Senior Technical Advisor, Gender, IDEA

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Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 10+ years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Deadline: 10/07/2023
  • Location: United States 
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
Roles and Key Responsibilities: 
  • Lead design and implementation of project-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in capacity building that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Ensure a cross-sectoral approach that integrates gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
  • Lead development and advancement of project-wide standards, policies, innovative approaches, tools, and M&E in gender interventions including application of partnership principles.
  • Contribute to HQ, regional, and country program staff efforts to pre-position CRS for strategic growth opportunities in gender integration under the IDEA mechanism. Support CPs to appropriately staff project teams for buy-ins and Associate awards.
  • Lead gender sensitive planning in inclusive development programming for staff and partners through ensuring development of learning agendas/curriculums, organizing and/or facilitating trainings, workshops, and conferences, and mentoring and coaching staff in innovative CRS approaches and tools. Provide mentoring and coaching to TAs, as well as CP and regional staff.
  • Lead the project’s gender sensitive knowledge management and learning agenda in inclusive development through setting conditions for collective learning that ensure the capturing, documenting, and sharing of key successes, promising practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based implementation research, internally and externally, including publications in peer reviewed journals. 
  • Represent CRS at global forums, UN, Congress, and major donor forums to present CRS’ work and research in inclusive development and gender sensitive planning to influence technical partner approaches, future funding opportunities, and policies. Network with relevant organizations to increase CRS’ profile in inclusive development and gender inclusive planning to influence in the global programming for all marginalized and/or underrepresented groups, and donor diversification. 

QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Qualifications: 
  • Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Anthropology/Sociology, or other relevant fields (or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a relevant area). PhD or equivalent degree (e.g., MD, DrPH, EdD) and work experience in a relevant area strongly preferred. 
  • Minimum of ten (10) years of professional experience in gender and social inclusion issues and implementation.
  • Practical experience in leading gender mainstreaming, intersection of gender and other marginalized identities and implementation of gender-sensitive projects and programs.
  • Experience in gender mainstreaming, analysis, research, designing gender policies, strategies, guidelines, and training manuals.
  • Demonstrated ability to interact and communicate with wide range of stakeholders both verbally and in writing.
  • Demonstrated experience working with marginalized groups. Demonstrated experience working in international development, inclusive development, or related fields.
  • Demonstrated experience and skills to represent the organization at the highest levels at meetings with donors, government, international NGOs, local partners – faith-based and civil society. Understanding of partnership principles.
  • Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications and strong understanding of information and budget management systems and knowledge-sharing networks.

 

Required Languages: 
  • Professional fluency in English required; proficiency in a second language strongly preferred (e.g., French, Spanish, Arabic).

Travel:
  • Must be willing and able to travel up to 30%. 

 

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