Inclusion Coordinator at Mercy Corps

Essential Job Responsibilities

The Inclusion coordinator will provide strategic guidance and management for tracking output and outcome-level Inclusion results through program studies, intervention development, capacity building and planning.  S/he must establish and manage relationships with potential partners and stakeholders. This role will also work with the MRM and Programme teams, developing and implementing a marketing and communications strategy across various reactive and strategically planned opportunities in print, media, events, and online.

S/he will liaise with the CoP, DCoP, Senior GEDSI Advisor, Communications Manager, and MRM Manager to identify and design key communications materials and disseminate them to identified audiences. S/he will be responsible for ensuring strong linkages between the Activity interventions and the Results Measurement team of the program. This position is based in Gombe but requires frequent travel to the other states of the Northeast.

Specific Responsibilities

• Support the Senior GEDSI Advisor in developing and operationalizing the Gender and Social Inclusion strategy, which will guide the integration of Gender and Social Inclusion concepts and approaches into all RRA and partners’ activities, including technical implementation, monitoring, operations, policies, and procedures.
• Collaborate with the Senior GEDSI Advisor, technical teams, MEL, and other personnel on Gender and Social Inclusion strategy implementation and monitoring.
• Lead or assist in designing and implementing Gender and Social Inclusion analyses, impact assessments, and other learning studies.
• Review and provide input to project work plans, with attention to Gender and Social Inclusion dimensions of technical activities and operations.
• Assess the strength of the approach to gender mainstreaming across the project cycle.
• Implement and manage the gender action plan, exercise quality assurance, and advise management on corrective interventions.
• Social capital development
• Gender and social inclusion strategy developed, including the approaches to be employed in implementing the RRA activities, monitoring and evaluation, and the guiding policies and procedures of the component.
• Collaborate with the MEL Manager to develop and implement tools to monitor the Pathway to Possibility at the Activity level.
• Collaborate with the Sr GEDSI Advisor to develop guidelines and tools for the collection and reporting/dissemination of data relating to Gender and Social capital inclusion outcomes at the project level.
• Ensure that lessons learned are integrated in planning and implementation across the projects.
• Engender all the project activities by collaboratively working with the project teams and the other project participants, including the smallholder farmers and the project partners.
• Ensure that Gender and social inclusion assessment reports are developed capturing the processes, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Ensure that regular data quality assessment on gender and social inclusion is conducted.
• Provide leadership in implementing, incorporating, and strengthening RRA Interventions and events, including Social Capital approaches in Groups, Cooperatives, and hubs across the projects.

Intervention Management

• Accountable for the implementation of Social Inclusion strategies and Gender approaches.
• Responsible and accountable for gender and youth performance indicators within RRA.
• Ensure that Gender and Social Inclusion initiatives approaches are properly implemented as per required standards.
• Analyze and package Gender and Social inclusion disaggregated project progress reports from country offices before submission to the DCoP.
• Translate and contextualize the Gender and Social Capital Minimum Requirements for Projects.
• Developing, reviewing, and updating training modules/manuals, and related training materials. Facilitate project implementers to set up various training modules and train them in their use; provide follow-up services to these training programs.

Stakeholder Management

• Represent the program in selected markets, displaying courtesy, tact, consideration, and discretion in all interactions with partners, other program members, and the public.
• Understand how the political economy impacts rural markets and how changes in the functioning of markets may impact the political economy.
• Maintain contacts with key stakeholders to increase synergies.
• Participate in facilitating and managing the work of the program's partners/co-facilitators/service providers and ensure “value for money” for the tasks given.
• Supervise/facilitate the identification and development of networks among key stakeholders, identifying common interests between the networks and RRA.
• Assist in establishing contacts with national and regional institutions, stakeholders, and participants that would contribute to successfully implementing market activities.

Security

• Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies determined by country and program leadership.
• Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and know policies.
• Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and not jeopardize its mission.

Knowledge and Experience

• A Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree in social sciences.
• 4 years of relevant work experience in a related field.
• The ability to work within a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Excellent communications skills
• A passion for the international development sector
• Exceptional analytical and writing skills
• A strategic and creative thinker with proven experience in working on diverse and wide-ranging communication strategies, including all forms of media.
• Excellent oral, written and computer skills.
• Fluency in English; fluency in Hausa is required.