Gender Specialist, SAY-SRHR Project

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About the role

  • Gender Specialist translating gender strategy into work plans, curriculum, and MEL systems. Supporting World Renew’s adolescent SRHR project through technical guidance and capacity strengthening.

Responsibilities

  • Translate the existing Gender Strategy into Annual Work Plan activities, targets, indicators, timelines, and budget allocations
  • Review Annual Work Plan materials for alignment with gender priorities and donor requirements
  • Align workstreams with gender-transformative approaches identified through analysis, learning, and evidence
  • Conduct and document a technical review of the Choices, Voices, Promises curriculum
  • Lead contextual adaptation and development of culturally sensitive, gender-responsive, and age-appropriate SRHR modules
  • Provide technical guidance and capacity-building support to facilitators, partner organizations, and project staff
  • Develop or refine facilitator guides, training materials, and quality-assurance mechanisms
  • Provide technical training, tools, and mentoring to the CoLMEAL team
  • Contribute to gender-related data collection, analysis, reporting, and use of sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data
  • Support interpretation of gender-related findings for work plan updates, adaptive management, learning events, and reports
  • Strengthen staff, partner, and facilitator capacity in gender-transformative programming
  • Develop practical resources and guidance for consistent gender integration
  • Collaborate across multidisciplinary and multicultural teams
  • Provide technical recommendations to project leadership while maintaining an advisory role
  • Produce gender-integration matrices, curriculum adaptation packages, updated training materials, measurement recommendations, capacity-strengthening resources, and progress/completion reports
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of gender-transformative and gender-responsive approaches
  • Strong knowledge of gender equality programming, preferably in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights programming
  • Ability to translate gender strategies and analysis into practical program activities, work plans, indicators, budgets, and implementation approaches
  • Understanding and application of Global Affairs Canada requirements, including Results-Based Management (RBM) and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus)
  • Advanced analytical skills related to gender outcomes, measurement, and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning systems
  • Excellent facilitation, mentoring, training, and capacity-building skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong cross-cultural communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams, project partners, facilitators, and community stakeholders
  • Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and meet agreed deadlines within a time-bound assignment
  • Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and ability to adapt technical approaches to local contexts
  • High level of discretion and ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Ability to respect and actively support the mission, vision, and values of World Renew
  • Master's degree in Gender Studies, Public Health, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related discipline; or an equivalent combination of relevant advanced training and substantial professional experience
  • At least 12 years of progressively responsible experience in gender equality programming
  • Experience in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-transformative programming, curriculum adaptation, or gender-responsive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
  • Experience working on Global Affairs Canada-funded projects, including RBM and GBA Plus
  • Experience translating a Gender Strategy into operational work plans, activities, indicators, and implementation approaches
  • Experience strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning systems through gender-sensitive and gender-transformative indicators
  • Experience reviewing or adapting life-skills, gender-transformative, or social and gender norms-change curricula
  • Experience providing technical assistance, facilitation, mentoring, or capacity building
  • Fluency in English with strong written, oral, and presentation skills
  • Permanent work authorization at time of hire
  • Successful completion of a thorough background check
  • Fluency in Bengali is preferred/strongly preferred
  • Experience in multicultural, multidisciplinary, matrixed, and remote environments is highly preferred
  • Relevant professional experience in Bangladesh is preferred

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with potential remote work for applicants outside the standard commuting area
  • Part-time schedule of up to 25 hours per week
  • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
  • No international travel anticipated unless otherwise approved

Job title

Job type

Part Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$38 - CA$42 per hour

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

HybridBurlingtonCanada

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