Turkey: CARE is looking for Gender and Protection Specialist

I-Position Summary

Under the supervision of the Deputy Director for Program Quality (DDPQ), the incumbent will lead in integration of gender and protection throughout the Refugee and Cross Border program for CARE Turkey. Working with the sectoral leads across both Cross Border and Refugee Programming s/he will lead the development and implementation of high-quality gender and protection action plans relevant to the local context and the organizational priorities.

S/he will be tasked to develop a common vision and improve staff and partner engagement, cooperation and collaboration while continuously increasing their capacity to learn and maintain a sharing and learning culture within their respective and across organizations. The incumbent will lead team-based approaches and process with staff and partners to identify gender and protection learning and research opportunities in line with the CO strategy. Therefore, the ability to effectively work with a diverse group, across program teams and partners; both directly and remotely will be essential to the success of the post

Under the strategic guidance of the DDPQ and in collaboration with the Program Quality Team leadership, the incumbent will provide technical leadership and support to proposal development for Protection and Gender. As well as, provide leadership to ensure the overall technical quality of all CARE Turkey programming through gender and protection mainstreaming.

II - Responsibilities

Job Responsibility #1: Protection and Gender Mainstreaming Across CARE Turkey’s Portfolio (25%)

• Initiate the development of gender action plans (GAPs) for all projects and provide consistent follow up to ensure managers are implementing as per the plan.
• Ensure sufficient review of GAPs with Partners and CARE Program teams, capturing learning from GAP processes and synthesizing GAP lessons
• Ensure that gender analysis is in place and that it is regularly updated and made available for program decision making.
• Ensure that all MEAL tools are gender sensitive, at a minimum, and collect the required level of protection related information to allow sufficient analysis of do no harm.
• Periodically review the tools, process and systems that allow the program to embed gender sensitivity and transformative approaches in CO design and implementation processes, adapting based on learning and need.
• Work closely with M&E staff (CARE and partner), and KM and Learning Manager to ensure use of specific gender sensitive M&E methods and monitoring and evaluation of gender specific outcomes and impacts.

Job Responsibility #2: Capacity Building of CARE Teams and Partners (25%)

• Conduct organizational capacity assessments for new and existing partners and contribute to the Partnership Committee on partner selection for technical protection partners. Lead gender audits for partners.
• Conduct Protection technical assessments for new and existing partners to enable categorization of partners based on technical capacity.
• Facilitate implementation of the Protection capacity development plan/s for CO and partner staff, sharing the activities across the Protection program team.
• Develop/identify training material and tools for key gender and protection mainstreaming areas.
• Provide training on key gender and protection mainstreaming areas for CARE teams, partners, and the IV team members
• Track and share gender and protection mainstreaming issues with the Partnership Manager as a contribution to Protection partner monitoring and management.

Job Responsibility #3: Program Design and Protection and Gender Technical Advisory Support (25%)

• Lead on action planning for PSEA activities in CARE Turkey and partners.
• Develop/review protection technical SOPs and tools with the Protection program team and ensure partners and staff are trained to implement as per SOPs.
• Develop appropriate gender and protection training material (TOT, facilitation guides for local staff and volunteers) based on assessments, available CARE resources and other sources.
• Lead on the measurement of technical quality standards across the protection program to check the quality of implementation
• Provide technical inputs to the program team on appropriate targeting criteria and mechanisms to ensure the needs of identified vulnerable groups are met.
• Work with the Protection program manager and MEAL Unit to develop protection monitoring plans inclusive of capturing outcome level change as a result of protection interventions.
• Ensure that gender and protection outcomes are included in project log frames with sufficient resources in corresponding budgets.
• Review protection program reports and data to assure quality of implementation and participate in project review meetings to ensure quality assurance across the program.
• Support the development and monitoring of the CARE Turkey protection strategy, led by the Protection program team
• Manage gender and protection related consultants focusing on mainstreaming such as PSEA, do no harm etc.
• Provide technical review of all protection focused proposals, as well as review of all proposals for gender and protection mainstreaming inclusion.
• Provide technical review of all protection focused donor reporting, as well as review of all donor reports for gender and protection mainstreaming inclusion.

Job Responsibility #4: Coordination, Advocacy and Learning (25%)

• Produce a CARE Turkey Gender Strategy, and report against the strategy.
• Work with the CARE WoS Gender and Protection Advisor to join up Gender equity efforts across the hubs
• Work with CARE Turkey’s Communications Advisor, WoS Gender and Protection staff, ACDs, and the CARE Syria Advocacy focal point to contribute regional CARE advocacy efforts.
• Attend relevant coordination forums for Protection and Gender work
• Cooperate/coordinate with relevant CARE networks and external stakeholders and networks (e.g. psychosocial networks, protection coordination mechanisms)
• Lead the capturing of learning and sharing of best practices on gender and protection work
• Participate in multi-agency assessments as and when deemed appropriate.

Other:

• Any other task as required by line manager.

III - Requirements

Required

• Master’s Degree in Gender Studies, Social Work, International Relations, Conflict transformation, Development studies, or related discipline. A bachelor’s degree will be acceptable only if the candidate can demonstrate sufficient experience in gender and protection programming in conflict settings.
• Four to six years of experience working on gender and protection issues in humanitarian contexts, including experience of field-level management of complex humanitarian response and resilience programs; and all phases of the project/program cycle.
• Proven experience of successful capacity-building of humanitarian field staff and partners on gender and protection concepts, theory and practice.
• Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English.
• Ability to work in multi-cultural team.
• Commitment to CARE Core value and principles.
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Strong networking capability
• Ability to organize and facilitate training sessions
• Ability to develop capacity building frameworks and work plans
• Fluency in English is essential. Arabic is desired.

Desired

• Six plus years of experience in not-for-profit organization with experience in complex emergency environments
• Extensive experience in mainstreaming gender, use of gender analysis tools and other approaches.
• Experience in working on psychosocial issues, including design and implementation of psychosocial programming

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluency in written and oral English. Must be able to read and interpret documents, and communicate with others as necessary to perform job duties effectively. Excellent report writing skills.

Child Protection Policy

Child abuse in all forms is unacceptable to CARE Turkey, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work. CARE Turkey is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of child abuse and exploitation.

Discrimination, Abuse and Harassment Policy

CARE Turkey expressly prohibits and will not tolerate any form of discrimination, abuse, harassment (sexual or otherwise), based upon race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship status, disability, or military status. CARE employees and related personnel must under no circumstances take part in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside CARE.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Employment is subject to the possession of valid identification documents (passport, residency card, temporary protection card, etc.) and successfully obtaining permission to work by the Government of Turkey (work permit). CARE will submit the work permit application on behalf of the selected candidate after the job offer accepted. Candidate can start to work for CARE only after the work permit is received. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Turkey will result in your employment offer being rescinded.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested candidates, please send a Curriculum Vitae in English and a Cover letter (in a separate file of no more than one A4 page) describing how your skills and experience match the requirements of this post by e-mail to turcarehr@care.org

Applications in languages other than English will not be reviewed.

“Applications are strongly encouraged from female candidates“

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.