JOB PURPOSE
The Technical Coordinator Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (TC-GESI) will be responsible for providing technical coordination and leadership to the AIM country team, to assist BI programmes on mainstreaming GESI, by ensuring all social empowerment components of the programme, including gender equality, social and economic empowerment training, disability inclusion, and building awareness about social and health issues. The TC-GESI will also provide technical assistance and support in the development and implementation of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), community-based case management, and referral systems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Support
• Lead the overall planning, coordination and execution of GESI-focused technical support to the country programme team.
• Build internal and external partner capacity on GESI and assist in the implementation of GESI interventions.
• Coordinate with the relevant Technical Support Officers (TSOs) to do GESI analysis and identify key GESI-related issues and challenges that can impact programme implementation through a GESI programme action plan.
• Work with the AIM Programme Manager to ensure GESI-integration in programme activities to effectively integrate GESI considerations and make accommodations for vulnerable groups such as PWDs, IDP, refugees, and other relevant underrepresented groups.
• Provide technical support to make reasonable accommodations to make the club spaces accessible to marginalized groups, including ensuring disability accessibility and Early Childhood Development (ECD) corners in club spaces.
• Develop the capacity of staff and Youth Development Committee (YDC) members on community-based complaints mechanism, SGBV case management and referral systems.
• Provide support to all relevant TSOs to ensure contextualization and finalisation of specific livelihoods/ career pathways training modules; train front line staff on the newly developed training materials; finalise the training rollout plans and provide support to the cascading down of the training.
• Identify capacity gaps among staff members and facilitate training on issues such as, GESI, SGBV case management (documentation, referral, periodic follow up); market assessments to determine livelihood options for displaced populations; establishing linkages and partnerships to support services for vulnerable groups such as victims of abuse and violence.
• Conduct regular field visits to improve the quality of delivering GESI and SRHR sessions, YDC meetings, and cross-gender dialogues and provide feedback to frontline staff.Develop and disseminate action oriented specific and inclusive SBCC tools and messages that advocate for GESI and eradication of SGBV.
Coordination, Planning and Partnerships
• Coordinate and consolidate the mapping of GESI and SGBV service providers at the national and sub national level.
• Liaise with key stakeholders (government and non-government) and collect relevant training materials that can be used to develop/strengthen/ contextualize BRAC’s training materials.
• Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, service providers, to support delivery of interventions as well as the programme’s grassroots advocacy and partnerships work.
• Maintain a close working relationship and ensure alignment with the country’s programme team, AIM central team and BI technical anchors and consultants (as needed).
• Organise events for the celebration of international observance days such as International Women’s Day, the 16 Days of Activism, and International Day of the Girl Child.
Reporting, Documentation and Communication
• Develop a complete list of GESI and SGBV relevant national laws and regulations, disseminate this information to field teams and ensure all interventions are developed in accordance with existing national laws.
• Contribute to program reports and deliverables as required and demonstrate the status of GESI activities towards achieving expected results.
• Quality management checks and assurance in the SGBV case recording database to ensure accuracy, efficient and timely reports.
• Identify, document, and implement good practices related to GESI and disseminate this knowledge with the country team and coordinate with the knowledge management and communication team to showcase these practices.
Policy and Strategy Compliance
• Support the HR in GESI policy orientation to the current and new staff.
• Support in policy related materials development and Implementation.
Safeguarding
• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the project goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s degree in International Development/ Gender/ Sociology/ Anthropology/ Social Sciences or any other related, a post graduate in the same is an added advantage.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
• Skills on training materials development, staff capacity building and training facilitation.
• Sound computer literacy, report writing and presentation skills.
• Proactive, self-starter and independent individual with the ability to manage large teams;
• Demonstrate commitment to GESI work.
• Exhibit empathy and positive interpersonal skills including cultural competence.
• Understands and has capacity to apply rights based, human centred and survivor centred approaches to GESI and SGBV.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
• 05 years’ of relevant work experience, preferably in gender equality and social inclusion and SGBV.
• Demonstrated experience in GESI analysis, action planning and mainstreaming into programmes, designing and implementing GESI specific projects. Previous experience in providing technical assistance, training module development, training facilitation and providing supportive supervision to several team members. Demonstrated experience in designing, managing, and implementing programme activities to promote gender equality and social inclusion.
Job application procedure
Interested in applying for this job? submit your application now to bimcf.uganda@brac.net
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- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
