Senior Gender Advisor

Senior Gender Advisor

Permanent. Full Time. Hybrid working (2 days in the office per week)

Location: This role can be based in any of our hub locations: Abuja - Nigeria, Bogota - Colombia, Dhaka - Bangladesh, Nairobi - Kenya, New Delhi - India 

Salary: Competitive

If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the scheduled closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience. 

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love. We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues.

Learn about our vision, mission and values

About the role

Reporting in to the Gender Justice Lead, the Senior Gender Advisor is responsible for mainstreaming gender across all other thematic priorities, within development, humanitarian and advocacy programmes.

The post-holder will provide key inputs to Christian Aid’s gender justice thematic global policy and advocacy work in global spaces to ensure the advocacy achieves maximum impact and draws from all our gender justice work and partners, collaborating with partners and faith groups. The role will provide technical leadership to support the delivery of Christian Aid’s internal and external commitments, frameworks and strategies on gender mainstreaming, protection and inclusion to ensure quality, consistency and coherence. The role will play a key role in embedding Christian Aid’s Inclusive Programming Approach globally, ensuring that gender, protection and inclusion principles and minimum standards are systematically integrated across all projects, aligning with organisational values and goals.

The role-holder will ensure that good practice on gender, protection & inclusion is captured and shared across the organisation.

Some of the main responsibilities of the Senior Gender Advisor include:

• Work closely with thematic leads to ensure gender is mainstreamed across climate, governance and peacebuilding work, and with policy and advocacy leads to ensure gender is mainstreamed across policy and advocacy analysis, positioning and research and writing.
• Support the gender lead with partner and stakeholder mapping, relationship building and external representation in policy and advocacy spaces as needed, including through development of public policy analysis on gender.
• Support Christian Aid staff to globally demonstrate improved capacity to apply gender, protection and inclusion principles across all programmes, leading to stronger, more inclusive, and accountable programmes, ensuring consistency and aligning to organisational values and goals.
• Ensure monitoring and application of standards for gender, protection, and inclusion across Christian Aid’s global portfolio, ensuring consistency in implementation and improving the quality and maximising impact of programmes. 
• Collaborating with technical advisors fosters innovation, improves efficiency, minimises duplication, and maximises the impact of gender, protection, and inclusion efforts. 
• Collaborate across Christian Aid and its partners reflecting a clear understanding of the needs, vulnerabilities and capacities of target communities, and allocate resources for the integration of gender, protection and inclusion concerns throughout the project cycle, aligning with organisational values and goals.
• Support Christian Aid partnerships, ensuring they are established with Women’s Rights Organisations (WRO’s), Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (OPD’s), and other specialised gender, protection and inclusion actors, strengthening locally led and community-driven approaches. 
• Support humanitarian, development and advocacy programmes to adapt strategies in order to improve the meaningful participation of women, girls and marginalised groups, by actively reducing barriers to inclusion, maximising our impact and to ensure that gender continues to be a cross-cutting thematic focus across all our areas of work, in line with organisational commitments. Ensure that gender, protection and inclusion programming is implemented in alignment with Christian Aid’s internal and external 
  commitments including the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Sphere Standards, and the Inclusive Data Charter to ensure consistency and coherence. 
• Develop lessons learned from gender, inclusion and protection programming, and specialised protection initiatives, ensure they are documented and disseminated internally and externally through Communities of Practice (CoP’s), peer learning and knowledge exchange, supporting a culture of continuous learning.

About you

Who we are looking for

Essential:

• Degree in Gender Studies, International Development, Humanitarian Action, Social Work, Law or related field. 
• Significant experience working in humanitarian emergencies, including direct involvement in GBV prevention and response.
• Significant experience in managing protection and GBV programs.
• Demonstrable expertise in mainstreaming gender, protection, and inclusion across development and humanitarian programmes.
• Demonstrable experience in capacity strengthening, with expertise in designing and delivering training, coaching, and mentorship on protection.
• Developed ability to work with local partners in humanitarian settings.
• Understanding of safeguarding, accountability, and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) mechanisms.
• Developed ability to influence and advocate within gender global advocacy spaces.
• Understanding and commitment to decolonised and equitable partnership approaches and engagement.
• Understanding of humanitarian principles, emergency response, and protection frameworks.
• Understanding of training tools and methods. 
• Understanding of international norms and standards on gender, protection and humanitarian action including the IASC GBV Guidelines, Charter, and Sphere Standards.
• Understanding of Sphere and Red Cross code of conduct.

Desirable:

• French, Spanish or Arabic language skills

Further information

At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.

We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams. 

We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and sympathy with Christian Aid’s faith identity. 

All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

This role requires applicants to have the right to live and work in the country where this position is based and undertake the role that you have been offered. If you are successful and we make you an offer for the role, we will be required to conduct a right to work check on your immigration status in the UK. We will contact you regarding the documentation you will need to provide to evidence this. 

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, please refer to the benefits booklet for your location to see our full list of employee benefits. 

For Salary details for this role, please refer to the Salary band by location.