Gender Advisor, Climate Change Advisor - Washington, United States - Social Impact

Description

GenDev ISC - Gender Advisor, Climate Change Advisor**Social Impact is a global development management consulting firm. We provide monitoring, evaluation, strategic planning, and capacity building services to advance development effectiveness. We work across all development sectors including democracy and governance, health and education, the environment, and economic growth. Since 1997 we have worked in over 100 countries for clients such as US government agencies, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, foundations, and nonprofits.


Labor Category:
Gender Subject Matter Expert


Requesting Mission/Office:
USAID/GenDev***
Place of Performance:Hybrid


Clearance Requirement:
Facility Access


Period of Performance:
July 1, 2024-September 22, 2027**
Anticipated Travel:Travels internationally in support of capacity strengthening efforts with USAID missions and partners a possibility, up to 3-5 trips a year (if possible)


Background:

The United States Agency for International Development's (USAID's) Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Hub (GenDev), is one of five Hubs within the Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships, and Innovation (IPI).

GenDev advances gender equality and women's empowerment as fundamental for the realization of human rights, and key to effective and sustainable development outcomes.

The Hub collaborates with Operating Units (OUs) across the Agency supporting USAID's programming globally, in all sectors.

It promotes evidence-based gender equality and women's empowerment programming throughout the Agency through its technical outreach and thought leadership, training, technical assistance, and communication outreach.

USAID Gender Equality
Objectives:

• Reduce gender disparities in who accesses, controls, and benefits from economic, social, political, legal, educational, health, and cultural resources, as well as wealth, opportunities, and services;
• Strive to eliminate genderbased violence (GBV)and mitigate its harmful effects on individuals and communities, so all people can live free from violence;
• Increase the capability of women and girls to fully exercise their rights, determine their life outcomes, assume leadership roles, and influence decisionmaking in households, communities, and societies; and
• Advance structural changes that address the root causes of gender inequality and promote equitable gender norms.

Position Objective:

The Gender Advisor, Climate Change Advisor will provide technical assistance in USAID priority environment and climate sectors and leads training and capacity building related to the integration of gender into USAID climate and environment programming.

The Gender Advisor is embedded within USAID's Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Hub (GenDev) and ensures that programs funded by GenDev not only reflect USAID's priorities related to gender equality and women's empowerment, but also advance the agency's related policies and strategies, such as the Biodiversity Policy and the Climate Change Strategy.

In addition, the Gender Advisor will contribute to the coordination, development and implementation of the US National Strategy for Gender Equity and Equality.

This full-time role is fully embedded within USAID's GenDev team and is based in the Washington DC area. This position has a hybrid work schedule with anticipated work from the office at least once a week.


Scope of Work:

• Provides technical leadership on program design; leading integration of gender into a wide range of USAID climate and environment,
• Serves as Gender Advisor to select Teams and OUs within the agency, specifically the Biodiversity and Natural Climate Solutions teams within the Center for Natural Environment and to the Center for Climate-Positive Development
• Collaborate with Missions and provide guidance on gender integration in design of genderresponsive environment activities
• Represents GenDev and provides technical leadership at the interagency level, such as providing USAID's inputs on interagency UNFCCC gender and climate policies and by providing USAID's technical inputs on national strategies and policies addressing gender and climate
• Supports development of guidance materials and other learning resources designed to increase the integration of gender into climate and environment programming throughout the agency
• Provides knowledge management and communications guidance and support
• Serves as Activity Manager for relevant USAID environment and gender programs and partnerships
• Represents GenDev externally and internally including at Missions and the Interagency, providing technical leadership on gender in climate and environment policies and strategies.
• Leads efforts to advance genderresponsive climate action within USAID's implementation plan for the US Government National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality through tracking and monitoring progress, providing te