Gender Equality, GBV & Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist

Title: Gender Equality, GBV & Disability Inclusion Technical Specialist– Open to nationals and internationals.

BACKGROUND:

Save the Children believes that it is critical to directly address gender-based discrimination and promote gender equality in order to ensure no harm comes to children, and to advance our vision for a world where every child attains their equal right to survival, protection, development and participation. Save the Children recognizes that gender and disability inequalities create major barriers for sustainable development and works to ensure all its programs identify and account for the different needs, abilities and opportunities of all stakeholders. Save the Children further strives to utilize gender-transformative approaches whenever possible, supporting meaningful and lasting impacts in the lives of children and adolescents. Save the Children seeks to advance gender equality and disability and inclusion in all aspects of its work and across the organization, guided by Save the Children’s Gender Equality and disability Policy.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

Working closely with a team of technical advisors and program managers/ officers within the program operations team, this position will support the design and implementation of gender-sensitive, gender-transformative and disability inclusive development and humanitarian projects in order to ensure the successful delivery of quality programs that respond to the specific needs of girls, boys, men and women, and persons with disability and to  mitigate SGBV across the programme cycle. S/he will support the integration of a gender equality, disability and inclusion lens in Save the Children’s advocacy and campaign efforts; work with the Business Development team to develop gender transformative, and disability inclusive programs for donors; lead capacity strengthening efforts on gender equality with Country Office staff, as well as local partners; and support initiatives to collect, measure and report on program learnings and innovation on gender transformative and disability inclusive approaches; and support the Senior Management Team in advancing gender equality and disability inclusive efforts in our organisational culture.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Head of Protection & Inclusion

Staff directly reporting to this post:  Gender, GBV and Disability and Inclusion coordinator

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Qualifications

Master degree or bachelor’s degree in Gender and Women’s Studies, Disability Studies or related degree in International Development, Psychology, Sociology or related area or equivalent training/experience

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Minimum 5 -7 years’ field work experience implementing, managing, and/or providing technical assistance to programs in developing countries with a focus on gender equality & disability inclusion; focus on child and youth programming desirable
• Proven experience with gender-transformative child rights programming in areas of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Livelihoods, Maternal, Newborn and Child Heath, and/or Education
• Commitment to and understanding of gender equality, child rights, GBV Guiding Principles, the aims and principles of SC, and humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the IASC GBV Guidelines;
• Demonstrated understanding of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Disability Inclusive Programming, The IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action, Disability Disaggregated data and MEAL, Universal Accessible Construction standards
• Experience in working as a Gender Equality Advisor in humanitarian contexts is desirable
• Demonstrated thought leadership expertise such as contributions to academic journals, books, articles; speaking engagements, workshop facilitation, leading conference presentations and panels is an asset

COMPETENCIES, SKILLS & BEHAVIOURS

• Is a strategic big picture thinker, with the ability to engage at detailed project level
• Ability to synthesize and develop high-quality knowledge products from diverse data sources including programmatic materials and tools
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to develop strong working relationships across cultural and organizational boundaries with internal and external stakeholders, and managing through influence
• Strong and demonstrated capacity strengthening skills
• Superior English communication and writing skills
• Comfortable working independently with little supervision, as well as with receiving and accounting for direction and engaging as part of a dynamic team

Application Information:

Please apply in English saving your cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document.

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Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer, and our working environment is inclusive and accessible.

We need to keep children safe, so our selection process includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Employment is subject to our Child protection standards including background checks and adherence to our Child Safeguarding Policy

Application will be closed on 24^th March 2025

We need to keep children safe, so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Employment is subject to our Child protection standards including background checks and adherence to our Child Safeguarding Policy

Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified talent.

Disclaimer:

Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents.