Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) Senior Adviser – South

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories! Employee Contract Type: Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term) Job Description: JOB PURPOSE Provide strategic and technical leadership to advance gender equality, disability inclusion and social inclusion across the South Asia and Pacific region. The role develops and delivers a regional GEDSI roadmap; strengthens organisational practice and staff and partner capability; embeds GEDSI across strategy, programme and proposal design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning; and positions World Vision with donors, governments, UN agencies, civil society and representative organisations. Core areas of focus: Develop and execute a regional GEDSI strategy and roadmap aligned with organisational policy and child well-being priorities. Lead GEDSI mainstreaming and quality assurance across regional and national office programming, grants and organisational systems. Build the capability of GEDSI focal points, technical teams, leaders, partners and representative organisations. Generate evidence, learning, innovation and external positioning on GEDSI across development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. Manage and coordinate GEDSI-related consultancies, technical assistance engagements, and partnerships, including development of scopes of work, procurement inputs, onboarding, quality assurance, delivery oversight, and dissemination of outputs to ensure alignment with global and regional priorities and standards. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Lead regional GEDSI strategy, policy implementation and organizational change. Develop and monitor a regional GEDSI strategy and roadmap aligned with organizational priorities and policy. Engage regional and national leadership, People & Culture, operations, programmes, grants, advocacy and communications to embed GEDSI in programming, organizational practices, advocacy and external engagement, and in communications, as per World Vision ’s GEDSI Policy. Guide organizational GEDSI self-assessments and action plans; promote inclusive language, accessible workplaces, non-discrimination and reasonable accommodation. Ensure GEDSI is visible in organizational priorities,program strategies and design, key messages andresource allocation. Lead GEDSI mainstreaming in programs, implementation and proposals across funding streams. Provide technical leadership for GEDSI responsive and transformative programme and proposal design across sectors and contexts. Ensure designs are informed by GEDSI analysis, including gender and disability analysis, barriers, disparities, harmful norms, root causes and intersectional risks. Advise teams on GEDSI objectives, theories of change, indicators, budgets, risk mitigation, Do No Harm, safeguarding and donor requirements. Contextualize and promote GEDSI tools, approaches, minimum standards, domains of change, continuum and marker. Strengthen identification and use of disaggregated data, including appropriate use of Washington Group Questions or other approved tools, informing program / project designs based on analysis. Coach teams to monitor emerging barriers and adapt implementation to improve equitable access, participation, decision-making, systems and well-being. Promote rights-based and social-model approaches that address attitudinal, environmental, communication and institutional barriers. Build GEDSI capability, networks and communities of practice. Assess competency and capacity gaps and develop regional capacity-strengthening plans for staff, focal points