Gender Specialist

6 months ago


Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Islamic Development Bank Full time

Job Purpose
- Establish strong and practical mechanisms to support women in LLF's mission, focusing on improving lives and livelihoods in the Islamic world.
- Act as the focal point for women's empowerment and gender mainstreaming, collaborating closely with LLFMU leadership, IsDB stakeholders, donor counterparts, and relevant committees to integrate gender considerations across fund programming and operational processes.

Key Accountabilities
- **
Operational Planning, Implementation, and Follow-Up**:

- Deploy LLF's communications efforts at the project and portfolio level, ensuring effective operation at HQ, regional, and country levels, encompassing both fund-level strategic communications and operational aspects for LLF1.0 and LLF 2.0 portfolios.
- Lead the development and implementation of LLF's women's empowerment activities, work plans and KPIs for the LLF Management Unit ensuring their alignment to the IsDB Women's Empowerment strategy and LLFMU mandates.
- Ensure that women's empowerment and gender issues are integrated throughout the LLF's fund-level results framework and Theory of Change and aligned to the fund's impact statement; Identify gender-relevant goals, indicators and targets across the three sectors of primary healthcare, agriculture, and social infrastructure, and support implementing teams to integrate them in workplans and projects.
- Advise LLF project M&E staff on the gender-related, sex-disaggregated, and women's empowerment indicators that should be collected and on the data collection/monitoring tools and approaches capable of capturing such data.
- Work with regional hubs, external partners, and project teams as well as other relevant units at IsDB and PMUs to support identification and design of projects with women's empowerment focus and provide practical advice on how to integrate women's empowerment dimensions in operations.
- Identify and support the development of gender-related technical assistance as part of the LLF Project preparation and implementation facility including overseeing the delivery of consultants.
- Ensure dedicated sessions are organized at project start up for the women's empowerment project dimensions as needed.
- In coordination with the relevant stakeholders in IsDB, lead the development and integration of LLF gender review of projects aligned to IsDB's processes; provide technical input and advise project teams, TRC, and IC on project alignment to LLF's women's empowerment activities.
- In coordination with the aRBM specialist, lead the fund-level gender-focused M&E activities at LLF, including collecting aggregated data on women's empowerment across projects, and reporting on sex-disaggregated indicators to donors and relevant IsDB stakeholders.
- As needed, collaborate with the IsDB women's empowerment unit to provide capacity building opportunities to project teams and other relevant stakeholders on women's empowerment and gender mainstreaming as part of technical assistance provided.
- ** Coordination, Communication & Follow-Up**:

- Serve as the focal point on all matters linked to LLF's women's empowerment and gender mainstreaming work for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Coordinate with relevant stakeholder departments across the Bank to ensure alignment of LLF women's empowerment activities with current institutional Strategy and existing sectoral and thematic policy commitments.
- Generate knowledge sharing on approach, outcomes, good practices, and achievements realized by LLF in support of women's empowerment.
- Keep abreast of the women's empowerment and gender interventions being carried out by other multilateral organisations, share good practices, and identify areas where IsDB and LLFMU can make contributions.
- Share knowledge and experience of LLFMU projects with other Units within IsDB and seek opportunities for joint collaborations and learning.
- ** Reporting and Communication**:

- Monitor women empowerment and gender mainstreaming activities across the LLF portfolio and develop a process to report progress made toward delivering expected outcomes, in line with LLF's results framework and women's empowerment activities.
- Execute methodologies for the systematic collection, analysis, aggregation and reporting of data on gender indicators and targets across LLF projects, including sex-disaggregated data.
- Advisory support to the Head of LLFMU on women's empowerment matters and establishing and maintaining relationships and communications within IsDB as well as external partners (LLF Donors, development partners, government counterparts, others) and promote linkages in the relevant areas.
- Provide technical executive briefings and advice to the Head LLFMU and IsDB Representatives on the LLF IC (Senior Management) on policy papers, reports and proposals to aid in decision making related to gender issues in LLF. Policy Brief for each priority and a note on Gender and Climate Change)

Academic and professional qualificat



  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Islamic Development Bank Full time

    Job Purpose Key Accountabilities **Strategic and Operational Planning and Implementation**: - Contribute to the overall Bank’s efforts to support the member countries to empower women. - Contribute as an expert and participate in project appraisal, design as well as processing and approval process as team member along with relevant regional hubs. -...

