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Job Overview
Location
Ethiopia , Ethiopia
Job Type
Full Time
Date Posted
5 days ago

Additional Details
Job ID
2733
Job Views
700

Job Description

Hiring organization:  CARE Ethiopia

Job title : WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND GENDER OFFICER

Employment type :  Full time

Deadline: App 23,2023

Job Category: Purchasing and Procurement

 About  CARE Ethiopia

The CARE Ethiopia country office was established in 1984 in response to the country’s
1983-84 famine. Although emergency feeding continues to be a focus, CARE now
concentrates on rehabilitation and development projects. CARE Ethiopia’s involvement
in non-emergency programming includes agricultural extension services, income
generation and food-for-work, as well as family planning and HIV/AIDS education.
CARE Ethiopia's focused and long-term program approach to poverty eradication, we
prioritize working with women and girls in rural and urban areas. 

Job summery

The Women Empowerment and Gender Office (WEGA) position, is responsible for the
overall provision of technical support regarding sustainable women empowerment in the
RELIVE project operational area. The incumbent will be responsible for leading efforts
toward quality design and quality implementation of RELIVE activities to address
women empowerment and gender equality issues at Afar regional and woreda levels.
The WEGA is responsible for building the skills of staff (supervisors, frontline, CARE,
partners) to understand and apply gender and women empowerment approaches, tools,
and best practices in the WASH sector.

The WEGO reports to the project manager at the field office level and closely works with
other program staff in supporting women’s empowerment in the Food and water
systems sector. Moreover, the WEGA will be responsible for ensuring women are at the
center of the FWS development initiative in the Amhara region. The WEGA will be
involved in knowledge exchange and sharing at the woreda and Zone levels. 

Duties and Responsibilities

Job Responsibility #1: Strategy design, project analysis, and planning (35%)

 Develops and periodically updates the RELIVE project staff on issues of women
empowerment and gender strategy and plans to operationalize the strategy.
 Inputs into problem identification, causal and problem analysis, and logframe
development, i.e., focusing on gender analysis, and women empowerment profiling as
necessary for a project proposal.
 Participates in projects’ detailed implementation plans (DIP), at the start-up and annual
reviews, to ensure WE & GED responsive project planning.
 Develops/adopt community conversation tools like SAA (Social Analysis and Action) in the
WASH context to promote women’s empowerment. 
 Together with RELIVE project staff, develop comprehensive tracking and lesson-sharing
mechanisms on the experiences of WEGA.
   Contributes to the project’s detailed implementation plans (DIP), at the start-up and
annual reviews, to ensure gender-responsive project planning.
 Conducts regular assessment and analysis of gender norms and relations in Vulnerable
households and communities in RELIVES project operational areas to feed into project
learning and strategy revisions.
 Participates in the designs of household surveys to ensure that gender dynamics are
appropriately included, analyses results, and writes reports in the field office.    
 Ensures that technical assistance activities in the crop and livestock, off-farm, and
employment livelihood pathways are implemented in such a way that women can
participate profitably.
 Leads the implementation of childcare pilots to enable women to participate in income-
generation and marketing activities.
 Link VSLA members to adult literacy programs through strong linkages with the education
office and other relevant structures
 Support Multi-Stakeholder Platforms to implement strategies to address social barriers
that affect vulnerable households.
 Enhances the awareness and knowledge of traditional leaders and influential community
members on gender equity and women’s empowerment. 
 Supports customary institutions able to influence, practice and monitor gender equitable
norms including addressing harmful traditional practices and gender-based violence.
   Supports Facilitators for Empowerment in rolling out social analysis and action
processes and gender discussions in village saving and loan associations.
 Works identify role models and engage them to raise awareness about the benefits of
changed social norms.

