• Job Description

  Req#: GENDE006444

  Summary

  Save the Children seeks a Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Lead for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Madagascar. The goal of the Activity is to improve food and nutrition security and resilience among poor and chronically food insecure households and communities in a sustainable manner. The GYSI Lead will work with the RFSA staff and leadership to integrate gender and ensure youth inclusion throughout operations including by providing onsite technical assistance and capacity strengthening to staff and partners (including, but not limited to key stakeholders, government actors and local partners). They will oversee the application of gender-responsive and transformative approaches as well as positive youth development approaches through Activity interventions to ensure that they account for and address gender and intersecting factors (age, disability, etc.) and promote equitable participation. This work includes spearheading the Activity’s do no harm approach including preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV). The Lead will also help to design, conduct, and ensure the use of Activity research, including the gender analysis, youth analysis, and ongoing monitoring.

  Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the program and USAID approval of the candidate.

  What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

  Key Functions:

  Gender Analysis and Strategy (35%)

  • Ensure the use of participatory and collaborative problem-solving approaches to develop strategies and approaches for gender and youth integration, and promotion of social inclusion for marginalized groups, within implementation plans, Theory of Change (ToC) processes, monitoring and learning plans, implementation guidance.
  • Lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a wide variety of sources to inform the Activity’s gender, youth and social inclusion approaches.
  • Manage the Gender Analysis, Youth Analysis, or similar gender/ youth/ social dynamics analyses during the RFSA’s first year Refinement Period and utilize the findings of these Analyses to formulate an effective Gender Strategy, Youth Strategy and Collaboration, Learning and Adapting (CLA) plan.
  • Train and mentor team members on the realization of this strategy in the context of implementation plans. Contribute to other Refinement Period studies, and related strategies, to ensure gender integration.

  RFSA Implementation (50%)

  • Stay abreast of donor and host government gender, youth and social inclusion policies, programs, and best practices, ensuring coherence and coordination with the same.
  • Provide gender and youth inclusion related technical support, on an ongoing basis, to thematic team leaders, participating in thematic team planning processes and the implementation as required.
  • Provide technical support (as needed) to community mobilization/visioning, social cohesion and capacity building related to conflict sensitive and resolution approaches. Contribute to participatory learning processes that build commitment and capacity among activity staff to ensure gender equity and youth empowerment.
  • Inform and support tailoring income generation strategies to meet the needs of women, youth and other disadvantaged groups, across purposes/objectives.
  • Track local social and conflict dynamics as feasible, and gauge potential impacts on women, youth, and social inclusion; adjust implementation approaches accordingly.
  • Ensure the development and adaptation of gender equality/transformation, youth and social cohesion markers/benchmarks/indicators across the RFSA. Support the collection and analysis of gender, youth and social cohesion data.
  • Lead the development of documentation related to the above and contribute to programmatic reporting.
  • Support the RFSA to map GBV referral pathways and conduct other mitigation tactics as appropriate to prevent and respond to GBV.
  • Ensure that USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy, USAID’s Youth in Development Policy, ADS 205, and other relevant gender, youth and inclusion principles, policies and regulations are applied consistently throughout the RFSA lifecycle.

  Coordination & Capacity Building (15%)

  • Foster commitment from, and build the capacity of, team members, partners, local stakeholders and communities to facilitate gender transformative outcomes and positive youth engagement; this includes developing and delivering formal training but also coaching and mentoring.
  • Manage team members supporting gender and youth engagement and leadership, and social inclusion, at the field level.
  • Represent gender and social inclusion aspects of the RFSA to external stakeholders, such as the donor, governments, and partners; disseminate learnings and best practices; and participate in technical working groups.
  • Contribute to Monitoring & Evaluation activities and periodic Data Quality Assessments and ensure that data collection methods and tools are adequate to track how the RFSA contributes to advance women and youth empowerment and social inclusion.

  Required Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in a relevant field.
  • In-depth knowledge of social inequalities, especially based on gender, age and other intersecting power dynamics in Madagascar.
  • Seven years of technical expertise with gender and youth approaches in the context of food and nutrition security and resilience programming, with a demonstrated understanding of age, gender, and other socio-cultural factors in the context of such programs, a demonstrated understanding of positive youth development, and a demonstrated understanding of gender transformative activities in the context of food security programming.
  • Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information in relation to gender, youth, and other locally significant socio-cultural factors from a broad range of sources.
  • Demonstrated experience leading the gender component for a large award, including conducting Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) analysis and developing a Gender or GESI Strategy for such an award.
  • Demonstrated experience integrating GESI considerations into Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) plans, detailed implementation plans, and interventions.
  • Strong management and interpersonal skills, mentoring and facilitation skills and the ability to network and communicate with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure gender and youth integration and empowerment.
  • Previous experience in implementing USAID-funded projects and familiarity with USAID donor regulations and quality standards. Ability and willingness to travel.
  • Excellent written communication and presentation skills in English, Malagasy, and French. Knowledge of local dialects in southeastern regions of Madagascar is desirable.
  • Strong tool / curriculum development and participatory facilitation skills.

  About Save the Children

  No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

  You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

  Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

  We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

  Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

  Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

  Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

  The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

• About the company

  The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in nat...

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