Gender and Social Inclusion Consultant at United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Advises on the integration of gender equality, women’s empowerment, and disability inclusion into core UNDRR Regional Office for Africa processes, including integrating gender and disability into programme design and implementation.
• Provide guidance to UNDRR grantees who are developing Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training materials to ensure they are gender-responsive and disability inclusive.
• Analyse materials that have been developed for UNDRR Asia-Pacific and/or other UNDRR branches and adapt them for the Africa context (questionnaires, gender-responsive DRR training modules).
• Support the Regional Office for Africa to ensure the promotion and inclusion of women’s leadership, gender equality, disability inclusive DRR is part of the Africa Regional Platform for DRR 21-24 October 2024 in Windhoek Namibia.
• Support the roll out of the disability and gender annex in Making Cities Resilient 2023 (MCR2030) and the gender and disability Inclusive early warning early action: checklist and implementation guide
• Support Programme Management Officers to roll out trainings on the Gender Action Plan to support implementation of Sendai Gender Action Plan (GAP).

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced University degree in international development studies, humanities, social sciences, gender, disability studies or related field is required.
• A first level university degree with a combination of 2 additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible programme management experience in gender mainstreaming, women’s leadership and/or inclusion in disaster risk reduction, humanitarian response, or development programming, is required.
• Experience working within the UN system in the Africa region is desirable.