Manager, Gender Mainstreaming and Knowledge Management at an Indigenous Non-profit and Non-governmental Organization

We are an indigenous non-profit and non-governmental organization with Head Office in Abuja and field offices in several locations in Nigeria. We are in the business of saving lives, making life more meaningful and productive for all Nigerians and especially for people living with, and affected by HIV. It is an organization built on strong core values, we believe strongly in commitment, innovation, inspiring leadership and partnerships.

We need an individual who is committed, audacious, accountable, passionate with strong core values to work with our highly experienced team at our Head and state offices in the capacity below:

Job Title: Manager, Gender Mainstreaming and Knowledge Management

Job Code: CQIM002
 Location: Abuja
Grant Duration: Subject to availability of funds and exceptional grant performance

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical guidance on mainstreaming of gender into all thematic program areas from HIV prevention through the continuum of care and treatment.
• Working with colleagues, develop activities as part of the annual work planning process across thematic areas that address gender issues while ensuring that all work plan activities are gender-sensitive or transformative.
• Facilitates knowledge building and mainstreaming of gender and HIV in related perspectives across the organization ’s programs
• Provide technical assistance to the organization state teams
• and health facilities to ensure provision of post-gender violence care services are in line with the CDC minimum package.
• Provide technical support to community-based organizations on development of discussion guides, capacity assessments, trainings- to deliver orientation to individuals on gender norms as it relates to risks of HIV infection
• Develop and maintain positive working relations with a wide network of partners, including;Government, development partners, media and CSOs.
• Develop tools, frameworks and resources to enable better gender integration in the project.
• Prepare communications materials that highlight the the organization ’s project gender equality programming, successes and lessons learned.
• Develop guidelines and tools for working with the organization partners on Gender mainstreaming.
• Provide advice on appropriate gender sensitive indicators in the performance measurement framework and support colleagues in the monitoring and reporting of program results/outputs and objectives against agreed indicators.
• Manage the successful execution of knowledge sharing events including periodic webinars, workshops, conferences, and peer learning sessions.
• Develop standard discussion guides and capacity assessment tools support all processes around learning and knowledge management for the organization.
• Improve integration and facilitation of knowledge sharing both internally and where appropriate, externally.
• Work with the communications team to ensure results are harvested and documented through monitoring and assessment.
• Work with the communication team in the dissemination of results and good programmatic success stories.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master's Degree in Social Sciences, Public Health or related field
•  At least 6 years’ post qualification work experience including at least 4 years managing a gender portfolio
• Experience in implementing gender services in the context of HIV and knowledge of WHO, PEPFAR/CDC minimum package of services for gender-based violence survivors.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure gender integration in project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience in planning and management of multi-year activities, including reporting both data and narrative results of progress
• Evidence of capacity to support implementation of gender norms re-orientation and links with HIV/ AIDS
• Excellent conceptual, analytical, writing and oral communication and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of knowledge management principles and capacity to deliver knowledge management and/or organizational learning activities
• Ability to link content development and engagement strategies that facilitate timely, useful delivery of information through project learning platforms and activities.
• Sensitivity to cultures and social systems, and genuine interest in capacity building responses to development issues
• Ability to navigate culturally sensitive terrain and maintain constructive relationships with a diverse set of key stakeholders

Application Closing Date
10th August, 2022.