Gender Advisor Job Vacancy At World Vision

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World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our 45,000+ staff members working in more than 90 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.

Job Description

Here’s where you come in:

As Gender Advisor you will update (as required) the projects Gender Equality Strategy (GES), revising ongoing and proposed activities, suggesting improvements, and planning and designing new activities, and subsequently oversee the GES implementation to ensure gender mainstreaming across the project.

  • To this end, you will be responsible for facilitating the building of gender capacity for staff and partners in the countries within the scope of the project and provide ad hoc support during activities implementation.
  • You will also be responsible for monitoring gender equality outcomes, in coordination with the projects regional monitoring and evaluation specialist, ensuring that sex-disaggregated and gender- based indicators are being measured, collected, analyzed and reported on

Required Skills or Experience

Requirements include:
  • Minimum of an undergraduate degree completed in gender studies.
  • Minimum 3 years program experience in international development with a focus on women, girls and gender equality.
  • Strong technical capacity, practical experience and solid insight into program level challenges in designing and implementing gender sensitive community development programs.
  • Demonstrated capacity to mainstream gender in policy, programs, operations, systems and practices.
  • Fluent in both English and French.

How To Apply

Is this the job for you?

World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position online and apply by the closing date 30 Nov 2015. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.

Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be contacted