Purpose: The position holder will facilitate integration of Plan’s Gender Equality and Inclusion Policy across thematic programs thereby providing implementation and technical guidance to the program team and Gender & Children Rights Program Coordinators at Field Offices. 

Term and Location: Fixed term employment for 3 years based in Country Office, Lalitpur.

Required Qualifications & Experiences:

• Master’s Degree in Gender Studies, development studies, social science, or relevant field with experience in managing and leading gender related programmes 
  
• At least 5 years of technical advisory / program experience in designing, implementing and evaluating gender programmes.
  
• In-depth knowledge on gender and development issues along with hands-on experience of mainstreaming gender issues 
  
• Knowledge of advocacy and lobbying together with providing policy inputs on strategic gender mainstreaming
  
• Skilled in conducting gender analysis, assessments and developing gender sensitive methodologies for programme and related evaluations 
  
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills with ability to multitask and coordinate with multiple stakeholders
  
• Excellent command and proficiency in spoken and written English and Nepali languages
  
• In-depth understanding of the international human rights framework for development, key development  issues, approaches and tools
  
• Knowledgeable about working in disaster management context and relevant humanitarian response 
  
• Proven knowledge of latest debates, issues, research and practice in Gender & Child Rights programs and programme implementation in a range of contexts – local, national and regional
  
• Up-to-date on various project design and evaluation models and government program and policies
  
• Knowledge of the Nepal Government Policies, Program Priorities and Ministry of women, children and social welfare
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Support and work with the program team to design, plan and develop program, including proposals to ensure  quality gender transformative and inclusion perspective
  
• Identify and work with team to integrate innovative approaches of Gender equality and inclusion integration/mainstreaming activities in program component
  
• Support the team in developing gender sensitive data collection tools , gender analysis throughout the program life cycle and the reporting matrix
  
• Guide and advise the team with the development of tools to increase the participation of girls or to remove existing barriers and to create equal participation engaging men in social change process
  
• Assist program team in developing strategies and integrating gender perspectives in the institutional collaboration/ partnership programs at the country and district/province levels.
  
• Support and guide program team including Gender & Children Rights Program Coordinators to identify issues for influencing aiming at gender equality and realization of children and girls rights at national and grass root level.
  
• Work in a team on developing training guidelines and session for training staff and partners in implementing gender transformative approaches into all aspects of work.
  
• Promote Plan International Nepal as a gender sensitive organisation through effective implementation of Gender and Inclusion Self-Assessment (GEISA) recommendations and action plan
  
• Facilitate sessions to staff and partner staff on integrating Gender equality and inclusion while conducting the components’ technical training and capacity building initiatives, and according to the needs. 
  
• Coordinate with field team and compile, identify, prioritize the major issues on Gender equality and inclusion and to prepare appropriate advocacy plan and its implementation 
  
• Coordinate and facilitate to build strategic alliances with other key actors internally and externally to advocate for gender-transformative programming. 
  
• Provide technical support to field team and identify opportunities for the development of relevant advocacy and communication/information materials to address gender (in)equality issues 
  
• Coordinate and liaise with program partners, government line agencies and other counterparts to build the synergy and mainstream gender and inclusion in project cycle, including social and behavior change communications. 
  
• Take lead in carrying out advocacy and campaigns for eliminating gender based discriminations through partnership and networking 
  
• As a custodian of the gender mainstreaming regularly update Plan International Nepal’s Country Management Team (CMT) and Asia Regional Office’s (ARO) technical counterpart on the progress and challenges on gender equality
  
• Play a lead role as focal person for Gender in emergencies ensuring Plan International Nepal adheres to the Prevention on sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) response and commitment
  
• Involve in conducting monitoring and evaluation of the activities from gender and inclusion perspective and provide feedback in coordination with Monitoring Evaluation and Research team. 
  
• Conduct monitoring visits to the program area, provide onsite coaching and feedback to team to mainstream Gender equality and inclusion, prepare and share monitoring reports of partners in line with Gender equality and inclusion policy implementation guidelines 
  
• Identify and document the success stories and failure experiences in approaches, strategies, processes and tools and its results and disseminate it. 
  
• In coordination with social and behavior change and outreach communication team prepare learning materials out of the success and achievements (flyers, brochures, leaflet etc.) based on project based outcomes and approaches