Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist at Save The Children

Job ref.: 1900021D
Location: Abuja
Employee Status: Fixed Term

Role Purpose

• The Gender coordinator will be providing direct technical support to the Child Development Grant Programme 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 some selected social protection programmes across the country particularly Jigawa, Kaduna, Zamfara, Kano and Federal Level.
• She/he will ensure and disability 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.

Scope of Role

• Reports to:  The senior social protection specialist
• Staff directly reporting to this post: As the focal person for gender and social inclusion for the programme he/she will provide technical support and supervision to staff from the field office especially the Nutrition and inclusion coordinators.

Key Areas of Accountability
Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead in the development of a social inclusion strategy for the child development grant programme
• Provide technical support to the integration of gender and disability in the social protection space in Nigeria particularly in policies, plans and programmes.
• Lead in the development of a GSI training manual and build capacity of selected stakeholders made up of government officials, CS, media programme staff and any other identified relevant group
• Provide support the development of the country office gender strategy especially for the child poverty unit.
• Formulate key gender and social inclusion messages and targets from lessons learned, assessments, research and evidence gained through project implementation.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of programme 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 and disability issues in the country particularly in the north east focusing on boys and girls (e.g GBV, Early child Marriage, SRH etc) and adapt strategies as necessary.
• Keep a watching brief on policy makers and other key players in relation to G&SI and identify opportunities to raise awareness and influence policy change.
• Develop 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 programme and organisation.

Qualification and Experience
Essential:

• A post graduate University degree in Social Sciences with academic training in women’s studies, gender and development or a relevant field.
• 5 years’ work experience with an international development organization, with focus on women and girls/gender equality and disability programming.
• Proven experience working on normative change for gender equality and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sensitive contexts.
• Experience in development of training manuals and building capacity through trainings and system strengthening especially on G&SI related issues.
• Knowledge of the policies, functions, structures and decision-making processes of key Gender and social inclusion issues.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing and evaluating gender-transformative social and behaviour change communication interventions.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team setting with minimal supervision
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Specific knowledge of international development and gender equality issues; experience engaging children and other community members on gender equality issues desirable.

Desirable:

• Experience in implementing gender-transformative approaches
• Local language skills (Ability to communicate in Hausa will be an advantage).

Skills & Experience:
Administrative & General Skills:

• The post holder will possess a high degree of analytical skill, political acumen, ability to facilitate change, ability to influence, build capacity and ability to communicate key issues effectively and convincingly to a diverse audience at local, national and international levels.

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
• High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
• Holds self and others accountable

Ambition:

• Creating best-in-class EA function
• Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively

Collaboration:

• Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Designing more effective admin systems
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.