CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality, and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.
JOB SUMMARY:
Under the technical leadership of the Gender and Youth Advisor, the Gender, and Youth Officer at CARE’s implementing Zones, will provide technical assistance and capacity building on gender and youth development to the RFSA implementing field offices and stakeholder staffs in the operational areas. The position holder will support and coordinate gender analysis and support and lead studies with Youth Livelihood and Education Officer on exploring employment opportunities for the youth. Proactively and/or upon direction provided by the technical advisor, s/he will identify gaps, consolidate best practices in the field and share lessons to all concerned bodies. The Officer will ensure that standard quality training, guidelines and tools are adopting consistently without major deviations in all RFSA technical themes to ensure gender, women empowerment and youth priorities are integrated uniformly. In consultation with the advisor, the officer will support and contribute to formative research in implementation areas to identify key issues, social norms, and barriers and to make recommendations on how to address gender and youth related concerns and challenges.
II. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:
Job Responsibility #1: Strategy design, planning, monitoring and implementation (40%)
Job Responsibility #2: Capacity Building, Staff training and coaching (30%)
Job Responsibility #3: Networking, Learning, Policy Implementation (20%)
Job Responsibility #4: Others (10%)
GENDER EQUALITY
IV. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW)
A) EDUCATION/TRAINING
Required:
B) EXPERIENCE:
Required:
Desired:
C) Technical Skills:
Required:
Desired:
Quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills.
D) COMPETENCIES
Coaching, initiating action, communicating with impact, innovation, planning and organizing, building partnership, facilitating change, adaptability.
V. CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS
The Officer will work directly with the RFSA team in CARE East/West Hararghe FO with direct relationship with the Project Manager and RFSA teams in the FO with dotted line relationship with the Gender and Youth Advisor at the Addis Office.
VI. WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED.
This position is located in East/West Hararghe.