The Senior Specialist, Gender & Protection in Emergencies will provide thought leadership, technical support, and capacity building across humanitarian sectors as part of the Child Protection in Emergencies Team and the Humanitarian Response Team. This will include contributing to strategic directions and plans, developing and maintaining key external partnerships, and maintaining links with other departments to strengthen and expand our child focused humanitarian response for children.
The Child Protection in Emergency team leads Save the Children’s efforts across a range of child protection issues. Our programs address the issues of physical harm, psychosocial distress, family separation, children affected by armed conflict and sexual and gender based violence. The CPiE Team works in collaboration with the Humanitarian Response team which responds across sectors including Protection, Education, Health, Nutrition and Food Security and Livelihoods.
Areas of Responsibility:
Technical Assistance (50%)
In collaboration with the Child Protection Team, Humanitarian Business Team, Gender Equality Hub, regional and country offices:
- Provide technical assistance to regional and country offices in formulation of program and country child protection strategies with special focus on gender mainstreaming and sexual and gender based violence prevention and response
- Provide gender analysis, design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation support to regional, and country offices
- Build capacity of humanitarian business team, country offices and other sector staff in gender mainstreaming, gender analysis, GBV mitigation and response in emergencies
- Develop division/department-specific policy implementation plans for roll out of agency gender equality strategy
- Support cross-organizational gender equality initiatives
- Support quality program design and implementation for child protection programming from public and private funding streams, including foundations, private donors and key bilateral donors, such as USAID OFDA, DOS BPRM and UNHCR
- Lead the design and implementation of gender analysis and integrate findings into program design and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL).
- Work with and support MEAL teams in developing context-specific indicators for gender & GB to measure gender and protection outcomes.
Program learning and internal/external representation (35%)
- Represent humanitarian work on the Save the Children US Gender Equality Hub
- Monitor new developments in GBV & Gender in emergencies and support SC to apply best practices
- Represent on external and internal bodies of key importance to Save the Children related to GBV & Gender.
- Liaise with key partner agencies and donors
- Provide thought leadership around gender programming innovation in the humanitarian context
- Support development and implementation of a learning agenda around GBV & Gender programming in humanitarian contexts
- Support regional and country offices to develop case studies, reports, and other multi-media documentation of program innovation and successes
Public and Private Resource Mobilization (15%)
- Support child protection and humanitarian response teams to build a diversified portfolio of funding focused on GBV and gender in emergencies
- Establish/maintain new/existing relationships with key donors (headquarters and regional/country level) and relevant SC colleagues.
- Contribute to agency knowledge and decision-making concerning pursuit of funding opportunities.
- Support development and submission of quality proposals in response to identified opportunities.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree;
Skills/Experience:
- You have a minimum 5-7 years' experience in area of expertise;
- Professional level of technical or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to manage the operational activities of a unit or team, or provide the technical and management support related to various size programs, grants or projects; and,
- Fluent written and spoken English.
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in social work, gender studies, child protection, or related field or equivalent experience and at least 5-7 years gender equality, child protection and/or GBV in emergencies experience;
- Knowledge and understanding of key child protection, gender equality and GBV in emergency issues;
- Experience providing technical support and oversight to child protection programs;
- Previous onset emergency response experience;
- 5 years of international humanitarian (emergency) contexts experience including in a range of different emergencies, particularly slow-onset, rapid onset and protracted conflict emergency responses, including remote management/restricted access;
- Strong interpersonal skills – ability to work across departments;
- Experience in program design and proposal development;
- Experience conducting assessments - including gender analysis - and revising monitoring and evaluation tools to capture gender and protection considerations for different sectors;
- Proven ability to lead strategically and collaboratively;
- Ability to work and think globally and develop diverse relationships with colleagues and counterparts;
- Commitment to and understanding of gender equality, child rights, the aims and principles of SC, and humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the IASC Guidelines;
- Commitment to comply with Save the Children policies and practices with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures;
- Commitment to Save the Children Core Values of Accountability, Commitment, Excellence, Innovation and Teamwork;
- Second language proficiency - Spanish, Arabic or other relevant language desirable; and,
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally approximately 40% of the time (some on short notice (72 hours) and for extended periods of up to six weeks), often to complex and difficult environments.
Compensation/Benefits:
- Meaningful work, with a knowledge that you are changing the lives of children all around the world
- A family friendly work environment
- Highly collaborative and innovative teams
- Generous paid vacation days, holidays, family leave days, and sick time
- Healthcare plans including medical, dental, and life insurance
- Retirement savings account with matching company contributions
- Structured and formalized management development and coaching programs for mid and senior level managers
- Extensive e-learning opportunities on a variety of topics offered through our affiliation with several prestigious universities as well as language learning opportunities
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 15 2018
Active Until:
Jul 15 2018
Hiring Organization:
Save the Children US
industry:
Nonprofit