South Asia & Pacific: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Lead

Feb 16, 2022 | World Vision
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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

  • As an advisor on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, you will develop and execute a strategy roadmap for GESI mainstreaming and capacity building across the region, GESI-specific programming, organizational change, and positioning World Vision as a leader in innovative GESI responses. The core areas of focus:
    • Develop organizational roadmap to improve GESI across the regional office, in line with WVI GESI Policy.
    • Lead GESI mainstreaming work in the region, especially related to Regional and National offices positioning with donors and external partners for improved grants acquisition and programmatic impact, as a result of GESI Responsive programming.
    • Keep abreast of promising global and regional GESI practices (including in response to COVID Impacts) across sectors, ensuring effective knowledge management and sharing across the Asia-Pacific region and the broader WV Partnership.
    • Research, test and pilot new GESI policy guidelines and programming approaches.
  • Initiate and promote GESI-inclusive organizational practices, through a strategy roadmap.  This may incorporate: training on Unconscious Bias, accessible work spaces, support to offices for Organisational GESI Self-Assessments, mentoring for emerging women leaders, senior GESI advocates, and continuation of the APR Women’s Network.
  • Lead GESI mainstreaming work in the region, especially related to national offices’ positioning with donors and external partners for improved grant acquisition and programmatic impact.
  • GESI mainstreaming resources: Together with regional Program Quality and Grant Acquisition/Management team create, revise and roll out context specific minimum requirements for GESI responsive programming within APRO national and field offices, in line with WVI GESI Policy
  • FO empowerment for GESI mainstreaming: Empower GESI focal points and field teams with technical capacity, tools, resources, and program models to mainstream gender equality, disability inclusion and other priority inclusion priorities across programming and track GESI impact.
  • Initiate Regional collaboration network (e.g. GESI Knowledge Hub, Community of Practice).
  • Best practices generation and sharing: Lead the creation and promotion of good practices in region’s GESI mainstreaming with Partnership’s GESI experts and global leadership teams (e.g. GELT, DILT) and GESI Learning Platform.
  • Knowledge Management and External Positioning: engage on GESI principles, practices and trends with key stakeholders across the region and identify opportunities for shared learning and thought leadership among partner organisations. Support communication’s staff to understand GESI principles in communications and marketing.
    • Identify, pilot, and scale up targeted GESI programming models, drawing on global models and approaches, with an emphasis on contextualized regional and locally-led initiatives (e.g. Vanuatu -Men’s Behaviour Change).
    • Ensure clear links and pathways of change between GESI programming and Child Wellbeing outcomes (aligned with WV’s global strategy).
    • Initiate and oversee GESI-related regional research that contributes to external positioning, thought leadership, and program quality.

Knowledge/Qualifications for the Role:

  • Experience in supporting GESI responsive & transformative designs, related mainstreaming strategies and activities across various sectors.
  • Experience leading GESI analysis (specifically gender and disability analysis) to inform design and to support GESI-Responsive monitoring and evaluation.
  • Experience in policy influence, advocacy or research related field.
  • Detailed knowledge of current approaches to gender equality, disability inclusion and broader inclusion programming in both complex humanitarian disaster and transformational development environments.
  • Experience and strong understanding of institutional donors and/or World Vision/INGO’s GESI frameworks, emerging models, policies and/or programming.
  • Experience leading or supporting organizational GESI Self-Assessments or GESI Audits.
  • Master’s degree or equivalent in Political or Social sciences, Economics or Project Management
  • Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and versatile in a changing work environment while maintaining effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Familiarity with gender mainstreaming frameworks is an asset
  • Field experience is a plus through work travel and/or overseas living