Overview
The Gender and Social Inclusion Officer will provide technical support to guide and inform gender and social inclusive programming through an integrated approach in Jigawa and Kano states. The role aims to mainstream gender and social inclusion as cross-cutting themes for all programmatic activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead capacity building for staff on gender and social inclusion.
- Support stakeholders in developing mechanisms to address gender and social inclusion in policy and systems.
- Coordinate gender and social inclusion project activities.
- Conduct regular gender analysis, support community mapping and safety audits.
- Formulate key gender and social inclusion messages and targets.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of EU project objectives and initiatives with a gender lens.
- Acquire information and understanding of key gender issues in the project states.
- Ensure a focus on gender equality, gender mainstreaming and social inclusion in all project components.
- Develop and facilitate gender and social inclusion components in training materials, needs assessments and other project tools.
- Ensure gender and social inclusion is mainstreamed in IEC materials.
- Support staff to identify and address the intersectionality of gender and disability.
- Track gender and social inclusion-specific project indicators.
- Support MEAL team in analysing gender and inclusion specific data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Collate and disseminate regular project gender and social inclusion reports.
- Identify learning and development needs of project teams and develop plans to address them.
- Develop and maintain a network of external contacts with key individuals working on gender and social inclusion issues.
- Engage relevant gender and social inclusion stakeholders at State levels.
- Ensure the gender component of the project complies with Save the Children’s safeguarding policies.
- Work with the project safeguarding officer to ensure safeguarding risk assessments and mitigation measures are in place for gender and social inclusion activities.
Required Experience
- At least 2-5 years experience implementing on issues of gender and social inclusion in development, humanitarian response.
- Proven experience in supporting the designing, implementing, and evaluating gender-transformative social and social inclusion interventions.
- Experience in supporting the implementation of empowerment of young people and gender-transformative approaches in any context.
- Specific knowledge of international development gender equality and social inclusion issues.
- Experience engaging children and other community members on gender equality issues desirable.
- Desirable Experience building capacity particularly in gender and social inclusion related issues.
- Prior work experience in communities across Nigeria.
- Knowledge of the policies, frameworks, functions, structures and decision-making processes of key national institutions with regard to disability and gender.
- Team player with strong leadership skills.
Qualifications
• First degree or equivalent in Social Science, development studies, gender & development or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience.
