JOB DETAILS:
Position Objective (Summary of placement in the function and broad responsibilities)
The Gender, Inclusion and Safeguarding Officer will be based at the RUFORUM Secretariat. He/she will support the Senior Program Officer, System Strengthening in overseeing design and provision of welfare services, including psychosocial support, gender responsiveness and inclusivity in program implementation, as well as broad inclusion initiatives including refugees, and persons with disability. The office bearer will also support institutional systems strengthening with a focus on compliance to safeguarding and gender responsiveness of established policies, frameworks and processes. This may include gender inclusiveness in recruitment of students participating in TAGDev 2.0 and other RUFORUM programs, continuous professional development as well as programs that enhance institutions’ capacities to address teaching, learning, knowledge translation and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion at participating institutions.

Duties and Responsibilities (Functional statements defining the responsibilities and objectives)
• Provide technical guidance to the Systems Strengthening Officer in developing and executing gender mainstreaming, inclusion and safeguard plans at RUFORUM and member universities
• Support institution based Safeguarding Officers to produce risk assessments and safeguarding plans and share these as appropriate with the relevant agencies/persons with consent, adhering to privacy principles
• Support staff and consortium partners through training and other avenues to ensure gender, inclusion and safeguards integration into program development; design, baselines, assessments and evaluations.
• Facilitate formulation of strategies for gender, inclusion and safeguarding under RUFORUM programs, and develop a mechanism to track effective and timely implementation and within budget.
• Provide a checklist to support institution-based Gender Inclusion and Safeguarding officers in developing and conforming to institutional safeguards and policies in compliance to national safeguarding policies.

Activities
• Strengthening the capacity of Implementing Universities & RUFORUM on safeguarding standards
• Ensure that the RUFORUM
• Secretariat and member universities develop an effective, efficient, inclusive and safe student support system
• Ensure that Universities and TVET institutions have an inclusive and safe systems to recruit, train and skill Africa’s new age of development practitioners and cadres on
• RUFORUM programs

Deliverables
• Gender, safeguards and inclusion strategy
• Periodic reporting monthly, quarterly and yearly reports e.g.;
• wellness, gender and inclusion services
• gender inclusivity in teaching and learning/curricular gender inclusivity in research
• Safeguarding issues arising and how they have been addressed
• Gender, wellness, inclusion and safeguards publications, manuals and policy briefs
• Number of trainings conducted
• Number of institutions supported in strengthening Gender Inclusion and
• Safeguarding processes

Requirements (Education, experience, technical competencies required of the job)
• Master’s degree in development studies, gender, education, law, social administration, psychology and related fields
• At least 7 years working experience in a multi-generation, multi-cultural institutional environment.
• Experience working with vulnerable young women and men (including refugees and those with disabilities) and with institutions of higher learning in Africa.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with safeguarding standards and safe programming considerations for vulnerable young women and men (including refugees and those with disabilities) in Africa
• Flexibility in working schedules and willingness to travel at short notice

Applications with detailed curriculum vitae (in pdf form), copies of certificates, transcripts, names of three referees and the applicant’s Skype Address; daytime telephone contact should be sent online to our E-mail with the subject Appointment in RUFORUM followed by the Job title “Appointments in RUFORUM: state the post you are applying for” . Details of the posts are available at RUFORUM Website: http://www.ruforum.org

Email address: jobs@ruforum.org 
Any form of canvassing will lead to disqualification. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.