Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion Lead, RFSA-Uganda

• Technical Leadership: Lead the integration of gender, youth, and social inclusion strategies into all program activities, ensuring they align with USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy, USAID’s Youth in Development Policy, and other relevant guidelines.

• Strategy Development: Develop and implement the program’s Gender Strategy, Youth Strategy, and Social Inclusion Strategy, ensuring that these strategies are aligned with the broader RFSA objectives.

• Capacity Building: Provide ongoing technical assistance and capacity building to program staff, partners, and stakeholders, ensuring they are well-equipped to implement GYSI activities effectively.

• Program Implementation: Ensure that gender, youth, and social inclusion considerations are integrated into all phases of the project lifecycle, from design to monitoring and evaluation.

• Monitoring and Evaluation: Collaborate with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team to develop and track GYSI-related indicators, ensuring that data is collected, analyzed, and used to inform program adaptations.

• Community Engagement: Work with community leaders and local stakeholders to promote gender equity, youth empowerment, and social inclusion in program interventions.

• Prevention and Response: Lead efforts to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) within the program, including the creation and mapping of GBV referral pathways.

• Knowledge Management: Document and share best practices and lessons learned in GYSI, contributing to the program’s overall learning agenda.

• Compliance: Ensure that all program activities comply with USAID’s gender equality and social inclusion standards.

• Cross-Sector Integration with Protection Mainstreaming: Collaborate with project teams to ensure the integration of social protection strategies and the Graduation Approach across all program activities. Employ basic knowledge of protection mainstreaming to enhance alignment with national frameworks and boost the resilience and food security of target communities.

• Master’s degree in gender studies, international development, social sciences, or a related field.

• Minimum of seven years of experience in gender, youth, and social inclusion activities in the context of international development, with a focus on resilience and food security programming.

• Demonstrated experience in leading the GYSI component of large-scale international development programs, including conducting gender and social inclusion analyses.

• Proven expertise in capacity building and providing technical assistance to host government institutions and community stakeholders.

• Strong familiarity with social inequalities and dynamics in Uganda or similar contexts.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English; proficiency in French and/or local languages is an advantage.

Required Skills & Experience 

• Strong facilitation skills and the ability to manage diverse teams.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with proficiency in English and French.

• Experience in developing and managing complex databases and knowledge management systems.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, stressful environment.

• Must be detail-oriented and able to work independently and collaboratively.

Physical Demands 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with interruptions.

• To travel to the field, the employee must attest to a level of physical fitness capable of enduring physically difficult, highly stressful situations which may include the necessity to walk long distances, to eat a limited diet and/or to reside in potentially uncomfortable housing or tents.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.