Diversity and Inclusion Manager at Shining Hope For Communities

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to program teams to ensure that there is innovative and contextually relevant integration of gender, disability and social inclusion into SHOFCO’s work plans and programming across the Youth Engagement project.
• Design and deliver realistic strategies and programming interventions to ensure the promotion of gender equality, disability, young women’s empowerment and inclusion of under-represented groups of youth that will lead to positive gender equity and social inclusion outcomes, including by strengthening existing tools, frameworks, methodologies and resources.
• Work with the project team focal points to facilitate process for establishing and gathering inclusion best practices in order to learn from and strengthen activities and ensure that the values are incorporated into youth programming and planning.
• Assist the Program Heads, Field Teams and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Teams to develop, track and report against gender and other inclusion indicators and disaggregate data by gender and the other inclusion parameters to analyze results.
• Assist the Program Teams in establishing and implementing inclusivity (gender-sensitive, disability, social inclusion) sensitive monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting systems, and processes across the programs.
• Design and conduct gender and social inclusion assessments, reviews and audits that can inform programming in a way that ensures young women and other under-represented youths are included in a meaningful way in SHOFCO Youth Engagement program.
• Design and provide trainings, as well as technical support and strategies to field program staff with respect to gender, disability and social inclusion activities.
• Prepare project materials together with the communication team that highlights SHOFCO’s youth gender, disability and social inclusion programming successes and lessons learned in every stage of the project cycle

Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).

• Relevant degree in gender studies, international development, social science, or a related field of study.
• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience, with at least five in gender and social inclusion program/strategy design and implementation, including a mix of field and office program management.
• Demonstrated in depth knowledge in gender, disability and social inclusion theory and analytical work, and youth trends.
• Demonstrated experience and proficiency in managing programs that mainstream gender, disability and social inclusion and young people.
• Experience in developing training materials and in-person trainings to staff with differing exposure to gender, disability and social inclusion issues.
• Demonstrated experience in addressing issues of Safe guarding
• Ability to work collaboratively across functional teams and between the office and the field projects and inspire cooperation and buy-in.