Advisor, Gender Equality and Inclusion

ABOUT THE ROLE / WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS

CARE Canada’s bold Strategic Plan, From Caring Comes Courage (2021 – 2027), sets out CARE Canada’s commitment to bring all our resources, talent, and expertise together to unlock women’s leadership for a gender-just future. It recognizes that to lead change and realize a better life for herself and her community, every woman needs to be safe, healthy and have a dignified livelihood. It also fundamentally realizes that ‘business as usual’ is no longer good enough: this Plan challenges us to reimagine how we achieve our mission, inspire Canadian investment in that mission, and transform our organization to be future-ready.

CARE Canada’s Global Programs unit is responsible for developing and managing the organization’s programs in both development and humanitarian assistance focusing on the injustice of poverty and gender inequality. The new Strategic Plan reaffirms our gender-equality focus and our dual-mandate status. Our ultimate impact goal is to support women’s leadership for a gender-just future grounded in strong programs supporting safety/protection, health and dignified livelihoods across both humanitarian and development settings. The Global Programs unit is responsible for the overall management of CARE Canada’s global programming circa $50-60m annual development and humanitarian programming portfolio.

The Gender Equality and Inclusion Advisor will be a key contributor to CARE Canada’s overall success and effectiveness. The Gender Equality and Inclusion Advisor will advance CARE Canada’s commitment to program quality, specifically by supporting gender equality, inclusion and commitments to gender based violence across the organization. They will seek to ensure strong alignment of new programs and existing programs with CARE Canada’s Strategic Plan, with a particular focus on ensuring gender transformative and innovative program design and implementation.

WHAT YOU OFFER / ABOUT YOU

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 6 or more years of professional experience in a role directly related to gender equality, disability inclusion, and/or women’s rights, women’s economic justice and/or GBV risk mitigation programming
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills and experience designing, supporting or leading women’s economic justice programming and or gender-transformative agricultural market systems or climate change projects
• Demonstrated experience designing or delivering projects/services related to women’s economic justice or gender equality and inclusion more broadly. 
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development.
• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share program impact
• Expertise in qualitative data research, analysis and interpretation.
• Demonstrated commitment to feminist partnership, localization and shifting power amongst actors and/or experience encouraging leadership of and meaningful partnership with women’s rights organizations
• Experience using coaching and participatory approaches to move teams towards results.
• Fluency in both French and English, including written and spoken.
• Excellent cross-cultural communication skills.  

WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY

• Experience as a people manager
• Experience supporting projects in West Africa
• Experience designing and/or implementing disability inclusion programming
• Knowledge of results-based monitoring for gender equality and inclusion
• Participation on research projects on gender equality, inclusion and women’s rights. 
• Experience working within an international NGO context.
• Experience with GAC an asset.
• Knowledge of feminist theory and/or experience with feminist programming 
• Experience working on gender equality and inclusion in emergency or nexus contexts. 
• Experience with developing or implementing positive masculinities or engaging men and boys programming.
• Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese.

REQUIREMENTS

Promote and maintain an organizational culture that advances gender equality, reduces power abuse and inequalities, and fosters trust and safety.  

Create an environment within CARE’s workplaces, programming, and communities where CARE works that is free from sexual harassment, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation and child abuse (SHEA-CA).  

Ensure high standards of prevention and response measures for SHEA-CA are in place consistent with the CARE International (CI) Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct. 

WHAT WE OFFER / ABOUT CARE

• Starting salary range between $80,340-$85,490
• Comprehensive benefits package and confidential employee assistance program services available to you and your dependents from your first day of employment
• 3 weeks of annual leave (increases to 4 weeks from 2^nd year of employment)
• In addition to annual leave, we offer a December 24-January 1 office closure so we can all recharge simultaneously
• Inclusive holiday policy
• Paid sick leave
• Parental leave top-up
• Employer contributions to group pension plan after first year of employment
• Optional participation in group RRSP (eligible from first day of employment)
• International and domestic travel opportunities
• Annual all-staff retreat in Ottawa
• Learning and development opportunities and specialized training
• Flexible work hours to support employee wellbeing and productivity
• A focus on wellness and work-life balance
• Amazing colleagues who are very committed to CARE’s mission

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