Website Catholic Relief Services

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

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, protection, and social inclusion 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 programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your technical knowledge, advice and guidance will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS’ gender programming and protection mainstreaming is across the globe.

Responsibilities

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

Contribute to the development and implementation of agency-wide and regional strategies, standards, tools and best practices in gender and protection that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Help to ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, youth, protection mainstreaming, and safe and dignified programming (SDP).
Provide technical solutions to regional and CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, ensuring high-quality implementation.
Contribute to regional and CP efforts to pre-position CRS for growth opportunities in gender equality, gender integration, protection, 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 or other social analyses, defining subsequent appropriate gender strategies and gender-responsive and transformative approaches, and defining appropriate monitoring systems and indicators, as relevant. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical gender and protection requirements into CRS’ approach.
Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in gender and protection programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to CP staff.
Contribute to the Central Africa Regional Office (CARO) gender and protection knowledge management and learning by collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects’ gender strategies, assisting with measuring impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contributing to the gender, protection, and social inclusion learning agenda.
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.
Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions. Participate in forums in the areas of gender and protection to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Gender and Development, or related fields required.
Minimum of five years relevant international working experience in an advisory or management role with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of three years working for programming interventions in gender equality, gender-based violence, female/girls’ empowerment, safe and dignified programming, and/or social inclusion.
Previous experience providing technical assistance and developing successful proposals for external donor funding is required.
Demonstrated application of technical principles and concepts in gender integration and protection. General knowledge of other related disciplines, especially disability mainstreaming and social inclusion, health and nutrition, peacebuilding and social cohesion, and emergency response, to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
Experience in business development, project design and proposal development in gender, protection, and SDP, including technical writing.
Experience in mentoring, coaching, facilitation and training applying adult learning principles and practices.
Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, including applying data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.
Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.

Required Languages – Fluency in English and professional proficiency in French

Travel – Must be willing and able to travel up to 50%.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

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 strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
Strong written and oral communication skills
Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience as a technical advisor or program manager for gender, protection, and/or SDP programming. Experience mentoring, coaching or training staff.
Experience with programmatic gender analyses, assessments, and evaluation, as well as operational gender audits, including applying data collection tools and methodologies, with particular experience in qualitative data analysis, and data presentation.
Experience with participatory techniques and adult learning methods and training facilitation. Additional considerations for experience mentoring a remote team of experts/community of practice.
Demonstrated expertise with facilitation, capacity strengthening and partnership building through formal and informal training in gender equality and related subject matter (male engagement, women/girls economic empowerment, disability inclusion, and other gender transformative and inclusive approaches across sectors.)
Previous experience providing gender technical assistance and developing successful proposals for external donor funding, including technical writing.
Experience managing processes to collaboratively produce deliverables under tight deadlines and at exceptional quality.
Experience with applying social inclusion frameworks, data collection tools, and methodologies for programmatic and operational assessments, audits, and analyses.

Agency REDI Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

Agency competencies clarify expected behaviors and attitudes for all staff. When demonstrated, they create an engaging workplace, help staff achieve their best, and help CRS achieve agency goals. These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
Acts with Integrity – Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
Builds and Maintains Trust – Shows consistency between words and actions.
Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies:

Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Key Working Relationships:

Internal CARO Regional Team (Regional Technical Advisors, Regional Director and deputies, business development staff), key gender and SDP staff and focal points across CARO CPs, CARO Country Representatives, Heads of Programs, Heads of Operations and relevant Chiefs of Party/Project Managers. CRS/HQ staff including global Gender Advisors, Safeguarding Advisors, and the CRS global Gender Community of Practice.

External USAID, government officials, international and local partners

CRS welcomes candidates from the countries and regions in which we work. In the event the successful candidate is an expatriate or global telecommuter, the anticipated duration of the assignment is informed by a term limit, based on the type and level of the job and the needs of the agency.

About Us

About the Team

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