Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Specialist

CARE Canada is looking for a Gender-based Violence in Emergencies Specialist

ABOUT THE ROLE / WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS

CARE Canada’s Strategic Plan, From Caring Comes Courage (2021 – 2027), sets out CARE Canada’s commitment to bring all our resources, talent, and expertise together to unlock women’s leadership for a gender-just future. It recognizes that to lead change and realize a better life for herself and her community, every woman needs to be safe, healthy and have a dignified livelihood. It also fundamentally realizes that ‘business as usual’ is no longer good enough: this Plan challenges us to reimagine how we achieve our mission, inspire Canadian investment in that mission, and transform our organization to be future-ready.

CARE Canada’s Global Programs Team is responsible for developing and managing the organization’s programs in both development and humanitarian assistance focusing on the injustice of poverty and gender inequality. The Strategic Plan (2021-2027) reaffirms our gender-equality focus and our dual-mandate status. Our ultimate impact goal is to support women’s leadership for a gender-just future grounded in strong programs supporting safety/protection, health and dignified livelihoods across humanitarian, nexus and development settings. The Global Programs unit is responsible for the overall management of CARE Canada’s global programming circa $50m annual development and humanitarian programming portfolio.

The Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies (GBViE) Specialist will supportCARE Canada’s efforts to deliver high-quality, inclusive programming in emergency and nexus settings. They will provide technical expertise to integrate GBViE mitigation, prevention, and response into programs, ensuring alignment with CARE’s gender equality and do-no-harm standards. The Specialist will support project teams with GBV analyses, program design, and the development of monitoring tools to assess program impacts.

Through capacity-building workshops and technical assistance, the Specialist will strengthen staff capabilities and foster a culture of learning around GBV in emergency in nexus settings. Representing CARE Canada in global networks, they will share insights and tools to enhance GBViE programming and advance gender equality in emergencies and nexus settings. When needed, they will also contribute to business development by integrating GBViE components into new project proposals.

WHAT YOU OFFER / ABOUT YOU

• Three or more years of professional proven experience designing and delivering GBV prevention and response programming in at least one complex humanitarian emergency setting.
• Experience designing or delivering projects or services to mitigate, prevent or respond to Gender Based Violence in Canada or abroad or related types of services.
• Experience in program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, including application of SPHERE standards and integration of gender equality approaches; understanding of the Core Humanitarian Standard Familiarity with participatory assessment methods, with a focus on gender equality and ability to identify specific needs of men, women, boys and girls
• Committed to gender transformative and feminist/participatory approaches
• Fluency in French and English including written and spoken
• Excellent cross cultural communication skills
• This position requires minimum a bachelor’s degree and is open to anyone who meets the qualifications and has the desired competencies. A combination of education and lived experience is welcome.
• Specialist Training in GBV is required.

WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY

• Knowledge of results-based Gender Equality and GBV/iE monitoring

• Participation on research projects on GBV, gender equality and women’s rights

• Experience working within an international NGO context

• Knowledge of feminist theory and/or experience with feminist programming

• Experience working on gender equality in emergency or nexus contexts

• Experience with developing or implementing male engagement/positive masculinities programming

• Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese is an asset

REQUIREMENTS

Promote and maintain an organizational culture that advances gender equality, reduces power abuse and inequalities, and fosters trust and safety.

Create an environment within CARE’s workplaces, programming, and communities where CAREworks thatis free from sexual harassment, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation and child abuse (SHEA-CA).

Ensure high standards of prevention and response measures for SHEA-CA are in place consistent with theCARE International (CI)Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct.

WHAT WE OFFER / ABOUT CARE

• Starting salary range between $72,000 and $77,000
• Comprehensive benefits package and confidential employee assistance program services available to you and your dependents from your first day of employment
• 3 weeks of annual leave (increases to 4 weeks from 2^nd year of employment)
• In addition to annual leave, we offer a December 24-January 1 office closure so we can all recharge simultaneously
• Inclusive holiday policy
• Paid sick leave
• Parental leave top-up
• Employer contributions to group pension plan after first year of employment
• Optional participation in group RRSP (eligible from first day of employment)
• International and domestic travel opportunities
• Annual all-staff retreat in Ottawa
• Learning and development opportunities and specialized training
• Flexible work hours to support employee wellbeing and productivity
• A focus on wellness and work-life balance
• Amazing colleagues who are very committed to CARE’s mission

If you are someone who thrives on challenge, loves to be part of a dynamic team and you are passionate about making a difference, then this opportunity is for you! Don’t think you check all the boxes? Reach out anyway – we would love to hear how your experience translates to this role! Please apply directly by January 17, 2025. Please note resumes will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and the advertisement will be removed once a candidate has been identified. We are only able to consider candidates who currently have the right to work in Canada.