About WaterAid

WaterAid: Established in 1981, WaterAid is a leading INGO focused on increasing sustainable access to safe water, decent sanitation and good hygiene in low- and middle income countries. In Bangladesh, WaterAid has been operating since 1986, promoting greater accountability and effectiveness to deliver WASH services to the most marginalised and vulnerable people, particularly women, girls, children and those with disabilities. Swisscontact: Since its founding 60 years ago, Swisscontact has firmly believed in the principle that people can improve their socio-economic status, drawing on their own strength, when they participate in the local economy as producers, employees or consumers. To achieve this goal, Swisscontact has been working closely with the public and private sector actors in 40 countries. Swisscontact’s strong presence in countries like Bangladesh, where the organisation has over 20 years of presence, helped the organisation gain a deep understanding of the local environment and its opportunities and challenges related to sustainable economic, social and environmental development. The consortium of WaterAid and Swisscontact is looking for dynamic, passionate, and self-driven individuals with complementary skill sets and highly relevant global and in-country experiences that will help to meet the differentiated needs of GO4IMPact project. To know more, please visit: www.wateraid.org/bd, https://www.swisscontact.org/en/countries/bangladesh

Job Purpose

The GESI Specialist plays a pivotal role in integrating GESI considerations into all aspects of the project, from strategy development and capacity building to data collection and analysis. By focusing on gender equality and social inclusion, this role contributes to the project's mission of strengthening local democracy, improving equitable service delivery, and engaging marginalised groups, ultimately fostering more accountable and climate-resilient public services for all citizens.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the process of development and implementation of the gender strategy, plan, and guidelines in collaboration with the programme team as per the programme requirements, aligned with donor, organisation, and partner organisations policies and standards. • Support the capacity building of programme staff in implementation of the gender strategy and plan, and the use of relevant tools and approaches. • Coordinate with and support the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team in establishing and implementing gender-sensitive monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting systems, in alignment with the programme gender strategy, plans and targets. • Support in the development of the data collection and analysis tools for the baseline assessment to guarantee data granularity in terms of gender and other vulnerabilities. • Ensure that other essential data are collected for specific vulnerability targeted programming. • Conduct a local systems analysis, with an integrated GESI analysis, to inform how the needs of vulnerable groups should be addressed in the local context. • Provide partner organisations with ongoing GESI technical assistance. • Integrate GESI considerations into operational research design and policy analysis. • Help build and maintain inclusive networks that incorporate women-led, minority-led, and youth-led organisations. • Review and provide inputs to the design (including results chains) of GESI activities. • Recommend best practices on how the programme team can effectively engage with programme partners and programme beneficiaries to promote GESI issues. • Review and contribute to the intervention plans and reports. • Identify appropriate, efficient, and effective methods and tools for collecting data related to the programme interventions. • Recommend GESI training for staff and provide ongoing coaching/mentoring. • Provide inputs to the Terms of References for specific assignments related to GESI and discuss the details with the programme team. • Review the relevant documents, including key challenges and lessons learned.

Requisite qualifications, experience, and attributes

• Master or higher degree preferably in gender studies, social science or other related fields. • Over 5 years of relevant & progressive experience in gender equality and social inclusion. • Competence in writing evidence-based result-oriented reports. • Ability to work in an ambiguous and rapidly developing environment, must be comfortable with constant change of local partners, and multiple competing priorities. • Strong story-telling ability and writing skills to creatively communicate results in gender equality and social inclusion. • Willingness to work in innovative and unconventional ways when necessary to achieve results. • Ability to establish and maintain effective, & meaningful working relationships with public and private sector partners and other relevant stakeholders. • Experience with a range of online content platforms, stories, and visuals. • Able to work independently/with minimum supervision. • Capable to plan, prioritise and organise given assignment among multiple competing tasks and urgent deadlines. • Able to work under pressure and essentially meet deadlines. • Excellent interpersonal skill and ability to provide effective support and to collaborate and coordinate across different teams from diverse background. • Competent to make effective decisions upholding organisational values and Code of Conduct. • Possess personal integrity, transparency, fairness, proactive stance, and respect for gender, diversity, safeguarding and organisational cultural aspects. • Fully committed to WaterAid's vision, mission and values and a way of working that demonstrates this, with the ability to communicate this enthusiasm to others.

Reportable To

Deputy Team Leader

Workstation

WaterAid Bangladesh Country Office

Working Hours

37.5

Contract Tenure

Fixed term until project ends

Salary & Benefits

Competitive salary with admissible benefits

Apply Instruction

If you are passionate to improve lives of the people in the transforming climate context, courageous to bring positive impact through your proficiencies, confident to meet organisation’s expectations and fulfil the above-mentioned requirements please visit the following link and apply. Application deadline: 14 December 2023 Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Candidates will have to be ready to go through an extensive selection process. Any lobbying will be considered as disqualification. Any difficulties faced while submitting application needs to be addressed to jashiaabedin@wateraid.org. Apply Now

Application Deadline: 14 December 2023

ONLY SHORT-LISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED
Candidates will have to go through an extensive selection process.
Any lobbying will be considered as disqualification

WaterAid is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct.
Please visit https://www.wateraid.org/uk/safeguarding-at-wateraid

To know more about our organisation, please visit: www.wateraid.org