Gender and Youth Technical Lead

Location: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Company: Plan International
Job Title: Gender and Youth Technical Lead

• A degree in Gender Studies and/or Social Sciences from a reputable institution
• At least 5 years’ Experience in gender and development from a reputable organization
• Experience in leading Influencing initiatives at local and national levels
• Working knowledge of integration of inclusion of excluded groups in development programming
• Understanding of integrated development issues and critical analysis of child rights, especially girls and young women’s
• Knowledge of strategic planning processes and theories of gender and inclusion programming
• Knowledge of development issues, trends, challenges and opportunities and implications to community development

Program Leadership and Strategy;
• Provide strategic leadership to ensure gender, youth and social inclusion are effectively integrated across all activity components at all levels throughout project implementation for the SDC U
• RISE;
• Provide technical leadership for the design and implementation of gender transformative urban programming, budgets, monitoring and evaluation processes in line with the overall consortium strategy and objectives;
• Design and lead trainings/accompaniment to build the capacity and awareness for consortium staff, partners and stakeholders in gender, youth and social inclusion;
• Develop the consortium GESI strategy and action plan and support its implementation
Initiate gender reflection, reviews and reporting in line with the Consortium corporate Requirements
• Develop high
• quality technical content for concept notes and proposals for knowledge products in the consortium
Relationship with Partners/Government Stakeholders
• Foster and build relationships with partners, networks and other government entities for the promotion of a gender and youth lens in urban programming
• Monitor the risks for youths, young women and adolescents participating in the programme and suggest mitigations actions
Program Support and Monitoring
• In collaboration with MERL, initiate gender researches and documentation of case studies which have potential to enhance the Consortium’s GESI approach
• Work closely with the MERL team to develop appropriate Gender and Youth monitoring and evaluation indicators, tools and learning questions

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