Job Responsibilities

• Provide high-level leadership on Gender Equality, Disability Equity, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) across all aspects of the program, ensuring alignment with KITA SEHAT objectives and DFAT requirements.
• Work with key leaders within the program to ensure the centrality of GEDSI within KITA SEHAT – in alignment with DFAT priorities
• Lead the implementation and regular review of the program’s GEDSI Strategy and Action Plan to ensure it reflects evolving priorities.
• Conduct or lead the completion of further GEDSI analysis or research to contribute to evidence-based programming or policy reform.
• Foster strong and collaborative relationships with government counterparts, DFAT, technical teams, development partners, organisations of people with disability (OPDs) and other relevant stakeholders to champion GEDSI integration and promote inclusive policy dialogue on health systems strengthening.
• Work closely with the Operations & Finance Team to ensure that GEDSI considerations are reflected in operational processes, including human resources, procurement, and risk management.
• Actively contribute to program governance, ensuring that GEDSI considerations are integrated into governance processes and decision-making.
• Build GEDSI capability within KITA SEHAT and among partners through targeted training, facilitation and learning workshops.
• Lead the design of GEDSI-focused activities and inputs in annual workplans, ensuring alignment with the KITA SEHAT program logic, and DFAT’s inclusive development agenda.
• Provide leadership in the implementation of GEDSI-related activities across national and subnational levels, in line with agreed workplans, and ensure the effective mainstreaming of GEDSI considerations across all program activities.
• Offer technical oversight and ensure quality assurance mechanisms are in place for GEDSI-related initiatives and outputs.
• Work with the MEL Lead Team to develop GEDSI indicators and targets and tools for measurement which will be included in the MERLA framework.
• Work across teams to co-ordinate reporting on GEDSI – including the development of tools across the program cycle to ensure impact-level reporting is collated and analysed
• Lead and manage the GEDSI Unit to ensure effective planning, implementation, and monitoring of program activities in line with the approved workplan and budget.
• Provide mentorship and capacity building to team members to strengthen GEDSI knowledge, skills, and leadership across the program.
• Supervise, assign tasks, and manage the performance of the GEDSI Team to ensure effective delivery of GEDSI-related activities.
• Perform other duties as required to support the successful delivery of KITA SEHAT’s objectives.