INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Advisor-Gender and Youth

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.

Date of Announcement:       25/09/2019

Vacancy No.:                            079/19

Position:                                  Advisor-Gender and Youth

Grade:                                      9C

Salary:                                     USD 1,564

No of positions:                        01

Duration of Employment:         Definite

Unit/Program:                          DFSA    

Duty Base:                               Head Office/Addis Ababa

Closing Date:                           10 calendar days from the date of advertisement

I.  JOB SUMMARY: Advisor- Gender and youth  provides technical assistance and capacity building on gender and youth development to the DFAP implementing field offices stakeholder staffs in the operational areas. The position holder will coordinate gender analysis and lead studies to explore employment opportunities for the youth. She will identify gaps, consolidate best practices in the field and share lessons to all concerned. The adviser   leads/conducts standard quality training & coaching and produces or adopts related guidelines to ensure gender, women empowerment and youth priorities are integrated into all technical sectors of DFAP. In consultation with DFAP coordinator and Technical Advisor from consortium coordination unit, she will supervise 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. The gender and youth adviser will oversee the mainstreaming of all gender and youth related aspects of the project, participate in all Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning events, respond to identified issues and make timely adjustments to implementation strategies.

II. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

Job Responsibility #1: Strategy design, planning, implementation and monitoring (40%)

§  Leads the development and implementation of evidence based, realistic and effective gender, women empowerment and youth engagement strategies for all technical sectors under the DFAP project including food security, nutrition, livelihoods, CCA, DRR, WASH and community mobilisation/social accountability;

§  Inputs into problem identification, causal and problem analysis and activity development, i.e. focusing on gender analysis, women empowerment and youth engagement aspects of the DFAP project;

§  Participates in DFAP detailed implementation planning (DIP), and annual reviews, to ensure Gender and Youth responsive project planning processes are implemented throughout the life of the project;

§  Follow ups the progress of the planned project activities and participates in the preparation of quarterly and annual reports;

§  Ensure the DFAP result framework has put properly embraced  gender sensitive indicators in areas of women empowerment and gender equality indicators-access to resource, control, leadership status within community and etc;

§  Responds to the results of research and regular monitoring with effective measures that can be implemented to produce results within the lifetime of the project;

 Job Responsibility #2:  Staff training and coaching (30%)

§  Conducts staff induction and ongoing training processes for gender and youth officers in DFAP

§  Provides training to CARE-DFAP and government stakeholder staff;

§  Leads the development and facilitation of trainings on staff development initiatives for gender, including the staff transformation process under SAA;

§  Develops and implements follow-up, engagement and coaching plans to build staff capacity and to increase their level of expertise and skills and their commitment to apply strategies; 

§  Develops TOR, SOWs and actively participates in the selection of temporary technical assistance (consultants) to engage on gender and youth issues, as required;

§  Provides ongoing backstopping and technical support to staff.

 Job Responsibility #3:  Networking, Learning, and Policy Implementation (20%)

§  Establishes all necessary relationships with the DFAP consortium leaders, implementing partners, field offices, different units within CARE and government stakeholders to ensure that gender and youth issues can be shared;

§  Conducts and or leads formative research in all DFAP operation Zones/Woredas;

§  Disseminates learning and ensures all staff are updated on gender and youth priorities;

§  Together with other thematic advisers of DFAP and CARE PQL unit staff, supports efforts to measure the impact and document lessons  learned and best practices;

§  Produces gender and youth related aspects of reporting for USAID for all regular and incidental reports.

 Job Responsibility #5:  Others (10%)

§  Participates in all major activities of the DFAP project;

§  Responds to requests for additional capacity building support within CARE;

§  Perform other duties as assigned.

 CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS 

The Adviser will work directly with the DFAP team in CARE Ethiopia with direct relationships with gender officers in  DFAP implementing  Zones and woredas.

Externally, the Adviser will manage government contact, including relationships with MoWYCA particularly at region and lower levels.

WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED. 

This position is located in Addis Ababa, with up to 50 % field travel

QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW

 A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

§   B.A. degree in Social Science, gender studies or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

 Desired:

§   M.A. degree or equivalent in related fields

 B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

§   4-6 years of work experience in development related areas, conversant with adult learning and training of trainers methodologies, practical experience in women and youth  programming

§  At least 3 years of work experience in gender analysis, training and mainstreaming. 

 Desired:

§  Gender related NGO experience.

§  Previous experience with livelihoods programs and or food assistance interventions.

 C) TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Required:

§  Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies;

§  Analytical, training/facilitation skills;

§  Sensitivity to different aspects of diversity (cultural, religious, disability), firm belief in teamwork and sensitivity to HIV/AIDS

§  Computer skills (word, Excel);

 Desired:

§   Quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills.

 D) COMPETENCIES

Coaching, initiating action, communicating with impact, innovation, planning and organizing, building partnership, facilitating change, adaptability.