Islamic Relief Worldwide is an independent humanitarian and development organization, founded in 1984 UK, with headquarters based in Birmingham UK we have a presence in over 40 countries inspired by Islamic values we support the world's most vulnerable people in the fight against poverty and suffering we do this regardless of race political affiliation, gender or belief.
job purpose
To lead the programming and integration of gender equality protection an inclusion approaches into planning implementation and monitoring of all current programs and designing planning implementation and monitoring of future programs.
The Gender Protection and Inclusion Coordinator will ensure robust gender protection and inclusion mainstreaming in program designing and meal frameworks development of gender equality protection of inclusion strategies as well as build a technical capacity of field teams.
The GPIC will be an advocate of Islamic relief worldwide gender justice framework ensuring their integration into program design and high-quality implementation at the field level by program staff.
The GPIC will provide technical support to all projects remotely and through monthly field visits to all program sites ensuring completion and correct reporting of quality benchmarks.
The GPIC will also be responsible for fund raising for the country program and actively lead proposal and concept note development.
The GPIC will play a critical role in networking and relationship building with key stakeholders at local national and global levels for both program development and provision of Technical Support to implementing partners.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
has regular contact with all staff in South Sudan close contact with the program coordinator an managers and head of program
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
the job Holder is accountable for fulfilling his or her roles and responsibilities in line with Islamic values and principles of fairness humanity honesty respect and fair treatment of his her colleagues and staff.
Program Quality & Development
Elite technical leadership in gender equality protection an inclusion programming including hands-on training coaching or field staff development of technical resources materials
Conduct monitoring of quality benchmarks and support mil in documentation of best practices and cross learning between projects
Increase the gender equality protection and inclusion program portfolio with support from the head of programs by identifying funding opportunities and designing programs that integrate gender equality protection and inclusion frameworks.
Ensure implementation of Islamic relief worldwide international gender equality principles and the rollout of Islamic relief worldwide gender equality program guidance and toolkit across all programming and projects.
Support mill team in ensuring mill frameworks for all projects include specific tools protocols and processes to collect and analyze data along gender and protection guidelines including leading in gender and protection assessments review and train field staff in use of develop tools
Develop technical strategies and priorities for Islamic relief worldwide protection and gender equality works in South Sudan
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role Holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience
EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS
Develop and strengthen relationships with partners government I NGOs UN agencies and development networks to increase visibility of Islamic relief worldwide program and ensure alignment of Islamic relief worldwide South Sudan programs with national strategies
ACCOUNTABILITY
Hold yourself accountable for making decisions managing resources efficiently achieving and role modelling Islamic relief worldwide values
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
AMBITION
Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team takes responsibility for their own personal development and encouraging their team to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision with one of Islamic relief worldwide
Can engage and motivate others
Future oriented thinks strategically and on a global scale
COLLABORATION
Builds and maintains effective relationships with their team colleagues members and external partners and supporters
Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength
Approachable good listener and easy to talk to
CREATIVITY
Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
Willing to take disciplined risks.
INTEGRITY
honest encourages openness and transparency demonstrates highest level of integrity.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Skills and Competencies
Extensive technical program management experience in gender equality protection inclusion and women empowerment in SBGV programming in development and in emergency context.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills including excellent internal consultation and liaison skills facilitation and coaching skills.
Excellent analytical skills ability to develop program tools synthesize new information research and evidence and to use it to adopt current programming or design new programming.
Strong knowledge of key principles international conventions national laws policies and strategies related to gender equality women empowerment protection and inclusion.
Experience in donor partner representation and ability to represent Islamic relief effectively in external technical forums particularly with respect to gender equality gender based violence protection an inclusion.
Excellent writing skills and successful proposal development experience.
Proficiency in computer for example MS Word MS PowerPoint and Excel.
Fluency in English both verbal and written required.
Commitment to Islamic relief worldwide values and code of conduct including willingness to abide by and enforce safeguarding policy.
How to apply:
Please apply in confidence with your certificates/degrees and trainings that you may have received in the recent past.
Contact details of the two Referees from the most recent employments.
Up to date CV
Motivational letter to;
irss.recruitment@islamic-relief.or.ke
Clearly mention the job title in the subject line and also mention where you have seen the job advert such as Relief web.