Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Somalia.

📋 Description

• Conduct a gender and social inclusion analysis as part of the comprehensive situational assessment for the TPDP.

• Identify obstacles to participation in CPD, focusing particularly on female educators in rural, nomadic, and conflict-affected regions, as well as those in Integrated Quranic Schools.

• Offer technical guidance to ensure that TPDP policies, systems, and implementation strategies are gender-sensitive and inclusive.

• Provide recommendations for the inclusive design of CPD delivery models, including methods appropriate for low-resource, low-connectivity, and geographically isolated environments.

• Facilitate the incorporation of gender and inclusion factors into stakeholder consultations with MoECHE, Federal Member States, Teacher Training Colleges, teacher associations, Islamic scholar networks, and development partners.

• Assist in developing inclusive frameworks, tools, and recommendations across essential work packages, including implementation planning, governance structures, quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation, and digital learning systems.

• Ensure that indicators, baseline tools, and reporting methodologies effectively capture relevant sex-disaggregated and inclusion-sensitive data.

• Collaborate closely with the Team Leader and other technical experts to integrate gender and inclusion considerations throughout all deliverables.

• Provide written contributions, recommendations, and review feedback to ensure that final outputs are practical, evidence-based, and aligned with the Somali context.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Education, Social Science, or a related discipline.

• At least 8 years of pertinent professional experience.

• Proven experience in gender-responsive program design.

• Demonstrated expertise in analyzing barriers to female teacher participation and broader social inclusion challenges.

• Experience in designing or advising on inclusive CPD, education, or teacher development strategies in rural, nomadic, fragile, or low-resource settings.

• Solid understanding of equity and inclusion issues that impact access, participation, and retention within educational systems.

• Experience working on donor-funded education initiatives, ideally in fragile or conflict-affected contexts.

• Professionally proficient and fluent in both written and spoken English.

🏝️ Benefits

• EDC is a smoke-free workplace.