Senior Gender Advisor at Christian Aid

About the role

• Reporting in to the Gender Justice Lead, the Senior Gender Advisor is responsible for mainstreaming gender across all other thematic priorities, within development, humanitarian and advocacy programmes.
• The post-holder will provide key inputs to Christian Aid’s gender justice thematic global policy and advocacy work in global spaces to ensure the advocacy achieves maximum impact and draws from all our gender justice work and partners, collaborating with partners and faith groups. The role will provide technical leadership to support the delivery of Christian Aid’s internal and external commitments, frameworks and strategies on gender mainstreaming, protection and inclusion to ensure quality, consistency and coherence. The role will play a key role in embedding Christian Aid’s Inclusive Programming Approach globally, ensuring that gender, protection and inclusion principles and minimum standards are systematically integrated across all projects, aligning with organisational values and goals.
• The role-holder will ensure that good practice on gender, protection & inclusion is captured and shared across the organisation.

Some of the main responsibilities of the Senior Gender Advisor include:

• Work closely with thematic leads to ensure gender is mainstreamed across climate, governance and peacebuilding work, and with policy and advocacy leads to ensure gender is mainstreamed across policy and advocacy analysis, positioning and research and writing.
• Support the gender lead with partner and stakeholder mapping, relationship building and external representation in policy and advocacy spaces as needed, including through development of public policy analysis on gender.
• Support Christian Aid staff to globally demonstrate improved capacity to apply gender, protection and inclusion principles across all programmes, leading to stronger, more inclusive, and accountable programmes, ensuring consistency and aligning to organisational values and goals.
• Ensure monitoring and application of standards for gender, protection, and inclusion across Christian Aid’s global portfolio, ensuring consistency in implementation and improving the quality and maximising impact of programmes.
• Collaborating with technical advisors fosters innovation, improves efficiency, minimises duplication, and maximises the impact of gender, protection, and inclusion efforts.
• Collaborate across Christian Aid and its partners reflecting a clear understanding of the needs, vulnerabilities and capacities of target communities, and allocate resources for the integration of gender, protection and inclusion concerns throughout the project cycle, aligning with organisational values and goals.
• Support Christian Aid partnerships, ensuring they are established with Women’s Rights Organisations (WRO’s), Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (OPD’s), and other specialised gender, protection and inclusion actors, strengthening locally led and community-driven approaches.
• Support humanitarian, development and advocacy programmes to adapt strategies in order to improve the meaningful participation of women, girls and marginalised groups, by actively reducing barriers to inclusion, maximising our impact and to ensure that gender continues to be a cross-cutting thematic focus across all our areas of work, in line with organisational commitments. Ensure that gender, protection and inclusion programming is implemented in alignment with Christian Aid’s internal and external
  commitments including the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Sphere Standards, and the Inclusive Data Charter to ensure consistency and coherence.
• Develop lessons learned from gender, inclusion and protection programming, and specialised protection initiatives, ensure they are documented and disseminated internally and externally through Communities of Practice (CoP’s), peer learning and knowledge exchange, supporting a culture of continuous learning.

About you

Who we are looking for

Essential:

• Degree in Gender Studies, International Development, Humanitarian Action, Social Work, Law or related field.
• Significant experience working in humanitarian emergencies, including direct involvement in GBV prevention and response.
• Significant experience in managing protection and GBV programs.
• Demonstrable expertise in mainstreaming gender, protection, and inclusion across development and humanitarian programmes.
• Demonstrable experience in capacity strengthening, with expertise in designing and delivering training, coaching, and mentorship on protection.
• Developed ability to work with local partners in humanitarian settings.
• Understanding of safeguarding, accountability, and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) mechanisms.
• Developed ability to influence and advocate within gender global advocacy spaces.
• Understanding and commitment to decolonised and equitable partnership approaches and engagement.
• Understanding of humanitarian principles, emergency response, and protection frameworks.
• Understanding of training tools and methods.
• Understanding of international norms and standards on gender, protection and humanitarian action including the IASC GBV Guidelines, Charter, and Sphere Standards.
• Understanding of Sphere and Red Cross code of conduct.