offering management and technical experience to help our improvement initiatives globally
Bilingual place – requires a working data of French and English
POSITION LOCATION
Choice 1: Hybrid – do business from home and our Ottawa Workplace
Choice 2: Distant – work from anyplace in Canada
Choice 3: From one among WUSC’s international locations of operation
The particular person chosen shall be provided an employment contract from one among our world workplaces relying on their resident standing (you should maintain a sound work authorization – WUSC is not going to facilitate any work authorization course of)
REPORTS TO: Director, Technical Providers, Applications
CONTRACT TERM: Indeterminate, full-time everlasting
SALARY LEVEL: A neighborhood wage and compensation package deal based mostly on WUSC’s wage grid Stage PRO3 or PRO4 (relying on expertise)shall be mentioned in the course of the choice course of
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: April 30, 2024, 09:00 ET
World College Service of Canada (WUSC) is a number one Canadian worldwide improvement group specializing in three programmatic areas: Financial Alternatives, Schooling, and Empowerment. Our imaginative and prescient is a greater world for all younger folks. It’s a extra inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world by which all younger folks, particularly girls, and refugees, are empowered to safe a great high quality of life for themselves, their households, and their communities.
WUSC presently works in over 25 international locations throughout Africa, Asia, the Center East, and Latin America, with an annual finances of roughly CAD $50 million. Globally, we associate with a community of upper schooling establishments, civil society organizations, non-public sector companions, professionals, college students, volunteers, school, and group leaders who work with us to realize our mission.
The Gender Equality & Social Inclusion (GESI) Advisor will play a strategic function in furthering WUSC’s GESI work. Particularly, they are going to present gender and social inclusion evaluation, help the event of GESI methods in new initiatives, strengthen gender mainstreaming capability throughout undertaking groups, and be certain that WUSC programming addresses the distinctive wants of ladies, males, boys, ladies, and gender-diverse people. Along with supporting WUSC’s present applications, the GESI advisor helps program improvement with the PD workforce. The function would require common journey to WUSC’s varied nation workplaces and occasional journey for conferences, workshops, and conferences.
The GESI Advisor may even develop assets and conduct coaching for WUSC employees, companions and volunteers to allow them to contribute to WUSC’s gender equality and social inclusion objectives. Lastly, the GESI Advisor will work to advertise and keep an organizational tradition that advances gender equality.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
GESI Recommendation & Teaching to WUSC Applications and Tasks
- Present high-quality technical recommendation to numerous groups throughout a choice of the WUSC portfolio, together with program supply groups, constructing a strong proof base for the implementation of gender-transformative approaches
- Present teaching and help program employees within the improvement or revision of program/project-specific GESI methods, plans, and actions
- Help program employees in integrating GESI into undertaking planning and administration approaches (together with results-based administration instruments) and suggest methods to extend undertaking/program influence on GESI
- Determine strengths and weaknesses in present GE practices, main the event of improved programs, processes, and instruments for enhancing our ends in GESI
- Facilitate using GESI knowledge to advertise evidence-based studying, reflection, and decision-making inside applications and initiatives
- Work with program managers & Monitoring and Analysis Advisors to make sure that WUSC institutional and undertaking Monitoring and Analysis programs be certain that GESI outcomes are captured and reported to related stakeholders
- Create GESI assets (together with coaching) and instruments (i.e. tipsheets) to help employees in successfully prioritizing and integrating GESI into their work
GESI Recommendation to New Applications
- Work with the Program Improvement unit to make sure the combination of GESI in new program design, together with preliminary speedy gender equality & empowerment evaluation, preliminary GESI technique, and identification of GESI actions
- As required, lead the event of latest proposals and applications which have a robust gender equality aim
- Assist the event of PD methods and pipeline in areas with robust gender outcomes – i.e., Gender Lens Funding or Care Economic system help
- Guarantee compliance of initiatives with donor necessities associated to gender equality, social inclusion, and empowerment
- Suggest monetary and human assets essential to execute program and undertaking GESI gender analyses and methods
- Assist new undertaking inception planning, notably the event of this system/ project-specific GESI analyses, methods, and planning
