Gender Expert 

The Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC), was established in 1992, as a coalition of women’s grassroots committees and organizations. It strives for the empowerment of women economically and socio-politically with the aim of achieving social justice. 

Duration: 10 months, Full time Job 

Place: Ramallah Office 

Responsibilities

WATC  seeks qualified applicants for the position of Gender Expert in the programs departments with the following responsibilities:

1. Conducting a participatory analysis of the context and services, through meetings and focus groups;
2. Provision of instruments to enable WATC mainstreaming gender in the multi sectorial integrated programming;
3. Formulate adequate indicators from a gender-perspective;
4. Support the integration of gender principles into the project cycle management;
5. Identify WATC (gender-based violence) referral systems already existing in the West Bank;
6. Understand the methodology and the needs assessment tools included in the WATC developed CPA (Community-based Protection Approach);
7. Support the implementation of key recommendations in terms of gender;
8. Analyze the collection of gender-related data in the targeted communities target of the project;
9. Support the identification of protection and gender-related problems in each target community;
10. Elaborate of the balance of gender and its expected objectives;

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Knowledge, Experience, and Skills

1. University degree (minimum of Bachelor’s Degree, post-graduate degree preferred) in Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Development or a similarly related field
2. At least 3 years of experience in the subject area, preferably with both local and international experience, including proven experience in design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of gender projects
3. Excellent knowledge of the gender context in Palestine 
4. Experience in research and policy analysis
5. Excellent spoken and written communications skills in Arabic and English is essential
6. Strong leadership and organizational skills
7. Flexible, capable of working under pressure and against deadlines
8. Impeccable presentation and strong networking skills
9. Ability to work individually as well as in a team.
10. An existing network of contacts in the field of gender and VAWG prevention in Palestine would be an asset
11. Experience in monitoring and evaluation preferable.

Interested candidates are required to send their cover letter and curriculum vitae by email to [email protected] no later than October 14th.

Please ensue that you state the position title as the email subject.