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About Save the Children

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

•             No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday

•             All children learn from a quality basic education and that,

•             Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

SCI - Afghanistan

 Save the Children has been working in Afghanistan since 1976. Our way of working close to people and on their own terms has enabled us to deliver lasting change to tens of thousands of children in the country. The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child is the basis of our work.

We are helping children get a better education, we make it possible for more boys and girls to attend school, we help children protect themselves and influence their own conditions. We work with families, communities and health workers in homes, clinics and hospitals to promote basic health in order to save lives of children and mothers

Job Description

ROLE PURPOSE:

The HR Gender Specialist will support in driving our endeavours in this focussed area of work across the country office. The HR Gender Specialist will combine elements of Human Resources, Gender issues, promotion of women’s talents.

Under the guidance of the HR and Administration Director she will provide mentoring and capacity-building to staff and partners on issues related to general HR, recruitment and gender parity.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1:  Gender-related enhancement, reform of organizational policies, guidelines, practices, and systems for operations and human resource development:

• Conduct of gender analysis, gender assessments of organizational and operations-related policies, programs, guidelines, and practices
• Development of new gender and socially inclusive policies, guidelines for human resource development
• Development and implementation of gender mainstreaming strategy or framework or plan to cover operations, human resources development and organizational development of SCI-Afghanistan
• Development of gender and socially inclusive monitoring system and database for operations work and organizational development
• Conduct knowledge and skills assessments of women to identify capacity gaps and developmental opportunities and learning exchange programs for women in CO and Provincial Offices.
• Act as a “Gender Focal Person” for Country Office, Kabul and work closely with the provincial gender focal persons on gender related issues and concerns.
• Ensure monthly gender meetings are happening in each provincial office.
• Follow up with provincial gender focal points to take note of main gender related issues discussed and bring the consolidated list of issues to the CO Gender Committee meeting for discussion and decision making.
• Take the meeting minutes of gender committee meetings and all female staff meetings and share the meeting minutes with the staff as appropriate after each meeting.
• Ensure that genders concerns are followed up safely, effectively and efficiently and to the required standards.
• Coordinate with staff safeguarding specialist on gender safeguarding concerns and risks for investigation and follow up.
• Travel to the provincial offices on regular basis to follow up on gender related concerns.
• Apply critical analysis to ensure that we live up to our commitment to making Save the Children safe for our employees, particularly women.
• Act as a “Role model” high levels of professional safeguarding behaviour and maintain the standards required by the HR Policy, Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.
• Identify potential risks related to gender in workplace, workshops and events, plan mitigating measures and assign staff to be responsible for the implementation.
• Conduct awareness trainings to build capacity of SCI staff on gender equality.
• Coordinate with L&D Coordinator to map out talent opportunities for women development in SCI-Afghanistan.
• Encourages female colleagues to apply for leadership positions and sharing of knowledge and promote relevant good practices in office.
• Conduct regular female staff meetings and share the minutes and action points with country office.
• Follow up and liaise with the relevant departments to resolve complaints and escalate where necessary.
• Develop gender sensitive community awareness materials with support from SCI Gender Advisors.
• Develop yearly Gender Action Plan to ensure key priorities are identified
• Ensure Gender Committee are functional in country office and provincial offices.

2:   Human Resources:

• Ensure that the recruitments are adhered to the recruitment procedures and the guidelines of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy.
• Represent HR and gender in the interviews of national roles.
• Provide the required information and documents to the internal and external audits.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Skills Required

• English Fluency
• interpersonal skills
• computer skills
• Ability to travel remote areas and district.
• Fluency in Pashto&Dari
• organizational and planning skills

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