Technical Advisor Ii, Gender Youth And Social Inclusion (Remote)

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

Job Summary:

You will provide technical advice, guidance, and support to a wide range of program design and implementation issues with a focus on larger projects in the area of Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion (GYSI) in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to regional and Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high-quality, gender-responsive and transformative, inclusive programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your technical knowledge, advice and guidance will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS GYSI programming is across the globe.

NOTE: This is a remote position; CRS will give preference to candidates who are based in countries where we have existing offices. CRS does not sponsor visas for remote employees.

Job Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions. Participate in professional forums in the area GYSI to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
• Contribute to CARO’s gender, youth and social inclusion knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects’ GYSI strategies, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports.
• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in gender, youth and social inclusion for programming for staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to CP staff.
• Lead the CARO gender community of practice through regular coaching of key gender staff, online and in-person training and learning initiatives and effective remote communications.
• Provide gender, youth and inclusion technical solutions to regional and CARO CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E, ensuring high-quality implementation.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of agency-wide and Central Africa Regional Office (CARO) strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in GYSI that effectively engage partners, donors and governments. Support the implementation of CARO’s regional strategy and gender audits that contributes to improvements in GYSI mainstreaming across CARO’s programming and operations.
• Contribute to regional and CP efforts to pre-position CRS for growth opportunities in gender, youth and social inclusion in key sectors. Lead or contribute to the development of the technical design for large and/or complex proposals, including conducting relevant gender, youth or other social analyses, defining subsequent appropriate gender strategies ,youth and social inclusion approaches, as relevant. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
• Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills

Required/Desired Foreign Language: Required fluency in English and professional proficiency in French

Travel Required: -50% travel

Key Working Relationships:

Supervisory: N/A

Internal: CARO Regional Team (regional technical advisors, regional directors and deputies), Key gender staff and focal points across CARO CPs, CARO Country Representative, Head of Programs, Head of Operations and relevant Chief of Parties/Project Managers. CRS/HQ staff including HQ-based Gender and Youth Advisors and CRS global Gender Community of Practice

External:

USAID, government officials, international and local partners.