Job Vacancy – Gender and Protection Technical Advisor at Catholic Relief Services

Job Description

• Support the design and contribute to the implementation of Country Program strategies, standards, tools and best practices in cross cutting protection, safeguarding and gender that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
• Provide technical solutions to CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
• Contribute to, and in some cases lead, the development of the technical design for proposals. Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full-fledged proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in protection, safeguarding and cross-cutting gender programming for staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching.
• Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to the learning agenda.
• Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in the to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
• Prepare presentations and coordinate project communication needs by writing and editing communication resources such as case studies, brochures, briefs, articles or peer-reviewed reports for internal and external audience.
• Collect and disseminate gender and protection related informational resources to CP staff and partners and assist in the organization, design and coordination of training workshop to support capacity-building efforts. Identify new e-learning approaches and methods.
• Lead CP events/celebrations with aim of advancing knowledge and impact related to gender and protection.
• Document gender and protection successes and lessons learned and organize periodic learning events to share lessons with consortium members and other partners.
• Participate in gender community of practice meetings for the West Africa and other gender-related learning events and training workshops.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings
• Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
• Good technical writing skills
• Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented
• General knowledge of other related disciplines to enable a good cross sectoral approach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in MS Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), online conferencing applications, information and budget management systems and knowledge-sharing networks