Job title: Gender Advisor, Inclusive Conflict Prevention and Peace (national post)
Organization: Youth Partnership for Peace and Development
Duty station: Freetown, Sierra Leone
Job type: Full-time
Reports to: Project Manager YPPD
YPPD in Brief
The Youth Partnership for Peace and Development (YPPD) is a youth empowerment think tank established to enhance the capacity of young people and their communities to promote Peace, Human Rights, Health, and inclusion of marginalized groups, as well as the creation of open societies that promote sustainable development. Since its establishment in Sierra Leone, the organization has and continues to increase young people’s understanding to finding practical approaches to building wholesomely functioning societies that promotes peace and mutual co-existence while deepening voices and actions which demands equity and accountability for all. It maintains the view that young people can be agents of positive change and works for ways of enabling youth to step forward for social transformation.
The overarching goal of YPPD is to contribute to the endeavors of supporting youth development, peaceful conflict resolution, stability, sustainable development, peace and democracy in Sierra Leone. It works to increase the capacity of vulnerable groups through training, partnership, advocacy, enhancing the youth knowledge base and equipping them with livelihood skills. It is a platform for diverse kinds of actions committed to engaging key stakeholders at different levels of development across the country. YPPD’s work is inspired by the daily struggles of our communities and the enormous opportunity that exists in collaboratively working with others in the search for sustainable solutions.
YPPD envisions a society where young people regardless of their social status are empowered and capable enough to lead, participate and influence in order to gain access to equal opportunities as stakeholders across all sectors of mainstream development.
Description of the project
The Inclusive Conflict Prevention and Peace Project funded by the UN Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) that aims to enable young women and men, organized through youth-led CSOs and CBOs and working in solidarity with older women and men, to foster more inclusive, gender-sensitive, and conflict-sensitive community-based dispute resolution (CBDR) mechanisms in rural and peri-urban Sierra Leone. This headline goal will be achieved through: (1) equipping and mobilizing young people to identify and take action on key drivers of conflict, insecurity and injustice in their communities; (2) supporting and influencing CBDR mechanisms to adopt more inclusive, gender-sensitive, and conflict-sensitive practices, with specific focus on addressing needs of young women; and (3) enabling young people, working intergenerationally, to advocate for evidence-based conflict prevention policy and practice, and build trust with key conflict prevention stakeholders. The project will be implemented as a collaboration between Youth Partnership for Peace and Development (YPPD), one of Sierra Leone’s leading youth organizations, and Cordaid, a Dutch international humanitarian and development NGO.
Job overview
Reporting to the Project Manager, the Gender Advisor will have responsibility for providing technical expertise and leadership that ensures the project is both gender-sensitive and gender-transformative.
Key responsibilities
- Conduct and consolidate rapid gender analyses of situations at project sites and use this information to develop, with partners, gender-based action plans for various aspects of the project
- Incorporate gender dimension into needs assessments, research frameworks and youth self-assessment tool
- Advise and assist in the development of gender-sensitive training materials, adapt existing training resources and support their integration into internal and external training initiatives
- Assist all implementing actors (Cordaid, YPPD, and other partners) to incorporate gender analysis, use gender-disaggregated data, and build-in gender-transformative elements to their project activities
- Assist community-based dispute resolution (CBDR) providers to systematically integrate gender-sensitivity in their work, especially through responsiveness and accountability toward young women
- Facilitate a community of practice of young female activists within the ambit of the project
- Form strategic alliances with key actors internally and externally to advocate for gender-sensitive and gender-transformative programming and policies
- Support implementation of overall monitoring, evaluation and reporting framework
- Contribute to tracking of project indicators against targets
- Perform other tasks as assigned
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in a gender-focused role in the fields of conflict prevention and peacebuilding, security and justice, public affairs, or youth mobilization and advocacy; previous experience in a gender advisory role strongly preferred
- Strong track record working with and for youth
- Superior communication skills in English, fluency or facility in other Sierra Leonean languages preferred
- Academic qualification in a relevant discipline (anthropology, development studies, education, women’s studies) preferred
- Proven sharp analytical skills
- Proactive, entrepreneurial, and effective in a fast-paced cross-cultural work environment
- Strong written and verbal skills for communicating with a diverse audience, including internally and external high-level stakeholders
Salary
To be negotiated based on experience
TO APPLY
Send your Cover Letter and CV by email to the Human Resources Manager at: recruitments@yppdatwork.org
Please address the Subject of your email as: Gender Advisor – Inclusive Conflict Prevention and Peace.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS JANUARY 13th, 2021 @ 5PM
WOMEN CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.
Only successful applicants will receive a response