Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding and Advocacy Specialist at Global Communities Tanzania

Global Communities is seeking a full-time Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding and Advocacy Specialist to lead and oversee efforts to integrate the principles of gender equality and social inclusion, as well as safeguarding and advocacy into all components of the EFFECTS program.

In addition to providing technical support on GESI issues, they will work across teams and partner organizations to ensure that program activities employ technically sound GESI strategies and capture and diffuse learnings across the project to build a culture of learning and collaboration across the consortium. The Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding and Advocacy Specialist will provide strategic guidance and technical leadership to all project teams and partners to design, implement and monitor project activities to reflect gender equality, social inclusions, safe programming and safeguarding principals.

The role will include delivering gender, safe programming and safeguarding training, promoting safe programming, advocating and providing technical input for gender integration, protection and safeguarding with MEAL plans, and building capacity as needed. Furthermore, S/He will lead the project’s external engagement and policy influencing efforts, driving meaningful changes at government level and ensure the successfully adaptation, sustainability and scalability of the project’s evidence-based learnings and gender-transformative approaches to promote nurturing care, and reduce Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Violence Against Children (VAC). 

Responsibilities

Technical and Strategic Leadership 35-40%

• The Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding and Advocacy Specialist reports to the Senior Program Manager, with a functional relationship to Global Communities' GESI, Safeguarding, and Accountability team members based in the USA. The position is based in Dodoma but will support program activities project supported regions
• Ensure that all project components, including EFFECTS plus curricula and training materials, are based on the best global practices and core standards in gender equity and social inclusion (including disability inclusion), safeguarding, accountability, and safe programming principles and comply with GOT guidelines and donor policies and requirements.  
• Adopt tools, strategies and processes to ensure the integration of gender and social inclusion lens as well as safe programming and accountability in all project components. 
• Participate or consult in program design and activities to ensure feminist, intersectional, safe program approaches that aim to reduce sexual exploitations, abuse, and harassment (SEAH).
• Work with project teams to identify and mitigate potential unintended consequences of programming, including risks of gender-based discrimination and violence through risk assessments and project workplans. 
• Work closely with the Global Communities HQ Advisors to adapt/develop systems/procedures, enhance standards in the country, and support inquiry processes when appropriate.

Capacity Building, Partnerships, and Communications 10-15%

• Work closely with Kivulini to ensure a feminist and accountable approach across the program.
• Design, facilitate and coordinate annual in-country staff training on safeguarding, gender mainstreaming and social inclusion (including disability inclusion), accountability, gender-based violence risk mitigation and other relevant technical topics.  
• Promote the exchange of information, ideas and lessons learned; share existing tools, frameworks and resources to build staff and consortium capacity and ensure roles & responsibilities across teams are understood.  
• Participate in Global Communities' Gender Equality, Positive Youth Development and Social Inclusion Community of Practice, review and contribute to organizational standards on safe programming. 
• Build strong partnerships with local and national stakeholders in gender and social inclusion (experts, practitioners, organizations and government bodies). 
• Advice on the project's gender-sensitive and inclusive communication and awareness-raising efforts.  
• Develop marketing and thought leadership materials that highlight the program's gender, diversity and social inclusion approaches and lessons learned. 
• Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with relevant government counterparts, national stakeholders, global partners, allies, donors, and academia
• Participate and/or represent GC Tanzania in appropriate partners discussions and planning on safeguarding and gender related issues.  
• Ensuring evidence from the project and research findings including successes, lesson learned, and challenges are well documented and disseminated through relevant platforms at national, regional and global levels to inform policy changes and programming.

