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• Support
  SP Uganda and field teams with the mainstreaming of gender equality in
  program development and design, including proposals.
• Work
  closely with the livelihood and WASH project teams and identify strategic
  actions to be undertaken to improve the quality of program
  implementation from gender perspective.
• Actively
  contribute to and ensure gender equality mainstreaming and across all
  areas of program implementation, including training materials, monitoring,
  operations, policies, procedures and implementation of project
  activities that target women and girls within the scope of the project.
• Assist
  the field teams with gender analysis throughout the project life cycle
  with key findings and actionable recommendations integrated into programming.
  Distil and document lessons learnt for use in future programming.
• Maintain
  an up-to-date and thorough understanding of gender issues related to
  project components.
• Facilitate
  gender trainings with program staff and program stakeholders.
• Work
  closely with National sector Program Managers and Project Managers
  to ensure that gender considerations are assessed and accounted for.
• Guide
  and advise field office and teams with the development of tools to
  increase the participation of girls or to remove existing barriers
  and create equal participation.
• Ensure
  that program reporting captures challenges and successes around gender
  equality.
• Renders
  support in the development of gender sensitive data collection tools.
• Provide
  support in the collection and analysis of age and gender-disaggregated
  data.
• Ensure
  knowledge sharing, documentation and dissemination of good practices on
  gender equality, and women’s empowerment.
• Monitor
  and report on the implementation of the gender action plan, and
• Offer
  technical advice on appropriate gender sensitive indicators in the
  performance measurement framework and support M&E colleagues in
  reporting of program results/outputs and objectives against agreed
  indicators.

• The Gender Specialist must hold a
  Bachelor’s Degree in Gender, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Rural
  Development and/or any other related field; a Post Graduate study is
  desirable
• A minimum of three years’ experience of
  managing a gender portfolio.
• The applicant must have experience in
  Project Cycle Management and Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation with a
  gender lens, have experience in designing and conducting gender analyses,
  and designing and facilitating trainings on gender issues and mainstreaming
  techniques.
• The successful candidate should be an
  influential communicator with excellent written and verbal skills in
  English and speaks at least one local language.
• Highly analytical and problem solving
  skills and have the ability to effectively network with a wide range of
  relevant actors.
• Be dynamic, personable
• Good team player

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