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:

The Gender Specialist for Projects in Women Economic Justice (WEJ) unit will lead the efforts of the project towards quality, and inclusion through capacity building, strategy development, and advocacy. She/He will be responsible for building the project staff’s and the government partners’ capacity in understanding and applying gender and other empowerment approaches, tools, and best practices.  It is envisioned that this will first be achieved through a hands-on approach that will require outstanding skills in planning and facilitation of training workshops, coaching, and mentoring, and an ability to influence and facilitate change through high-level interpersonal and communication skills.  The Gender Specialist will report directly to WEJ’s Sr. Gender and Policy Advisor and will work closely with other project managers and staff to ensure program quality and impact in line with the projects’ goals and objectives. 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS: 

Job Responsibility #1:  Analysis and implementation of Strategies, Reporting

• Conducts continuous assessment and analysis of the projects’ gender, life skills, and other gaps to regularly feed into strategy revisions.

• Leads the implementation of the project's gender strategy and capacity building in WEJ.

• Participates in the project's detailed implementation plans (DIP), at the start-up, annual and mid-term reviews to ensure gender-responsive project planning.

• Supports definition of areas (and appropriate methodologies) for project’s engagement in all facets of gender, and other capacity-building  

• Facilitates the adoption and implementation of gender, life skills, and other guidelines, manuals, international standards, and donor protocols into the local context.

• Together with Sr. Gender and Policy Advisor and other staff, ensures project and organizational aspects of gender and implements adequate improvement plans.

% of Time:  40%   

Job Responsibility #2 Capacity Building and Technical Assistance:

• Builds staff and key partners’ capacity on gender and community service-focused program quality

• Conduct capacity assessment and based on the results, prepare plans pertinent to the findings in the gender lens.  

• Participate in the development of materials and facilitation of training for partners and staff on gender, life skills, and community service-specific initiatives.

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

• Works with the relevant government structures to facilitate gender and community service-related activities and monitoring in the operational areas.

• Participate in the designs of gender and community service assessments, build the capacity of enumerators to have gender lens, analyze results, and write reports. Designs and supports officers and community facilitators to promote appropriate community mobilization strategies around gender and community service provision.

• Documents and shares lessons/results of gender, life skills, and community service work and strategies in projects

% of Time: 35%    

Job Responsibility #3:  Learning, Networking and Representation

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

• Explores and participates in networks, gender, and community service task forces at the regional, and local levels.

• Supports the documentation and use of project gender and community service learning into evidence-based policy influence,

• Identifies, establishes, and maintains productive relationships with like-minded non-government organizations and government stakeholders.

• Disseminate information regarding the project’s gender and community service advocacy work accomplishments among stakeholders, including the government on a regular basis.

• Organizes and participates in supportive supervisions and cross-visits.

• Together with the Learning Design and Measurement (LDM) staff, support the effort to measure impact considering gender and other inclusion issues.

• Document lessons learned best practices, and success stories on gender and community services of projects in collaboration with LDM and other projects’ staff.

• Represent projects and CARE on different platforms regarding gender and community service initiatives.

% of Time:  20%

Job Responsibility #4:  Others:

• Perform other duties as assigned.

% of Time:  5%

III PROBLEM SOLVING (Thinking Environment)

• The reason for having this position is to ensure the internalization and mainstreaming of gender and work across projects in the WEJ unit, partners, stakeholders, and implementation areas.  This position requires problem-solving, innovative thinking, and the ability to think and communicate broadly and strategically.

IV GENDER EQUALITY

• Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender, youth and social inclusion issues.

• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and PSEAH (safeguarding), as evidenced in previous positions / programming

Job Requirements

IV. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW-HOW)

A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• BSc/A in relevant disciplines i.e. Social Science, Gender Studies, Development Studies, Rural Development, or other related studies

Desired:

• Professional training in gender

B) EXPERIENCE

Required:

• 4 years of relevant experience with the first degree & 3 years of relevant experience plus post graduate degree in Developmental related areas, conversant with adult learning and training of trainers, methodologies, practical experience in women's rights/livelihoods programming

• gender analysis, training, and mainstreaming

Desired: 

• NGO experience

C) TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, transparent and participatory management

• Sensitivity to different aspects of diversity (cultural, religious, economic, disability) and sensitivity to HIV/AIDS

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

• Training/facilitation skills

• Writing skills (for report), proficiency in oral and written English 

• Computer literacy in MS Word, Spreadsheet, Microsoft PowerPoint, etc

Desired:

• Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills

• Action learning/research methodologies

• Gender analysis, interpretation, and mainstreaming

COMPETENCIES

• Coaching, initiating action, communicating with impact, innovation, planning and organizing, building partnership and commitment, facilitating change, adaptability, and contributing to team success.

IIV CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS 

• WEJ’s Gender Specialist is expected to build partnering/service provision relationships with different project managers, grassroots staff, project officers, and partners to smoothly run gender, life skills, and community service activities for different projects.  She/He will work in close collaboration with Sr. Gender and Policy Advisor and Project Managers.  The Gender Specialist is directly supervised by the Sr. Gender and Policy Advisor.  

V. LIVING CONDITIONS (FOR OVERSEAS POSITIONS) AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED. 

• This position is based in Addis Ababa with 50% travel to the target community. 

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 CLICK HERE

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.

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.