Overview
The Project Gender and Social Development Specialist will advise on gender and social development policies and trends, advocate for gender equality and women empowerment, and provide advice and support on gender-based violence issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Revisit and update the existing TCAP gender and social analysis.
- Review prior TCAP gender strategies and action plans.
- Develop/refine the TCAP 1B Gender Strategy & Action Plan.
- Provide ongoing analysis of gender and social inequality issues.
- Implement and monitor the GSAP.
- Lead and provide technical support on GESI integration for ESIA/ESMP preparation.
- Provide technical inputs to relevant government stakeholders to integrate gender into policies/programmes.
- Ensure higher participation of women across the project cycle and safe working environments.
- Support PMU staff, national partners, and contractors to identify/address internal capacity needs on gender mainstreaming.
- Develop gender training and communication materials.
- Conduct awareness sessions on gender, disability inclusion, and PSEA.
- Lead advocacy for gender and social inclusion.
- Develop gender-sensitive indicators and ensure use in monitoring project activities.
- Prepare policy papers, briefing notes, thematic reviews, and speeches.
- Support integration of gender into future project proposals.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years (with master’s degree) or 7 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in the development/social sector, working in gender mainstreaming and/or climate change adaptation in similar role.
- Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.).
- Experience in organizing capacity building trainings and knowledge sharing initiatives on gender and GBV.
- Good understanding of Gender issues in Pacific.
- Drafting of SOPs and other legal/strategic framework experience of leading the gender/GBV related.
- Experience in research and policy-level analysis.
- Experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of gender projects.
- Experience in multiple stakeholders engagement especially community and government.
- Experience working with CSOs, UN and DFAT/MFAT funded projects is an added advantage.
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Social Sciences, Gender or Women’s Studies, law, climate change, development studies or other relevant field is required, Or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
