Women Lead in Emergencies (WLiE) is CARE's flagship approach for advancing women's voice, leadership, and meaningful participation in humanitarian settings. WLiE supports crisis-affected women to organize, identify their own priorities, strengthen collective action, and influence humanitarian decisions that affect their lives.

The Women Empowerment Officer, based in Port Sudan, will lead the day-to-day implementation of the WLiE model, facilitating the formation and strengthening of women-led groups, supporting women's leadership and advocacy capacities, and ensuring that women's priorities inform humanitarian programming and decision-making processes. The position plays a key role in advancing locally led action, strengthening partnerships with women-led organizations, and promoting safe, inclusive, and meaningful participation of women in humanitarian response. The role applies survivor-centered, safeguarding, and do-no-harm principles throughout all activities.

Women’s Leadership and Collective Action:

• Establish, facilitate, and support women-led groups using CARE's five-step Women Lead in Emergencies methodology.
• Support women to identify, prioritize, and address issues affecting their lives through collective action and community engagement.
• Facilitate participatory learning and reflection sessions that strengthen women's confidence, agency, knowledge of rights, leadership, and decision-making skills.
• Support women's groups to develop and implement community-led action plans based on their self-identified priorities.
• Strengthen women's leadership, advocacy, communication, and negotiation skills to enhance their participation in community and humanitarian decision-making processes.

Advocacy and Meaningful Participation:

• Create safe and inclusive opportunities for women to engage with community leaders, local authorities, service providers, humanitarian actors, and coordination platforms.
• Support women-led advocacy initiatives that promote women's priorities and influence humanitarian policies, services, and programming.
• Facilitate dialogue between women-led groups and relevant stakeholders to strengthen accountability and responsiveness to women's concerns.
• Ensure that women's priorities, recommendations, and feedback are systematically shared with CARE programme teams and relevant humanitarian sectors.

Localization and Partnership Development:

• Strengthen collaboration with women-led organizations, women’s rights organizations, community-based groups, and local partners.
• Support capacity strengthening, mentoring, and accompaniment of local women-led organizations in line with CARE's localization commitments.
• Promote locally led approaches and strengthen women's participation in humanitarian leadership and coordination mechanisms.

Protection, Safeguarding and Inclusion:

• Ensure all activities are implemented in accordance with survivor-centred, safeguarding, protection, and do-no-harm principles.
• Identify protection concerns and risks affecting women and girls and facilitate safe referrals through established protection, safeguarding, and GBV pathways.
• Promote safe, inclusive, and accessible participation of women and girls, including those with disabilities and other marginalized groups.
• Maintain confidentiality and ensure ethical handling of sensitive information at all times.

Monitoring, Learning and Documentation:

• Maintain accurate activity records, participant databases, and monitoring information in accordance with programme requirements.
• Support monitoring of WLiE outcomes, including indicators related to women's voice, leadership, participation, influence, and collective action.
• Collect and document stories of change, lessons learned, best practices, and evidence of women's leadership and influence.
• Contribute to programme reports, learning products, case studies, and advocacy materials.
• Participate in reflection, learning, and adaptation processes to strengthen program quality and impact.

Coordination and Representation:

• Coordinate closely with CARE programme teams, including Protection, Gender, MEAL, and Partnerships units, to ensure effective implementation of WLiE activities.
• Participate in relevant coordination meetings and engagement platforms as requested.
• Represent CARE and the WLiE program in meetings with partners, community stakeholders, and women-led organizations when required.

• Bachelor's degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Human Rights, Community Development, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in women's empowerment, gender equality, protection, community mobilization, advocacy, or humanitarian programming.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating participatory approaches and working directly with women, girls, and marginalized groups.
• Strong understanding of gender equality, women's leadership, GBV prevention and response, safeguarding, protection principles, and survivor-centred approaches.
• Experience working with community-based organizations, women-led groups, and local partners.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to manage sensitive situations with professionalism, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity.
• Fluency in Arabic is required; good working knowledge of English is essential.
• Strong understanding of the Sudanese humanitarian and socio-cultural context.

Safeguarding

CARE has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of exploitation, abuse, harassment, or harm against children and vulnerable adults. The post holder is required to fully comply with CARE's Safeguarding, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Child Safeguarding, and Code of Conduct policies and procedures. Employment is subject to satisfactory background and reference checks.

Interested candidates are required to upload an updated CV along with all relevant experience certificates and educational certificates.

Application with missing documents will not be considered