SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR, GENDER JUSTICE AND DIGITAL INNOVATION

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

CARE is a leading humanitarian and development organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice with a special emphasis on rights programming, gender equality, and women and girls. CARE works in a variety of contexts from protracted crises to stable development settings, as well as contexts in the nexus between these two types, and recognizes that the underlying drivers of poverty are gender inequity, non-inclusive governance, poor adaptation to climate change and the inability to manage other economic and political shocks and stressors. Climate change and ecological breakdown, crippling inequality, and humanitarian emergencies threaten the fundamental human rights of all people and fall disproportionately and acutely on women and girls.

Gender equality is therefore the central organizing principle of CARE’s Vision 2030 and the heart of CARE’s programmatic and organizational ambitions and targets. Gender Equality is integrated into all CARE impact areas and sectoral goals. CARE’s Gender Equality Framework provides the overarching theory of change for the three focal areas of gender equality and all CARE’s impact areas. It reflects CARE’s understanding that gender transformation requires changes in discriminatory structures and unequal power relations, as well as in the individual agency of women, girls and marginalised groups – and for positive changes in these domains to be sustained. CARE also realizes that one of the reasons that women and girls bear the greatest brunt of poverty and discrimination is their lack of access to digital technology and its affordances. As the development sector as an industry moves towards digital dissemination and programming, women and girls are often left behind as a consequence of the “gender digital divide,” which is rooted in the gender social norms that CARE has great expertise in addressing.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and support digitalization priorities across GJ Programming (30%)
• Provide Technical support across GJ programs (30%)
• Support resource mobilization efforts to advance digital innovations in GJ (20%)
• Provide technical support and thought leadership COs in the area of technology and gender (20%)

Qualifications:

• Higher education degree (Bachelors/Masters) in development studies gender studies, or other relevant disciplines
• Deep familiarity with the digital development sector
• Experience living/working in less developed countries
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience
• Experience building, adapting and/or scaling digital solutions for women and marginalized populations
• Track record of managing vendors, developers and other tech and media partnerships to deliver high-quality results on time and budget
• Ability to “translate” and bridge the divide between technologists and community development specialists
• Deep awareness of technologies and providers suited to and/or targeting rural low-income markets, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and particularly digital training and awareness building solutions
• Past success developing and scaling solutions within a large, decentralized organization
• Strong internal motivation, self-starter and ability to work amid ambiguity
• Aware of the principles of human centered design (HCD) and the Digital Development Principles
• Strong inter-personal and cross-cultural communication skills
• Commitment to gender equality, women’s empowerment and social justice