Specialist, Gender (GBV)

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Making Cents International

Hybrid
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 27/07/2023
  • Location: United States 
Economic justice Gender-based violence (GBV)
Making Cents is looking for a Gender Specialist with GBV experience to provide support on the USAID Collective Action to Reduce Gender-Based Violence (CARE-GBV) Activity. CARE-GBV aims to foster effective integration of GBV prevention and response frameworks and tools across the Agency’s program portfolio through tasks that achieve broad uptake of actionable knowledge and learning and create vibrant knowledge networks for the GBV stakeholder community—all aimed at strengthening USAID’s and host-government strategies and policies.

The GBV/Gender Specialist will work as part of a collaborative team providing technical input on disseminating and fostering uptake of strategies and products developed through CARE-GBV. They will also support strengthening the USAID GBV community of practice and donor coordination in GBV programming.  

Responsibilities:
GBV/Gender Activities
  • Synthesize information to guide development of GBV strategies and tools
  • Provide input into writing and designing reports, briefs, blogs, and other medium
  • Translate research and evidence into practice by providing input into products to share knowledge, build skills, and generate behavior and normative change
  • Provide expertise to design and effectively share information about best practices to effect improved knowledge and skills, as well as attitudinal, behavioral, and normative changes
  • Contribute to the management of online communities of practice
  • Support monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting activities
  • Support collaborating, learning, and adapting activities, including supporting internal pause and reflect activities
Project Management Activities
  • Serve as a Project Officer, supporting the Chief of Party in management activities such as work planning, periodic reporting, budget management, and project documentation maintenance
  • Draft documents, including budgets, client approval documents, periodic reports, and other project-based materials
  • Confirm that activities are compliant with client and funder regulations and company policies and support reporting for compliance
  • Coordinate logistics for project personnel including organizing travel arrangements and processing timesheets, expense reports, and invoices
  • Provide logistics, notetaking, and facilitation support for project-based meetings, events, and webinars
  • Contribute to the development or further refinement of project management tools, systems, processes, and policies by identifying areas for improvement and leading efforts to implement such improvements
Required Qualifications:
  • A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., gender studies, women’s studies, sociology, anthropology, international development, public administration) and a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in international development contexts, or a master’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., gender studies, women’s studies, sociology, anthropology, international development, public administration) and a minimum of 1 year experience working in international development contexts
  • Knowledge of current evidence and practice relating to GBV prevention and response; gender and social norm change; behavior change communication
  • Demonstrated knowledge of gender issues, women’s empowerment, and gender transformative approaches within international development contexts
  • Strong writing and oral presentation skills, and ability to deliver written products on time
  • Ability to organize large amounts of information
  • Strong knowledge of MS Office applications

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