Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Advisor

Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Advisor

Full Time Union

8 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $75,543.87 To $90,652.65 Annually

(This position is covered under CUPE Bargaining Unit)

Save the Children believes every child has the right to a future. In Canada and around the world, we do whatever it takes – every day and in times of crisis – to support children to fulfill their rights to a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. With over 100 years of experience, Save the Children is the world’s first and leading independent children’s organization – transforming lives and the future we share.

Save the Children Canada is a hybrid workplace based in Toronto Ontario Canada. This recruitment is open to all applicants residing in Ontario.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE:

Reporting to the Senior Advisor, Partnerships and Technical Quality, the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Advisor provides strategic leadership and technical expertise to advance the gender equality and social inclusion across related projects, including with a focus on SRHR, to ensure quality programs that address the needs of women, girls, and children more broadly. This includes specifically focusing on shifting social and gender norms across all layers of the socio-ecological model.

They integrate gender equality and social inclusion into advocacy, work with Save the Children International (SCI) and Country Offices to develop related programs, lead capacity-building efforts, represent Save the Children Canada in national gender equality and social inclusion spaces and support advocacy and program learnings. This role contributes to Save the Children’s Global Gender Equality Initiative by strengthening systems and developing new tools, as well as to Save the Children’s Global Women’s Rights Principles Initiative.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Thematic Advisory and Technical Quality Assurance

• Provide high-quality technicalassistancefor women and children’s rights, including SRHR, ensuring rights-based approaches are evidence-based and effectively implemented.
• Maintain oversight of technical quality through collaboration with Regional and Country Offices, andreview project deliverables and donor reports through a gender equality and social inclusion lens.
• Contribute to the development and quality assurance of gender equality and social inclusion program tools, evaluations, and key organizational documents to ensure gender equality is well-integrated.

Advocacy & Business Development

• Collaborate with Country Offices and Business Development teams to develop gender equality and social inclusion-integrated concept notes and proposals,leveragingtechnicalexpertiseand project learning.
• Support the execution of gender equality and social inclusion advocacy strategies through development of thought leadership materials and representation at key events and networks.
• Provide technical leadership to Save the Children campaigns to strengthen advocacy for gender equality and social inclusion.
• Support Country Offices in designing, testing, and evaluating innovations that advance transformative programming, including those that engage with local Women’s Rights Organizations.
• Distill program learnings into actionable guidance and thought leadership for both internal and external audiences.
• Lead or support the creation of tools and resources to embed gender equality and socialinclusion acrossprogramming, advocacy, partnerships, and operations.
• Monitor sector developments to adapt and refine program models andidentifynew research opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Communications team to produce anddisseminatecompelling technical and project-related materials.

Capacity Building

• Support development and implementation of capacity-strengthening plans with Country Offices and local partners.
• Advise on donorpriorities ,guiding alignment with language and expectations.
• Build internal capacity by developing and delivering high-quality training on applying gender equality and social inclusion principles and normative change.

Qualifications include (but are not limited to):

• Post-secondary education in a relevant field or…