Gender Expert

Job Description

Title: Gender Expert

Company Name: Plan International Bangladesh

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Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

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Published: 2025-08-10

Application Deadline: 2025-08-16

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Responsibilities & Context:

• Join Us at Plan International Bangladesh: Make a Lasting Impact!

• Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And its girls who are most affected and mostly during crisis. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

• Over the 30 years journey in Bangladesh, we envision a 2030 where children and youth, particularly girls and young women, are recognized as leaders of change in gender norms and can make decisions about their lives.

• Since 24 September 2017, Plan International has been responding to the Rohingya refugee influx in Cox’s Bazar with special focus on protecting girls and boys from violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation; improving hygiene and sanitation; and restoring access to safe, quality, and inclusive education for refugee children and adolescents. Guided by our core values, we remain unwavering in our commitment to advancing children’s rights and equality for girls so that children, especially girls, and their communities can learn, lead, decide, and thrive.

• For the past three decades, our work in Bangladesh has made a significant impact, and we are now looking for a Gender Expert.

The Role:

• The Gender Expert will provide strategic and technical leadership to mainstream Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) across all components of the project. With a focus on addressing the barriers that limit female participation in the labor market—such as restrictive social norms, limited access to training and employment, and Preventing Sexual Harassment Exploitation and Abuse (PSHEA)—the role involves the design, implementation, and monitoring of inclusive strategies. The expert will also strengthen institutional capacities and promote transformative change through the development of GESI frameworks, tools, and guidelines.

• The Gender Expert will provide technical guidance to ensure that Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) is integrated across all components of the project. This role focuses on addressing structural and socio-cultural barriers—such as restrictive norms, limited access to skills, unpaid care burdens, and risks of SHEA—that hinder women and marginalized youth from participating in the labor force.

• The incumbent will lead the development and implementation of a project-wide GESI strategy, including social norms transformation, SHEA risk mitigation, and gender-responsive monitoring systems. A key responsibility will be building the capacity of government, implementing partners, and community actors to institutionalize gender-transformative practices.

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