Habitat for Humanity is hiring a “Gender, Inclusion & Safeguarding (GESI) specialist” who will lead transformational change across Habitat for Humanity (Habitat) and our partners in MENA, to be more inclusive and responsive to the needs of women; ensure Habitat’s programs and impact are inclusive and strive to remove barriers to participation for marginalized groups; and ensuring organizational policies and processes related to gender, safeguarding, protection, and inclusion are understood, owned, and applied across the region.
The Advisor will lead the regional safeguarding and gender equality planning and implementation across the Middle East operations, with significant capacity building and adherence to compliance within all respective operating entities. This will include coordinating capacity building, promoting safe and gender inclusive programming, ensuring safe partnerships, delivering trainings, establishing metrics, ensuring donor compliance, risk management, supporting the mainstreaming of safeguarding and gender equality throughout operations, especially when engaging directly with communities and through partners. Additionally, this role will focus on global capability enhancement through working closely with the global technical teams to develop systems/procedures and enhance standards.
The GESI specialist will work closely with global, regional and country teams to understand existing practices, identify barriers to change, and lead on the development and delivery of respective GESI action plans. Working closely with technical and program team members, the specialist will also ensure that GESI principles, processes and practices are applied and mainstreamed across all of Habitat’s programs in the region, whilst developing strong relationships with Habitat counterparts at HQ and in other Area Offices
The GESI advisor will report to the Senior Manager: Middle East & North Africa, with close accountability to the Global Head of Safeguarding.
Please submit your motivation letter and CV as ONE DOCUMENT in English to MENArecruitment@habitat.org. The deadline for submitting the applications is May 22nd.
For more details please check the below link:
https://reliefweb.int/job/3844430/gender-inclusion-safeguarding-gesi-specialist