Gender Officer
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Rural development, Community Development, Social Work
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $570 - $870
The position is for STRONGER Project
Duration: A one-year contract with the possibility of extension
Location: based in Preah Vihear Province, with occasional travel to Stung Treng Province.
Period Assignment: Dec 2026 – Nov 2027, with high possibility extension
Duties & Responsibilities:
- GBV-Focused Health Services, Outreach, and Information
- Plan, coordinate, implement, and monitor GBV-related activities under the assigned project stream.
- Coordinate capacity-building activities for health workers, VHWs, and VHSGs on survivor-centred GBV response, SRHR, outreach, and referral services.
- Support GBV outreach services and Community Help Desks to improve access to information, support, and referral services.
- Integrate service continuity, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and safeguarding into GBV outreach and response activities.
- Gender Mainstreaming and Support to Project holders
- Ensure that gender-transformative and inclusive approaches are integrated into AGW participation, community leadership, community-led actions, and advocacy activities under the relevant stream.
- Coordinate with the Community-Led Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (Colmeal) Specialist to strengthen gender-responsive participation and capacity building, including community-led solution design, Community Action Grants, monitoring, and the use of data for advocacy.
- Develop and implement a Gender Equality Strategy and action plan.
- Technical Support and Coordination
- Provide gender-related technical support to activities holders, including GBV policies, protocols, standards, service planning, and governance in collaboration with health facilities, local authorities, and other relevant duty-bearers.
- Support the mobilization, capacity building, action planning, monitoring, and multisectoral coordination of professional communities working on GBV response.
- Gender Equality Strategy, Monitoring and Evaluation, Reporting
- Lead the development, implementation, review, and monitoring of the Gender Equality Strategy (GES) and annual action plans across all three project streams.
- Conduct field monitoring, gender analysis, assessments, and data quality checks to track gender equality results.
- Consolidate gender-related results, success stories, and lessons learned for project reporting and organizational learning.
- Provide gender-related inputs into annual work plans, budgets, reports, and management decisions.
- Identify and communicate gender-related risks, implementation gaps, and opportunities to the project team.
- Represent ADRA Cambodia in gender equality working groups, coordination meetings, and relevant sector forums.
- Promote gender-sensitive organizational policies and practices in line with the Do No Harm principles.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- English - Fluent
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in social sciences or related fields.
Work History:
- Experience supporting and implementing projects related to GBV, SRHR, health, community development, and/or nutrition for 3 years as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Demonstrated technical expertise in gender equality and gender-transformative approaches, including experience in project planning, management, monitoring, and reporting.
- Strong facilitation, coordination, data analysis, and communication skills.
- Proficiency in English.
- Willingness and ability to travel to project locations as required.
