INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
CARE Ethiopia is a non-political, non-religious and independent humanitarian organization working in collaboration with various stakeholders to fight poverty and support vulnerable community groups. Its interventions primarily focus on three distinct impact groups: chronically food insecure rural women, pastoralist school-aged girls, and resource-poor urban female youth. CARE Ethiopia runs initiatives in the areas of WaSH, Food security and climate change, sexual and reproductive health, emergency response, and women’s empowerment in four regions of the country.
Date: October 8, 2015
Vacancy No. 057/15
I. Position: Senior Gender Advisor (Re- Advertised)
II. Salary: USD 990/month (negotiable based on past pay history and other factors)
III. Number of vacant posts: 1 (one)
IV. Duty Base: Addis Ababa
V. Application Deadline: October 18, 2015
VI. Term of employment: Regular
VII. Starting date: Immediately
VIII. Role Profile
The Senior Gender Advisor will serve as the technical leader and coordinator for all gender programming under the Pastoral Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) program. S/he will be responsible for designing and rolling out a gender strategy for the program, and providing mentoring and technical support to senior managers and the program team in its implementation. S/he will be responsible for developing or introducing tools and methods for incorporating gender issues into all program assessments and activities, and ensuring quality implementation in these areas, as per the gender strategy. The position holder will work in an integrated manner, ensuring cohesion within an overall program approach both within PRIME and CARE’s larger portfolio, and supporting technical implementation to stay within budget and targets, as agreed upon with direct supervisor. S/he will be expected to spend up to 70% time in the field, directly supporting technical implementation and providing capacity-building support.
IX. Responsibilities and Tasks
§ Develop an appropriate gender strategy to address gender consideration in the pastoral livelihood and development context, in support of the strategies, approaches and objectives of the Pastoral Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) program. Ensure approaches are agreed upon and incorporated jointly with the PRIME CoP and other technical leaders.
§ Identify, develop and lead the application of approaches, tools, and methodologies for practical implementation of the gender strategy under PRIME.
§ Stay abreast of current trends and best-practices in relation to gender issues in pastoral livelihood systems, and gender considerations in areas of market-led development and climate resilience activities. Make recommendations on how to incorporate relevant, appropriate methods to inform-decision-making and support gender outcomes at different levels.
§ Build the capacity of field teams, community, NGO and government partners, in the gender strategy and methodologies identified to integrate and address gender issues as part of PRIME activities in market-led development, climate change adaptation, and natural resource management in pastoral areas.
§ Liaising directly with all sector leads, ensure the gender strategy and activities directly support and are harmonized with the key technical components of PRIME in relation to a market-led approach to livelihood diversification and livestock productivity, natural resource management and building climate resilience.
§ Coordinate regularly with the rest of the technical team under PRIME. Work with supervisor to ensure that activities and strategies are implemented in a coherent and coordinated way with other program activities in the cluster areas.
§ Write and disseminate reports on the progress, approaches, success and challenges of PRIME’s gender strategy, methodologies and progress of implementation. This includes writing components of quarterly reports where requested. Submit to supervisor for final review.
§ Develop and/or review any written materials related to technical implementation and outcomes related to PRIME’s gender approach. This could include “how to” guidelines, outcome reports, success stories, or other best-practice documentation with respect to CCA.
X. Qualifications
A) Education/training
Required:
· Master’s degree in Gender studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Development or other related fields.
B) Experience
Required:
§ At least 6 years of experience in supporting capacity-building, learning, and successful gender integration in development programs
§ Experience in pastoral areas.
§ Excellent facilitation and writing skills
Respect, integrity, diversity, excellence, adaptability, stress tolerance, innovation, building partnership, communicating with impact, coaching, facilitating change, developing teams, initiating action, strategic decision making, planning and organizing, leading through vision and value.