Technical Team Lead, GEDSI

About The Role

Technical Lead - Capacity building for GoJ on WPS Provides technical leadership on Women, Peace and Security programming in line with national and donor frameworks, ensuring coherence across policy, implementation, and learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic design, delivery, and monitoring of WPS-related interventions. Provide expert technical input to partners and implementing teams.
• Lead advocacy efforts aligned with JONAP II and relevant GoJ priorities.
• Build capacity and mentor local actors engaged in WPS.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' experience in WPS, gender equality, or related fields.
• A degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field (Master's preferred).
• Deep familiarity with JONAP and regional WPS architecture.
• Demonstrated experience in program design, coordination, and technical capacity-building.
• Fluency in Arabic and English

About Us

Chemonics UK is a leader in global sustainable development and part of Chemonics International's global network of specialists. We run projects that range from supporting children with special educational needs in Syria to increasing access to public services in Mozambique and fostering peacebuilding initiatives in Yemen. Every action we take is driven by the goal to transform life-changing ideas into world-changing ones.

Our teams reflect a diversity of technical expertise and lived experience, because solving complex development challenges requires both. As a company, we are committed to connections - global and local, human, and technological - that allow learnings to efficiently flow and adapt between experts, projects, and countries. This is how we match the speed and scale of humanity's most pressing and ever-evolving challenges, from bolstering research and innovative systems across Africa to supporting local governments and civil society in Ukraine.

Chemonics International is a major international development consultancy, with a 50-year history and a track record for delivering integrated solutions across multiple sectors and geographies to support the achievement of sustainable development goals. We are 6,000 experts in more than 100 countries around the globe, and 90% of us are working in a community we have long-considered home.

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Chemonics UK values and celebrates the diversity of our colleagues. We embrace differing perspectives, lived experiences and expertise and believe that everyone should be treated with dignity, respect, transparency and fairness.

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