Job Summary
• The Senior Gender Specialist is a senior member of the Climate Justice program, responsible for providing overall technical leadership on gender to ensure program implementation, results measurement and results are gender transformative.
• This requires the Specialist to ensure that program approaches are gender transformative, and that program staff, partners and consultants are properly trained, oriented and empowered to ensure program delivery approaches are gender transformative.
• It requires the Specialist to prioritize research and learning to constantly inform and influence the program to be more gender transformative.
• The Specialist is responsible for strategic engagement, partnerships and coordination with program partners and relevant stakeholders including government entities and civil society.
• The Specialist will ensure that the results framework and results measurement for the Climate Justice Program is gender transformative.
• The Specialist will provide technical assistance throughout implementation, to ensure a gender intentional agenda across all the projects under the Climate Justice Program.
• This position will ensure that lessons from the program is used to inform and influence other organizational programs in Uganda and elsewhere.

Specific Responsibilities
Technical Leadership on Gender Policy, Strategy, Analysis, Advocacy and GBV Mainstreaming in the Program
• Provide technical leadership on developing, regularly updating and adapting the Program gender strategy including ensuring the program strategy is gender transformative and aligned to the Gender Equality Policy and women empowerment approaches in ECSA region and great lakes sub-region.
• Provide technical leadership and steer processes for gender transformative quality assurance in the entire program cycle from design, delivery, impact measurement to programme closure.
• Provide technical advisory support to ensure that all gender mainstreaming initiatives are aligned to the organizational International, regional and global strategies/thematic areas and emerging programmes.
• Work with advocacy initiatives to develop gender-transformative national advocacy strategies
• Support policy analysis of relevant laws, policies and strategies that impact gender equality and women empowerment issues aligned to the mandate.
• Strategic Engagements, Partnerships & Coordination of Gender Activities
• Identify, develop, actively involve and directly represent the organization in strategic partnerships, networks, platforms, coalitions and spaces to engage/work with at local, national, regional and potentially international levels in close collaboration with the Ugandan staff and relevant staff in other countries, and other relevant platforms and networks .
• Strategically engage in program development and design as the gender expert to ensure that these programs and initiatives are gender transformative and well-resourced for gender transformation.

Organisational and Programmatic Gender Capacity Building
• Based on the Program Gender Strategy and related Strategies, lead on developing capacity including gender modules, tools and related policies/strategies.
• Work collaboratively to enhance a gender friendly environment and strengthen integration of GED approaches in programming and in human resource processes from recruitment, orientation to performance management.
• Provide cutting edge technical capacity building and on-the-ground support for staff, partners and for field activities in the core programing themes that include though not limited to: Gender Equality and Women’s Voice, Sexual and Gender Based Violence, Engaging Men and Boys, Gender in Emergencies (GiE) including Women Lead in Emergencies (WLiE) and women/girls’ empowerment, GBV prevention, response, integration and mitigation and related protection aspects such as psychosocial support among others.
• Lead the revision of materials and generate gender specific thematic training manuals, materials and guides based on the programmatic areas of focus in relation to the key gender issues captured under the various Programmes.
• Review and provide input in programme related training manuals and ensure they address specific gender issues that directly affect target populations.
• Lead the development of quality standards for gender transformative programming, including tools for gender/power analysis and gender equity and diversity audits as well as train, coach, mentor and support staff and partners to carry out these analyses and Audits
• Plan for and conduct gender capacity assessments and develop tailor made gender plans for staff and partners including training and coaching. In doing so, identify capacity gaps in terms of designing gender programs and addressing issues of masculinity and engaging men and boys in promoting gender equality and equity.

Mainstream Gender in Learning and Impact measurement
• Work closely with program partners, the Program Quality and Learning team and relevant initiatives to lead on gender research and analytical processes to generate gender disaggregated information and knowledge while highlighting intersectionality as envisaged by the organizational aspirations on GED.
• Lead the integration of gender in monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability (MEAL) system for the program and build capacity of partner staff to monitor implementation of gender and women empowerment programs and referral mechanisms across program geographical areas.
• Work with Program Quality and Learning and the MEAL teams to ensure the impact of gender interventions is measured and reported; including documenting lessons learnt and challenges;
• Working with the Program Quality and learning team, lead the identification, documentation and dissemination of best practices on conducting evidence based gender transformative programming with a focus on GBV prevention, response, integration and mitigation protection within/outside the organization

Promote Gender Equity and Diversity and Safeguarding Practices (5%)
• Ensure that Safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to by all and the staff that S/he supervisors both directly or indirectly
• Ensure that staff and related personnel under your jurisdiction are familiar with the following organisational policies and procedures and can identify when needed how these may have been breached; The Safeguarding policy, Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse and Child Abuse, The anti-discrimination and harassment policy, The code of conduct and the organizations Values.

Qualifications
• A Master’s degree holder in fields of Gender and Women Studies, Development, Political Science, Public Administration, Social Sciences or related field is a MUST
• Over 7 years of experience leading Gender programming in a similar organisation
• Experience and/or knowledge of the Environment and Natural Resources Sector as well as the Climate Change Landscape is a MUST