Senior Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Adviser - Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CAAS)

⁠⁠⁠Summary
Provide advanced technical advice to DFAT and its local partners in this Senior Gender, Diversity and Social Inclusion Adviser position

Description
Why Tetra Tech International Development?

As a leading global development consulting firm, our purpose is to contribute to a world where people, communities and the planet thrive.

Tetra Tech International Development works with governments, businesses and NGOs to solve complex development challenges. Our dedicated team helps partners including DFAT, USAID and the Asian Development Bank to deliver effective and sustainable projects in more than 80 countries around the world.

- Full time, 2-year contract with an attractive salary commensurate to reflect the seniority of the position
- Located at the Australian Embassy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Provide advanced technical advice to DFAT and its local partners

The Program

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh delivers Australia’s bilateral development cooperation program in Cambodia. The program comprises investments in a range of sectors including agriculture, health infrastructure, and social inclusion including gender-based violence.

Australia’s bilateral development cooperation program in Cambodia operates in a challenging and politically complex environment which requires significant leadership focus and sound management to manage emerging risks and achieve intended development aid outcomes.

Cambodia Aid Advisory Services (CAAS) will provide long and short-term advisory and non-advisory support to the Australian Embassy, Phnom Penh to enable the effective and efficient delivery of development cooperation to meet Australia’s foreign, economic and development policy objectives in Cambodia. The advisory services will also support the Cambodia COVID-19 Development Response Plan (2020-22), its successor plan and evolving program pipeline.

The Position

The Senior Gender, Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Adviser will provide advanced technical advice to DFAT and its local partners on gender and social inclusion mainstreaming and targeting across the Australian development cooperation program, including on implementation, monitoring and evaluation, designs and strategy development.

Specifically, the Senior Gender and Social Inclusion Adviser will:

- Work in a team to prepare the Embassy’s Gender Action Plan, and coordinate across teams to monitor, evaluate and report on the plan.
- Provide and assist in analysis of GESI risks/safeguarding, reporting, and program recommendations on social inclusion issues, including gender equality, women in leadership, indigenous peoples and disability inclusion.
- Monitor social inclusion issues and make strategic recommendations on areas which are not currently subject to specific measures, including possible marginalisation in relation to ethnicity, religion, sexuality or age.
- Undertake capacity development activities and mentor Embassy staff in the area of GESI.
- Promote the Embassy work on women’s economic empowerment, indigenous people’s rights, ending violence against women and girls and disability inclusion work through social media and public diplomacy events.
- Advise Embassy senior management on strategies to promote women in leadership internally and externally.
- Advise Embassy senior management on strategies to promote disability inclusion internally and externally.
- Prepare and coordinate social media posts on gender equality and social inclusion.
- Support Embassy staff on policy advocacy strategies and undertake policy dialogue and representation on behalf of the Embassy, on GESI issues such as gender-based violence and women, peace and security.