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Senior Gender Adviser
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Saferworld
- Location: Kyrgyzstan, United Kingdom, Kenya, Uganda
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management, Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL
- Job type: Job
- Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Not Specified
- Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Permanent
- Deadline: 10/07/2023
- Location: Kyrgyzstan, United Kingdom, Kenya, Uganda
Key areas of responsibility
Organisational leadership on gender equality
• Lead in the implementation and MEL of the Gender Equality Strategy: provide accompaniment and technical support to teams in the implementation of the strategy across the organisation, including by developing implementation and tracking/measuring tools and leading internal communications around it.
• Strengthening organisational capacities for meaningfully integrating gender across research, policy and advocacy, communications and programmes.
• Lead in identifying where there are gaps in knowledge, and working with the Gender Team and the Knowledge and Learning Hub and Saferworld Advocacy Group to find innovative or different ways to learn and adapt our peacebuilding work from a gender perspective, and create linkages across the multiple levels and locations where we work.
• Influence and inform organisational decision-making through a gender lens, through formal and informal engagement with leadership teams across the organisation.
• Actively support and advise on internal efforts and initiatives on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Policy and programming leadership on gender transformative peacebuilding and gender, peace and security
• Provide technical support in the design, oversight and/or leadership/management of gender-specific cross-organisational programmes and approaches, and on gender integration and transformation in broader peacebuilding programmes. This includes:
o “Resourcing Change: supporting Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) in Fragile and Conflict Affected Setting”, which provide core, flexible and accessible funding to WROs in FCAS.
o Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Helpdesk, a call-down facility that aims to provide flexible, responsive and easy-to-use technical advice and support on WPS and gender in conflict and crisis contexts to the UK government.
• Develop programmatic approaches, tools and training materials in relation to the gender, peace and security according to organisational and team-specific strategic priorities.
• Provide technical and thought leadership on our gender and peacebuilding policy work, including our policy and advocacy on gender, peace and security. This includes leading or overseeing research and related advocacy and communications on gender, peace and security in coordination with policy, advocacy and communications colleagues.
• Embed learnings from Saferworld programmatic work and research into future planned policy and programming priorities and approaches.
• Sit on the Board of Trustees for Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS UK), the main UK WPS
advocacy network, which is hosted by Saferworld, and provide strategic support to the GAPS team and its Director based on our MoU.
Cross-organisational representation and strategic stakeholder engagement
• Represent Saferworld at conferences, seminars and other events in relation to strategic objective on
gender equality.
• Engage with donors, wider NGO and policy community, and diverse partners in relation to driving positive
change in Saferworld’s gender, peace and security work.
Organisational leadership on gender equality
• Lead in the implementation and MEL of the Gender Equality Strategy: provide accompaniment and technical support to teams in the implementation of the strategy across the organisation, including by developing implementation and tracking/measuring tools and leading internal communications around it.
• Strengthening organisational capacities for meaningfully integrating gender across research, policy and advocacy, communications and programmes.
• Lead in identifying where there are gaps in knowledge, and working with the Gender Team and the Knowledge and Learning Hub and Saferworld Advocacy Group to find innovative or different ways to learn and adapt our peacebuilding work from a gender perspective, and create linkages across the multiple levels and locations where we work.
• Influence and inform organisational decision-making through a gender lens, through formal and informal engagement with leadership teams across the organisation.
• Actively support and advise on internal efforts and initiatives on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Policy and programming leadership on gender transformative peacebuilding and gender, peace and security
• Provide technical support in the design, oversight and/or leadership/management of gender-specific cross-organisational programmes and approaches, and on gender integration and transformation in broader peacebuilding programmes. This includes:
o “Resourcing Change: supporting Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) in Fragile and Conflict Affected Setting”, which provide core, flexible and accessible funding to WROs in FCAS.
o Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Helpdesk, a call-down facility that aims to provide flexible, responsive and easy-to-use technical advice and support on WPS and gender in conflict and crisis contexts to the UK government.
• Develop programmatic approaches, tools and training materials in relation to the gender, peace and security according to organisational and team-specific strategic priorities.
• Provide technical and thought leadership on our gender and peacebuilding policy work, including our policy and advocacy on gender, peace and security. This includes leading or overseeing research and related advocacy and communications on gender, peace and security in coordination with policy, advocacy and communications colleagues.
• Embed learnings from Saferworld programmatic work and research into future planned policy and programming priorities and approaches.
• Sit on the Board of Trustees for Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS UK), the main UK WPS
advocacy network, which is hosted by Saferworld, and provide strategic support to the GAPS team and its Director based on our MoU.
Cross-organisational representation and strategic stakeholder engagement
• Represent Saferworld at conferences, seminars and other events in relation to strategic objective on
gender equality.
• Engage with donors, wider NGO and policy community, and diverse partners in relation to driving positive
change in Saferworld’s gender, peace and security work.
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