Consultant

Overview

Provide overall technical leadership, strategic guidance, quality assurance, and coordination for the gender component of a project focused on digital skills education for women and girls.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership, coordination, and quality assurance for the gender technical team.
• Mobilize, assign, supervise, and provide technical guidance to Supporting Gender Specialists.
• Lead the identification and preparation of female ICT and STEM role models and mentors.
• Provide technical guidance to ensure gender-transformative content and approaches are integrated into project methodologies and materials.
• Maintain direct technical responsibility for 5 assigned schools, including support, monitoring, and reporting.
• Ensure consistent application of gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches across 20 schools.
• Consolidate and quality-assure technical inputs, monitoring findings, achievements, lessons learned, good practices, challenges, and recommendations.

Required Experience

Over 10 years of experience in gender equality, girls' empowerment, and gender-transformative programming, preferably within the education sector. Demonstrated expertise in integrating gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches into education, digital skills, ICT, STEM, youth development, or related programmes. Proven experience in providing technical leadership, coordinating multi-stakeholder programmes, and supervising multidisciplinary technical teams. Demonstrated experience in designing and delivering capacity-building initiatives, providing technical advisory services, and producing high-quality analytical and technical reports. Experience working with government, development partners & international organizations. Working with the UN an added advantage.

Qualifications

An advanced university degree in Gender Studies, Education, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field. A PhD will be highly desirable.

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