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 purpose of the Life Skills Trainer is to support project activities proposed under the STOP project funded by GIZ and implemented by CARE Ethiopia. The proposed project will address workplace sexual harassment exploitation and abuse in selected factories and communities by designing a comprehensive Anti-sexual harassment exploitation and abuse policy along with its implementation guide.

The project’s expected results are that; Six Garment factories have effective workplace mechanisms to prevent and respond to sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse. Workers feel confident to report sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse free from negative consequences.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Job Responsibility #1: Providing training on PSHEA (Sexual Harassment Exploitation and Abuse)/The STOP  to selected factories.  30% of the Time

• Provide training to female garment workers, supervisors, and senior managers on PSHEA and the STOP toolkit.

• Being familiar with the newly designed PSHEA policy and supporting the companies in its implementation.

• Share lessons gathered from analyses of the pre-and post- assessments during the actual delivery of the training.

• Follow up with trained women on the practice of the policy and improved practices based on training packages provided.

•  Meet regularly with target trainees to discuss the implementation and progress updates, exchange information, discuss challenges, and share tasks accordingly.

• Record and document lessons learned and report to her/his supervisor.

Job Responsibility #2: Strengthening existing Sexual Harassment Committees and Establishing new ones for the new companies. (30% of the Time)

• Collaborating with company focal persons and supporting the establishment of a strong sexual harassment committee.

• Follow up the committee’s work, identify challenges, and report to the concerned body.

• Follow up and monitor reported cases working with focal persons in each company.

Job Responsibility #3: Strengthen partnership, institutional linkages, and working relationships. (10% of the Time)

• Create an enabling environment within the park community through CARE’s male engagement strategy (boys, men).

• Providing gender-transformative training for representatives of key institutions and duty bearers, developing protocols and survivor-centered standard operating procedures, and improving social, legal, justice, and SRHR-related service provision.

• Supporting project-related assessments; baseline and end line.

Job Responsibility #4:  Gender equity and diversity-related responsibilities (20% of time)

• Support organizational existing and upcoming Gender Equity and Diversity (GED) initiatives and facilitate information/knowledge sharing regarding the organization’s GED efforts.

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

• Ensure that reports are disaggregated by sex.

Job Responsibility No. #5: Perform other duties as assigned (10% of time)

Problem Solving (Thinking Environment)

Category numbers two and three are most applicable to this position because, the incumbent must use interpolative skills to pick and choose the right strategy to address a given problem and also has to deal with variable situations, which need analysis, problem definition and development of alternative solutions.

Gender Equality

• Demonstrate understanding and commitment to gender, youth, and social inclusion issues.

• Commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and PSEAH (safeguarding).

Job Requirements

Qualifications (Know-How)

A. Education/Training

Required:

• Diploma in, Sociology, Psychology, Gender, Teaching, or other related social science fields.  

Desired

•  Degree in, Sociology, Psychology, Gender, Teaching, or other related social science fields.  

B. Experience

Required:

• 2-5 years related work experience.

Desired:

• Experience in facilitating training on soft skills.

• Gender, GBV, and Sexual Harassment related experience.

C. Technical Skills

Required:

• Training and communication skills, good human relations

• Firm belief in teamwork and gender equality.

• Conceptual understanding of participatory approach and sustainable development.

D. Competencies:

Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, stress tolerance, information monitoring, team building, interpersonal skills, coaching, problem-solving, planning, and organizing. 

Contacts/Key Relationships

The Life Skills Trainer is expected to establish an open relationship with the community, government counterparts, and community-based organizations, as well as with the project staff.

Working Conditions:

The duty station of the Life Skills Trainer will be at Hawassa

Duration of Work

The duration of work the life skill trainer will serve the project will be for 6 months. 

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  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.

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.