Reporting and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) 15-20%

• Review project documentation for gender sensitivity and ensure accountability is reported in key project documents (including research design, MEAL tools, evaluations, annual work plans, programmatic reports and communication materials).
• Work with the MEAL team to ensure safe practices in collecting data with children, identify appropriate gender-sensitive indicators and measurement methods to monitor and evaluate project outcomes related to gender equality and inclusion of underserved groups, including people with disabilities. 
• Support the design and implementation of gender political economy analysis (GPEA). Work with the team to ensure that findings inform national advocacy strategy, program design and implementation.
• Support the implementation of the community-facing feedback mechanism, ensuring adherence to GC and donor standards for safeguarding and safe and accountable programming; may include receiving and routing participant feedback 
• Ensure safeguarding is included in all risk assessments; as a minimum, reviewing other Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) assessments; work with MEAL to translate the risk assessment findings into indicators & incorporate them into MEAL plans, and work with program teams to ensure safe program adaptations.  
• Guide the analysis of project data during the life of the project from a gender and social inclusion perspective; devise strategies to address issues emerging from the analysis.
• Support the team to be accountable to affected populations and include program participants in the design and evaluation of activities.   
• Collaborate with the MEAL team to develop advocacy specific indicators and learning questions.
• Monitor and report advocacy activities, policy shifts, government engagement outcomes, and stakeholder responses attributable to project advocacy
• Document and share case studies, success stories and programming and policy wins to inform internal learning and donor reporting 

Advocacy Strategy, External engagement and influencing (15-25%) 

• Collaborate with GOT to develop and implement a comprehensive national advocacy strategy aligned with the project’s objectives, national policy frameworks (such as the NPA-VAWC II), and guidance from the What Works 2P VAWG consortium.
• Identify gaps in current policies and practices and opportunities related to IPV/VAC prevention services and propose actionable solutions. 
• Collaborate with relevant GOT ministries to facilitate the adoption and institutionalization of the EFFECTS Plus curriculum into national institutions.
• Collaborate with project leadership to ensure advocacy activities are fully integrated into annual work plans and donor reports.

Receiving and Responding to Allegations 5%

• Work with EFFECTS team (Global Communities and partners) to ensure a community-based mechanism for reporting harm that EFFECTS teams or partners may cause is in place, with special consideration for children.  
• Work with the EFFECTS team to provide community awareness about PSEAH.
• Act as the project safeguarding focal point to receive allegations of harm directly or through a community reporting mechanism. 
• Escalate all EFFECTS plus staff safeguarding reports to the Senior Program Manager and support as needed with the inquiry process ensuring confidentiality is maintained and information shared on a ‘need to know’ basis in line with safeguarding best practice and survivor-centered approaches.  

Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong commitment to feminist values, human rights and promoting the leadership of women, young people and people with disabilities. 
• Working knowledge of the gender equality, social inclusion, gender-based violence, male engagement, child protection, safeguarding and safe programming concepts. 
• In-depth knowledge of best practices in gender mainstreaming, child protection, safe programing, and safeguarding and good knowledge of donor policies and requirements is a major asset. 
• Proven ability to create gender, protection and safeguarding related tools, methodologies and processes. 
• Ability to provide technical solutions to implementing teams and partners on the application of gender integration, child protection and safeguarding standards, best practices, and tools. 
• Experience or strong understanding of survivor-centered values. 
• Experience in the design and use of participatory approaches in program implementation, including program development, group facilitation and training of trainers. 
• Strong problem-solving, leadership and organizational skills. 
• Experience in child nutrition, education and/or health programs a plus. 
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams. 
• Good interpersonal and intercultural skills. 
• Adaptability, flexibility, motivation and self-control. 
• Teamwork and results orientation. 

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

• University degree in gender studies, community/rural development, human and social sciences, or other relevant social science discipline; Master's level preferred. 
• At least 7 years' relevant experience with at least 5 years' experience in gender-focused programming. 
• Experience in establishing and/or strengthening complaint and feedback mechanism
• Advanced knowledge and skills in MS Office, including creating tables and forms, trend analysis, using pivot tables, and charting/visualizing data etc.
• Proficient in written and spoken English and Swahili.

How to Apply:

This role is open for Tanzania nationals Only.