Job Description

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Gender Equity and Diversity  (GED) Officer

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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: July 15, 2022

Vacancy No.: 098/22 

Grade: 6C

Salary: $816

No of positions:1                   

 Contract Duration: Definite

Duty Base: Addis Ababa

Closing Date: Ten days for the date of announcement

I.  JOB SUMMARY:

The inclusion of women in water governance is key to both achieving gender justice and ensuring high-quality service delivery on the ground. Thus, the aim of this project is to strengthen the links between the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) and Ministry of Women  and Social Affairs (MoWSA) in Ethiopia, addressing organizational culture, staff capacity and policies, in order to facilitate these ministries’ better incorporation of gender into decision-making and service delivery design. The project looks like the establishment of communication channels, policy tools, and accountability mechanisms to lay the groundwork for sustainable gender integration at the federal and regional level.

The Gender Equality and Diversity and Project Officer Position is someone who builds on CARE Ethiopia’s expertise and learning on gender transformative work in Ethiopia as well as the experience of others to support the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) and Ministry of Women  and Social Affairs (MoWSA). This position is effectively expected to spearhead the process by building relationship, guiding the project implementation, overseeing capacity building, monitoring changes and generating evidence for learning.  

The GED Officer will sit in MoWE and is expected to work closely with the steering committee of the project and focal persons in MoWE and MoWSA. The Officer will directly report to the CARE Program Coordinator.

II. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS: 

Job Responsibility #1. Plan and Oversee GED strategies (25% of time)

• Develop an overall detailed action plan with measurable indicators for the implementation of all GED activities, reviewing and revising as appropriate, working closely with MoWE and MoWSA

• Working with MoWE and MoWSA, design and implement programmatic GED tools to be applied in the project, including CARE’s Social Analysis and Action (SAA), HR related GED analyses and gender responsive budgeting

• Design other interventions to help MoWE and MoWSA manage work force balance and diversity such as religious, ethnic, age, disability, etc.

• Oversee two interns to be placed in with MoWE

Job Responsibility #2.  Implementation of initiatives (50% of time)

• Facilitate and oversee the gender audit/context analysis of MOWE and support the execution of the resulting action plans from the assessments

• Jointly create/adapt gender-transformative tools and approaches trainings and capacity development needs to expand the skill development to the regional, zonal, woreda and kebele levels.

• Work closely with the gender directorates at MOWE and build capacity to hold directorates accountable on gender targets and outcomes

• Lead the implementation of the SAA and GED training of MoWE and MoWSA staff to shift organizational culture and mindset around gender integration

• Support MoWE’s review its HR processes from a gender lens and provide direct support to MoWE’s HR to revise its processes based on analysis of best practice

• Work with MoWE’s HR to explore different ways of promoting a non-threatening enabling working environment that nurtures respect for diversity and is empowering and mutually-respectful with open communication across all directorates and units

• Facilitate MOWE’s adoption of the Ministry of Finance’s gender-responsive budgeting guideline approach and support MoWSA’s in grading MOWE on its Levelling Tool to evaluate the Ministry’s work for gender integration

• Strengthen the relationship/links between MOWE and MOWSA and MOWE at federal and regional level, with frequent travel to Amhara region.

Job Responsibility #3.  Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Reporting (25% of time)

• With support from CARE MEL officer and MoWE staff to design and collect quality data tracking mechanisms based on gender equality and women’s empowerment impact measurement indicators, systems and processes

• Working with MoWE and MoWSA staff, compile project related data, provide comparative analysis, extract lessons and disseminate as appropriate

• Working with MoWE and MoWSA, develop promotional and informative materials about GED initiatives within the project

• Support the documentation of monthly MoWE and MoWSA staff reflection on gender related topics

• Write quarterly briefs on key outcomes and learnings from the GED work, with inputs or jointly with MoWE and MoWSA staff

• Contribute to project outcome mapping, ongoing activity based monitoring and periodic evaluation

Job Responsibility #4:  Perform other duties as assigned (5% of time)

Job Requirements

 IV. QUALIFICATIONS

A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

§   BA/BSc Degree in sociology, gender, development, law or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Desired:

§   Masters in the study of humanities; preferably gender studies, social work and sociology.

B) EXPERIENCE

Required:

§  3 years of work experience in institutional strengthening and gender mainstreaming.

Desired:

§  Work experience in designing or implementing initiatives to enhance organizational workforce balance and gender mainstreaming activities,

§  Experience of internship/mentoring programs

C) TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

§  Excellent facilitation and training skills;

§  Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English Language

§  Firm belief and commitment in teamwork;

§  Excellent computer skills;

Desired:

§  Knowledge and experience in using gender and other vulnerabilities analysis tools;

D) COMPETENCIES

·       Respect to diverse perspectives;

·       Problem solving and proactive work habits;

·       Results driven attitude;

·       Innovative and courageous outlook/worldview

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners.

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply using THIS LINK

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.