Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Juba, South Sudan
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) International is seeking to fill the role of Gender and Protection Advisor.
CARE, an international NGO with local staff and community partners in 100 countries, creates local solutions to poverty and inequality.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the implementation of the CARE gender and protection sector strategy and portfolio
- Provide technical leadership and strategic direction to the team in the development of proposals and programme planning
- Proactively lead in identifying and securing gender and protection funding for viable humanitarian and development programmes in line with the CARE mandate to serve the needs of women and girls
- In collaboration with relevant sector advisors, ensure mainstreaming of gender and protection in all proposal development, theory of change and budget development
- Coordinate with programme support and finance to ensure adequate budgeting for new initiatives
- Promote adherence to standards and best practices, taking into account the need for local adaptation
- Ensure humanitarian gender and protection needs are identified by planning and coordinating joint, inter-cluster, initial rapid assessments which are adapted to the local context
- Contribute to the identification of critical issues that require multi-sector responses and coordinate with other CARE South Sudan sectors, with sector working groups and clusters (where applicable) to develop appropriate responses
- Provide support in negotiation and review of funding contracts
- Coordinate external technical assistance and draw on the resources of programme support in new programme development exercises
- Serve as the focal point for donor liaison, in technical areas of gender and protection, in close collaboration with senior management
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Work, International Relations, Conflict Transformation, Development Studies, or a related discipline
- Bachelor’s degree will be acceptable only if the candidate can demonstrate sufficient experience in gender and protection programming in conflict settings
- Technical writing skills for gender, GBV and protection proposals and reports
- Gender and protection programme design and development experience, most notably for USAID, DFID, ECHO, UN agencies and other multilateral donors
- Eight years of experience working on gender and protection programming in humanitarian contexts, including experience of field-level management of complex humanitarian response and resilience programmes
- Five years of experience in a coordination role requiring provision of support to multiple offices/locations/teams
- Two years of experience in working in a fragile state like South Sudan or a similar context
- Proven experience of successful capacity-building of humanitarian field staff and partners, with experience in remote training
- Proven experience in supporting project teams on full project cycle technical needs
- Excellent communication and writing skills in English
- Strong networking capability
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