Global Gender Manager at Girl Effect

Reporting line: Senior Manager, Gender

Location: Kenya, India, Tanzania & Ethiopia

Contract: 12 months fixed term contract with the possibility of extension

Background

Girl Effect is evolving to become an expert in digital media and the leading driver of demand for services, products and opportunities amongst adolescent girls in Africa and Asia. Through our portfolio of brands and digital products, we aspire to be at the cutting edge of Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), motivating and equipping girls and young women to adopt and maintain new behaviours that will improve their mental wellbeing, sexual and reproductive health and economic empowerment.

We are looking to hire a Gender Manager to join our global Programmes team.  If you are someone who has a robust understanding of the needs of adolescent girls, grounds their thinking in best practice standards and applies this knowledge in creative and innovative ways, this could be the job for you. 

In this role, you will support colleagues in India, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda to apply gender frameworks and approaches to their SBCC programmes. You will also work alongside the Global Gender Team to develop tools, policies and training to strengthen the capacity of Girl Effect staff and mainstream gender across the organisation. 

Context of the role

Girl Effect’s Gender team integrates gender expertise into our social behavioural change programming and the way we work as an organisation, from the culture we embody to the policies we create. 

We are looking to hire a Gender Manager to join our global Impact team. A multidisciplinary group of experts in gender, research, safeguarding, youth participation and social behaviour change communications. 

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and delivering Girl Effect’s global tools, training and policies, applying your expertise and experience to global-level thinking. In addition, you will also support the design and implementation of our global programmes and provide technical support to gender focal points in Tanzania, India and Ethiopia, as required. 

A key part of this role is supporting Girl Effect to remain up to date with the latest thinking and evidence in the field of gender. You will be responsible for supporting colleagues to mainstream this best practice thinking to promote positive changes in health, economic empowerment and/or education amongst adolescent girls and young women. 

What you will do

• Work alongside gender focal points in Rwanda, India, Ethiopia and Tanzania to support programming to be girl-centred and grounded in best practice approaches. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to research, content development and capacity building. 
• Lead the implementation of Girl Effect’s approach to Gender Transformative programming, including developing and rolling-out global tools and training. 
• Keep up to date with trends on girls’ rights and gender equality across Girl Effect’s priority geographies and use this to spearhead our global gender mainstreaming and internal learning agenda. Responsibilities include developing monthly newsletters, facilitating lunchtime discussions and fostering online spaces for dialogue. 
• Work with the global Evidence team to undertake research to inform Girl Effect’s programme design and delivery. Tasks may include literature reviews, tool development and data analysis. 
• Support the global MarComms team to develop internal and external communications messaging. Including identifying new opportunities, conducting research and writing blogs
• Manage logistics, agendas and minutes for monthly team and cross-functional meetings. 
• Keep up to date with trends on girls’ rights and gender equality for girls across the different geographies that Girl Effect operates and use this knowledge to advise and update colleagues as needed. 

Who you are

• Experience in programming, research, youth work and/or activism that supports adolescent girls and young women. 
• Have a commitment to gender equality and an understanding of the specific issues faced by adolescent girls. 
• Knowledge of gender transformative approaches and their application to programme design, implementation and/or measurement. 
• Specialist knowledge in sexual reproductive health, economic empowerment and/or digital programming is desirable. 
• Accuracy and attention to detail, even when working under pressure.
• Comfortable taking direction and working without close supervision.
• Adaptable / can-do attitude – comfortable working with changing parameters and finding solutions to unforeseen problems in short timeframes. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain meaningful and supportive relationships across the team.
• A creative and inquisitive mindset.
• Passionate about creating sustained change for adolescent girls and young women.
• Strong communication, writing and organisational skills.

What else you should know

As we continue to scale and grow – we are hugely ambitious for our future and we are looking for people who are driven to change the world for girls.

Our teams are a diverse mix across sectors (non-profit and commercial) and specialisms (from Brand and Creative through to Gender and Insight). You’ll learn and grow in an environment that will challenge you to think and work with a fresh perspective. In turn, you can expect to work somewhere where you will be stretched and developed in your role, a place where you can build your career and work with talented, engaged people committed to our cause.

Girl Effect is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to building an organisation that is increasingly representative of the communities that we serve. To this end, due regard will be paid to recruiting candidates with diverse professional, academic and cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we work with and for, especially children and young people.   We expect all staff to share this commitment, uphold standards in our safeguarding policy and our code of conduct. In particular:

• To take reasonable steps to prevent any harm caused by Girl Effect
• To report any safeguarding concerns through the reporting pathways 

This role is subject to a standard/enhanced background disclosure