Adolescent Development and Gender Specialist

The Adolescent Development and Gender Specialist provides technical guidance/operational support throughout all stages of programming to facilitate the management and delivery of results contributing to gender equality and adolescent development and participation.
The post supports the development, implementation, and monitoring of high-quality gender and adolescence programming across sectors. i.e. 1) supports senior programme colleagues and management of the Country Office to mainstream gender and adolescent participation by prioritizing key results within relevant sector(s) and sub-sectors; 2) leads cross-sectional collaboration and coordination on key programmatic results on gender and adolescence, ensuring coherence, maximization of synergies and efficiency in utilization of resources and delivery of results; 3) works with programme colleagues and management so that gender and adolescence results are effectively defined, measured, and reported, and high quality assessment, research, evidence generation and evaluation is undertaken and utilized,; 4) Supports/leads effective review, assessment, planning, capacity building, and knowledge management on gender and adolescent development and participation; 5) Supports the assessment and identification of gender and adolescence needs for emergency preparedness and response, and provides gender and adolescence-relevant guidance and technical input on emergency programming.
Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Representative-Programmes, the Adolescent Development and Gender Specialist undertakes the following: