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About The Role

• Reporting in to the Global Head of Programme Policy and Practice, the Governance & Rights Lead is a key role designated as the single point of accountability governance and rights leadership across the organisation, aligning with Christian Aid’s organisational values and goals.
• The post-holder will be responsible for co-developing a thematic strategy, collaborating with the Strategy and Learning Manager in organisational effectiveness, and with the Policy and Advocacy Lead in the Policy and Influencing division within the Impact Department.
• The role is ultimately accountable for the delivery of the Thematic Strategy on Governance & Rights and for reporting progress towards this at regular intervals to measure success and maximise impact.

Some of the key responsibilities of the Governance & Rights Lead include:

• Co-develop, create and deliver a thematic strategy for the whole of the Governance & Rights thematic priority, including clear measures of progress and impact/success which are then reported against at regular intervals aligning with organisational values and goals.
• Lead as the organisational technical expert on governance and rights programming and collaborate with staff across all 5 Multi Country Clusters (MCC's) and the broader Impact department, and IPE department so they are able to draw on governance and rights expertise – ours and our partners’ – in order to design, fundraise for and facilitate the delivery of strong signature programme work on governance and rights, maximising impact and income.
• Foster a culture of learning and improvement by identifying best practice among our partners and facilitating knowledge sharing across partners; by commissioning (or directly undertaking when appropriate) research and learning reviews to evidence good practice and course correct where needed.
• Build strong relationships with key policy and advocacy colleagues – particularly the Global Policy and Advocacy Lead for Governance and Rights –, focusing on ensuring insight and learning from programme practice feeds into, and influences public policy development, and provides evidence for advocacy materials.
• Collaborate with the Strategy and Learning Manager and the Impact and Evidence Manager to ensure appropriate evidence is being gathered and consolidated to measure and communicate the impact of our work on governance and rights and to adapt our signature programme approaches as necessary.
• Lead and build external networks globally so Christian Aid’s work on governance and rights is presented and promoted nationally and internationally, resulting in 1) an enhanced organisational profile within the sector to maximise our impact, 2) a portfolio of work that is innovative and in line with sector best-practice, 3) a pool of potential partners to engage and work with.
• Programme advisory and resource materials on governance and rights are developed on the basis of organisational values, goals, strategies, adaptive programming approaches, and informed by ongoing learning of Christian Aid

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Who we are looking for
Essential

• Postgraduate or equivalent in International Development or relevant discipline.
• Detailed understanding of current thinking/debates on governance and rights (all human rights, including social, economic, civil and political), at global levels and across West & Central Africa, East and Southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Middle East in line with Christian Aid's 5 MCC's coverage.
• Extensive experience of translating ‘rights’ concepts into practice within development programmes, across social, economic and civil/political issues in a multi-country setting, and preferably in more than 1 region.
• Detailed understanding and experience of governance programming, both on the ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ side (i.e. institutional strengthening/accountability, and empowerment and voice).
• Understanding the role of faith-based actors promoting good governance and defending human rights.
• Extensive experience of International Development, strategic planning and multi-country programme management.
• Detailed understanding of current thinking in sector specific M&E, including adaptive management.
• Developed ability to apply analysis of power/social exclusion to programme design and management.
• Highly developed negotiation, facilitation, influencing, diverse stakeholder engagement skills, and ability to promote critical thinking and reflection.
• Significant experience of providing training, technical support and/or advice.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, including the ability to discuss sensitive issues and inspire others to take up new challenges.

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About the role

• Reporting in to the Global Head of Programme Policy and Practice, the Gender Justice Lead is designated as the single point of accountability for gender justice leadership across the organisation, including for policy and advocacy aligning with organisational values and goals.
• The post-holder will directly lead on gender justice work as a standalone issue, while also overseeing the gender mainstreaming work led by the Senior Gender Adviser. The role is responsible for co-developing a thematic strategy, collaborating with the Strategy and Learning Manager in organisational effectiveness.
• The role is ultimately accountable for the delivery of the thematic strategy on Gender (both mainstreamed and standalone work) and for reporting progress towards this at regular intervals to measure success and maximise impact, and provides strategic oversight of Christian Aid’s gender thematic global policy and advocacy work in global spaces to ensure the advocacy maximum impact.
• The role collaborates with partners and faith groups, providing public policy analysis, positioning, research and writing, and is rooted in evidence and theological reflection to foster a mindset of connection. The post-holder will manage the Senior Gender Adviser.

Some of the main responsibilities of the Gender Justice Lead include:

• Co-develop, create and deliver a thematic strategy for the whole of the Gender Justice thematic priority, including policy and advocacy components, clear measures of progress and impact/success which are then reported against at regular intervals aligning with organisational values and goals.
• Manage the Senior Gender Adviser to clearly contribute to the delivery of the strategy, and to support and collaborate with programmes and partners to achieve organisational standards on gender mainstreaming, protection and inclusion.
• Lead as the organisational technical expert on gender justice programming, particularly as a standalone thematic focus, and collaborate with staff across all 5 Multi-Country Clusters (MCC) and the broader Impact department and Income & Public Engagement department so they are able to draw on gender justice expertise – ours and our partners’ – in order to design, fundraise for and facilitate the delivery of strong signature programme
  work on gender justice, maximising impact and income.
• Provides strategic oversight of the organisation’s policy and advocacy work on gender, supported by the Senior Gender Adviser, to maximise impact.
• Develops, shapes, steers and delivers Christian Aid’s thematic public policy analysis on gender, positioning, and research and writing, rooting this in programme experience and theological reflection, and promotes the exchange of ideas and knowledge, to maximise impact.
• Foster a culture of learning and improvement by identifying best practice among our partners and facilitating knowledge sharing across partners; by commissioning (or directly undertaking when appropriate) research and learning reviews to evidence good practice and course correct where needed.
• Build strong relationships with key policy and advocacy colleagues focusing on ensuring insight and learning from programme practice feeds into, and influences public policy development, and provides evidence for advocacy materials.
• Collaborate with the Strategy and Learning Manager and the Impact and Evidence Manager to ensure appropriate evidence is being gathered and consolidated to measure and communicate the impact of our work on gender justice and to adapt our signature programme approaches as necessary.
• Lead and build external networks globally so Christian Aid’s work on gender justice is presented and promoted nationally and internationally, including in global advocacy spaces, resulting in 1) an enhanced organisational profile within the sector to maximise our impact, 2) a portfolio of work that is innovative and in line with sector best-practice, 3) a pool of potential partners to engage and work with.
• Programme advisory and resource materials on gender justice are developed on the basis of organisational values, goals, strategies, adaptive programming approaches, and informed by ongoing learning of Christian Aid.

