Job Summary

SWISSAID Tanzania is seeking a highly qualified Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) Advisor to provide strategic and technical leadership on gender equality, disability inclusion, and the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) approach across its 2025–2028 Country Programme.

The Advisor will ensure the integration of gender, disability, and social inclusion principles across all programme areas, including agroecology, food systems, climate resilience, livelihoods, governance, advocacy, and research. This advisory role emphasizes technical expertise in inclusive programming, while maintaining knowledge of project cycle management.

The GEI Advisor will serve as the country-level focal point for GEI, collaborating closely with programme teams, partners, donors, local government actors, and communities to promote gender-transformative, inclusive, and feminist approaches aligned with SWISSAID’s global GEI strategy.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. GEI & LNOB Technical Leadership

• Lead integration of gender equality, disability inclusion, and LNOB principles across all SWISSAID Tanzania projects (2025–2028).
• Ensure gender- and disability-responsive approaches in programme design, theories of change, logframes, indicators, and budgets.
• Provide technical advice to programme teams throughout the project cycle.
• Apply gender, disability, power, and intersectional analyses to inform inclusive programming.
• Monitor emerging GEI, disability inclusion, and feminist development trends, translating them into practical tools and approaches.
• Identify and promote gender-transformative and socially inclusive interventions targeting women, youth, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups.
• Participate in global and regional GEI learning platforms and contribute to cross-country learning.

2. Capacity Building & Partner Support

• Conduct capacity assessments of staff and partners on gender, disability inclusion, and LNOB.
• Design and deliver tailored trainings, mentorship, and accompaniment on gender-transformative and inclusive programming.
• Support partners, CSOs, CBOs, and women’s and disability rights organizations to mainstream GEI and LNOB principles.
• Promote critical reflection, learning, and dialogue on power relations, social norms, and inequalities.

3. Strategic Engagement, Networking & Resource Mobilization

• Represent SWISSAID Tanzania in GEI, disability inclusion, and feminist policy and advocacy platforms.
• Network with donors, alliances, research institutions, and civil society actors to strengthen GEI positioning.
• Identify funding opportunities and support the development of concept notes and proposals.
• Collaborate with the Communications Officer to develop GEI-focused communication products, case studies, and learning briefs.

4. Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL)

• Ensure collection and use of gender-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data.
• Provide technical inputs to monitoring frameworks, learning agendas, donor reports, and strategic reviews.
• Support adaptive management by integrating GEI and LNOB findings into programme decisions.
• Contribute to strengthening SWISSAID’s MEL systems to measure gender-transformative and inclusion outcomes.

Qualifications and Requirements

Education

• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Development Studies, Community Development, or a related field.

Experience

• 3–5 years of demonstrated experience in gender equality, disability inclusion, and social inclusion programming.
• Proven ability to apply gender-transformative and intersectional approaches in development contexts.
• Experience conducting gender, disability, power, or vulnerability analyses and applying findings to programme design.
• Familiarity with project cycle management and complex development projects.
• Experience engaging with CSOs, community-based organizations, women, youth, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups.
• Experience with donors, research institutions, or policy actors is an advantage.
• Strong report writing and donor communication skills.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of gender, disability inclusion, LNOB, and feminist development principles.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation, and advisory skills.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Strong interpersonal, coordination, and relationship-building skills.
• Strategic thinking, initiative, and openness to innovation.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili (spoken and written).
• Willingness to travel frequently to project locations.

• Lead integration of gender equality, disability inclusion, and LNOB principles across all SWISSAID Tanzania projects (2025–2028).
• Ensure gender- and disability-responsive approaches in programme design, theories of change, logframes, indicators, and budgets.
• Provide technical advice to programme teams throughout the project cycle.
• Apply gender, disability, power, and intersectional analyses to inform inclusive programming.
• Monitor emerging GEI, disability inclusion, and feminist development trends, translating them into practical tools and approaches.
• Identify and promote gender-transformative and socially inclusive interventions targeting women, youth, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups.
• Participate in global and regional GEI learning platforms and contribute to cross-country learning.
• Conduct capacity assessments of staff and partners on gender, disability inclusion, and LNOB.
• Design and deliver tailored trainings, mentorship, and accompaniment on gender-transformative and inclusive programming.
• Support partners, CSOs, CBOs, and women’s and disability rights organizations to mainstream GEI and LNOB principles.
• Promote critical reflection, learning, and dialogue on power relations, social norms, and inequalities.
• Represent SWISSAID Tanzania in GEI, disability inclusion, and feminist policy and advocacy platforms.
• Network with donors, alliances, research institutions, and civil society actors to strengthen GEI positioning.
• Identify funding opportunities and support the development of concept notes and proposals.
• Collaborate with the Communications Officer to develop GEI-focused communication products, case studies, and learning briefs.
• Ensure collection and use of gender-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data.
• Provide technical inputs to monitoring frameworks, learning agendas, donor reports, and strategic reviews.
• Support adaptive management by integrating GEI and LNOB findings into programme decisions.
• Contribute to strengthening SWISSAID’s MEL systems to measure gender-transformative and inclusion outcomes.

• Strong understanding of gender, disability inclusion, LNOB, and feminist development principles.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation, and advisory skills.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Strong interpersonal, coordination, and relationship-building skills.
• Strategic thinking, initiative, and openness to innovation.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili (spoken and written).
• Willingness to travel frequently to project locations.

• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Development Studies, Community Development, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of demonstrated experience in gender equality, disability inclusion, and social inclusion programming.
• Proven ability to apply gender-transformative and intersectional approaches in development contexts.
• Experience conducting gender, disability, power, or vulnerability analyses and applying findings to programme design.
• Familiarity with project cycle management and complex development projects.
• Experience engaging with CSOs, community-based organizations, women, youth, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups.
• Experience with donors, research institutions, or policy actors is an advantage.
• Strong report writing and donor communication skills.