Overview
The Gender Equality Advisor - Social Inclusion will provide strategic and technical support to integrate gender equality and social inclusion across the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) portfolio, ensuring inclusive and evidence-based practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide inputs into SHF annual planning documents from a GESI perspective
- Support quarterly review and reporting of SHF activities from a GESI lens
- Analyze main gender challenges at global level impacting SHF operations and programme delivery
- Monitor and refine indicators for achieving GESI mainstreaming in SHF operations
- Lead periodic review of GESI indicators, data collection and analysis
- Draft relevant GESI sections of external and internal reports and publications for SHF
- Draft and share success stories, lessons learned and best practices related to GESI, sanitation and MH
- Support the development of GESI thematic priorities in country plans and new geographies
- Convene stakeholders to further GESI-related activities
- Review of SHF funding proposals from a GESI perspective
- Review of grant proposals for SHF funding from a GESI perspective
- Develop advocacy strategies for GESI mainstreaming in sanitation and MH
- Develop key messages for SHF Board members and SHF secretariat senior leadership on GESI in the context of sanitation and MH
- Develop strategic opportunities for advocacy and facilitate coordination of partners for joint advocacy related to GESI, sanitation and MH
Required Experience
Minimum of 7 years experience in gender equality and gender-sensitive programming in the context of sanitation and/or menstrual health, in policy development related to gender, sanitation and/or menstrual health.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in international development, economics, business administration or a related field OR A bachelor's degree in a related discipline in combination with an additional two years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
