Turkey: Gender Advisor (367-112)

Tamkeen is a DFID-funded project to support the development of governance and legitimate institutions at the local level within areas of Syria outside the regime's control. Tamkeen works at the community level and links upwards with the emerging governance structures at higher levels of local governance. The Programme focuses on establishing diverse stakeholder groups (referred to henceforth as Tamkeen Committees or TCs) that can prioritise their service needs from pre-costed service packages at community level. The services provided through Tamkeen are divided into five sectors, Governance, Infrastructure, Livelihoods, Health, and Education. For each sector, Tamkeen, provides a basic package of services that provide pre-set costing and planning methodologies for communities.

Each community is provided grant in the value of approximately USD 100,000 for each cycle to fund specific priorities from the BPSs. TCs select projects from the BPSs considered priority by the community and develop detailed project proposals. Once the projects are approved by the Project Approval Committee and detailed procurement plans are prepared by the TCs, projects are implemented by the TCs, carrying out local procurement, whenever possible. The Field Officers (who work within a Field Team) of the Programme are the main focal points for the Programme in the community, providing TCs with mentoring and support in each step of the process. All procurement is conducted by the Tamkeen Committees, supervised by the Programme.

Women are engaged either through women's sub-committees (WSCs) which work alongside main TCs, or via women sitting on the main TC. Women's engagement is supported by a women's empowerment fund, which provides matching grants to projects implemented by women, and are assisted by Women's Field Officers (WFOs) and the Gender Specialist.

In the short-term, the Gender Advisor will review the current Tamkeen structure, provide consultation on improvements to activities related to women's participation and women's empowerment across Tamkeen areas, including:

• The activity level and engagement of women in TCs and WSCs
• The type of participation of women TC members and subcommittee members in the grant cycle (e.g. in project planning, community engagement etc)
• The status of training and capacity development for Women TC members and WSC members
• Innovative ideas for increasing the empowerment of women in TCs and WSCs.

Required Experience:

Qualifications and work experience:

• Minimum Bachelors' Degree, Masters' Degree desirable
• At least 10 years' work experience on Gender Issues
• Experience of working on women's issues in Syria or the wider region desirable
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Arabic is highly desirable but not mandatory.

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