Deadline: July 12th, 2018

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Job Type:Gender Coordinator Full-time Humanitarian

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3- The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people and, in the overseas context, all posts are considered to be level 3 posts in view of potential situations which may allow staff unsupervised access to vulnerable children and young people.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Gender Coordinator will provide direct technical support to the humanitarian mission to ensure the vision of Save the Children where all girls and boys can hold diverse hopes and dreams for their futures and have equal opportunity to make these come true are met.

The coordinator will provide technical support to mainstream gender in across programmes in the humanitarian response in NE Nigeria.

She/he will ensure gender is integrated into the results based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity strengthening for field teams via training and tool development.

She/he will not only ensure programmes are gender sensitive but aim to provide advice on how to make such programmes become gender transformative.

Duties and Responsibilities

In line with the SCI Gender Mainstreaming guidelines, support the development of the country office gender strategy especially for the humanitarian unit.

Develop a gender mainstreaming strategy for the humanitarian programmes.

Formulate key gender messages and targets from lessons learned, assessments, research and evidence gained through project implementation.

Contribute to the development and implementation of project objectives and initiatives, both short and long-term, encompassing a wide range of issues with a gender lens.

Ensure that voices of children disaggregated by sex form the basis of all key organizational strategies.

Acquire information and understanding of key gender issues in the country particularly in the northeast focusing on boys and girls (e.g GBV,

Early Child Marriage, SRH etc) and adapt strategies as necessary.

Build capacity of key programme staffs and volunteers including CS on gender.

Keep a watching brief on policymakers and other key players in relation to Gender issues and identify opportunities to raise awareness and influence policy change.

Develop a good knowledge of state and national government structures, parliamentary and political processes and key decision making structures and how to influence them working with the advocacy team.

Provide inputs into systems for research, analysis and documentation that underpin evidence for gender-based programming and influencing at state and national levels.

Produce reports, briefing papers and presentations for internal and external audiences, as directed.

Maintain a strong relationship with other Gender-related staff  across SCI

Develop and maintain a network of external contacts with key individuals in the government, NGO sector, civil society and the media particularly working on gender issues and participate in gender working group meetings, which may include providing oversight.

Represent and act as a spokesperson for Save the Children on gender issues various policy forums and advocacy opportunities at national and international levels, as directed.

Write regular progress reports, including annual impact monitoring reports.

Perform other tasks, as required, to ensure the smooth running of the organisation.

For application, click here

https://ukaid.org/2018/07/06/gender-coordinator-needed-at-save-the-children-nigeria/


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