Gender Officer

Location: Deir Alzour, Eastern Hub, Syria; on-site

Company

hirify.global is an international confederation working with partners and communities on humanitarian, development, and campaigning programmes in more than 90 countries.

What you will do

• Support gender mainstreaming and gender-transformative interventions across WASH, FES, and other programmes.
• Conduct gender, vulnerability, and multisector needs assessments, identifying priorities for women, girls, and other vulnerable groups.
• Develop gender action plans and support gender-responsive indicators, sex- and age-disaggregated data, monitoring, learning, and reporting.
• Conduct field visits, review partner documentation, collect feedback, and report gender-related findings, GBV data, lessons learned, and case studies.
• Provide technical accompaniment, training, coaching, and capacity strengthening for staff and implementing partners.
• Coordinate with local authorities, women's rights organisations, UN agencies, and humanitarian actors; represent the Gender Team when delegated.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in gender or development studies, social science, or a related discipline with at least 3 years of experience, or a relevant diploma with at least 5 years of experience.
• Experience in gender, GBV, protection, and social work, including work with IDPs, refugees, returnees, and other vulnerable populations.
• Experience in the humanitarian or development sector and with international organisations such as INGOs or UN agencies.
• Experience training local actors on gender equality and applying gender-sensitive tools and standards.
• Ability to communicate and write reports in English, consolidate formal English documentation, and translate documents into Arabic or English.
• Understanding and sensitivity to poverty, gender, diversity, inclusion, and safeguarding issues.

Nice to have

• Teamworking, flexibility under pressure, attention to detail, and strong numeracy.
• Good communication and leadership skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Commitment to feminist principles, empowerment, accountability, inclusion, diversity, and gender equality.
• Flexible working options, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance, and a pension scheme.
• Learning and development through courses, e-learning, on-the-job learning, coaching, and mentoring.
• Employment is subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, including safeguarding-related checks where applicable.

Hiring process

• Submit an up-to-date CV and cover letter explaining suitability against the essential criteria.
• Offers are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.