GEDSI Specialist, Health

GEDSI Specialist, Health

Abt Global

Suva, Fiji

Position Summary:

As a senior member of the AFHP team, the GEDSI Specialist (the 'Specialist') reports to the Team Leader and provides expertise in gender equality, disability, and social inclusion.

The Specialist provides technical expertise and support to program implementation teams, ensuring the effective integration of gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) across all programs. Additionally, the Specialist collaborates with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) teams to track and assess GEDSI-related outcomes.

The Specialist also engages with the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) to identify opportunities for strengthening GEDSI integration within ministry systems and processes. This includes exploring potential short-term (STA) or long-term (LTA) technical advisory support.

Key Responsibilities:

GEDSI Strategy and Action Plan:

• Lead development and implementation of the AFHP GEDSI Strategy and Action Plan, building on the achievements and lessons from previous phases of Australian support.
• Contribute to Platform GEDSI stocktake and analysis with a specific focus on a GEDSI analysis of the health sector, MHMS strategies and plans ensuring consultations with Fiji government and civil society partners, and other sector stakeholders will be conducted.
• Draw on findings of GEDSI analysis to provide recommendations and agree actions with to MHMS to strengthen GEDSI in policies, plans and budgets.
• Together with AFHP Team Leader and other AFHP staff, support MHMS to implement recommendations from the GEDSI analysis to strengthen GEDSI outcomes across the health sector.
• Support to MHMS to identify, analyse and address the barriers to women’s, people with disabilities and other marginalized groups access to health service.

Women in Health Leadership:

• Review evidence and recommendations of local and regional programs to strengthen women’s leadership in the health sector, as prepared by the Women’s Leadership Consultant.
• Scope development of a women’s leadership program to provide professional development opportunities and advancement pathways for MHMS staff, health managers and nurses.
• Support the development of policies to promote equitable and inclusive recruitment and career pathways within the health sector, and promotion of equitable and inclusive practice in health services delivery.

Partnership management:

• Lead partnership engagement with Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPDs), disability service providers, women’s rights organisations and other CSOs. representative of marginalized groups engaged to strengthen inclusive health services delivery.
• Manage grant and service delivery agreements with CSOs to ensure achievement of deliverables and reporting requirements met.
• Engage with Platform GEDSI and Safeguarding team to ensure that CSO partners meet DFAT minimum standards in fraud, CP and PSEAH.

General:

• Provide project management support as needed for Project Leads to ensure that implementation and monitoring of GEDSI specific and GEDSI mainstreaming activities. 
• Engage with and contribute to Platform GEDSI analysis and learning participation in the GEDSI and Safeguarding Communities of Practices.
• Provide training, technical support and analysis for the AFHP team to strengthen integration of gender equality, disability inclusion and social inclusion (GEDSI) through all AFHP activities.
• Work with the MEL Specialist to support monitoring, evaluation and learning of GEDSI outcomes achievement of the AFHP.
• Support communications and public diplomacy activities in relation to GEDSI activities in collaboration with the Platform's Performance Learning and Communications Hub.
• Undertake additional Program support and operations management duties as required by the Team Leader. 

Key Working Relationships:

Reporting to:

• Team Leader – Health.

Other:

• Platform Cross Cutting Priorities Lead.
• Platform GEDS and Safeguarding Manager.
• Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS).
• Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
• Civil Society Organisations (CSOS), especially women’s rights organisations (WROs), Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPDs), disability service providers and other organisations representative of marginalised groups.

Selection Criteria:

Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline such as public health, gender and/or development studies.

Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in GEDSI analysis, strategy development, activity design and delivery, preferably in the health sector.
• Demonstrated experience supporting GEDSI mainstreaming, preferably in the health sector.
• Demonstrated experience in project/activity conception and design based on a consultative approach.
• Experience in monitoring evaluation and learning activities for projects and preferably with DFAT MEL requirements.
• Experience working as part of a multi-cultural, multi-disciplined team.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of, or familiarity with DFAT’s compliance standards for development programs, particularly child protection, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) and fraud awareness and control requirements and practice.

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to be flexible, pragmatic and quickly adapt to change.
• Willingness and enthusiasm to act as a champion for gender equality, disability and social inclusion, and safeguarding (including child protection and PSEAH).

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