Company Profile

About Futures Group
Futures Group, the global consulting firm, helps to protect and promote people’s well-being around the world. For 40 years, Futures Group has created lasting solutions to some of the most pressing public health challenges facing nations. We predict future health and development trends, uncover barriers to well-being, and forge on-the-ground partnerships to ensure lasting change.

About GRM International
GRM International is a leading international development management company specializing in the provision of project design, management expertise and technical assistance to development projects for bilateral and multilateral funding agencies, governments and corporations. For more than 45 years, GRM has been bringing expertise in managing large-scale projects, and sourcing and managing high quality experts covering all disciplinary skills required to implement development projects.

About our Group of Companies
GRM International, Futures Group, and the Effective Development Group are a group of companies with a joint focus on reaching people in need and creating better futures for our clients, communities and colleagues around the world. With more than 90 current projects operating in more than 85 countries, and $225 million in revenue, our combined group has a multisectoral focus, diverse technical offerings and a wide geographic reach. For more information, please visit www.futuresgroup.com, www.grminternational.com, and www.edgroup.com.au.

Global Project Summary: Health Policy Project
Futures Group is the lead partner on the Health Policy Project (HPP), a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The project’s HIV activities are supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). To implement HPP, Futures Group collaborates globally with CEDPA (part of Plan International USA), Futures Institute, Partners in Population and Development, Africa Regional Office (PPD ARO), Population Reference Bureau (PRB), RTI International, and the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA). In Haiti, the HPP partnership is Futures Group and RTI.

Globally, HPP contributes to improved health outcomes through strengthening the efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of health systems in a multi-sectoral context. HPP focuses on the policy aspects of health and other social sectors, often in a multi-sectoral context. We also assist countries to improve health outcomes by addressing barriers due to gender inequalities, socioeconomic status, stigma and discrimination, operational issues, and other factors that prevent people from seeking the health and related social services they need. Throughout our work, we are committed to encouraging in-country capacity for policy, advocacy, governance, and finance. For additional information on HPP see www.healthpolicyproject.com.

In Haiti, HPP has been asked to implement the USAID-funded for the Aksyon Kolektif pou Sekirite kont Eksplwatasyon (AKSE) Program which supports a multi-sectoral approach to strengthen the Haitian environment for human rights in general and for vulnerable populations, in particular, children, women, and sexual minorities. AKSE was previously implemented by CARE International. HPP will build on the work of the previous project from March 2014 through at least September 2015, with potential for extension.

Position Summary

Futures Group is seeking a Senior Gender Advisor to lead gender-based rights and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) activities in Haiti for the HPP AKSE project. The Senior Gender Advisor will oversee activities to strengthen networks and organizations in gender-based rights and SGBV monitoring, prevention and response services and to improve the enabling environment in Haiti. S/He will work under the supervision of the HPP AKSE Project Director and work closely with the HPP AKSE team. This is a full-time personal service contract based in Port-au-Prince for an initial 16-18 months, with the possibility of extension subject to availability of funds.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise, quality assurance and support for gender-based rights and SGBV project activities
• Engage with key national and local stakeholders to improve networking and service referrals and to support advocacy efforts
• Provide technical support to Government and non-governmental organizations to strengthen capacity in multiple areas, including improved services (quantity and quality), coordination and referrals, and strengthening organizational capacity
• Coordinate efforts to increase data use for evidence-based decision-making and to set up monitoring and reporting systems
• Coordinate technical assistance for gender and SGBV policy advocacy, development, implementation and monitoring, including those for key populations
• Convene/coordinate partner meetings, flow of information, and appropriate harmonization and integration of activities across locations
• Collaborate to develop or identify technical capacity-strengthening content
• Ensure technical support and reporting on agreed workplan priorities
• Collaborate with the HPP AKSE team in activity planning and timelines and contribute to project monitoring and reporting

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a social science, such as public policy, sociology, gender studies or other development-related field
• At least five years of experience in the field of gender and human rights, sexual and gender-based violence and/or the protection of vulnerable groups in the context of developing nations
• Experience in capacity strengthening and facilitating collaboration and partnerships
• Strong understanding of policy development, implementation, monitoring and advocacy
• Familiarity with evidence-based decision-making and monitoring and reporting systems preferred
• Understanding of issues specific to key populations, including sex workers, males who have sex with males and migrants, preferred
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Excellent written and communication skills in English and French; Haitian Creole preferred
• Strong preference for local nationals

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand or sit, and move about the facility
• Travel in Haiti outside of Port-au-Prince

Work Environment

• Usual office working conditions free of disagreeable elements

Futures Group provides equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.