Project Coordinator, Gender, Inclusion & Safeguarding

About you

The ideal candidate should possess strong technical expertise in designing and operationalising gender, inclusion, and safeguarding frameworks; conducting gender and protection analyses; integrating inclusive approaches into programme design, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting; and managing safeguarding incidents using survivor-centred, confidential practices.

You should have experience working with youth, women, persons with disabilities, internally displaced persons, or other marginalised groups—ideally within agrifood systems or livelihoods programming—and be familiar with donor-funded project compliance and reporting requirements.

Strong facilitation, analytical, communication, and partnership-building skills are essential, along with high emotional intelligence, cultural sensitivity, and a firm commitment to ethical conduct and accountability. The position holder should be able to strengthen partner capacity and ensure compliance.

• Coordinate the integration of gender equality, social inclusion, and safeguarding principles across all the programme components and workstreams.
  
• Develop and implement gender action plans, safeguarding frameworks, and inclusion strategies aligned with GAIN and donor policies.
  
• Conduct gender and inclusion analyses to identify barriers affecting women, PWDs, and IDPs in agrifood value chains. translating findings into practical programme adjustments
  
• Ensure activities, budgets, and indicators are gender-responsive and inclusive.
  
• Support the development and roll-out of tools for gender-sensitive data collection, safeguarding, risk assessment, and reporting.
  
• Provide technical input during design of training materials, capacity-building sessions, and community outreach initiatives to promote inclusion and safety.
  
• Coordinate case management and referral mechanisms for protection and safeguarding incidents in compliance with organizational protocols, ensuring confidentiality, sensitivity, and survivor-centred practice.
  
• Coordinate and deliver training for project staff in Nigeria, implementing partners, and cooperatives on gender equality, inclusion, and safeguarding principles; contribute to relevant training for other GAIN staff as needed. Conduct routine audits and spot checks to assess compliance with safeguarding standards and gender integration benchmarks, escalating trends, risks or gaps through the programme governance structure and to the Global Employee Relations & Safeguarding Lead where appropriate.
  
• Represent the programme in gender and safeguarding coordination forums, networks, and donor meetings.