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BACKGROUND

With a comprehensive rights-based framework underpinning its conservation and sustainable development efforts, IUCN recognizes that protecting and promoting women’s rights and advancing gender equality, including through women’s empowerment and addressing gender-based violence is not only a globally agreed-upon imperative in its own right but fundamental to meeting its mission. 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Post-Award Support
• Meet regularly with grantees, supporting IUCN grantee focal points, in implementation meetings to monitor progress, provide tailored and timely advice for project adjustments/realignment, review financial questions and issues, and field and coordinating.
• Provide expert advice to RISE and GEBAF (select) grantees on global best practices on gender-based violence programming, not least on survivor-centered and trauma-informed approaches to gender-based violence mitigation, response, and prevention methods and approaches.

Pre-Award Support
• Work collaboratively with the Senior Gender Programme Manager and Senior Programme Officer CCET to ensure a cohesive implementation of the RISE grants challenge and GEBAF call for proposals processes.
• Utilizing expertise on gender-based violence programming in alignment with global best practices, support applicants to develop high-quality projects.

Support the elevation of RISE and GEBAF learning, influence, and resource mobilization
• Support staff and partners, spearhead delivery of RISE and GEBAF learning, shepherding activities and impact toward knowledge, advocacy, and technical support goals
• Ensure projects’ learning is embedded across IUCN, including identifying and spearheading opportunities for new knowledge products, policy and programme guidance, and technical support strategies for rights-based, gender-responsive environmental programming

Programme support and development
• Including through leveraging learning and knowledge products from RISE and GEBAF, contribute to HRCT and CCET knowledge, policy guidance and mainstreaming support across IUCN and with other existing, new and emerging initiatives
• Develop and/or support capacity building and other efforts to build awareness, skills and strategies for rights-based gender-responsive conservation, climate resilience and sustainable development

 • Master’s degree in a related field, such as international development, international law or policy, international relations, women’s rights and gender equality, human rights, or sector-specific environmental fields such as biology, fisheries, agronomy or forestry, with application of expertise in research, programming or policy spheres
• Minimum 8 years of experience in programme development and project management, with demonstrated skills and impact.
• At least four years' experience working to apply global best practices on addressing gender-based violence via relevant and appropriate mitigation, response, and prevention measures and can provide practical technical guidance and support to others is very strongly preferred.
• At least three years of experience working in diverse country contexts, ideally with women’s networks, conservation implementers, or both.
• Track record as a multi-stakeholder mobilizer, network building and facilitator.
• Exceptional English language skills (i.e., writing, editing, oral communications) as a primary working language is required
• Outstanding ability to multi-task, juggle priorities, and meet deadlines; ability to digest and organize a lot of information from different sources, planning for efficient and high-quality delivery.