Overall purpose
The Gender Advisor will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise to integrate gender equality and feminist principles into the design, implementation, and evaluation of the **Renewed Women’s Voices and Leadership- Nigeria Project (**RWVL) Project. The role will focus on strengthening the capacity of women’s rights organizations (WROs), mainstreaming gender across program activities, and ensuring that gender-transformative approaches drive the project’s impact.
Key Responsibilities
A. Technical Leadership & Gender Mainstreaming
- Provide strategic guidance on gender equality and women’s empowerment to ensure that all project components align with feminist principles.
- Lead the integration of gender perspectives in program design, implementation, and monitoring, ensuring that project interventions challenge structural inequalities.
- Develop and oversee gender mainstreaming tools, frameworks, and guidelines for WROs and project stakeholders.
- Ensure all project policies, strategies, and reports reflect gender-sensitive language and approaches.
- lead integration of intersectional feminist analysis and perspectives into programmes, activities and policies.
B. Capacity Strengthening & Partner Support
- Design and deliver gender-transformative training and capacity-strengthening initiatives for RWVL partners, stakeholders, and staff.
- Provide mentorship and technical assistance to WROs to enhance their ability to implement gender justice and women’s rights programs effectively.
- Support partners in documenting and showcasing best practices, lessons learned, and success stories from gender-responsive interventions.
C. Advocacy & Policy Engagement
- Lead the development of advocacy strategies to promote gender equality, leveraging project evidence to influence policy and legal frameworks.
- Engage with national and regional stakeholders, including government agencies, feminist networks, and CSOs, to advance women’s rights and gender equality.
- Contribute to policy briefs, reports, and communication materials that highlight gender-responsive programming and advocacy priorities.
D. Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL)
- Work closely with the MEL team to develop gender-sensitive indicators and ensure robust tracking of gender-related outcomes.
- Support gender analysis, assessments, and research to generate evidence on women’s rights, feminist movement-building, and policy engagement.
- Lead knowledge-sharing efforts by compiling best practices and lessons learned on gender integration within the project.
E. Project Management & Coordination
- Contribute to the overall strategic direction and management of the RWVL project, ensuring gender priorities are embedded in work plans and budgets.
- Collaborate with other project staff and departments to ensure coherence and synergy in gender programming.
- Review project documents, reports, and communications products to reflect gender perspectives.
To apply, kindly complete relevant application form accessed from https://nigeria.actionaid.org/jobs Application form should be sent in an MSWord attachment to [email protected]. Only electronically submitted forms will be considered. Submitted or Scanned CVs will be disregarded.
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Subject line of emails must state clearly, job title of position applied for and location e.g., Gender Advisor – Abuja
ActionAid offers competitive terms of employment. Applications from young people, women, persons with disability and candidates from the Northeast and Northwest are particularly encouraged.
Closing date for receipt of applications is Wednesday, 9th April 2025. While we respect all applicants, interview dates will be communicated only to shortlisted candidates.
