Job Responsibilities

• Participate in processes for reviewing, assessing and vetting gender aspects of humanitarian submissions.
• Contribute to joint efforts across the UN system to promote the participation of women and women’s organizations across humanitarian, peace, and development initiatives, including UN-led negotiation processes.
• Provide advice on how to bolster humanitarian resourcing of gender related activities and outcomes.
• Strengthen capacity of humanitarian workers on GiHA.
• Support strategic engagement with Humanitarian Country Teams to strengthen the inclusion of gender equality funding in humanitarian financing.
• Support accelerating localization through facilitating/advocating for local women’s organizations and networks participation in humanitarian planning, decision making and monitoring/accountability (with a focus on those organizations that work with crisis affected women and girls, including those at heightened risk of violence, exploitation, and abuse).
• Investigate opportunities for civil society engagement in humanitarian initiatives. This includes reinforcing connections between the Sudan Humanitarian Fund, the Women, Peace, and Humanitarian Fund, and other funding mechanisms dedicated to community-based initiatives in Sudan, including UN agency programming and funding for local women led organizations. Cultivate and manage active working relationships with women's groups and civil society, ensuring effective liaison at appropriate levels.
• Provide technical advice on advocacy, capacity development and knowledge building on gender in humanitarian action
• Advise the development of knowledge products including briefs, fact sheets, statistics, research, policy briefs etc.; highlighting the gendered impact/gendered dimension of the humanitarian crisis on the affected populations.
• Conduct ongoing/periodic context updates and document gender related emerging trends and challenges also as they relate to cluster response.
• Provide technical advice on the inclusion of SAAD and gender content in clusters and inter-cluster analyses and advocacy messages.
• Ensure that gender is mainstreamed in cluster assessments, the Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) and rapid interagency assessments.
• Conduct trainings for GFPs, cluster coordinators and cluster members (including women-led organizations) on GiHA and GAM.
• Lead coordination efforts on Gender in Humanitarian Action
• Provide technical advice and assistance to the RC and Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) on strategies to enhance gender integration and women’s meaningful participation throughout the humanitarian response. This includes building capacity for gender analysis, designing and implementing gender-sensitive policies and programs.
• Build and maintain partnerships with other UN entities with complementary mandates on gender equality and women, peace, and security-related issues. Actively participate in established inter-agency coordination mechanisms.
• Regularly report to senior management on activities related to gender equality and protection within humanitarian response interventions and support in the development of communication materials.
• Foster and facilitate coordination, collaboration, coherence and streamlined engagement with key stakeholders in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention and response, the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group, and the MARA WG. Participate in and support relevant Humanitarian Clusters and Sub-Clusters meetings.
• Provide technical guidance to enhance the integration of gender considerations in Access, CMCOORD, and Protection of Civilians (PoC) interventions, including coordination mechanisms and related tools.
• Provide technical inputs and advisory support in relation to AAP and PSEA related interagency initiatives ensuring a strong focus on participation and engagement with local women led organizations.
• Serve as the primary focal point on specific gender equality and women’s empowerment in humanitarian response or related issues, staying informed about the latest developments, liaising with other humanitarian organizations, donors, etc., and providing information and advice on a range of related issues.
• Review and provide advice on policy issues related to gender equality and women’s meaningful participation, ensuring gender-responsive humanitarian assistance.
• Organize and participate in work groups, meetings, conferences, and consultations with other agencies and partners on humanitarian, emergency relief, and gender-related matters.
• Provide guidance to, and may supervise, new/junior staff.
• Advisory support to gender analysis and gender responsive needs assessments
• Monitor and discern gaps, actively contribute to the development and synthesis of robust gender analyses and trends across the humanitarian crisis. Support the formulation of strategies and interventions through well-informed joint UN and humanitarian system gender analyses.
• Undertake and provide support to technical assistance and other field missions, such as participating in field missions to conduct in-depth reviews of gender considerations in the humanitarian response.