  • IT Support Specialist

    6 months ago


    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Schindler Full time

    **Location: Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia** **Requisition ID: 74178** Schindler stands for mobility. Mobility needs experts. Join our team in Jeddah. Founded in Switzerland in 1874, the Schindler Group is a leading global provider of elevators, escalators, and related services. Schindler mobility solutions move two billion people every day all over the...


  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Islamic Development Bank Full time

    Job Purpose - Implement LLF's vision by providing public health solutions to lower and middle-income countries and managing the fund's health sector portfolio. - Offer technical expertise to guide strategic planning in global public health, ensuring operational efficiency and fostering collaboration with IsDB stakeholders and in-country partners for...


  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Govcio LLC Full time

    Overview: GovCIO is currently hiring for a Naval Operations Specialist Instructor to support our Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) Educational Support Services (ESS) effort. This position will be located in Jeddah, KSA and will be an onsite position. **Responsibilities**: - Command Preparation course - Advanced Operations Officer /Weapons Officer course -...


  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Govcio LLC Full time

    Overview: GovCIO is currently hiring for a Curriculum Developer Specialist to provide courseware and curriculum development services required to meet RSNF training program objective. This position will be located in Jeddah, KSA and will be an onsite position. **Responsibilities**: - Analyzing the current courseware and curriculum used by the RSNF. This...


  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Johnson & Johnson Full time

    Description Kenvue is currently recruiting for: **HR and Administration Specialist** This 1 year fixed term contract position reports into the Country Directory and is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. **Who We Are** At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we’re the house...


  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Kimberly-Clark Full time

    HR Operations Specialist **Job Description**: Your Job You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building...

  • Risk Manager

    7 months ago


    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Redfish Solutions Full time

    Full-time Opportunity - Major international consultant - Excellent Carer Growth Opportunity **A successful **risk manager **will have**: - Minimum 12 years’ experience in risk management or PMC with a risk management emphasis. - Educated to at least a bachelors level, although a masters is preferred in engineering or a related field. - Able to lead...

  • Registered Nurse

    6 months ago


    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Thornbury Nursing US Full time

    **Thornbury Nursing Services is offering an exciting full-time opportunity for registered and experienced nurses to live and work in Fairbanks, Alaska. **We specialise in placing highly skilled nurses into healthcare facilities for a minimum of 2-3 years, or permanently. We have immediate opportunities in Alaska for registered medical, surgical, ED and ITU...


  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia BOEING Full time

    At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for...

  • Inbound Coordinator

    6 months ago


    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Kenvue Full time

    Description Kenvue is currently recruiting for: **Inbound Logistics Specialist** This position reports into the Customer Service Lead and is based in Jeddah, KSA. Please note that this is a fixed term contract of 1 year. **Who We Are** At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in...

  • Inbound Coordinator

    7 months ago


    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Johnson & Johnson Full time

    Description Kenvue is currently recruiting for: **Inbound Logistics Specialist** This position reports into the Customer Service Lead and is based in Jeddah, KSA. Please note that this is a fixed term contract of 1 year. **Who We Are** At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in...

  • Hse Officer

    6 months ago


    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Linxon Full time

    Job Description Join Us! We combine AtkinsRéalis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations - we are Linxon! The duty of the HSE Advisor/Specialist/Officer is to act and operatively support the Project Manager as expert and partner by planning, supervision, ensuring and...


  • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Johnson & Johnson Full time

    Account Receivable ( Field Collector) - Riyadh - Saudi Arabia Johnson & Johnson Global Services, the global shared services organization supporting the businesses of Johnson & Johnson, performs select functional work in a consistent manner across regions and sectors using simplified, standardized end-to-end processes and state-of-the-art technology. The...