Senior GESI Advisor at MSI Reproductive Choices

About Us

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

MSI is seeking a Senior Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Advisor to lead on transforming MSI’s approach to GESI, integrating and improving the quality and relevance of GESI activities at the global level, as well as in existing donor-funded projects.

This role will provide focused technical assistance to MSI country programmes, supporting assessments, coordination, capacity strengthening, mentorship, and implementation of gender-transformative, gender-sensitive, equity, and inclusionary programme activities.

The Senior GESI Advisor will also work with the Evidence and Impact team to monitor gender and social inclusion at programme level, documenting and sharing successes and challenges and supporting the dissemination of best practice approaches. The learnings and outcomes generated from key projects will be used to strengthen adolescent, disability and gender equality and social inclusion programming across MSI’s global partnership, significantly contributing to delivery of MSI’s 2030 strategy.

This role reports to the Marketing & Innovation Director in the Technical Services department, which supports SBCC and community engagement client experience and digital health strategies across MSI.

About You

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

To succeed in this role, it is essential that you have the following skills:

• Expert level understanding of “Do No Harm” principles, gender mainstreaming and gender equality and social inclusion principles and methodologies, including disability inclusion.
• Highly skilled in designing and leading behaviour change initiatives
• Highly skilled in turning gender mainstreaming strategy development into pragmatic, workable solutions.
• Excellent English written communication skills and a high ability to organise and present information in a compelling, easy to understand and practical way, to both high-level donor audiences as well as in-country teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to design, facilitate & lead participatory training sessions
• Strong networking, partnership, and interpersonal skills.
• Able to multi-task, problem solve and prioritise to manage multiple and competing demands from internal and external clients
• French language skills an advantage.

To succeed in this role, we are looking for a person with the following experience:

• Significant technical experience at an advisory level in gender equality and social inclusion, with a focus on gender equality in project design, implementation, and technical assistance in the health sector, preferably in SRHR.
• Significant experience developing and embedding GESI strategies in an international development context.
• Experience at a regional or global level is an advantage, especially in building best practices and motivating teams to adopt tools, new ways of working.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure gender mainstreaming and social inclusion integration in project design, implementation, and M&E at a senior level.
• Experience working with national government, civil society organisations, community-based organisations and other stakeholders CSOs, CBOs and the government to deliver projects.
• Demonstrated capacity strengthening experience, including developing and conducting trainings, mentorship, and coaching of government, local, and community partners.
• Familiarity with GESI research and GESI analysis, monitoring and evaluation methodologies and approaches and ability to interpret data for decision making and inform programming and strategies.
• Familiarity with social and behaviour change communication and social norms theories and approaches and substantial experience with mainstreaming gender and/or disability into SBCC approaches

Education:

• Degree in relevant field (public health, gender studies, disability and inclusive development etc) and 5-7 years of relevant technical experience

Personal Attributes:

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and be committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

For this role, we’re looking for an individual who has:

• Leadership skills to work with autonomy while still being collaborative, prioritise tasks, and positively influence others.
• Ability to be strategic, flexible and adaptable with proven capacity to respond effectively to all levels of staff.
• Comfort with acting as role model amongst colleagues.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity and ability to work effectively in different socio-cultural contexts.
• Organised, high level of accuracy, and meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources.

For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.

Location: London Support Office (hybrid working) or work from any country where MSI operates

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (UK contracted hours)

Contract type: 2 year Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £39,700 – £59,500 for UK based candidates – salary is commensurate with experience. For all other locations, the role will be banded within national context. Discretionary bonus + benefits

Closing date: 11th October 2022 (midnight GMT+1). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.