Gender Specialist

Technical Focus:

Contributing and Providing support on programme quality assurance and monitoring, information management, analysis, report writing, knowledge sharing, advocacy/advancing a policy-oriented agenda.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Foster a gender-responsive organizational environment and ensure that gender dimensions are adequately integrated in all institutional processes and functions, including strategic planning, project design & implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation, staff learning and human resources management.
• Ensure that program activities are carried out with cultural sensitivity while promoting gender equality and inclusion of marginalized groups.
• Lead and conduct gender analyses, technical studies, and assessments on gender in relation to FAO's mandate.
• Develop targeted gender interventions where the gender gap is particularly wide,
• Ensure programmes and projects target women, and/or focus on the promotion of gender equality.
• Plan and implement the GALS gender and women empowerment approach in specific projects where applicable.
• Provide technical guidance, monitoring and reporting on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.
• Ensure that project data is gender disaggregated, and data collection enables the measurement of women's empowerment and youth participation.
• Serve as the SFS focal point for gender mainstreaming, women's empowerment and youth and social protection issues, identify and follow-up on opportunities to address specific issues to enhance women's and youth contributions to food and nutrition security and income generation.
• Proactively represent FAO and participate in gender and social protection working groups.
• Contribute to resource mobilization efforts.
• Perform any other duties as specified.

Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced university degree in Gender Studies, Community Development and Population Studies, Social Science or other related fields of study.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in the field of gender, population and development eSybBRJ DGiTwo.
• Working knowledge (level C) of English.

FAO Core Competencies:

• Results Focus.
• Teamwork.
• Communication.
• Building Effective Relationships.
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement.

Technical Skills:

• Good knowledge of corporate information systems.
• Good analytical and writing skills.
• Good communication and advocacy skills.

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