About you

Who we are looking for

Essential

• Postgraduate or equivalent in International Development or relevant discipline.
• Detailed understanding gender concepts, theory and practice, and of current thinking/debates on gender and social norms, at global levels East and Southern Africa, West and Central Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asian and the Middle East, in line with Christian Aid's 5 MCC coverage.
• Detailed understanding of the role of faith-based actors in gender justice.
• Extensive experience of programme design, management and implementation on gender at country and local level and exposure to a range of gender programmes in a multi-country setting and preferable in more than one region.
• Extensive experience of influencing global spaces and global institutions
• Highly developed communication skills in English (written and orally).
• Extensive experience of International Development, including familiarity with strategic planning and programme management.
• Detailed understanding of current thinking in sector-specific M&E, including adaptive management.
• Highly developed ability to apply analysis of power/social exclusion to programme design and management.
• Highly developed negotiation, facilitation, influencing, diverse stakeholder engagement skills, and ability to promote critical thinking and reflection.
• Significant experience of providing training, technical support and/or advice.
• Significant experience of promoting culture change and organisational learning.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, including the ability to discuss sensitive issues and inspire others to take up new challenges.

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About the role

Reporting in to the Global Head of Programme Policy & Practice, the Climate Adaptation & Resilience Lead is designated as the single point of accountability for climate change, adaptation and resilience leadership across the organisation, aligning with organisational values and goals.

The post-holder is responsible for co-developing a thematic strategy, collaborating with Strategy & Learning colleagues in Organisational Effectiveness Department, and with the Policy and Advocacy colleagues across the Impact Department.

The role is ultimately accountable for the delivery of the thematic strategy on Climate and for reporting progress towards this at regular intervals to measure success and maximise impact.

Some of the main responsibilities of the Climate Adaptation & Resilience Lead include:

• Co-develop, create and deliver a thematic strategy for the whole of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience thematic priority, including clear measures of progress and impact/success which are then reported against at regular intervals aligning with organisational values and goals.
• Manage the Senior Climate Resilience Advisor to clearly contribute to the delivery of the strategy, and to support and collaborate with programmes and partners to achieve organisational standards on resilience.
• Lead as the organisational technical expert on climate programming and collaborate with staff across all 5 multi-country clusters, and the broader Impact department and IPE department so they are able to draw on climate adaptation and resilience expertise – ours and our partners’ – in order to design, fundraise for and facilitate the delivery of strong signature programme work
  on climate adaptation and resilience, maximising impact and income.
• Foster a culture of learning and improvement by identifying best practice among our partners and facilitating knowledge sharing across partners; by commissioning (or directly undertaking when appropriate) research and learning reviews to evidence good practice and course correct where needed.
• Build strong relationships with key policy and advocacy colleagues – particularly the Global Policy and Advocacy Lead for Climate –, focusing on ensuring insight and learning from programme practice feeds into, and influences public policy development, and provides evidence for advocacy materials.
• Collaborate with the Strategy & Learning Manager and the Impact & Evidence Manager to ensure appropriate evidence is being gathered and consolidated to measure and communicate the impact of our work on climate adaptation and resilience and to adapt our signature programme approaches as necessary.
• Lead and build external networks globally so Christian Aid’s work on climate adaptation and resilience is presented and promoted nationally and internationally, resulting in:
  1. an enhanced organisational profile within the sector to maximise our impact, 2) a portfolio of work that is innovative and in line with sector best-practice, 3) a pool of potential partners to engage and work with.
• Programme advisory and resource materials on climate adaptation and resilience are developed on the basis of organisational values, goals, strategies, adaptive programming approaches, and informed by ongoing learning of Christian Aid.

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Who we are looking for:

Essential:

• Postgraduate or equivalent in Climate, Environmental Science, Agriculture, International Development etc.
• Extensive practical experience of programme design, management and implementation on climate adaptation and resilience within and across East & Central Africa, West & Central Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, Asia and the Middle East in line with Christian Aid's 5 Multi Country Cluster (MCC) coverage
• Detailed understanding of current innovations in climate related programming including climate adaptation, renewable energy and resilience.
• Developed ability to engage with climate research and climate science.
• Detailed understanding of current thinking/debates on climate change, including those happening at global level related to the UNFCCC process at national and regional levels related to NAP's
• Highly developed communicator in English (written and orally).
• Extensive experience of International Development, including strategic planning & programme management.
• Detailed understanding of current thinking in sector-specific M&E, including adaptive management.
• Ability to apply analysis of power/social exclusion to programme design and management.
• Highly developed facilitation skills and ability to promote critical thinking and reflection.
• Significant experience of managing staff, providing training, technical support and/or advice.
• Developed ability to build effective working relationships across organisations, including at a distance.
• Developed negotiation, facilitation and diverse stakeholder engagement skills.

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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.