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Gender advisor

GIZ- Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #028/2019

GIZ – GIZ Green Innovation Centre

As a provider of international cooperation services for sustainable development and international education work, GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – is dedicated to building a future worth living around the world.

We have over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including rural and economic development, education and employment, energy and the environment, and peace and security. Together with our partners, we work to deliver flexible, effective and cost-effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions. Of our 18,260 employees in some 120 countries, almost 70 per cent are national personnel working in the field.

As a public-benefit German federal enterprise, we are committed to meeting our clients’ high standards with regard to transparency and accountability. German and European values are central to our work. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is our main commissioning party. European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector and national governments benefit from our services, too.

In Ethiopia GIZ has been implementing development programmes on behalf of the German government for over 40 years jointly with our national partners. The focus of our work in the country is on vocational education, sustainable use of natural resources, land management and food security, biodiversity and forestry. Further programmes enhance the development of a sustainable textile sector and renewable energies

GIZ- GIZ Green Innovation Centre project is looking a qualified candidate as per the below details.

Position:                                             Gender Advisor

Remuneration:                                 As per the GIZ scale

Application deadline:                    February 21, 2019

Place of Work:                                  Assela

1. Responsibilities

The gender advisor ensure that the gender dimension is addressed in the overall program plans, log frames, budgets and M&E systems. Support partners to plan and design activities based on result from gender analysis.

The gender advisor performs the following tasks:

1. Tasks
2. Coordination and monitoring

The advisor

• ensures that partners and project staff meet GIZ standards for gender mainstreaming, notably with respect to monitoring and reporting on the implementation of gender activities and achievement of gender responsive results in the project.
• support partners to develop gender sensitive action plans, procedures, and routines to ensure practice of gender mainstreaming at organizational level.
• identify gaps and facilitate relevant capacity building in gender mainstreaming of GIC implementing partners
• support partners to monitor the progress on women’s participation and how they benefit across all project activities
• establish and strengthen women groups involved in the project (RoBOFD, cluster, youth group…etc.) to identify their needs and potentials
• audit and follow up of the work on gender equality at GIC Ethiopia project office

2. Research

The advisor

• undertake and support partners undertake gender analysis and routine assessments
• closely follow up and report target versus achieved results of gender related plans of each component in the project

3. Knowledge management

The advisor

• in collaboration with MERL component team reports and shares lessons learned at different levels
• in collaboration with project’s PR team prepare good quality PR materials related to women participation in the project activities (innovative women, those using & disseminating innovations etc.)

4. Implementation of project activities

The advisor

• moderates team meetings in connection with gender

5. General obligations

The advisor

• is familiar with GIZ planning, implementation and reporting procedures and their changes
• is familiar with other programme components and GIZ-assisted measures, concepts and status of implementation and knows the corresponding experts and staff
• represents the interest of the GIZ-assisted measure and always acts on its behalf
• carries out important tasks for the project/programme, even if these are not explicitly cited in the job description

6. Other duties/additional tasks

The advisor

• performs other duties and tasks at the request of management

Job Requirements

Required qualifications, competences and experience

Qualifications and Professional experience

• a master’s degree and 5 years professional experience and degree in relevant field, such as gender studies, agricultural economics, rural development & agricultural extension, natural resource management, social science, or communication & business management related fields
• excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• excellent report writing skills
• proven computer skills with all common Microsoft office applications
• professional experience in communicating with government institutions
• experience in monitoring, reporting and verification and/or knowledge about innovation systems & value chain approaches will be an asset
• university degree in an area that is related to value the project/programme objectives

Other knowledge, additional competences

• good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office, Access or other database programme)
• knowledge of Oromifaa language is an advantage
• experience of project management and research experience in an area related to the value chain and gender
• willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management

How to Apply

Application procedure: 

Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their application letter along with their non-returnable recent CV via the following address:

 Email: [email protected]

Note:

The name of the position for which the application is made should be clearly marked on the subject line with the position title and duty station. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

 Applications from qualified women are encouraged.