The GIZ regional project “Social Protection for Women in the MENA region” is seeking to hire a “Gender, Equality Advisor” based in Jordan for full-time base employment.
Qualifications and specialist knowledge
- Bachelor’s or master’s Degree in social or political sciences, development studies, gender studies or other related fields
- Strong technical knowledge with at least 5 years working experience in the area of gender equality and/or social protection, preferably with a focus on gender-responsive and gender-transformative social protection design and implementation
- At least 7 years of working experience in development projects within governmental or non-governmental organisations
- Excellent communication skills and networking ability
- Ability to work independently and as part of a (remote) team across different countries
- Fluency in Arabic and English
Main responsabilities
- Representation of the project “Social Protection for women in the MENA region” in Jordan
- Coordination of project implementation in Jordan on all levels (e.g. coordination of country team activities in the scope of the Innovation Lab, country level studies on gender and social protection topics, support to intermediary organisations for IEC activities)
- Leading the communication with partner organisations in Jordan (Social security corporation SSC and other implementation partners)
- Responsibility for the internal and external communication of the project in Jordan
- Implementation of cross-cutting tasks (e.g support to the set-up and implementation of the internal M&E system of the project, support to event and knowledge management )
- Close coordination with relevant GIZ projects in Jordan in the Good Governance and Communities / Employment clusters
- Where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is willing to perform tasks outside the scope of the job description.
Brief about the project
The regional project „Social Protection for Women in the MENA region” implemented by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) aims to enhance the gender-equitable design of social protection systems in selected partner countries in the MENA region. It promotes regional collaboration to advance the access of women to social protection systems, with a specific focus on social insurance coverage for women working in the informal economy.
The project works in three key areas:
- It sensitizes state actors in the region to the need to design gender-responsive and gender-transformative approaches in social protection. It also helps to make policy evidence-based. To do this, it analyzes what social protection needs women have and what barriers make it difficult for them to access social protection in the respective partner countries.
- It promotes regional exchange between cooperating countries to discuss challenges and jointly develop innovative ideas how to promote access to social protection for women via so-called “Innovation Labs”. Country teams, consisting of decision makers and key actors from politics, business, science and civil society, develop and pilot innovative solutions and mutually advise each other in a peer-to-peer approach.
- The project also supports intermediary organizations and enables them to educate women about their right to social protection and and facilitate access to existing social protection programmes.
The project cooperates with regional and international partners, such as the International Social Security Association (ISSA), the Arab Women Organization (AWO), UN Women, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA) and the Union for the Mediterranean ( UfM).
Emanating from GIZ’s role in enhancing and promoting the efficiency and competency of its political partners and entities and their respective employees, and in view of GIZ’s aim at maintaining and encouraging the stability of employment at its political partners and entities, this position will not be available to any official employee currently working at any of GIZ’s political partners, governmental ministry, department or entity, including any official employees who are on unpaid leave.
GIZ is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, gender or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities. Remuneration will be in accordance with the candidate's qualifications, experience, as well as the scope of responsibility of the job announced and in line with local standards.
GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.
GIZ will send feedback only to the candidates that are shortlisted and interviewed.