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GEDSI Technical Adviser, WWF-Laos<\/h3>\n

Location:<\/strong> Vientiane Capital \u2013 with field travel as required<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong> The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has had a presence in Laos since the late 1980s. Today, our main office for WWF-Laos is in Vientiane Capital, with field offices in multiple provinces. WWF-Laos works with government, civil society, the private sector and other partners to address the drivers of biodiversity loss and to move towards a greener nature-based future where the people of Laos can thrive and live in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n

As GEDSI Technical Adviser, this role will drive WWF-Laos to strengthen inclusive conservation approaches across its landscapes and priority\/project sites. The GEDSI Technical Adviser plays a critical internal coordination and technical support role in this effort, ensuring that GEDSI is embedded across the organisation’s planning, implementation, monitoring, and learning processes.<\/p>\n

Major Functions:<\/h4>\n

The GEDSI Technical Adviser serves as WWF-Laos’ primary internal reference point for gender equality, disability, and social inclusion \u2013 delivering technical support, coordination, and capacity strengthening across the organization, to ensure that GEDSI principles are meaningfully integrated across all programmes, landscapes, and operational functions.<\/p>\n

Major Duties and Responsibilities:<\/h4>\n
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  • GEDSI Mainstreaming and Technical Support:<\/strong> Lead consultations in\/with local communities, and support programme and site teams to integrate GEDSI considerations into project design, workplans, budgets, and implementation.<\/li>\n
  • Capacity Strengthening and Organisational Learning:<\/strong> Develop and deliver GEDSI orientation and training for WWF-Laos staff, including new staff induction and periodic refresher sessions.<\/li>\n
  • Strategy, Planning, and Coordination:<\/strong> Lead the development and periodic review of WWF-Laos’ GEDSI Action Plan, in alignment with the Mekong Regional GEDSI Programme (MGRP) and WWF-Laos\u2019 2026-2030 strategic plan.<\/li>\n
  • Partnerships, Stakeholder Engagement, and Communications:<\/strong> Support programme teams to foster new, and maintain, partnerships with women-led organisations, disability-focused groups, ethnic community organisations, and other civil society actors working on inclusion in Laos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Required Qualifications:<\/h4>\n
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    • Bachelor’s degree in gender studies, social sciences, community development, international development or a related field. A postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline is considered an advantage.<\/li>\n
    • Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience working on GEDSI mainstreaming, gender analysis or social inclusion programming, ideally within an NGO, conservation, or development organisation operating in Laos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Required Experience, Skills and Competencies:<\/h4>\n
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      • Practical experience applying GEDSI frameworks and tools in programme design, implementation, or monitoring.<\/li>\n
      • Experience designing and delivering training, facilitation, or capacity-strengthening activities on gender and\/or inclusion to diverse audiences.<\/li>\n
      • Familiarity with inclusive approaches to community engagement, participatory methods, and safeguards frameworks (e.g. FPIC, environmental and social safeguards\/ESS, statements of principles\/SOP and grievance mechanisms).<\/li>\n
      • Strong understanding of the social, cultural, and institutional context for gender equality and social inclusion in Laos.<\/li>\n
      • Fluent written and spoken Lao; very strong working proficiency in English for reporting and coordination with regional\/global partners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":8086,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"job_type":[70,94,34],"location":[49],"job_function":[157],"expiration":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21767","job","type-job","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","job_type-consultancy","job_type-ingo-cso","job_type-part-time","location-vientiane_capital","job_function-gender"],"acf":[],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":1,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job\/21767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job\/21767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21768,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job\/21767\/revisions\/21768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_type?post=21767"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=21767"},{"taxonomy":"job_function","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_function?post=21767"},{"taxonomy":"expiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expiration?post=21767"},{"taxonomy":"tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobsnocap.com\/lo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}