Senior Gender & Inclusion Strategist

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations seeks a Senior Gender Expert to lead gender, accountability and inclusion across FAO Egypt's country programme. You will develop strategies, advise project teams, and oversee indicators, baselines and data quality to drive transformative impact.

You will coordinate with partners to ensure gender-responsive planning, analysis, and reporting while supporting safeguarding and capacity development across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• University degree in Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Development Studies, or related fields.
• At least seven years of experience in gender analysis, strategy formulation, and implementation of gender-transformative programmes.
• Working knowledge (level C) of Arabic and English.
• National of Egypt.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, mainstreaming and implementation of gender, accountability and inclusion components across the FAO Egypt country programme.
• Develop the country gender strategy and implementation framework and advise project teams on gender-responsive programming, resource allocation, risk management and corrective actions.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership for the implementation, periodic review and operationalization of the project(s) gender strategies, translating commitments into prioritized actions, responsibilities, timelines and measurable results.
• Lead participatory gender analysis across target communities to identify differentiated needs, constraints, capacities, risks and opportunities, and ensure that findings inform project design and adaptive management.
• Establish and oversee a results framework for gender equality and women's empowerment, including gender-responsive indicators, baselines, targets and data-quality standards, and integrate these into project monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems.
• Ensure systematic collection and analysis of sex- and age-disaggregated data to identify gender gaps and inform project delivery and decision-making.
• Prepare high-quality periodic analytical reports on progress against gender outcomes and targets, identify implementation bottlenecks and emerging risks, and recommend evidence-based corrective measures to project managers and senior management.
• Lead the PSEA Action Plan for FAO Egypt 2026 including monitor the implementation of PSEA during the FAO project cycle, with special attention to projects with high gender markers as a main component.
• Provide technical quality assurance for project workplans, tools, studies, training packages, communication materials and knowledge products to ensure consistency with FAO gender standards.

Skills

Gender analysis

Strategic planning

Education

University degree in Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Development Studies

Job description

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations seeks a Senior Gender Expert to lead gender, accountability and inclusion across FAO Egypt's country programme. You will develop strategies, advise project teams, and oversee indicators, baselines and data quality to drive transformative impact.

You will coordinate with partners to ensure gender-responsive planning, analysis, and reporting while supporting safeguarding and capacity development across stakeholders.