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CARE Ethiopia Program

CARE started working in Ethiopia in 1984 in response to severe drought and famine that devastated the population and claimed the lives of nearly one million people. Since then, the organization’s activities have expanded to address the root causes of poverty and vulnerability.

In 2008, CARE Ethiopia’s office moved from a project-based approach to a more focused and strategic program-based approach. Over the eight years since that transition, CARE Ethiopia has implemented a series of programs with successful outcomes, while simultaneously impacting the policies and practices of government, serving as a thought leader amongst NGOs, and bringing transformative change to rural communities. These broader and deeper impacts go beyond the direct impacts of its programs and are a result of CARE Ethiopia’s overall country strategy, which enables CARE to design for scale.

CARE Ethiopia works in various sectors but has particularly targeted the following: Food Security and Resilience; WASH+; Nutrition; Dignified Work; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Humanitarian Response as cross-cutting (focusing on the above sectors).

1. JOB SUMMARY:Under the technical leadership of the Gender and Youth Advisor, the Gender and Youth Officer at CARE’s implementing Zones, will provide technical assistance and capacity building on gender and youth development to the DFSA implementing field offices and stakeholder staffs in the operational areas. The position holder will support and coordinate gender analysis and lead studies to explore employment opportunities for the youth. Proactively and/or upon direction provided by the technical advisor, s/he will identify gaps, consolidate best practices in the field and share lessons to all concerned. The Officer will ensure that standard quality training, guidelines and tools are adopts consistently without major deviations in all DFSA technical sectors to ensure gender, women empowerment and youth priorities are integrated uniformly. In consultation with the advisor, the officer will support and contribute to formative research in implementation areas to identify key issues, social norms and barriers and to make recommendations on how to address gender and youth related concerns and challenges.
2. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

 Job Responsibility #1: Strategy design, planning, monitoring and implementation

• Leads/supports the development and implementation of evidence based, realistic and effective gender, women empowerment and youth engagement strategies, as directed by the technical leadership team at the consortium and CARE’s advisor for all technical sectors under the DFSA project including food security, nutrition, livelihoods, CCA, DRR, WASH and community mobilisation/social accountability;
• Inputs into problem identification, causal and problem analysis and activity development;
• Participates in zonal level DFSA detailed implementation planning (DIP), and annual reviews, to ensure Gender and Youth responsive project planning processes are implemented throughout the life of the project;
• Ensure that proper records are available to respond to the DFSA result framework indicators in areas of women empowerment and gender equality indicators-access to resource, control, leadership status within community and etc;
• Actively keep abreast of results of research and regular monitoring and suggest ways to improve the nature and depth of activities in their implementation area;

 Job Responsibility #2:  Staff training and coaching

• In-collaboration with the Advisor and/or independently, provides staff induction and ongoing training/capacity building training to CARE-DFSA and government stakeholder staff;
• Leads the development and facilitation of trainings on staff development initiatives for gender, including the staff transformation process under SAA;
• Develops and implements follow-up, engagement and coaching plans to build staffs and PSNP institutions capacity to increase knowledge and accountability for gender equity and to increase their level of expertise, skills and their commitment to apply strategies;
• Provides ongoing backstopping and technical support to staff.

 Job Responsibility #3:  Networking, Learning, Policy Implementation

• Establishes all necessary relationships with DFSA gender equality and youth empowerment partners with in CARE and government stakeholders to ensure that gender and youth issues and priorities are tabled, addressed and lessons are shared;
• Supports formative research in the assigned operational Zones/Woredas;
• Disseminates learning and ensures all staffs at the field office level are updated on gender and youth priorities;
• At the direction of the Advisor, support field level CARE PQL related experts/staffs to measure the impact and document lessons  learned and best practices;
• Produces and shares with the Advisor and/or project manager gender and youth related aspects of reporting for USAID for all regular and incidental reports.

 Job Responsibility #4:  Others

• Participates in all major activities of the DFSA project in the assigned project area;
• Responds to requests for additional capacity building support within CARE;
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

1. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW)
2. A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:  B.A. degree in Social Science, gender studies or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

1. B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

•  3-5 years of work experience on gender or social and behavioral change, conversant with adult learning and training of trainers methodologies, practical experience in women and youth  programming
• At least 2 years of work experience in gender analysis, training and mainstreaming.

 Desired:

• Gender related work in an NGO setting.
• Previous experience with livelihoods programs and or food assistance interventions.

1. C) TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 Required:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Afan Oromo;
• Effective interpersonal skills, maturity, intuitive, tact and a high sense of responsibility,
• Analytical, training/facilitation skills;
• Sensitivity to different aspects of diversity (cultural, religious, disability), firm belief in teamwork and sensitivity to HIV/AIDS
• Computer skills (word, Excel);

 Desired:  Quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills.

1. D) COMPETENCIES

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

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 forward your: CV (not more than 3 page) and cover letter (not more than one page) directly Send your application by e-mail to [email protected].

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Note: On the subject Line, please clearly write the position you are applying “Gender and Youth Officer”. Your application will be automatically disqualified, if you fail to do so.

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