Senior Gender Expert

The Senior Gender Expert will support the effective implementation of gender related activities and capacity development, ensuring gender considerations are integrated into project activities and coordination with local stakeholders. The role involves leading gender strategy design, mainstreaming, participatory analysis, monitoring, reporting, and capacity building within FAO Egypt's country programme.

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
• Provide technical oversight and coaching to coordinators, facilitators, implementing partners and local organizations on the practical application of FAO methodologies and gender-responsive approaches, and monitor the quality and timeliness of delivery
• Lead inclusive consultations with women's groups, communities, government counterparts and other stakeholders to identify barriers to participation, strengthen community acceptance and inform locally appropriate empowerment pathways
• Design and deliver capacity-development and mentoring initiatives for project personnel, facilitators, government counterparts and implementing partners on gender analysis, gender-responsive planning, data collection, safeguarding and results reporting
• Coordinate learning and exchange initiatives that showcase scalable business opportunities and good practices for women in agrifood systems
• Ensure that safeguarding principles, gender-based violence risk mitigation, do-no-harm considerations and safe participation protocols are integrated into field activities, partnerships, events and outreach
• Develop and oversee awareness and communication initiatives on women's empowerment, life skills, nutrition, food safety, social protection and related priorities
• Capture lessons learned, good practices and evidence of gendered results and develop high-quality success stories and knowledge products
• Perform other related duties as required.

Requirements

• 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

Skills

• Gender Analysis
• Gender Strategy Formulation
• Gender-Transformative Programme Implementation
• Capacity Development
• Gender Mainstreaming
• Participatory analysis
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Project Implementation
• Arabic Language
• English Language

Languages

Arabic, English