Job Responsibility #2:  Staff training, coaching, capacity building, and technical
assistance (35%)

 Establishes woreda and regional level staff and key partner induction and ongoing training
processes on CARE Ethiopia WE and GED- focused in the FWS sector;
 Based on WE GED Capacity Assessment Tools (CAT), advises RELIVE Project staff on
inclusive development.
   Leads the development and facilitation of training on other staff development initiatives
specific to WE/GED within the FWS;
 Participates in the selection of and support of women who need capacity building.
   Work closely with the women’s affairs office at the woreda and regional level to identify
capacity-building needs.
 Tailors gender equity and women’s empowerment training and discussion materials to the
local context
 Leads and coordinates the capacity building of CARE staff, particularly Facilitators for
Empowerment (FFEs) in Beyeda, Janamora, Debark, Adarkay, and Tselemt for gender
equity and women’s empowerment interventions, including in social analysis and action
(SAA)
 Participates in the development and facilitation of training for partner and staff
development on gender-specific initiatives, including staff transformation (the first step in
SAA)
 Develops and implements follow-up coaching plans to sustain staff expertise and
commitment to apply new skills.
 Supports woreda-level Offices of Women and Children Affairs to implement gender and
social development strategies.
 Advises and helps promote appropriate community mobilization strategies around gender.
 Documents and shares lessons/results of gender work and strategies in RELIVES
operational woredas.
 Supports and mentors’ intern(s) within the NPO office and Janamora satellite office of
ORDA.
 Organizes and facilitates Women’s Club activities within the ORDA satellite office.
 Promotes gender equality within teams, communities, and households.
 Ensures that proposals and reports make explicit reference to approaches used to
address unequal gender relations; ensures that data are disaggregated by gender.
 Facilitate s different capacity-building activities for staff on gender and diversity issues .

Job Responsibility #3:  Learning, Policy Implementation (25%)

   Document and share lessons and experiences from lowland WASH projects at regional
and
 Keeps up to date in the WE & GED component of the project, including best practices
regionally and ensuring ongoing personal development and learning.
 Document and share lessons from the SAA approach with the wider regional audiences.
 Together with the field office Learning, Design, and Measurement staff, supports the effort
to measure the impact and document lessons learned and best practices (WE &GED
focus) within the lowland WASH project.
 Keeps up to date with developments in gender initiatives, including best practice in-
country, regionally, and globally, and ensures ongoing personal development and
learning.
 Explores and participates in networks and gender-related task forces at the regional and
local levels.
 Supports the documentation and use of project gender learning in evidence-based policy
influence.
 Identifies, establishes, and maintains productive relationships with like-minded non-
governmental organizations (NGOs) in the region.
 Regularly disseminates information regarding gender interventions and accomplishments
among stakeholders, including the government.
 Organizes and participates in cross-visits to leverage lessons and best practices on
gender equity and women’s empowerment activities.
 Together with the Learning Design and Measurement Unit, support impact measurement
and documentation of lessons learned and best practices on gender equity and women’s
empowerment.           

Job Responsibility #4:  Others (5%)

   Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW-HOW)

A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

 B.A. degree in Social Science or equivalent combination of education and work

experience.

Desired:

 M.A. degree in Development Studies or equivalent

B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

   3 years of relevant work experience with first degree and 2 years of relevant work
experience plus post graduate degree in development-related areas, conversant with
adult learning and training of trainer’s methodologies, practical experience in women’s
rights/livelihoods programming.

Desired :

 2-3 years of work experience in gender analysis, training, and mainstreaming.

 NGO experience.
 Experience in community mobilization
 Desired:

 Quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills.

 Experience in the WASH sector

D) COMPETENCIES

Coaching, initiating action, communicating with impact, innovation, planning and

organizing, building partnership, facilitating change, adaptability.   

CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS  

The incumbent is expected to build partnering/service provision relationships with

Project Managers.  She/he also works in close collaboration with the Human Resource
Manager and actively coordinates with his/her direct team members, i.e., Income/Asset,
Partnerships, and Water Resource Management Advisors. The WEGA is directly
supervised by the project manager under CARE Field Office. 

WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED. 

This position is located in the Amhara Region of the North Gondar Zone (Janamora
Town), and with frequent field travel.

Salary: 938

Job Location: North Gondar Zone (Janamora Town), Amhara

How To Apply:

If you are interested and fulfill the minimum requirements, please send your CV (not
more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page)
through https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg02/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?
org=CAREUSA&cws=52&rid=6503

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.