Gender and Social Inclusion Lead South Sudan Education for All South Sudan
Gender and Social Inclusion Lead South Sudan Education for All South Sudan
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Job Description
Project Description
The goal of this activity is to provide support to governmentled education systems to strengthen these and incentivize greater ownership of and investment in the education sector by the Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GRSS) to help strengthen the social contract and build functioning education institutions to enable future development.
Position Description
The Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Lead is responsible for providing technical expertise on gender and social inclusion matters during project implementation such as direct GESI technical support to the Team Lead and Education Lead in policy advocacy and policy and intervention development. This role will be responsible for overseeing the design implementation and evaluation of activities to define a gendered approach to address systemic barriers to marginalized groups. The GESI Lead will work with the team to ensure that gender is incorporated into all program activities. The Gender and Social Inclusion Lead will play a key role in building the technical capacity of all stakeholders.
Qualifications :
Education:
Masters Degree in gender/womens studies social science international development education or similar relevant field required.
Skills and Experience:
- Experience in conducting gender assessments and social inclusion work.
- Proven ability to apply gendersensitive and gendertransformative approaches to issues on development programs in education.
- Demonstrated ability to work with host government and teams in implementing a complex project in the field under challenging circumstances.
- Significant knowledge of gender principles as they relate to access to rights and girls and marginalized groups education.
- Experience in genderbased programming with substantial understanding of and commitment to equality and equity issues and mainstreaming.
- Experience working on similar donorfunded programs in developing countries.
- Experience providing sound recommendations on strategies and tools to integrate gender in project design and implementation.
- Knowledge of international best practices on gender programing project design implementation monitoring and evaluation as well as excellent interpersonal writing and presentation skills.
Language:
Fluency in oral and written English is required.
Additional Information :
EDC is a smokefree workplace.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
