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Date Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview
Responsibilities
• Provide quality technical assistance to country programs on gender integration in program design, including:
o Train and mentor local gender advisors and partners to integrate gender strategies into their work supporting Jhpiego interventions
o Conduct supportive supervision to ensure that the above has been well applied in health services, education and outreach
o Facilitate knowledge exchange around best practices for regional gender advisors and focal points
o Adapt and/or review trainings for health providers on issues such as respectful care, gender sensitive health service delivery, gender-based violence and engaging men in health to ensure that they align with global and Jhpiego standards and best practices
o Adapt evidenced-based gender transformative community-based preventions to prevent gender-based violence and/or promote gender equality and positive health behaviors
• Design gender analysis studies and/or conduct secondary analysis of data to support gender analyses
• Contribute to staff orientation, trainings and technical updates to ensure staff possess excellent knowledge of state-of-the-art, evidenced based approaches to gender-based violence prevention and response, male engagement in health, and promoting gender equity and gender transformative leadership in the health workforce
• Contribute to documentation and building knowledge base, as follows:
o Writing or reviewing donor reports
o Writing case studies, technical briefs and/or peer-reviewed manuscripts on learnings and outcomes of gender-related interventions
o Contributing to information briefs, blogs, or infographics, or videos that highlight Jhpiego’s gender work
• Contribute to new business opportunities, serve as the technical design lead and review proposals to ensure high-quality technical approaches for gender programming are reflected.

Required Qualifications
• Advanced degree in public health, social sciences, development studies or equivalent degree.
• 7 years of progressively responsible related technical experience in public health, maternal health services, and/or international development, preferably promoting gender equality
• 2+ years of senior-level experience providing technical advice on gender equality in programming
• Strong analytical skills, especially for conducting gender analyses
• Strong knowledge of gender and global development issues, preferable with understanding of USAID’s approach to gender equality
• Strong technical capacity and practical experience in designing and implementing gender transformative health and development programs
• Proven experience in developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating gender projects and programs
• Experience developing strategic and tactical plans in cooperation with others who represent a wide range of interests and needs
• Ability to work in complex environments charged with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Experience working with civil society organizations, governments, donors, and international organizations
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to work well in cross-cultural teams and under tight deadlines
• Strong writing skills, both for technical and program reports
• Aware of and sensitive to working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural groups in a developing country environment
• A personal commitment to gender equality
• Ability to travel internationally

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience managing and mentoring staff
• Knowledge and experience of working for projects funded by international donors
• Knowledge of and working within Ministry of Health systems
• Experience working with community health workers and health providers
• Worked and/or lived in a developing country


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to Jhpiego on jobs-jhpiego.icims.com to apply

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