Senior Director, Gender-Equal Strategy Implementation at CARE

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice with a special emphasis on women and girls. CARE International is a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We are known for our unshakable commitment to the dignity of people. CARE partners contribute to the empowerment of the most marginalized and vulnerable rural women and girls to exercise their rights

We are looking for visionary Senior Director, Gender-Equal Strategy Implementation to lead the key initiatives under Gender Equal to be well-operationalized at country office levels, particularly through coordination and management of a few select focus countries where we will be able to measure improvements in gender integration, impact and evidence, and institutional transformation over the life of the strategy.

The Gender Justice team is responsible for the global management and implementation of the Gender Equal ‘impact driver’ of the CARE USA Strategy, 2021-2025. The elevated emphasis on gender equality in CARE USA’s strategy reflects the organization’s seriousness about deepening CARE’s gender transformative impact for greater numbers of people. Meeting this organizational mandate requires both technical expertise and management capacity for the effective execution of the strategy, especially at country level.

This new leadership position will contribute country operations expertise as a valuable adjunct to the Gender Justice team’s existing operational, strategic, and gender technical expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Provide direction and support to COs for gender integration (SI1)
• Support CO scaling of gender transformative impact and evidence (SI2)
• Provide a global lens to diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion (DEBI) planning and execution
• Advise and support PSI VP and Senior Directors
• Join PSI SLT and act as a senior leader within the Gender Justice team

Qualifications:

• Masters Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Country office leadership experience (7+ years)
• Track record of success integrating gender across operational and program functions at country office level -strong oral and written communications skills
• Political acumen and skill in building coalitions for gender transformative change, institutionally and programmatically
• Sufficient experience and gravitas to interact with and influence senior executives on gender policy and program issues