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Technical Lead, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)

JOB SUMMARY
Company	CARE Internat...
Industry	NGO/IGO/INGO
Category	International...
Location	Tamale, North...
Job Status	Fixed Term
Salary	GH
Education	Bachelor̵...
Experience	5 years
Job Expires	Jan 06, 2025
Contact	...

Company Profile

CARE began operations in Ghana in 1994 by working to educate mining areas about sexual health and the prevention of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. CARE Ghana now works with more than 40 partner organizations to implement a portfolio of projects worth about US$9 million annually in 150 districts across the country, from our main office in Accra and sub-offices in Kumasi, Sunyani and Tamale. For 30 years, CARE has been working in Ghana to improve livelihoods and achieve social justice through interventions that address the underlying causes of poverty. Our programming focuses on food and nutrition security and social and economic empowerment, with women and youth as our impact group.

Job Description

CARE Ghana is excited to invite your applications for new job openings in our programs and operations. Not only do we offer exceptional opportunities for career growth for Ghanaians especially women and young people, but we are also proud to welcome talented people such as yourself into the global CARE community where our core values of Transformation, Integrity, Diversity, Equality and Excellence are the benchmarks against which we measure ourselves as leaders and employees

If you share these values and our passion for saving lives, defeating poverty, and achieving social justice, then CARE Ghana is the place for you. We hire and nurture great people from diverse backgrounds, abilities, and identities, striving every day and at all levels to build and sustain an inclusive workplace and a sense of belonging for our teams. Your wellbeing and satisfaction with your job in CARE Ghana matter as much to us as your performance. Our compensation and benefits package are generous, and we offer flexible working conditions to enable you to enjoy life outside of work, and as part of our commitment to equity.

At CARE, we recognize that skills and expertise can come from a range of experiences from work and life, in addition to education or past job titles. As such, we welcome applications from dynamic, curious, and creative Ghanaians with a passion for learning and problem-solving.

Interested? If yes, please see details of the job opening below:

Job Title: Technical Lead, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)

Duty station: Tamale, Northern Region

The Technical Lead, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) will use his/her in-depth contextual understanding, technical and practical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver SAGES Systems Strengthening Activity’s strategic ambition for advancing gender equality and social inclusion in education in Ghana focusing on the USAID/Ghana Zone of Influence to ensure that no child is left behind.

Reporting to the Technical Director, SAGES Systems Strengthening Activity and stationed in Tamale, Northern Region, the Technical Lead, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion is responsible for using technical expertise that will make the SAGES System Strengthening activity program GESI transformative through the roll out of its GESI strategy and design and implementation of its activities. The person will work in close collaboration with government and project partners, and other technical staff to ensure that systems are strengthened and materials and implementation are of the highest quality.

The position involves leading the development of strategy, technical design, implementation and evaluation of programs that promote gender equality and social inclusion. The goal is to ensure equitable access and participation in quality education, benefiting girls and boys alike and empowering them as future leaders. Additionally, the role includes supporting national advocacy efforts, fostering strategic partnerships to advance gender equality and integrating GESI principles across all program activities to ensure alignment with inclusive practices.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE

Develop, adapt and implement a project GESI strategy

Develop and adapt a GESI strategy informed by evaluations and reports and aligned with the advocacy strategy to effectively mainstream and increase accountability for GESI in the project and education system to achieve GESI outcomes.
Use the strategy to inform workplans and design and implementation of project activities
Foster partnership and collaboration with government, implementing partners and others development partners to inform strategy development implementation.
Undertake GESI training and awareness-raising of CARE staff and government and implementing partners.

Work in collaboration with other technical staff, project partners and consultants to ensure GESI principles and aims are incorporated into project activities for holistic system-oriented approach to achieving GESI outcomes

Contribute to the development of TORs for activities.
Contribute to the development of technical guidance, training materials and facilitation of project activities.
Contribute to the development and review of key project technical documents.

Lead the design, preparation and implementation of GESI activities in partnership with government and implementing partners and other project technical staff

Lead the development of TORs for project GESI activities.
Lead the development of technical guidance, training materials and facilitation of project GESI activities drawing on expertise and experience of partners and CARE technical staff.

Contribute to monitoring, program reporting, learning, adaption and work planning in relation to providing information on and improve GESI

Collaborate with government and project staff in developing tools for monitoring GESI implementation.
Undertake monitoring of GESI implementation in collaboration with government and project staff and provide feedback to stakeholders to inform on-going improvement of implementation.
Collaborate with government and project staff in evaluating GESI mainstreamed and GESI-focused activity implementation based on data collected through monitoring.
Collaboratively generate learning to inform improvement in design and implementation of GESI activities and program adaption.
Contribute to quarterly program implementation review meetings informed by monitoring, evaluation and learning of GESI activities.
Contribute to quarterly and annual reporting to the donor on GESI activity implementation.

Ethical conduct and team leadership

Lead, mentor, and develop team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture
Promote awareness and compliance with all of CARE’s relevant polices and guidelines including the safeguarding policy and safeguarding code of conduct, the policy on prevention of and response to fraud and corruption, etc., among staff and partners
Monitor and address any ethical concerns or violations promptly according to established protocols.

Required Skills or Experience

Knowledge

Demonstrated experience in qualitative and quantitative research
Ability to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for transforming the root causes of harmful gender norms and promoting gender equality for and with children
Knowledge in GESI frameworks is required
Ability to mainstream GESI in education programming

Experience

At least 5 years’ experience in implementing GESI transformative programming in the Education sector.
Working in collaboration to mainstream GESI through project activities
Demonstrated experience in designing GESI-specific activities and training material development and facilitation
Experience of adaptive GESI transformative programming informed by research and implementation evidence
Demonstrated experience of providing GESI technical and programmatic support
Experience of strategy development and planning to advance gender equality and social justice
Experience of working with government officials to strengthen systems would be an added advantage

Skills

Excellent report writing skills are required
Strong analytical skill is required
Networking and negotiation skills is required
Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment is required

Education

At least a bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject (Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Science) “or equivalent combination of education and work experience
Master’s Degree in any of the above relevant fields will be an added advantage.

How To Apply

Submit your CV and a Cover Letter via email to
hr.ghana@care.org

Include the job title of the opportunity in the subject line.
The Submission deadline is Monday, 06 January 2025.
Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
Please note that this is a Senior level position

FOR YOUR PROTECTION

CARE has zero tolerance for fraud and corruption. We DO NOT collect fees or request financial information from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. If you are asked for payment or experience any irregularities during this process, please report your concerns anonymously via https://secure.ethicspoint.eu/domain/media/en/gui/100612/index.html.

ABOUT CARE

CARE is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. Our mission around the world is to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.

At CARE, we know that recruiting and retaining a talented and diverse workforce is critical to achieving our mission of ending global poverty. CARE defines "diversity" beyond the regular classifications of gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability, and includes diversity of perspectives that uphold CARE's Core Values (https://www.care.org/about-us/mission-vision/). Our goal is to create and maintain a work environment that promotes diversity in everything we do.

We are also committed to creating and maintaining a safe work environment for our staff, partners, and beneficiaries with specific attention to protection from sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child protection.

OUR DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH

WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS, EXPERIENCES AND ABILITY,

PARTICULARLY WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO APPLY.

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