Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Regional Director for East Africa & Great Lakes Regional Office, the Regional Age, Gender and Diversity Coordinator will provide technical support on the integration of age, gender and diversity (AGD) into DRC’s programming and operations. This will involve providing support to the Regional Office and 9 country teams within the DRC EAGL region (Burundi, Djibouti, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda).
The position will be responsible for guiding country offices on integrating AGD within all our three programming platforms; emergency, solutions and root causes. This will include developing and adapting tools to support AGD analysis within the project management cycle; building staff capacity to apply tools; and promoting learning on AGD within the region. Moreover, the position will also ensure that AGD is integrated into the DRC EAGL institutional culture and operations, including spearheading efforts to promote gender parity.
This will entail partnering with other technical coordinators and senior management at country and regional level.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic advice on age, gender and diversity into programming and operations to the Regional Office and Country Office Teams
- Monitor implementation of Regional Age, Gender and Diversity Strategy and lead efforts by Country Office Teams to develop strategies, action plans and budgets
- Conduct detailed age, gender and diversity analysis to guide DRC’s operations, institutional culture and programming within its platforms and corresponding sectors
- Lead in integrating age, gender and diversity into design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programme strategies and interventions
- Review Country Teams’ quarterly and annual reporting and ensure that they integrate age, gender and diversity sufficiently
- Lead the design and implementation of studies, including developing research protocols and data collection tools, supervising data collection, facilitating focus group discussions, and analyzing sex-and age-disaggregated data from a broad range of sources for the identification age, gender and diversity issues
- Conduct assessments to determine learning and capacity gaps and design training and capacity building tools for staff on age, gender and diversity
- Lead initiatives to create enabling and safe work environments e.g. on sexual harassment, work life balance, in collaboration with relevant regional and country office staff
- Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders in the age, gender and diversity sector and participate in relevant donor and coordination groups
- Identify and advise on entry points for new initiatives for DRC EAGL to strengthen national and local understanding of age, gender and diversity issues in close consultation with the ESMT
- Contribute to and take lead in developing policy position papers / briefs and advocacy messaging on thematic age, gender and diversity issues to support the raising of DRC’s profile on AGD
- Support formulation of guidelines, policies and best practices to be integrated into knowledge management efforts and communities of practice
Reporting
The Regional Age, Gender and Diversity Coordinator will report to Deputy Regional Director
About you
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate each of DRC’s five core competencies:
- Striving for excellence: you focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process
- Collaborating: you involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
- Taking the lead: you take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
- Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
- Demonstrating integrity: you act in line with our vision and values
Requirements
Experience and technical competencies
- Masters’ degree in relevant social sciences with expertise in gender analysis and policy, and international development experience;
- At least 10 years’ proven experience in design, implementing and/or evaluating gender-related programmes/projects
- Experience in working in fragile and conflict contexts
- Proven experience with assessing and strengthening institutional, organizational and technical gender capacity
- Experience with implementing gender mainstreaming agendas across a variety of sectors,
- Ability to work under pressure and with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams;
- Excellent inter-personal and negotiation skills;
- Strong links with international, regional and national networks on gender equality and women’s rights;
- Experience in East Africa Region & Great Lakes region will be seen as an advantage
- Highly experienced and skilled drafter;
- Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and adaptability;
- Experience working in insecure environments and willingness to travel within the region
Languages
- Fluent in written and spoken English and preferably in French too
Conditions
Contract: Six months’ contract, with possibility of extension, subject to funding and Performance. Salary and other conditions are offered in accordance with DRC’s Terms of Employment for national staff conditions in the respective Country.
Availability: July 2019
Duty station: Position to be based in either of the following locations; Nairobi or Kampala with frequent travel within East Africa and Great Lakes Region.
Commitments: DRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability commitments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework.
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