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Director, Gender and Youth Associate Award - TRaQ Unit

Washington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jul 2024

💰 £114,000/yr(£63,000/yr – £114,000/yr)

About the role

Location: Washington, DC, Portland OR, US-Remote, UK, or ColombiaValid unrestricted work authorization in the country in which you will be based is required at the time of application for this position. We may be open to considering candidates based in other locations, depending on work authorization and our registration status.Position Status: Full Time RegularSalary: $90,000 - $114,000 for US-Based candidates; minimum of 63,000 GBP for UK-Based candidates, to be benchmarked for candidates based in ColombiaAbout Mercy Corps Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact. Program / Department Summary Mercy Corps alleviates poverty, suffering, and oppression and works to build secure, productive, and just communities in over 40 countries around the world. Our Program Department supports field-led work that delivers measurable impact.   Mercy Corps’ Technical Resources and Quality Unit (TRaQ) is a key part of the Program Department. Mercy Corps’ TRaQ Unit houses subject matter experts whose mission is to help our global teams apply the most effective solutions to the world’s toughest challenges, while building our global reputation and resources to do so. By advancing technical excellence the Unit plays a key role in driving Mercy Corps’ impact, innovation and influence around the world. The Director Gender and Youth Associate Award is a member of the TRaQ and is a key position for the Gender and Youth Capacity Building, Learning and Small Grants Associate Award (GAYA) under Implementer Led Design, Evidence, Analysis, and Learning (IDEAL) program. GAYA is an $8.8 million dollar program over 5 years designed to provide strategic capacity strengthening to implementing partners of USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and other food security stakeholders. GAYA is mid-way through its implementation. General Position Summary The Director Gender and Youth Activity will direct and manage the IDEAL Associate Award (AA) on Gender and Youth Capacity Building, Learning and Small Grants. IDEAL works to support BHA’s goal of improving food and nutrition security programming for the most vulnerable by strengthening the technical and operational capacity of implementing partners through promotion of best practices and support for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. The AA seeks to improve the quality of gender and youth programming and integration within food and nutrition security activities. The Director will manage this AA, providing strategic vision, leadership and oversight. The Director/Sr Advisor is the lead technical position and a key personnel role, guiding the team to identify practitioner gaps, test new approaches, expand innovations, build capacities and share learnings and practices that improve food and nutrition security by challenging and shifting the structures that perpetuate inequality and that holistically support and engage young people as positive change agents. The GAYA Director will be joining an established, high functioning and collaborative team. Essential Job Responsibilities TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & PROGRAM QUALITY

Lead Gender and Youth Associate Award technical discussions with USAID representatives in the US, including bringing in program implementer perspective and IDEAL’s sectoral accomplishments into the discussions.

Ensure quality results and coordinated efforts across all components of the AA and activities.

Coordinate with BHA, IDEAL and its associated support mechanisms, and gender and age related agencies, fora and communities of practice in the food and nutrition security areas. This includes AAs supporting annual Gender Consultations.

Use innovative consultative methods and audiences to harvest effective practices and learnings and develop guidance for new programs in humanitarian responses, early recovery, risk reduction and resilience contexts.

Lead vision and workplan to support and strengthen gender and youth platforms and communities of practice in food and nutrition security programming. This means bringing a strong gender and positive youth development perspective to existing communities of practice and netwo