Senior Gender Coordinator, Tomorrow’s Leaders Gender Programs, Grant Position

Reports to: Senior Director, Tomorrow’s Leaders Programs

Purpose: The job holder will play a key role in supporting Tomorrow's Leaders Gender Scholars (TLS), the Tomorrow’s Leaders Undergraduate (TLU) and the Tomorrow’s Leaders Graduate (TLG) teams in strategically achieving the overall programs' goal and objectives. S/he will be responsible for the strategic design and implementation of the Tomorrow’s Leaders (TL) gender component to ensure that gender studies are valued at the institutional level; and that gender studies are open to interdisciplinary research and cross-disciplinary teaching. She/he will not only ensure designed activities are gender sensitive but aim to work with the academic directors to make such programmers become gender transformative. S/he will assist the TL Senior Director in providing technical support and training in gender approaches for various TL programs, program stakeholders and for all program components. S/he will be responsible for the implementation of the gender action plan and will manage the development of various taskforces inclusive of students, faculty, and administrators.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Work with the TL team to ensure a high performance, student service-oriented work environment that supports students’ learning and achieves the program’s mission, objectives and values
• Develop gender-sensitive curriculum integrating the components of academic excellence, community service and leadership development
• Work closely with The American University in Cairo’s (AUC) senior administration to develop and implement a gender action plan
• Manage the development of taskforces inclusive of students, faculty, and senior administrators to develop gender policies, integrate gender in multiple disciplines and ensure gender mainstreaming in TL programming
• Ensure that designed activities are gender sensitive and provide advice on how to make TL activities become gender transformative
• Mentor TL students during the development and implementation of their creative projects/solutions to community problems and during their annual symposium to ensure gender integration and effectiveness
• Build the capacity of all TL staff- in collaboration with the academic directors to reinforce their ability to integrate gender from a programmatic perspective through training, guidance, one-on-one support, commenting on plans, and providing input to the design of leadership and civic education modules.
• Collaborate with the Academic Directors to provide training workshops to AUC faculty, staff and students as needed to promote gender mainstreaming and gender integration.
• Develop a model for an annual gender event that celebrates research collaborations between students and faculty
• Work closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation advisor in collaboration with Near Eastern Affairs of Assistant Coordination (NEA/AC) to develop gender-responsive indicators, and utilize different evaluation tools to assess, evaluate and interpret student needs and trends
• Liaise with relevant academic departments to develop and offer new gender courses as needed

· Perform any other related duties as assigned

Requirements:

Minimum Education Requirement:

• A master degree or PhD in gender studies or similar work
• Relevant experience of working in gender studies, gender research, gender activism and/or programming with national and international Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) and public-sector institutions, or in academic institutions

Experience:

• Minimum of fifteen years of overall experience, preferably in education, gender or development fields

Skills :

• Excellent management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, patience and tolerance
• Orientation to issues of cultural and ethnic diversity
• Sensitivity to dynamics of different race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic background, disability, gender and sexual orientation
• Excellent crisis-management skills, and willingness to respond to on call situations

This position is open until October 25, 2021

Placement is based on the candidate’s experience and skills. Only candidates who make it to the short list will be contacted.

“We thank all individuals who have expressed interest in working at The American University in Cairo.”