Senior Advisor – Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion

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

📋 Description

• Provide strategic and technical leadership to enhance gender equality, disability inclusion, and social inclusion throughout the East Asia region.

• Create and implement a regional GEDSI roadmap that aligns with organizational policies and child well-being priorities.

• Oversee GEDSI mainstreaming and quality assurance across both regional and national office programming, grants, and organizational systems.

• Develop the capabilities of GEDSI focal points, technical teams, leaders, partners, and representative organizations.

• Generate evidence, foster learning, encourage innovation, and position GEDSI externally across development, humanitarian, and fragile contexts.

• Manage and coordinate GEDSI-related consultancies, technical assistance engagements, and partnerships, including the formulation of scopes of work, procurement inputs, quality assurance, delivery oversight, and dissemination of outputs.

• Direct the regional GEDSI strategy, policy implementation, and organizational change initiatives.

• Integrate GEDSI into programming, organizational practices, advocacy, communications, and external engagement efforts.

• Guide GEDSI self-assessments and action plans; advocate for inclusive language, accessible workplaces, non-discrimination, and reasonable accommodation.

• Provide technical leadership for GEDSI-responsive and transformative program and proposal design.

• Advise teams on GEDSI objectives, theories of change, indicators, budgets, risk mitigation, Do No Harm principles, safeguarding, and donor requirements.

• Enhance the use of disaggregated data, including Washington Group Questions and other approved tools.

• Coach teams to monitor barriers and adjust implementation strategies to improve equitable access, participation, decision-making, systems, and well-being.

• Manage, monitor, and communicate the progress of the Disability Consultant’s workplan and deliverables.

• Develop regional capacity-strengthening plans and either deliver or coordinate training, coaching, mentoring, and peer learning opportunities.

• Build collaborative networks and communities of practice.

• Create and implement a regional GEDSI learning agenda linked to child well-being outcomes.

• Oversee research initiatives, pilots, testing, evaluations, learning reviews, impact stories, case studies, and knowledge sharing.

• Represent and position World Vision with governments, donors, UN agencies, clusters, working groups, NGOs, faith actors, academia, and regional networks.

• Establish strategic partnerships with women-led organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities, and minority groups.

• Identify opportunities for shared learning, advocacy, policy influence, resource mobilization, and thought leadership.

• Support inclusive, rights-based, and evidence-informed communications and external engagement.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree with significant relevant experience may be considered.

• Relevant professional development in gender equality, disability inclusion, social inclusion, safeguarding, program design, MEAL, or humanitarian programming.

• Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in providing strategic and technical leadership regarding gender equality, disability inclusion, and social inclusion within international development and/or humanitarian programming.

• Experience in supporting GEDSI-responsive and transformative designs, as well as mainstreaming strategies and activities across various sectors and funding streams.

• Experience leading GEDSI analyses, including gender and disability analyses, and integrating findings into design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes.

• Strong skills in facilitation, coaching, relationship-building, partnership management, influencing, writing, and presentation.

• Experience working in or across the East Asia region while adapting global approaches to diverse national and local contexts.

• Extensive experience in disability-inclusive programming, accessibility, disability-disaggregated data, partnerships with organizations of persons with disabilities, and rights-based approaches.

• Experience in organizational change, policy implementation, advocacy, research, knowledge management, external engagement, and donor positioning.

• Experience in leading or supporting organizational GEDSI self-assessments, audits, or action plans, as well as building the capabilities of staff and partners.

• Experience applying Do No Harm, safeguarding, and ethical approaches to gender-based violence and other GEDSI-related risks.

• Proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

• The successful candidate must be based in their home country.

• Preferred: Master’s degree or equivalent in gender studies, disability studies, social or political sciences, social work, international development, economics, public policy, program management, or a related field.

• Preferred: In-depth knowledge of current gender equality, disability inclusion, and broader social inclusion approaches in development, humanitarian, and fragile contexts.

• Preferred: Familiarity with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CEDAW, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and relevant donor frameworks and markers.

• Preferred: Ability to link GEDSI programming and organizational change to child well-being outcomes.

• Preferred: Ability to analyze and communicate disaggregated evidence, identify barriers and root causes, and translate findings into actionable program, policy, and budget recommendations.

• Preferred: Experience with World Vision or another faith-based organization.

• Preferred: Knowledge of organizational GEDSI policies, GEDSI domains of change, continuum and marker, inclusive accountability mechanisms, and recognized disability data tools.

• Preferred: Experience in piloting and scaling contextualized, locally-led GEDSI programming models and collaborating with representative organizations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

• Remote work from the successful candidate’s home country

• Approximately 20% travel to field locations, regional offices, and partner meetings