NORCAP is the Norwegian Refugee Council’s expert deployment mechanism. We strengthen international and local partners’ capacity to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from crisis. We do this through the work of our colleagues on assignment with UN agencies, humanitarian organisations, development actors and national stakeholders to save lives, build resilient communities, ensure peaceful transitions from conflict, and promote sustainable governance.

This is an opportunity to join NORCAPs Gender expertise pool. This recruitment will contribute to building the NORCAP talent pool increasing NORCAP’s capacity to respond to partners’ requests for experts on gender.

Being a member of NORCAP’s expert pool means that you can be offered several assignments within your area of expertise in different contexts. Deployments normally last 6 and/or 12 months. You will have the opportunity to connect with many experienced colleagues across technical areas and participate in communities of practice. The deployments are worldwide dependant on the particular mission and needs.

This is an English-speaking role and to be eligible to apply, you must be fluent in English (written and verbal). In addition; French, Spanish, or Arabic is an advantage.

Application deadline is 24th April-2023 23:59 (Oslo time) but the application will be reviewed on rolling basis. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible!

The Gender Expert role is to support Gender mainstreaming and contextualize gender tools across technical areas.  Gender experts are typically responsible for ensuring that agency programming adequately address and mitigate gender and disability inequalities. This includes engaging with and promoting the voices of affected people, the inclusion of women and girls, people living with disabilities, the elderly, and people with different sexual orientation.

Below are examples of duties and responsibilities you can expect to perform/have when on assignment. Kindly note that each duty and responsibility are subject to modification, based on the partner’s or programme’s needs.

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide direct technical assistance and guidance on women’s economic empowerment to the program and its delivery partners.
• Support the development of tools, systems, processes and approaches that continuously improve technical excellence and impact in the area of transformative approaches to women’s economic empowerment.
• Lead, coordinate, support, and/or conduct gender and power analyses, effectiveness and efficacy studies, appraisal, evaluation and needs assessments as required by the program.
• Assist with quantitative/qualitative assessments in targeted communities to assess effectiveness of interventions and impact.
• Advocate the collection and analysis of sex- and age-disaggregated data, and ensure that this data informs policies and strategies.
• Support delivery partners to understand the role of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment for the program impact groups.
• Ensure gender equality and women’s economic empowerment criteria are well integrated into market-systems approaches.
• Work closely with other technical specialists to integrate gender across all program components.
• Facilitate and support a strong learning and knowledge sharing community around gender-transformative practices amongst delivery partners.
• Represent work being done in gender-transformation and women’s economic empowerment under the Program in relevant internal and external forums.

Qualifications, Experience and skills:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a social science, humanities, public health, community health, international relations, international law, human rights, legal advice as it relates to gender, other development-related fields, or specialised studies.
• A minimum of 5 years international humanitarian field experience working on gender as a thematic area, of which 3 are at the international level.
• Awareness and demonstrable knowledge of how gender manifests in humanitarian settings and ability to describe context-specific prevention, mitigation, and response actions.
• Experience designing and managing gender programming.
• Experience in utilising the following international tools such as Gender and Age Marker (GAM) and other gender analysis tools.
• Demonstrable knowledge of humanitarian emergency operations, including the Cluster System and Humanitarian Programme Cycle, and roles/responsibilities of key humanitarian actors.
• Knowledge and understanding of the complexity related to refugee and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) situations.
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Office.

We can offer

• Rewarding work for a renowned global organisation
• Access to a network of humanitarian, peace, and development professionals
• Join NORCAP’s team of Experts and be considered for future assignments elsewhere
• A dedicated Staff Care Unit
• Based on what you have read in the above, would you like to help strengthen the quality, relevance and impact of humanitarian response? If so, you are encouraged to apply to join NORCAP’s pool of Nutrition Experts.

Application procedures and CV registration:

• When submitting your application, kindly register in English your full employment history and education. Please include your full name as written in your passport. Uploaded CVs alone will not be reviewed.
• Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the “Company name” field for both company and location
• NORCAP values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, or disability.
• NORCAP reserves the right to conduct a full background check on shortlisted candidates
• Approved Health Certificate will be required prior to contract commencement and assignment
• Feedback will be given to all applicants within four weeks after the closing of this advertisement.
• Apply before 26th April 2023, 23:59 (Oslo Time)

At NORCAP, we work to better protect and empower people affected by crises and climate change. With expertise in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors, we collaborate with local, national and international partners on finding solutions to meet the needs of people at risk. NORCAP is part of the Norwegian Refugee Council.