Location: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Company: Plan International Job Title: Gender and Youth Technical Lead
Organisation’s Overview; Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Our Ambition to 2027 is to see All Girls Standing Strong Creating Global Change. Working together we will create a world where all girls know and exercise their rights and live the life they choose; a network of supporters, communities, staff, partners, and donors, all supporting girls and young women to stand strong as they learn, lead, decide, and thrive and global change through breaking down the barriers and discrimination girls and young women currently face every minute, every hour, every day.
The Plan International Zimbabwe Country Strategy Goal is to: “Contribute to reduced adolescent pregnancies and child marriages in Zimbabwe” Our ambition for this CS is ‘By 2030, we are unique, innovative, known and recognized as the leading child rights-based organization in Zimbabwe, delivering proven impact for the most vulnerable, especially girls and young women’. PIZ has set an ambition to reach directly 4.5 million children (2.5m girls, 1.5m boys) and 500 000 young people during the implementation of this CS.
Plan International and its consortium partners, GOAL and CAFOD seek a Gender and Youth Technical Lead for an anticipated SDC U-RISE programme. The role is required to provide specialist technical leadership in the integration and mainstreaming of gender, youth and social considerations in the SDC-U-RISE project. The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring gender equality, social inclusion and the empowerment of young people as a core component of the implementation of the U-RISE programme.
Duties and Responsibilities
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
Qualifications and Experience
-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
