Gender and Disability Inclusion Officer at Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD)

Role Purpose: 

The post holder will provide technical support to guide and inform gender and disability-inclusive programming for CASFOD. She/he will work with the program team, partners, government and communities to implement specific gender and disability inclusion activities. She/he will mainstream gender as a cross-cutting themes for all the programmatic activities. She/he will ensure gender and disability is integrated into the results-based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting disability inclusion, gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity strengthening for field teams. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• The gender and disability inclusion officer will provide technical support to guide and inform gender-based and disability inclusion programming at CASFOD. 
• The gender and disability inclusion officer will provide technical support to mainstream gender as cross cutting theme for all the programmatic activities. 
• She/he will ensure gender is integrated into the results-based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity. 
• She/he will provide overall gender and disability programmatic and operational coordination and management including planning, implementation, capacity enhancement, monitoring/ evaluation and reporting. 
• 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. 
• Support tracking of gender and disability-inclusive and disability-specific project indicators. 
• Support MEAL team in disability data collection, analysis and reporting. 
• Ensure consultation of beneficiaries with disabilities in project evaluation and learning. 

Qualifications and Experience: 

• BSc in Gender Studies, Human rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience. 
• At least 3 years of work experience on gender mainstreaming in both humanitarian and development contexts or fragile states. 
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required. 
• Ability to identify the main gender gaps and issues in the given context to inform a holistic response for boys, girls and their male and female caregivers. 
• Proven experience in supporting the designing, implementing and evaluating gendertransformative social and behaviour change communication interventions. 
• Experience in supporting the implementation of disability-inclusive and gender-transformative approaches. 
• Experience on conducting assessments and implementing MEAL processes and conducting rapid and participatory gender analysis. 
• Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy. 
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.