Regional Technical Advisor II - Gender & Protection, Central Africa Regional Office

Job Title: Regional Technical Advisor II – Gender & Protection, Central Africa Regional Office

Job Location: Remote, Telecommuting

Reports to: CARO Deputy Regional Director for Program Quality (DRD PQ)

Salary Grade: 10

About CRS 

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. 

Job Summary

You will provide technical advice, guidance, and support to a wide range of program design and implementation issues with a focus on larger projects in the area of gender, protection, and social inclusion in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to regional and Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your technical knowledge, advice and guidance will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS’ gender programming and protection mainstreaming is across the globe.

Roles and Key Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to the development and implementation of agency-wide and regional strategies, standards, tools and best practices in gender and protection that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Help to ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, youth, protection mainstreaming, and safe and dignified programming (SDP).
• Provide technical solutions to regional and CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, ensuring high-quality implementation.
• Contribute to regional and CP efforts to pre-position CRS for growth opportunities in gender equality, gender integration, protection, and social inclusion in key sectors. Lead or contribute to the development of the technical design for large and/or complex proposals, including conducting relevant gender or other social analyses, defining subsequent appropriate gender strategies and gender-responsive and transformative approaches, and defining appropriate monitoring systems and indicators, as relevant. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical gender and protection requirements into CRS’ approach.
• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in gender and protection programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to CP staff.
• Contribute to the Central Africa Regional Office (CARO) gender and protection knowledge management and learning by collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects’ gender strategies, assisting with measuring impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contributing to the gender, protection, and social inclusion learning agenda.
• Lead the CARO gender community of practice through regular coaching of key gender staff, online and in-person training and learning initiatives and effective remote communications. 
• Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions. Participate in forums in the areas of gender and protection to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.

Basic Qualifications 

• Master's Degree in Gender and Development, or related fields required.
• Minimum of five years relevant international working experience in an advisory or management role with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of three years working for programming interventions in gender equality, gender-based violence, female/girls’ empowerment, safe and dignified programming, and/or social inclusion.
• Previous experience providing technical assistance and developing successful proposals for external donor funding is required.
• Demonstrated application of technical principles and concepts in gender integration and protection. General knowledge of other related disciplines, especially disability mainstreaming and social inclusion, health and nutrition, peacebuilding and social cohesion, and emergency response, to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
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