[Hiring] Regional Gender Justice Coordinator @World Renew

Role Description

The West Africa Gender Justice Coordinator will lead and support the integration of gender equality, inclusion, and protection principles across all programs and operations in fragile and conflict-affected states. This role ensures that humanitarian and development interventions are gender-responsive, inclusive, and aligned with donor, organizational, and international standards.

• Lead the contextualization of World Renew's global gender strategy and policy for the region.
• Provide technical guidance including development of tools, templates, workshops to integrate gender equity and inclusion across humanitarian, development, and Peace programs.
• Advise leadership and technical teams on emerging trends and opportunities to advance gender-responsive programming.
• Support the design of new projects and proposals to ensure gender analysis, indicators, and approaches are integrated.
• Develop tools, frameworks, and guidelines for gender-sensitive program implementation and monitoring.
• Review existing projects and programs and propose changes to strengthen gender equality considerations.
• Support targeted gender justice initiatives (e.g., economic empowerment, gender-based violence programming, inclusion of marginalized groups).
• Build the capacity of staff, partners, and communities on gender integration, equity, and inclusion principles.
• Facilitate gender capacity assessments, trainings, workshops, and coaching sessions to enhance gender sensitivity and competency.
• Support peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing across country teams.
• Contribute to World Renew's Gender Technical Working group and community of practice.
• Collaborate with the MEAL team to integrate and monitor gender-transformative indicators and tools in program monitoring.
• Lead gender assessments, evaluations, and research to inform evidence-based programming.
• Document and share lessons learned, best practices, and success stories internally and externally.
• Represent the organization in gender-focused forums, clusters, and networks at regional and national levels.
• Build strategic partnerships with women's rights organizations, FBO's, governments, community-based groups, and gender justice networks.
• Support advocacy efforts to promote policies and practices that advance gender equity and justice.

Qualifications

• Able to respect and support the mission, vision and values of World Renew.
• Demonstrated commitment to Christ and be able to recognize this position as one that contributes to the work of His Kingdom.
• Demonstrated commitment to contribute to and promote a work environment that values diversity, inclusion and equity.
• Committed to working towards gender equality, equity and justice in all aspects of our programming, plans, policies and organizational structure.
• Strong understanding of gender equality frameworks, protection principles, and international standards (e.g., IASC Gender Guidelines, SPHERE).
• Proven ability to develop and deliver gender-focused training and technical guidance.
• Familiarity with donor requirements (USAID, ECHO, UN agencies, GAC, FCDO, CFGB) regarding gender and inclusion.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Development Studies, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in gender mainstreaming, gender justice programming, or protection roles, preferably in humanitarian or fragile contexts.
• Fluency in English and French is required.

Work Environment, Physical and Other Demands

• Computer work and concentrated reading, sitting for long periods of time.
• Setting up training sites with education process equipment and methods (including for example easels, projectors, PowerPoint and so forth).
• Travel: Up to 25% to field locations for program support and training facilitation.