Gender and Disability Inclusion Coordinator (Yobe) at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Gender and Disability Inclusion Coordinator

Location: Yobe
Employment Type: Full-time
Grade: 3
Team: ECW MYRP II, Nigeria
Child Safeguarding:  Level 4

Role Purpose

• Through an "integrated approach" in project implementation, the Gender and Disability Inclusion Coordinator will oversee the implementation of GEDI activities and support the ECW MYRP II team and implementing partners by offering technical help to direct and inform gender-disability-inclusive programming.
• The Gender and Disability Inclusion Coordinator will enhance gender equality by promoting meaningful participation of girls and boys and children with disabilities in quality education and strengthening gender responsive education systems. S/he will train teachers to understand GEDI inclusion and identification of girls and boys exposed to GBV) in both formal and non-formal schools. 
• Strengthen gender-responsive teaching strategies, analyse capacity gaps, and provide timely feedback for improved practices. 
• S/he will also advocate for female caregivers in school-based management committees, support GBV survivors, young mothers, and girls who drop out due to early marriage and pregnancies and provide life skills and mentoring programs for young girls. S/he will also establish girls' agencies to discuss sensitive topics. 
• S/he will not only ensure ECW MYRP II programmes are disability-inclusive and gender sensitive but make such programmes produce high-impact and high-quality outcomes.
• Under the guidance of the Field Manager and with dotted reporting to the Programme Manager, the Gender and Disability Inclusion Coordinator will ensure that gender and disability issues identified in the proposal are addressed, and that activities are responsive to the needs of girls, boys and participation of adolescent mothers and children/women with disabilities. 
• Technical support to GEDI component in the BAY states.

Scope Of Role

• Reports to: Field Manager with dotted line of reporting to Programme Manager.
• Staff directly reporting to this post: None (support to all GEDI officer in BAY states).
• Budget responsibility: None.

Key Areas Of Accountability
Programme Implementation, Coordination & Management:

• Lead the development and implementation of the project’s evidence-based gender equality and disability inclusion analysis as well as the strategy and action plan
• Contribute GEDI-focused technical input into the project’s overall technical approach, providing written reports, and implementing an integrated set of activities to achieve project goals in a way that will expand equal opportunities and provide targeted services to the benefit of boys, girls, adolescent girls, children with disabilities and equal participation of men and women.
• Coordinate with the project team to tailor project activities to enhance the engagement and benefit of children and adolescent girls with disabilities.
• Ensure activities and results are implemented in a timely manner within budget.
• Design training materials, and train project staff, partners and stakeholders on GEDI mainstreaming, and promote the importance of GEDI activities and considerations across project delivery.
• Closely collaborate with local organizations serving and/or led by women, youth, OPDs, and other marginalized populations
• Empower girls and adolescent girls to establish girls' agencies (clubs specific for girls) in schools and communities to discuss sensitive topics around sexual reproductive health, domestic violence, early marriage.
• Strengthen gender-responsive teaching strategies through analyzing the capacity gaps in gender-responsive teaching methodologies and enhancing capacities of teachers around those identified gaps.
• Collaborate with the other thematic areas to ensure community-led and child-led platform advocate for the inclusion of children with disabilities, including girls, gender-based violence (GBV) survivors and support for their participation and acceptance in communities.
• Ensure children with disabilities are further referred for clinical assessment and provision of assistive devices (where necessary) that will enhance and ensure their participation.
• Work with the WASH team to ensure facilities are assessed for availability, functionality, safety gender-responsiveness and disability friendliness using global standard to enable safe learning environment for the needs of girls and boys with disabilities and adolescent mothers.
• In collaboration with OPS/Networks and Women and girls’ rights organisations to identify and develop/strengthen existing community referral pathways for availability information on available services for children with disabilities and adolescent girls/mothers.
• Work with the education team to build capacity of School Based Management Committees (SBMCs), Parents Teachers Association (PTAs) on GEDI and ensure female representation in the SBMC.
• Work with the team to identify adolescent girls and girls with disabilities to be engaged in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) programmes, and in the distribution of learners’ kit.
• Contribute to the project’s quarterly, biannual, and annual reports by highlighting successes, challenges, lessons learned and opportunities GEDI programming within the project and country.

Meal:

• Collaborate with the project’s MEAL staff to propose indicators and participate in the collection and analysis of data for monitoring, reporting and learning purposes ensuring the project takes a transformative, integrated approach to GEDI.
• Work with the OPDs/Networks to identify children/adolescent girls with disability in communities and support the MEAL team in training enumerators on the use of the Washington Group of Questions (WGQs) to identify children with disabilities and GEDI.
• In collaboration with the MEAL team, collate and disseminate regular project disability inclusion reports.

Human Resources Management and Development:

• Working together with the project team to identify learning and development needs of the teams and develop specific plans to address the learning needs.

Internal and external engagements:

• Develop and maintain a network of external contacts with key individuals in the state, NGO sector, civil society and the media particularly working on gender issues and participate in gender working group meetings, which may include providing oversight.

• Engage the relevant gender and disability stakeholders at State levels in support of the project cycle management.

Skills And Behaviours (Our Values In Practice):
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration:

• Actively listens to different perspectives and experiences of stakeholders
• Actively participates in networks to access and contribute to good practice
• Establishes and maintains clear communication and dialogue with disaster and conflict affected people and other stakeholders
• Establishes clear objectives with partners

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency
• Commitment to Save the Children Values

Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:

• Ensure that programme goals and activities uphold the principles of the key national and international humanitarian frameworks, codes and commitments
• Integrates beneficiary accountability principles into the approach
• Participates in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation mechanisms

Leadership: Action; Thinking; Self; Inspiring; Developing Others:

• Demonstrates approachability and trust by listening carefully to others and valuing their contribution, and making others feel comfortable by being open and honest about their thoughts and feelings
• Demonstrates self-development and management by taking responsibility for own development, and actively seeking out feedback to better understand their own strengths and weaknesses
• Makes positive statements about work
• Effectively influences others by understanding their interests and showing how they will be met by own preferred solution
• Gives constructive feedback to enhance capabilities and responsibilities to partners and others

Desirable

• Experience conducting and writing gender and inclusion analyses and developing relevant strategies
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the Nigerian country and humanitarian context strongly preferred.
• Fluency in English and Hausa in oral and written communication.
• Ability to travel within the BAY region or country as needed.
• Prior work experience in communities across Nigeria.
• Knowledge of the policies, frameworks, functions, structures and decision-making processes of key national institutions with regard to disability and gender.
• Team player with strong leadership skills.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential Criteria:

• First Degree or equivalent in Social Science, development studies, gender & development or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience. Advanced degree will be an added advantage
• At least 5 years-experience implementing on issues of gender and inclusion, including nutrition, adolescent sexual reproductive health across either development, humanitarian or refugee setting.
• Proven experience in supporting the designing, implementing, and evaluating disability-inclusive and gender-transformative social and behavior change communication interventions.
• Experience in supporting the implementation of disability-inclusive and gender-transformative approaches in any context.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team setting with minimal supervision.
• Specific knowledge of international development, disability inclusion and gender equality issues; experience engaging children and other community members on gender equality issues desirable.
• Demonstrable understanding of applying the principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in project cycle management.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment
• 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.
• Support in proposal development and project designs for the Northeast Nigeria and country as a whole.

Equal Opportunities:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity 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.

Application Closing Date
16th April, 2025, 23:59.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Women, including those with disabilities, are highly encouraged to apply.