Gender & Disability Inclusion Coordinator - ECW FER, Zamfara

at  Save the Children

QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc in Gender Studies, Human rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience
• At least 5 years of work experience on gender mainstreaming in both humanitarian and development contexts or fragile statesFluency in English, both verbal and written, required

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children is a leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in need around the world. With its headquarters in London, UK, SC works in over 120 countries globally, including Nigeria, helping children survive, learn and be protected by improving their education, health, nutrition, protection and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters.
Save the Children International is implementing an Education Cannot Wait (ECW) funded First Emergency Response (FER) programme in collaboration with Goal Prime of Nigeria (GPON) in Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara, Katsina and Zamfara States for a 12month period. The project is focusing on ensuring learning continuity in formal and non-formal schools for displaced and host community girls and boys 6-12 years, adolescent girls and boys 13 –18 years, including boys and girls with disabilities (6-18 years), in a safe and protective learning environment. The project will also address the protection needs and well-being of girls, boys, female and male, teachers, and education personnels exposed to psychosocial concerns because of displacement, conflict, insecurity and climate crisis in the three project States.
The Gender Coordinator will provide technical support to guide and inform gender and disability-inclusive programming on the ECW FER project across Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara, Katsina and Zamfara states of Northwest Nigeria. She/he will work with the programme team, partners, government and communities to implement specific gender and disability inclusion activities on the project. She/he will mainstream gender as a cross-cutting themes for all the programmatic activities in the ECW-FER project. She/he will ensure gender and disability is integrated into the results based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting disability inclusion, gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity strengthening for field teams and partner organizations of SCI via training and tool development. She/he will not only ensure ECW-FER education programmes are disability-inclusive and gender sensitive but aims to provide support to make such programmes become gender transformative.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: ECW-FER Programme Manager and Senior Gender Equality Technical Advisor

ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

ADDITIONAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.