TITLE: Gender and Disability Specialist
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Development and Qualit y LOCATION: Kaduna State
GRADE: 3 CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 Year
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work involves visiting project communities.
As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis. The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy.


ROLE PURPOSE:
Save the Children is a leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in need around the world. With its headquarters in London, UK, SCI works in over 120 countries globally, including Nigeria, helping children survive, learn and be protected by improving their education, health, nutrition, protection and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters.
Save the Children International (SCI), Nigeria is implementing Reaching Out of School Children (ROOSC) Project in Kaduna State, Nigeria. This is a 4-year initiative to support crisis-affected out of school children (aged 6-14) to exercise their equal rights to quality education and gender equality. The project is funded by Educate a Child, Islamic Development Bank, Global Partnership in Education and Kuwait fund.
The ROOSC project is designed to support Kaduna State government in ensuring the inclusive and equitable provision of quality primary education for all children. Project approach, strategies, and interventions are gender-sensitive and promote disability inclusion in primary education provision. Adequate attention will be given to infrastructure and providing facilities and teaching-learning supplies and processes to ensure child-friendly and enabling environments in schools and learning centres to promote and sustain enrolment, full participation, completion, and quality learning outcomes in primary education.

The Gender and Disability Specialist will support the ROOSC Partners and Community Support to Learning the project , to provide technical support to guide and inform gender- and disability-inclusive programming in Kaduna state, Northwest Nigeria. She/he will provide technical support to mainstream gender as a cross-cutting themes for all the programmatic activities in the ROOSC project. She/he will ensure gender and disability is integrated into the results based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting disability inclusion, gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity strengthening for field teams and partner organizations of SCI via training and tool development. She/he will not only ensure ROOSC education programmes are disability-inclusive and gender sensitive but aims to provide support to make such programmes become gender transformative.


SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Senior Gender Equality Technical Advisor


KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
Human Resources Management and Development:
Working together with the ROOSC team and partners to identify learning and development needs of the project teams and develop specific plans to address the learning needs.


BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)


QUALIFICATIONS

• MSc in Gender Studies, Human rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience
• At least 8 years of work experience on gender mainstreaming in both humanitarian and development contexts or fragile states

• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required •

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Female candidates and Persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.


Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.


Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and DEI policies and procedures.


Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.


Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.