Job Title: Gender Specialist
Organization: Samaritan’s
Purse International Relief (SPIR)
Purse International Relief (SPIR)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Emergency
Response Coordinator (ERC)
Response Coordinator (ERC)
About Us:
Samaritan’s Purse is an international Christian relief and development
organization meeting the critical needs of victims of war, poverty, natural
disaster, famine and disease with the aim of sharing God’s love.
organization meeting the critical needs of victims of war, poverty, natural
disaster, famine and disease with the aim of sharing God’s love.
Job Summary: The Gender
Specialist will assist the Emergency Response Coordinator (ERC) as
multi-sectorial emergency relief projects continue to be implemented. The
successful candidate will be expected to provide strategic and relevant inputs,
mainstream gender equality across all projects, and advice on gender across all
programs and contribute to both the development and delivery of high quality
programs that have, at their center, a commitment to ensure that both women and
men benefit equally.
Specialist will assist the Emergency Response Coordinator (ERC) as
multi-sectorial emergency relief projects continue to be implemented. The
successful candidate will be expected to provide strategic and relevant inputs,
mainstream gender equality across all projects, and advice on gender across all
programs and contribute to both the development and delivery of high quality
programs that have, at their center, a commitment to ensure that both women and
men benefit equally.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- 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
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send an updated
CV, covering letter and relevant documentation via email to HR:
[email protected] or hand deliver to Samaritan’s Purse offices, Plot 11
Luthuli drive, Bugolobi. Kampala. Uganda
CV, covering letter and relevant documentation via email to HR:
[email protected] or hand deliver to Samaritan’s Purse offices, Plot 11
Luthuli drive, Bugolobi. Kampala. Uganda
Deadline: 4th October 2017 by
5:00pm
5:00pm
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