About Us:
Samaritan’s Purse is an international Christian relief and development organization meeting the critical needs of victims of war, poverty, natural disaster, famine and disease with the aim of sharing God’s love.
Job Summary: The Gender Specialist will assist the Emergency Response Coordinator (ERC) as multi-sectorial emergency relief projects continue to be implemented. The successful candidate will be expected to provide strategic and relevant inputs, mainstream gender equality across all projects, and advice on gender across all programs and contribute to both the development and delivery of high quality programs that have, at their center, a commitment to ensure that both women and men benefit equally.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Support SP Uganda and field teams with the mainstreaming of gender equality in program development and design, including proposals.
Work closely with the livelihood and WASH project teams and identify strategic actions to be undertaken to improve the quality of program implementation from gender perspective.
Actively contribute to and ensure gender equality mainstreaming and across all areas of program implementation, including training materials, monitoring, operations, policies, procedures and implementation of project activities that target women and girls within the scope of the project.
Assist the field teams with gender analysis throughout the project life cycle with key findings and actionable recommendations integrated into programming. Distil and document lessons learnt for use in future programming.
Maintain an up-to-date and thorough understanding of gender issues related to project components.
Facilitate gender trainings with program staff and program stakeholders.
Work closely with National sector Program Managers and Project Managers to ensure that gender considerations are assessed and accounted for.
Guide and advise field office and teams with the development of tools to increase the participation of girls or to remove existing barriers and create equal participation.
Ensure that program reporting captures challenges and successes around gender equality.
Renders support in the development of gender sensitive data collection tools.
Provide support in the collection and analysis of age and gender-disaggregated data.
Ensure knowledge sharing, documentation and dissemination of good practices on gender equality, and women’s empowerment.
Monitor and report on the implementation of the gender action plan, and
Offer technical advice on appropriate gender sensitive indicators in the performance measurement framework and support M&E colleagues in reporting of program results/outputs and objectives against agreed indicators.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The Gender Specialist must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Gender, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Rural Development and/or any other related field; a Post Graduate study is desirable
A minimum of three years’ experience of managing a gender portfolio.
The applicant must have experience in Project Cycle Management and Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation with a gender lens, have experience in designing and conducting gender analyses, and designing and facilitating trainings on gender issues and mainstreaming techniques.
The successful candidate should be an influential communicator with excellent written and verbal skills in English and speaks at least one local language.
Highly analytical and problem solving skills and have the ability to effectively network with a wide range of relevant actors.
Be dynamic, personable
Good team player
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send an updated CV, covering letter and relevant documentation via email to HR: Ugandahr@samaritan.org or hand deliver to Samaritan’s Purse offices, Plot 11 Luthuli drive, Bugolobi. Kampala. Uganda
Deadline: 4th October 2017 by 5:00pm