- Assist undertaking groups in recruiting and strengthening capability for project-specific gender equality advisors and officers
Inner & Exterior Studying on GESI
- Take part in designing analysis and studying initiatives to construct proof round what works greatest with regard to GESI-focused interventions inside our applications’ contexts
- Assist the event of data merchandise to doc and share key learnings from WUSC applications
- Liaise usually with WUSC program-specific gender equality assets (employees/ consultants) to share greatest practices, instruments, and organizational approaches to GESI; improve lesson sharing and influence
- Take part in GESI-related working teams and keep shut working relationships with counterparts in different related worldwide NGOs
- Have interaction with regional and world GESI communities of observe to make sure that initiatives are updated with greatest practices as they evolve
- Oversee the work of consultancies as required by the group
Different Duties
- Actively contribute to WUSC Communities of Observe and dealing teams
- Actively collaborate with WUSC Technical Advisors and different workforce members to combine gender evaluation into technical approaches to financial alternatives, schooling, and sturdy options for refugees
- Contribute to an open and inclusive tradition throughout the group by fostering and sustaining genuine relationships with friends based mostly on mutual belief
QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES
Schooling
- Masters or equal in Worldwide Improvement or associated fields
- Particular coaching in gender equality and social inclusion
- Formal schooling or non-formal coaching in programs considering is most well-liked
Expertise & Competencies
- A minimal of seven years of lively GESI work expertise in improvement programming is required
- The best candidate may have a theoretical and sensible background in GESI and be expert in designing and conducting intersectional gender equality and social inclusion analyses and growing sensible and actionable methods and methodologies
- Understanding of complicated intersectional approaches to understanding gender equality, together with the articulation of sexual and gender range, ethnicity, race, class, skill and different areas of marginalization
- In depth expertise in a number of of WUSC’s core areas of programming: schooling, financial alternatives
- Information of accountability, safety, girls’s and kids’s rights frameworks, and greatest practices
- Confirmed skill to work productively with a wide range of stakeholders to facilitate participatory processes and meet tight deadlines with an emphasis on producing high quality merchandise
- Glorious capability strengthening abilities, with demonstrated expertise in efficient gender-transformative and inclusive coaching, teaching, and facilitation approaches
- Confirmed expertise fostering organizational tradition and accountability conducive to reaching gender equality and social inclusion outcomes
- Expertise main or contributing to proposal improvement and program improvement actions.
- Expertise working with World Affairs Canada and different key worldwide donors, like UK FCDO, Mastercard Basis, and USAID can be thought of a robust asset
- Flexibility to work with world groups; digital collaboration and frequent worldwide journey
- Language Proficiency: Fluency in English and French, written and spoken Bilingual place – requires a working data of French and English. To qualify, you should be capable of communicate, learn, and write in your second official language on the intermediate stage.
Contract Time period: Indeterminate, full-time everlasting; the particular person chosen shall be provided an employment contract from one among our world workplaces relying on their resident standing (you should maintain a sound work authorization – WUSC is not going to facilitate any work authorization course of).
Wage Stage: A neighborhood wage and compensation package deal based mostly on WUSC’s wage grid PRO3 or PRO4 Stage (relying on expertise) shall be mentioned in the course of the choice course of.
APPLICATIONS
WUSC presents a dynamic worldwide work setting with a various intercultural workforce. We provide staff thrilling alternatives to use their abilities and acquire expertise all whereas making a distinction for youth world wide. We consider youth have the potential to supply for his or her households, construct robust communities, and create constructive social change for future generations. Staff at WUSC work laborious to create lasting change in schooling, employment and empowerment.
WUSC is an equal alternative employer. We welcome and encourage functions from folks with disabilities. Lodging can be found on request for candidates collaborating in all features of the choice course of.
Solely these candidates chosen for an interview shall be contacted. No phone calls please.
Particular person should be legally licensed to work in Canada or in one among WUSC’s International locations of operations (Côte d’Ivoire, Dominica, Ghana, Guyana, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Suriname, South Sudan and Uganda)
Deadline for functions: April 30, 2024, 09:00 ET