Overview
Job Title: Gender Specialist – VUMA
Job location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Company: Plan International
Plan International is an autonomous humanitarian and development organization that promotes females’ equality and children’s rights. We think every child has potential and strength, but we also know that poverty, violence, isolation, and discrimination frequently stifle this. And those most impacted are girls.
By addressing the underlying causes of the difficulties faced by girls and vulnerable children, we work for a just world in collaboration with kids, teenagers, supporters, and partners. We assist children to anticipate and respond to crises and adversity, and we defend children’s rights from the moment of birth until maturity. With our network, expertise, and understanding, we influence practice and policy changes at the local, national, and international levels.
We have inspired other committed optimists to change the lives of all children in more than 80 countries for more than 85 years.
Till we achieve equality, we won’t give up.
PURPOSE OF ROLE:
As the gender technical lead for the VUMA project, a gender specialist will work to strengthen the use of a gender transformational approach in the execution of project activities in the Katavi region. She or he will be in charge of carrying out the strategic vision, directing it, and incorporating the gender-responsive model into the creation, execution, and oversight of the yearly work plans and budgets. She or he will see to it that initiatives are carried out correctly and grounded on data in order to support donor and Plan gender-transforming strategies. In order to raise awareness and encourage cross-sector programming for young women and adolescents, she or he will bring the team together around the gender learning agenda and document the outcomes. Strong program technical expertise, excellent project and team management abilities, and the capacity for influence-based leadership are all combined by the gender specialist. She or he will make a substantial contribution to the creative ways that Plan International Tanzania is bolstering gender change and inclusion in the delivery of SRH services in the project area.
DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE:
- The position oversees the planning, design, and execution of programs to guarantee that all interventions are of the highest caliber, gender-transforming, inclusive of children and youth with disabilities, and compliant with Plan International Global Distinctiveness areas.
- Examine and evaluate the political, social, and economic developments that are pertinent to gender and that either support or undermine girls’ rights to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
- Make sure the gender transformative approach is mainstreamed in all project operations by conducting frequent supervision and monitoring visits to project field sites.
- Oversee gender issues for local implementing partners and collaborate closely with the program director and the field offices team.
- Oversee the creation of training materials and resources that promote gender transformation and inclusion and make required adaptations.
- Collaborate closely with the Gender and Inclusion Specialist and the Head of Child Protection to make sure that gender transformative techniques are incorporated into all interventions and activities.
- Assist the MERL team in developing a monitoring plan that aligns with the indicators of the VUMA project and the outcomes of the global strategy.
- Make sure that all of Plan International’s global policies, including the applicable Implementation Standards and Guidelines for their respective areas of responsibility, are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policies for gender equality and inclusion (GEI) and safeguarding children and young people.
- Assist in the planning, organizing, and carrying out of the scheduled activities by collaborating closely with the project manager and coordinators.
- Coordinate, oversee, and manage the program’s execution in conjunction with partners, making sure that it is of high quality, that the outcomes are cohesive, and that it is firmly rooted in the human rights of women and girls.
- Give gender the technical assistance and knowledge needed to carry out the program and produce the desired outcomes.
- Make sure that the program’s many components are working together to create synergy.
- To guarantee that results are achieved, develop yearly work plans, budgets, and progress reports in collaboration with the partners.
- Assist staff and partners in implementing the program by providing gender and inclusion-related technical support, which includes identifying and meeting capacity building requirements.
- Ensure that gender-related emerging opportunities are consistently captured in the nation and that the program is adjusted to take advantage of these chances.
- Collaborate with partners to create progress reports on a regular basis that highlight key accomplishments and the connections between the program’s many components. The reports should be focused on output, outcomes, and results.
- Carry out additional tasks connected to the project that the project director assigns you.
Job location: Katavi
Answer to (Reports to): Project Director
Job level: 15
Closing date: August 15, 2024
At its core, Plan International is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion.
By providing equal chances to everyone, regardless of age, handicap, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, color, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, we hope that Plan International will represent the diversity of the communities we work with.
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