring / coaching), supporting adaptations of technical approaches, including SCI’s evidence based Common Approaches, talent acquisition and development, response planning support and surge capacity for implementation and emergencies.

This role provides leadership in:

  • Operationalization and implementation of the MEE regional gender equality roadmap 2022-24
  • Strengthening Gender Equality outcomes in programming across humanitarian and development contexts in the region
  • Design and development of gender-transformative programs, including programs that prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV), child, early, forced marriage and unions (CEFMU), and others.
  • Roll out and implementation of the child-centred gender and power analysis.
  • Design and implementation of gender transformative monitoring and evaluation systems.
  • Establishing and nurturing the Regional Gender Equality Community of Practice
  • External representation on priority issues including gender-based violence, gender data, and other topics central to gender transformative child rights-based approaches across thematic areas.

The Role

The Regional TA will also work in collaboration with other advisors to support overarching regional priorities, particularly in integration, social cohesion, disability inclusion, the climate crisis and violence against adolescents. 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.

Reports to: Programme Quality & Development Director

Staff reporting to this post: no direct reports but expected to provide coaching and mentoring support to other colleagues and local partners

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions: The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, Country Office teams, advocacy, Regional Advisors, technical counterparts in other organisations, donors etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice (COP), including regional and global gender equality COPs.

Context: Humanitarian and development

Primary Technical area: Gender Equality

To be a strong supporter and advocate for children on this role you will need to demonstrate:

  • A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience providing technical leadership for the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes focused on advancing gender equality, particularly for children and young people.
  • Strong understanding of gender equality principles and practices, the gender equality sector, policy priorities and key gender inequalities impacting children in the MEEE Region
  • Proven senior level experience working with diverse, complex initiatives and virtual teams to achieve agreed objectives; including demonstrated experience designing, implementing and reporting upon thematic/cross-cutting strategies and/or policies
  • 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 successful business development/fundraising, 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 working with feminist and social justice movements, and familiarity with these networks in the MEE region and globally.
  • Experience of strategy development and planning to advance gender equality and social justice
  • Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources. 
  • 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. 
  • Fluent in Arabic (desirable)

Key Areas of Accountability

Strategy and Leadership

  • Develop and support operationalisation of regional technical steer on gender equality, building on the MEEE Gender Equality Roadmap 2022 – 2024, with explicit linkages to other thematic and cross thematic steers
  • Support Country Offices in the design of their thematic strategies (program and advocacy), ensuring alignment to Save the Children’s global thematic priorities and breakthroughs
  • Lead the development of regional and sub-regional initiatives focusing on promoting gender equality, social justice, prevention and response to GBV, etc.
  • Represent the MEE Region at global gender equality technical working groups and advisory teams.

Technical Capacity Building & Mentoring 

  • Provide contextualised, hands-on, demand driven technical support for MEEE Country Offices and partners
  • Provide technical support for MEEE Country Offices in the design and implementation of gender sensitive and gender-transformative programs, including GBV
  • Provide technical support for MEE Country offices in organizational gender mainstreaming, including the implementation of the organizational Gender Equality Self-Assessment
  • Provide leadership to the formation and functioning of the MEEE regional Gender Equality Community of Practice
  • Develop a gender equality learning agenda for the region and facilitate opportunities for learning, including cross-country and regional learning events.
  • Identify sources of technical support for COs and facilitate access where needed through Save the Children’s flexible Technical Expertise systems, and others for key regional technical needs.

Programme Quality in Design & Implementation: 

  • Identify partnership opportunities with feminist and social justice organizations in the MEEE region and globally
  • Identify funding possibilities and contribute to quality of CO and RO project and programme proposals, through leading/supporting project design and review processes
  • Support Emergency preparedness, recovery, and where appropriate response, including country office capability building for humanitarian response, emergency preparedness planning.

MEAL, Innovation & Organisational Learning 

  • Support the roll-out of the gender and power (GAP) analysis across all programs in MEEE region.
  • Contribute to country, regional and multi-country research agendas
  • Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming;
  • Support CO and regional work in monitoring trends in order to ensure early, gender sensitive/transformative action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses

Representation and networking 

  • In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership across the Region, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and governments, and ensure that Save the Children is a recognised partner in gender equality programming.
  • Build collaborative regional partnerships, through representation on regional clusters, working groups and technical fora, and ensure effective documentation
  • Foster partnerships with gender equality, feminist and social justice organisations in the region

General 

  • Contribute to regional team meetings and planning processes, internal initiatives and reporting requirements
  • Demonstrate leadership in relation to Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, bullying and harassment, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures. 

Application Information

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.  A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.