BACKGROUND
World Vision is a global Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We are a community of close to 40,000 staff working across the world to help change the lives of vulnerable children. Our supporters, partners and staff join forces with communities on the ground to help children enjoy good health, be educated for life, experience the love of God and their neighbours and be cared for, protected and participating in addressing issues that affect their lives. World Vision has been active in Zimbabwe since 1973. Our operations are spread across 9 out of 10 provinces, with a majority of over 1.75 million beneficiaries in rural areas. Our current programs focus on improving the well-being of boys and girls in three priority sectors: health and nutrition, livelihoods and education. We also focus on child protection, gender and disabilities, emergency assistance and resilience building as cross cutting priorities across our programs. If you share the same vision, JOIN US and contribute to life in all its fullness for the children and communities we serve.
Position Title: Gender & Youth Officer (1)
Location: Bindura
Purpose of the Position:
To provide guidance and technical programmatic direction to the ENTERPRIZE Consortium for gender related programming focusing on gender equity integration within the project; and contributing towards the achievement of project goals and objectives The Gender Officer provides leadership to and ensures gender mainstreaming at programming level as well as appropriate representation of the project in local, provincial and national networking and coordination forums.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES- Key Result Areas and Activities:
- GENDER STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT & LEADERSHIP– Develops gender and youth action plans to be used within ENTERPRIZE and to technically integrate gender and youths in all activities throughout the Consortia.
- GENDER INTEGRATION SUPPORT- Develops project framework for gender equality and youth programming to ensure approved donor gender and youths results are achieved; Develops necessary methods and tools, such as overall guidelines and checklists for all project technical areas to integrate gender equality, empowerment of women and youths; Advises and supports the Consortia team and partners to implement the gender and youth strategy.
- TRAINING AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: Supports capacity development in gender and youths for Consortium partners, staff and stakeholders; Integrates gender in all ENTERPRIZE training manuals and materials;
- STAKEHOLDER COORDINATION, NETWORKING & ADVOCACY- Collaborates with key stakeholders such as Line Ministries, technical partners, NGOs and academics working on gender and youths programming. Participates in gender and youth coordination platforms at national level and geographic areas of operation; Develop targeted communication products on key gender, youth and social inclusion.
- EVIDENCE AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT- Facilitates cross-learning visits amongst partners and stakeholders on implementation of gender equality and youth strategies; Documents gender, youth and social inclusion project good practices and lessons learnt; Participate in and support conduct of project period reviews.
Qualifications and Experience
- Degree in International Development, Gender Studies/Public Policy/Social Sciences/Women’s Studies or any other related field.
- Advanced Degree in Gender/Women studies will be an added advantage.
- 3-5 years’ experience in Gender and Development programming.
- Good working knowledge of gender mainstreaming in programming.
- Good communication and facilitation skills
- Clean class 4 driver’s licence
NB: Shortlisting will be done as applications are received. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
More Information
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