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Leadership on gender equality

• Lead in the implementation and monitoring of the Gender Equality Strategy.

• Provide technical support to teams in the implementation of the strategy across the project, including developing implementation and tracking/measuring tools and leading the internal communications around it.

• Lead in identifying where knowledge gaps exist, and work with the project communications team and relevant partners to find innovative ways to learn and adapt the project work to a mutually acceptable gender perspective across board, creating linkages across the multiple project implementation areas.

• Influence and inform project decision-making through a gender lens, using formal and informal engagements with leadership teams across the project CITs, PMU and partners.

• Actively support and advise on internal efforts and initiatives on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

• Facilitate and establish strategic linkages with other initiatives nationally, regionally and globally that can enhance effective delivery of gender outcomes in project implementation and beyond.

Capacity Building on Gender programming and inclusion

• Develop programmatic approaches, tools and learning materials in relation to the project gender requirements and team-specific gender strategic priorities.

• Provide technical and thought leadership on the project gender equality strategies and policies

• Execute capacity building interventions to strengthen team and partners’ technical capacities for meaningfully integrating gender across research, policy and advocacy, communications and project implementation activities.

• Embed learnings from project implementation work and research into future policies, programming priorities and approaches.

Gender Monitoring, evaluation and timely reporting

• Support the PMU, CITs and partners to gather, consolidate, and to submit required gender related project data in line with established donor requirements.

• Work with the MEAL officer to ensure data quality control and assurance by reviewing Country Implementing Teams reports and ensuring their compliance with contractual requirements. Ensure that reports submitted to the Consortium Steering Group (SG) and PMU are of good quality and reflect the gendered project goals and objectives.

• Collaboratively work with Country Implementing Teams and Thematic Working Groups to capture best practices and learning experiences ensuring that learnings are documented, shared, and utilized in line with donor data usage and reporting requirements.

Support to the Project Management.

• Provide strategic support to the project Steering Group and PMU by collaboratively working with the Project Manager, Unit teams, project partners and other stakeholders to ensure that the project gender aspirations are achieved and effectively reported.

• Participate in networking events and other relevant fora, making use of all presented opportunities to identify funding opportunities and support project resource mobilisation.

• Perform any other duties as required by your supervisor that are within the scope of the project.

General Duties

• Attend regular PMU meetings and provide feedback especially from other meetings and other key issues and events that impact on the work of the project.

• Actively participate in planning, budgeting, M&E and reporting on PELUM Uganda activities.

• Represent the project and PELUM Uganda in other strategic partner events

• Advising staff, board, PELUM members on any Gender related issues.

• Support resource mobilisation activities for the institution.