Global Advisor, Gender Transformative Program

Overview

The Global Advisor, Gender Transformative Programming provides global technical leadership, strategic direction, and quality assurance for Orbis International’s gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming across all countries and project portfolios. This senior role is responsible for defining, driving, and updating Orbis’s Global Gender Transformative Programming Strategy and ensuring that gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) are systematically integrated into program design, implementation, MEL, partnerships, and fundraising across the entire organization.

A key component of the role includes providing global leadership to Orbis’s flagship Women Leaders in Eye Health (WLEH) initiative; however, this sits within a broader mandate to advance gender equality, women’s leadership, and social inclusion across all Orbis programs. The Global Advisor serves as Orbis’s principal global technical expert, working closely with country teams, regional and global leadership, and external partners to strengthen the quality, effectiveness, and impact of gender-transformative approaches in eye health.

The Advisor is expected to champion and model equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility while advancing Orbis’s mission, values, and strategic priorities.

Reports to the Director, Global Programs and collaborates closely with country teams, global technical units, and cross-functional departments to provide organization-wide gender-transformative leadership.

The position is worked remotely from your home office. The offered salary will be benchmarked to the local region.

Global Strategy & Technical Leadership-

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous refinement of Orbis’s Global Gender Transformative Programming Strategy.
• Establish global standards, tools, frameworks, and evidence-based guidance for integrating gender equality and social inclusion across all Orbis programs and country portfolios.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert on gender equality in eye health, advising senior leadership, program teams, MEL staff, and fundraising units.
• Translate global trends, evidence, and emerging best practices into organization-wide guidance, learning tools, and program enhancements.
• Ensure WLEH aligns with, contributes to, and benefits from Orbis’s broader gender-transformative agenda.

Technical Advisory Support to Country Programs-

• Provide direct advisory support to country offices to strengthen gender analyses, program design, implementation quality, MEL integration, and partnership engagement.
• Support country teams to adapt global gender-transformative standards to their specific context while maintaining quality and consistency.
• Build capacity of Orbis staff, partners, and government counterparts through tailored training, mentorship, and coaching on gender equality in eye health.
• Lead or support equity assessments, gender analyses, and design of gender-transformative interventions across country portfolios.

Program Quality, Evidence & MEL Integration-

• Collaborate with the MEL team to ensure gender and equity considerations are embedded across MEL frameworks, indicators, dashboards, evaluations, and learning agendas.
• Promote systematic use of sex-, age-, and other equity-disaggregated data for analysis and decision-making.
• Support synthesis and dissemination of evidence, learning, and insights from Orbis’s gender-transformative programming.
• Lead the development of global knowledge products such as guidance notes, case studies, toolkits, and learning briefs.

Leadership of WLEH-

• Provide strategic vision, technical guidance, and oversight for the Women Leaders in Eye Health (WLEH) initiative.
• Coordinate the WLEH Advisory Group, Technical Group, and Gender Champions, ensuring meaningful cross-country exchange and leadership development.
• Ensure high-quality implementation, monitoring, communication, and global positioning of the WLEH initiative.
• Strengthen pathways for women’s leadership and representation in global eye health systems.

Partnerships, Representation & Thought Leadership-

• Cultivate strategic…