Gender Specialist

• Conduct gender analysis and assessments to identify gender disparities inequalities and opportunities for promoting gender equality within our organizations program and projects..
  
• Collaborate with program teams to integrate gender considerations into project design implementation monitoring and evaluation.
  
• Advocate for gender responsive policies practices and programming both internally and externally.
  
• Support the collection and analysis of genderdisaggregated data to track progress towards gender equality goals and outcomes.
  
• Facilitate workshops seminars and learning sessions to promote awareness and understanding of gender issues and promote gender sensitive practices.
  
• Develop and implement gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track progress towards gender equality goals and outcomes.
  
• Provide training mentorship and capacitybuilding support to staff partners and stakeholders on gender equality concepts principles tools and methodologies.
  
• Stay up to date with current trends best practices and emerging issues in gender equality.
  
• Provide regular reports on genderrelated indicators and recommend corrective actions as needed.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor s degree in gender studies women s studies sociology international development or a related field required.
  
• Experience working as a Gender Specialist or in a similar role with a strong understanding of gender equality and women s rights issues including indepth knowledge of gender analysis methodologies gender mainstreaming and genderresponsive programming.
  
• Experience heading task teams to deliver client deliverables including research assessments and training.
  
• Proficiency in project management including the ability to plan coordinate and monitor genderfocused initiatives.
  
• Experience presenting technical content or thought stewardship to external audiences such as through conference presentations workshops webinars white papers or journal articles required.
  
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word Excel and PowerPoint) and collaborative tools such as GSuite and Slack
  
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage with diverse stakeholders effectively and facilitate discussions on sensitive gender topics.
  
• Resultsoriented collaborator who builds a positive team culture.
  
• Makes datadriven decisions and pushes for positive change.
  
• Excellent listener and facilitator who encourages open communication.
  
• Quick learner who thrives with autonomy and is committed to growth.
  
• Strategic problemsolver with a "Get Stuff Done" attitude.