Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist – Retainer

SUPPORT TO PROGRAMME TEAM

• Conduct the gender and disability inclusion focused review of project documents, proposals, reports, etc. to ensure projects adequately mainstream GESI considerations

• Provide  guidance   to  grantee organizations to ensure active gender inclusion and reach to persons with disabilities and other marginalized and vulnerable groups

• Apply knowledge of Disability Rights and Gender Equality  in Myanmar to enable review and monitoring of NRM assistance for potential negative and positive conflict sensitivity interactions

• Guide capacity strengthening of team and partners on gender/disability inclusion, including organizing GESI workshops, trainings, etc

• Develop concept notes, scoping reports, and other analyses as needed on the way gender and inclusion has been incorporated in NRM programming, and how it can be strengthened moving forward.

• Review partner reports with an eye on gender and inclusion, and provide feedback to the programme team and partners on how this can be strengthened.

• Support ongoing NRM review processes, including mid-term reviews, project evaluations, and strategy revisions

• Assist grantees to incorporate gender and disability inclusion components to their budgets and incorporate the correct allocations within the proposed budgets

• Support the incorporation of inclusive principles and GBV guidelines to all NRM grants

MEAL AND KNOWLEDGEMENT MANAGEMENT 

• Collaborate with M&E Specialist and provide recommendations to ensure that the M&E frameworks and formats include  Gender  and Disability related guidance and indicators

• Collaborate with M&E Specialists and provide technical recommendations to capture, analyze and visualize the gender disaggregated results, lessons learned, best practices and case studies.

• Suggest activities in MEAL to help NRM, IPs, and communities to understand how gender and inclusion impacts humanitarian, development and peace outcomes.

• Provide necessary technical inputs to grantees for planning and executing independent evaluation (if any) , incorporating gender as a cross-cutting evaluation criteria 

• Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent), preferably in law/human rights, social science, international development, business administration, gender analysis, public administration, international relations or related areas is required. 
• Bachelor’s Degree with additional 2 years of relevant work experience preferably in the above duties and responsibilities may be accepted in lieu of Master Degree.