FH Ethiopia is a non-governmental organization engaged in relief and development activities. At FH, we operate under a set of guiding principles we call the “The Heartbeat”. This includes our Values, Vision and Purpose, which serve as the explanation of who we are and how we work as organization. Together we follow God’s call responding to human suffering and graduating communities from extreme poverty. FH Ethiopia would like to invite potential internal/external candidates to apply for the following position: 

Position:                                 Senior Gender & Youth Officer, DFSA

Duty Station:                         Addis Ababa

Duration of Contract:           One-year contract, renewable

Closing date:                          January 2, 2020

POSITION PURPOSE

The Gender and Youth Officer will responsible to support enhanced and effective integration and mainstreaming of gender and youth considerations in the Development Food Security Activity (DFSA).The position holder will support planning, implementation and monitoring of gender specific and integration interventions. He/she will facilitate and support enhanced implementation of DFSA Gender and Youth strategies and approaches, timely and quality data collection, record keeping and documentation to ensure gender and youth challenges and concerns are incorporated in the project. 

ESSENTIAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Coordinate and assist annual planning of project operational woredas and consolidate the planned activities into detailed implementation plans
2. Assist gender and youth considerations throughout the various sectors of the project in the  annual planning  and  development of Gender and  Youth  Integration  Work Plan(GYIWP) 
3. Coordinate and organize capacity building and learning events (e.g. training, workshops meetings, experience sharing, etc.) facilitated for FH staff and stakeholders
4. Follow up if gender and youth activities are implemented as per the approved annual activity and budget plan and provide feedback/update to his/her immediate supervisor and projects
5. Follow up and assist for effective applicability of gender and youth related systems (strategies, guidelines, approaches and sectoral gender integration work plan) set in place and provide feedback and update to Gender and Youth Specialist and projects
6. Assist and involve in design and production of Gender and Youth SBCC manual (picture flip-books), audio and video spot messages
7. Facilitate administrative and logistics issue related to purchase, printing, capacity building, monitoring and related issues 
8. Assist in the establishment of linkage and progress tracking mechanism and tools and follow up with applicability to measure achievements towards intended result
9. Participate actively in designing and conducting gender specific and sectoral surveys, assessments, formative and researches to ensure consideration of gender and youth issues, collection of sex and age disaggregated data, gender responsive data analysis and reporting
10. Give guidance and closely supervise if project team is regularly recording required data, documenting best practices, learnings and lessons to be shared among different partners and stockholders in collaboration with Knowledge Management Advisor
11. Support in organizational and project level knowledge sharing events;
12. Work closely with the Agriculture and Livelihood Technical sector on how to improve youth economic and social empower
13. Coordinate and involve in collection and consolidation of data for gender integration indicators with required frequency
14. Ensure that data from different sources (monitoring, survey, assessment etc.) are used in the annual planning, design and formulation of project and program strategies.
15. Assist project team for quality and timely submission of periodic progress reports, consolidate the same reports and share with the Gender and Youth Specialist

SAFETY AND SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist  and  encourages project gender  and  youth team for  compliance of safety and security principles and policies of the organization by all staffs;
• Facilitate and ensure that all employees, local/foreign interns, as well as external consultants submit an updated Record of Emergency Data to their travels out of their base stations to accomplish FHE’s mission.
• Assist and make sure that all field staff members are aware of the safety and security procedures;
• Follow up and gather information on implementation of Safety and Security principles by field staff, identify factors that increase risk, ways to reduce risk and provide updates

SPECIAL DUTIES/FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION

The position holder will be responsible to assist Gender and Youth Specialist in any gender and youth related intervention. He/she will liaise between Gender and Youth and Sector officers for enhanced and effective consideration of gender and youth across project components. She/he represent FHE on network, coordination and learning meeting conducted at zone and woreda level 

·         MA/BA Degree in Development Studies, Gender Studies, Social or related Discipline.

·         4 year’s relevant work experience for B.A and 2 years for MA.  

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

       •    Knowledge of working with USAID/FFP Title-II and similar programs

• Ability to build and maintain relationships with staff and across partners.  
• Excellent adaptive problem-solver in challenging environment.
• Strong set of personal values including integrity and honesty.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, start-up environment, with an emphasis on high-performance, teamwork, accountability and results.

·         Demonstrate in-depth understanding of gender, age and other socio-cultural factors in the context of food security programming

Language: 

• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply