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Technical Coordinator - Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)

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  • Experience Level : Senior level
  • Experience Length : 5 years

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BRAC International is Hiring! Join BRAC Global to create opportunities for people to realise their potential.


Position Name: Technical Coordinator - Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)

Job Location: Country Office


About BRAC

BRAC is a global leader in creating large-scale opportunities for the poor. Founded in Bangladesh in 1972, it is now one of the world’s largest development organizations, touching the lives of an estimated 138 million people in 11 countries across Asia and Africa. For more information, please visit BRAC’s website, www.brac.net.


About the AIM Programme

In 2022, the Mastercard Foundation in partnership with BRAC International (BI) announced an initiative to create a positive and measurable impact for 1.2 million adolescent girls and young women and 9.5 million people across seven countries in East and West Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.

There is mounting urgency to support adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living in poverty, which has been further amplified by the global pandemic. Through this partnership, scalable economic development approaches will be delivered in communities to foster the agency and voice of AGYW. They will have the opportunity to fulfill their aspirations, achieve sustainable livelihoods, and engage in advocacy issues.

BRAC International is implementing an integrated and holistic model to address the various life cycles of a young woman living in poverty, ensuring she is able to transition safely from adolescence to adulthood. She will be equipped with the appropriate skills, tools, and access to finance to effectively exercise her agency and build a fulfilling and productive livelihood.

JOB PURPOSE

The Technical Coordinator Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (TC-GESI) will be responsible for providing technical coordination and leadership to the AIM country team, to assist BI programs on mainstreaming GESI, by ensuring all social empowerment components of the program, including gender equality, social and economic empowerment training, disability inclusion, and building awareness about social and health issues. The TC-GESI will also provide technical assistance and support in the development and implementation of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), community-based case management, and referral systems.


Major Responsibilities:


Technical Support

  • Lead the overall planning, coordination and execution of GESI-focused technical support to the country programme team.
  • Build internal and external partner capacity on GESI and assist in the implementation of GESI interventions.
  • Coordinate with the relevant Technical Support Officers (TSOs) to do GESI analysis and identify key GESI-related issues and challenges that can impact programme implementation through a GESI program action plan..
  • Work with the AIM Programme Manager to ensure GESI-integration in programme activities to effectively integrate GESI considerations and make accommodations for vulnerable groups such as PWDs, IDP, refugees, and other relevant underrepresented groups.
  • Provide technical support to make reasonable accommodations to make the club spaces accessible to marginalized groups, including ensuring disability accessibility and Early Childhood Development (ECD) corners in club spaces.
  • Develop the capacity of staff and Youth Development Committee (YDC) members on community-based complaints mechanism, SGBV case management and referral systems.
  • Provide support to all relevant TSOs to ensure contextualization and finalization of specific livelihoods/career pathways training modules; train front line staff on the newly developed training materials; finalize the training rollout plans and provide support to the cascading down of the training.
  • Identify capacity gaps among staff members and facilitate training on issues such as, GESI, SGBV case management (documentation, referral, periodic follow up); market assessments to determine livelihood options for displaced populations; establishing linkages and partnerships to support services for vulnerable groups such as victims of abuse and violence;
  • Conduct regular field visits to improve the quality of delivering GESI and SRHR sessions, YDC meetings, and cross-gender dialogues and provide feedback to frontline staff. Develop and disseminate action oriented specific and inclusive SBCC tools and messages that advocate for GESI and eradication of SGBV.
  • Support in establishing and strengthening SGBV response mechanism.
  • Represent BI AIM program in external networks and working groups related to GESI and SGBV.
  • Coordinate with the MEAL team to establish GESI-specific programme indicators and ensure ongoing monitoring and analysis.

Coordination, Planning and Partnerships

  • Coordinate and consolidate the mapping of GESI and SGBV service providers at the national and sub national level.
  • Liaise with key stakeholders (government and non-government) and collect relevant training materials that can be used to develop/strengthen/ contextualize BRAC’s training materials.
  • Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, service providers, to support delivery of interventions as well as the programme’s grassroots advocacy and partnerships work.
  • Maintain a close working relationship and ensure alignment with the country’s programme team, AIM central team and BI technical anchors and consultants (as needed),
  • Organize events for the celebration of international observance days such as International Women's Day, the 16 Days of Activism, and International Day of the Girl Child.
  • Reporting, Documentation and Communication
  • Develop a complete list of GESI and SGBV relevant national laws and regulations, disseminate this information to field teams and ensure all interventions are developed in accordance with existing national laws.
  • Contribute to program reports and deliverables as required and demonstrate the status of GESI activities towards achieving expected results.
  • Quality management checks and assurance in the SGBV case recording database to ensure accuracy, efficient and timely reports.
  • Identify, document, and implement good practices related to GESI and disseminate this knowledge with the country team and coordinate with the knowledge management and communication team to showcase these practices.
  • Regularly check MIS and ensure proper reporting on CM and GESI- related indicators and documentation of good practices.

Policy and Strategy Compliance

  • Support the HR in GESI policy orientation to the current and new staff
  • Support in policy related materials development and Implementation


Educational Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree inInternational Development/ Gender/ Sociology/ Anthropology/Social Sciences or any other related, a post graduate in the same is an added advantage.


Skills and Competencies:

  • Training materials development and staff capacity building; Training facilitation; Computer literacy and presentation skills; Report writing, Proactive, self-starter and independent worker with the ability to manage large teams; Demonstrate commitment to GESI work; Exhibit empathy and positive interpersonal skills including cultural competence. Understands and has capacity to apply rights based, human centred and survivor centred approaches to GESI and SGBV.


Experience Requirements:

  • 5 years of relevant work experience, preferably in gender equality and social inclusion and SGBV.
  • Demonstrated experience in GESI analysis, action planning and mainstreaming into programs, designing and implementing GESI specific projects.
  • Previous experience in providing technical assistance, training module development, training facilitation and providing supportive supervision to several team members.
  • Demonstrated experience in designing, managing, and implementing programme activities to promote gender equality and social inclusion.
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate cultural sensitivity and maintain collaborative working relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.
  • Experience of working in integrated programming, particularly for adolescent girls and young women is a plus.


Employment Type: Contractual

Salary: Negotiable


Candidates need to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational level, years of experience, current and expected salary to bimcf.uganda@brac.net


Please mention the name of the position in the subject bar.


Only complete applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.


Application deadline:03 February 2025


NOTE: BRAC Uganda doesn’t charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process from the applicants. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of any communication purportedly on behalf of BRAC Uganda please send us an email before taking any further action in relation to the issue at hand.


BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment process includes extensive reference and background checks, self-disclosure of prior issues regarding sexual or other misconduct and criminal records and our values are a part of our Performance Management System.


BRAC is an equal opportunities employer.












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