| Published: | Dec 02, 2025 | Vacancy: | 2 | Gender: | No Preference |
| Age: | Not Specified | Career Level: | Mid Level | Experience: | 4 Year |
| Salary: | Tk. 116071 (Monthly) | Location: | Dhaka, Cox's Bazar |
Education
Experience
Additional Requirements
Experience Requirements:
Minimum 4–5 years of relevant experience in gender, GBV, protection, SRHR, or social development programming.
Solid understanding of the Multi-Sectoral Programme on Violence Against Women under the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.
Experience coordinating with government agencies, UN bodies, or rights-based organizations.
Strong knowledge of survivor-centered approaches, GBV case management, safeguarding, and Do No Harm principles.
Technical Competencies:
Proven experience in facilitating trainings and developing capacity-building materials.
Strong analytical, documentation, and report-writing skills.
Ability to work in challenging field environments and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills with a strong commitment to gender equality and human rights.
High integrity, discretion, and dedication to safeguarding.
Willingness and ability to travel frequently and manage multiple workstreams under pressure.
Experience organizing conferences, workshops, or similar events.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and project management tools.
Core Competencies:
Leadership:
Understands organizational objectives, leads and manages teams effectively, communicates clearly, thinks strategically, and implements plans to achieve goals.
Emotional Intelligence:
Demonstrates self-awareness, effectively regulates emotions, manages stress, shows empathy, builds strong relationships, and fosters team cohesion.
Communication:
Strong verbal and written communication skills; collaborates effectively with internal and external stakeholders; capable of preparing reports, presentations, and monitoring project progress.
Networking:
Skilled in building professional networks, representing the organization, identifying partnership opportunities, and mentoring team members on networking best practices.
Problem Solving:
Analyses complex issues, proposes solutions aligned with organizational policies, prioritizes challenges, collaborates on implementation, and guides teams on effective problem-solving techniques.
Learning Agility:
Seeks feedback, adapts to change, pursues continuous learning, encourages others to learn and adopt new tools, including technological solutions.
Planning and Organizing:
Considers multiple factors when planning, identifies opportunities for service improvement, addresses inefficiencies, removes barriers, and provides resources and guidance to achieve objectives.
Decision Quality:
Makes informed decisions based on analysis, considers alternatives and stakeholder perspectives, and takes accountability for outcomes and impacts.
Resource Management:
Anticipates risks, allocates and manages resources efficiently, optimizes utilization, assigns roles effectively, and manages team workload to achieve objectives.
Project Name: Inclusive Services and Opportunities (ISO) for Human Capital Development and Livelihood
Strategic Priority: Women’s Rights & Gender Equity
Location of Posting: Dhaka & Cox's Bazar (with frequent travel to project sites)
Contract Type: Fixed-term until 31 December 2026 (renewable based on funding and performance)
The Gender Expert is responsible for promoting gender-responsive and survivor-centered approaches across all project activities. The role provides technical guidance, strengthens staff and partner capacity, and ensures the integration of gender, protection, and safeguarding standards into GBV service delivery.
The Gender Expert also ensures quality in GBV case management, psychosocial support (PSS), psychological first aid (PFA), and referral services, including individual counseling, follow-up, and effective referral pathways. The position supports coordination, quality assurance, and continuous learning across GBV service points and community-based initiatives. This mid-level role is suitable for candidates with 4–5 years of experience in gender, GBV, protection, or related fields.
1. Technical Guidance and Quality Assurance:
Provide technical support on gender, protection, and GBV to project teams and partner organizations.
Review case management practices to ensure alignment with national/international GBV guidelines, SOPs, and survivor-centered principles.
Support frontline workers in handling complex GBV, child protection, disability inclusion, and SRHR cases.
Monitor adherence to confidentiality, safety, ethical data handling, and protection standards.
Contribute to the development and improvement of operational tools, protocols, and guidance materials.
2. Capacity Development:
Facilitate trainings, coaching, and refresher sessions for staff, government stakeholders, volunteers, and community actors.
Develop accessible training materials, checklists, job aids, and quick-reference tools.
Mentor service providers on documentation, referral systems, follow-up procedures, safety planning, and survivor support.
Support learning initiatives, including after-action reviews, peer learning sessions, and case conferences.
3. System Strengthening, Monitoring, and Reporting:
Monitor service delivery standards across GBV service points and identify gaps or improvement areas.
Conduct assessments on quality of care, accessibility, safety, and gender responsiveness.
Support gender-responsive data analysis and the use of sex- and age-disaggregated data for decision-making.
Prepare monthly updates, analytical briefs, technical inputs, and donor-required reports.
4. Coordination and Partnership Engagement:
Engage with government bodies, UN agencies, legal aid organizations, law enforcement, health service providers, and civil society partners.
Strengthen and maintain referral pathways between community actors and service facilities.
Represent the project in technical working groups, district coordination meetings, and stakeholder consultations.
Support partnership development, joint planning, and collaborative capacity-building initiatives.
5. Compliance, Safeguarding, and Risk Mitigation:
Ensure compliance with safeguarding, PSEA, confidentiality, and ethical data management standards.
Identify risks related to gender, protection, and inclusion, and advise on mitigation measures.
Provide technical inputs to update organizational and project operational guidelines as needed.
Conduct awareness sessions for staff and partners on safeguarding and ethical practices.
6. Reporting Line:
The Gender Expert will report directly to the Project Coordinator.
Other Benefits
Work from Office
Type: Contract
Shift: Day Shift
Dhaka, Cox's Bazar
Note: Only candidates who meet the above qualifications are encouraged to apply.
The application deadline is 09 December 2025.
Recruitment will follow a rolling process due to urgency, so interested candidates are advised to apply as early as possible.
Submit your application here: http://jobs.actionaidbd.org/login
Address: House SE(C) 5/B (Old, 8 Rd 136, Dhaka 1212
Business Type : NGO/Development
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