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I.  JOB SUMMARY:   The Women Empowerment and Gender Office (WEGA) position, is responsible for the overall provision of technical support regarding sustainable women empowerment in the RELIVE project operational area. The incumbent will be responsible for leading efforts toward quality design and quality implementation of RELIVE activities to address women empowerment and gender equality issues at Afar regional and woreda levels. The WEGA is responsible for building the skills of staff (supervisors, frontline, CARE, partners) to understand and apply gender and women empowerment approaches, tools, and best practices in the WASH sector.

The WEGO reports to the project manager at the field office level and closely works with other program staff in supporting women’s empowerment in the Food and water systems sector. Moreover, the WEGA will be responsible for ensuring women are at the center of the FWS development initiative in the Amhara region. The WEGA will be involved in knowledge exchange and sharing at the woreda and Zone levels. 

II. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

Job Responsibility #1: Strategy design, project analysis, and planning (35%)

• Develops and periodically updates the RELIVE project staff on issues of women empowerment and gender strategy and plans to operationalize the strategy.

• Inputs into problem identification, causal and problem analysis, and logframe development, i.e., focusing on gender analysis, and women empowerment profiling as necessary for a project proposal.

• Participates in projects’ detailed implementation plans (DIP), at the start-up and annual reviews, to ensure WE & GED responsive project planning.

• Develops/adopt community conversation tools like SAA (Social Analysis and Action) in the WASH context to promote women’s empowerment. 

• Together with RELIVE project staff, develop comprehensive tracking and lesson-sharing mechanisms on the experiences of WEGA.

•   Contributes to the project’s detailed implementation plans (DIP), at the start-up and annual reviews, to ensure gender-responsive project planning.

• Conducts regular assessment and analysis of gender norms and relations in Vulnerable households and communities in RELIVES project operational areas to feed into project learning and strategy revisions.

• Participates in the designs of household surveys to ensure that gender dynamics are appropriately included, analyses results, and writes reports in the field office.       

• Ensures that technical assistance activities in the crop and livestock, off-farm, and employment livelihood pathways are implemented in such a way that women can participate profitably.

• Leads the implementation of childcare pilots to enable women to participate in income-generation and marketing activities.

• Link VSLA members to adult literacy programs through strong linkages with the education office and other relevant structures

• Support Multi-Stakeholder Platforms to implement strategies to address social barriers that affect vulnerable households.

• Enhances the awareness and knowledge of traditional leaders and influential community members on gender equity and women’s empowerment. 

• Supports customary institutions able to influence, practice and monitor gender equitable norms including addressing harmful traditional practices and gender-based violence.

•   Supports Facilitators for Empowerment in rolling out social analysis and action processes and gender discussions in village saving and loan associations.

• Works identify role models and engage them to raise awareness about the benefits of changed social norms.

Job Responsibility #2:  Staff training, coaching, capacity building, and technical assistance (35%)

• Establishes woreda and regional level staff and key partner induction and ongoing training processes on CARE Ethiopia WE and GED- focused in the FWS sector;

• Based on WE GED Capacity Assessment Tools (CAT), advises RELIVE Project staff on inclusive development.

•   Leads the development and facilitation of training on other staff development initiatives specific to WE/GED within the FWS;

• Participates in the selection of and support of women who need capacity building.

•   Work closely with the women’s affairs office at the woreda and regional level to identify capacity-building needs.

• Tailors gender equity and women’s empowerment training and discussion materials to the local context

• Leads and coordinates the capacity building of CARE staff, particularly Facilitators for Empowerment (FFEs) in Beyeda, Janamora, Debark, Adarkay, and Tselemt for gender equity and women’s empowerment interventions, including in social analysis and action (SAA)

• Participates in the development and facilitation of training for partner and staff development on gender-specific initiatives, including staff transformation (the first step in SAA)

• Develops and implements follow-up coaching plans to sustain staff expertise and commitment to apply new skills.

• Supports woreda-level Offices of Women and Children Affairs to implement gender and social development strategies.

• Advises and helps promote appropriate community mobilization strategies around gender.

• Documents and shares lessons/results of gender work and strategies in RELIVES operational woredas.

• Supports and mentors’ intern(s) within the NPO office and Janamora satellite office of ORDA.

• Organizes and facilitates Women’s Club activities within the ORDA satellite office.

• Promotes gender equality within teams, communities, and households.

• Ensures that proposals and reports make explicit reference to approaches used to address unequal gender relations; ensures that data are disaggregated by gender.

• Facilitate s different capacity-building activities for staff on gender and diversity issues .

Job Responsibility #3:  Learning, Policy Implementation (25%)

•   Document and share lessons and experiences from lowland WASH projects at regional and

• Keeps up to date in the WE & GED component of the project, including best practices regionally and ensuring ongoing personal development and learning.

• Document and share lessons from the SAA approach with the wider regional audiences.

• Together with the field office Learning, Design, and Measurement staff, supports the effort to measure the impact and document lessons learned and best practices (WE &GED focus) within the lowland WASH project.

• Keeps up to date with developments in gender initiatives, including best practice in-country, regionally, and globally, and ensures ongoing personal development and learning.

• Explores and participates in networks and gender-related task forces at the regional and local levels.

• Supports the documentation and use of project gender learning in evidence-based policy influence.

• Identifies, establishes, and maintains productive relationships with like-minded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the region.

• Regularly disseminates information regarding gender interventions and accomplishments among stakeholders, including the government.

• Organizes and participates in cross-visits to leverage lessons and best practices on gender equity and women’s empowerment activities.

• Together with the Learning Design and Measurement Unit, support impact measurement and documentation of lessons learned and best practices on gender equity and women’s empowerment.           

Job Responsibility #5:  Others (5%)

•   Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

IV. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW-HOW)

A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• B.A. degree in Social Science or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Desired:

• M.A. degree in Development Studies or equivalent

B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

•   3 years of relevant work experience with first degree and 2 years of relevant work experience plus post graduate degree in development-related areas, conversant with adult learning and training of trainer’s methodologies, practical experience in women’s rights/livelihoods programming.

Desired :

• 2-3 years of work experience in gender analysis, training, and mainstreaming.

• NGO experience.

• Experience in community mobilization

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;

• Good writing skill

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

• Computer skills (word, Excel);  

Desired:

• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills.

• Experience in the WASH sector

D) COMPETENCIES

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

V. CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS  

The incumbent is expected to build partnering/service provision relationships with Project Managers.  She/he also works in close collaboration with the Human Resource Manager and actively coordinates with his/her direct team members, i.e., Income/Asset, Partnerships, and Water Resource Management Advisors. The WEGA is directly supervised by the project manager under CARE Field Office. 

VI. WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED. 

This position is located in the Amhara Region of the North Gondar Zone (Janamora Town), and with frequent field travel.

How to Apply

If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through thsi 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.

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