Gender Inclusion Specialist – TRANSFORM – Office of Programs

The Gender Inclusion Specialist will be responsible for steering the Gender Inclusion agenda of the TRANSFORM project. She/he will provide required technical support to the TRANSFORM Team by ensuring women and other actors terms of inclusion are improved and that the project reaches the targets, planned results and impact.

Responsibilities 

Working in close cooperation with TRANSFORM team, the incumbent will ensure Gender equity and women empowerment in the following areas of the TRANSFORM project: Soil health Extension and adoption; access to soil health inputs; participatory soil health research; promotion of an enabling environment for soil health and fertility. She/he will work closely with the project technical specialists in the above-mentioned thematic areas to facilitate the integration of the thematic related strategies in the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). This will include compiling M&E data, organizing and participating in field activities etc.  

In addition, the incumbent will accomplish the following specific tasks:

• Help build relevant technical skills for women to increase their production and income;
• Prepare training materials and work as a trainer in areas related to gender promotion in all regular training topics;
• Support and facilitate women involvement in all project activities including their active participation in governance meetings;
• Collaborate with the project Communication Specialist to develop outreach materials and capture impact stories;
• Ensure the visibility of the gender thematic area and its development (achievements, challenges, lessons learned) and positioning of women as reliable partners in public private sector partnerships;
• Write and submit timely activity reports, as well as other gender inclusion thematic technical reports and notes;
• Train and support partners to understand and put in place mechanisms for collecting and reporting achievements on M&E data;
• Organize and participate in learning events, governance meetings and field activities for the Partnerships;
• Contribute to development of ToR during the inception phase of the project to conduct a gender assessment to understand social norms that create gender inequalities and challenges, biases and perceptions on women;
• Facilitate involvement of women in the process of Integrated Farm Plans (IFP) which represents the key approach promoted by the TRANSFORM project in implementing soil health in smallholder farmers’ settings;
• Ensure inclusion of women in agri-inputs business development and foster linkages with female IFP producers and female groups in the kebeles to improve input delivery services to women farmers;
• Help stimulate female researchers and small-scale producers to be involved in scientific-led and farmer-led research;
• Promote inclusion and decision making of women in the soil health and fertility platform and facilitate a gender strategy to be included in the national strategic document on soil health and fertility improvement of MoANR;
• Help the project refine and track specific gender indicators to track progress on gender equality;
• Implement other tasks deemed necessary for the success of the program. 

Requirements

• Master’s degree/Bachelor’ s degree in Gender or Women Studies, Gender, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Business Studies, Economics Studies, Agricultural Sciences, Agribusiness, or Agricultural Economics;
• At least 5 years’ work experience in entrepreneurship in agro-processing and gender mainstreaming;
• Experience of leading, supporting, managing, inspiring and coaching staff with different disciplines and backgrounds;
• A good understanding of the cultural barriers affecting women efficacy and agency in developing countries;
• Strong interpersonal, leadership, planning and coordination skills;
• Project management cycle knowledge is an added advantage;
• Strong communication (written and oral), presentation and report writing skills.  

Reporting and Work Relationships

The Gender Inclusion Specialist is supervised by and reports to the Program Technical Director.  

Location 

This is a national recruitment with a duty station at the IFDC office based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with frequent travel to all program sites.

Benefits  

IFDC's benefits include annual and sick leave, health and group life insurance coverage, a 13th-month salary, social security and pension contribution in compliance with local laws and end-of-contract benefits.   

Salary grade

The salary grade for this position is BG 9. The proposed starting Salary for this position is the local equivalent of USD 1,779.913 Gross per month.  

The determination of new employee salaries considers various factors. These include the salary range linked to the assigned job grade, the candidate's qualifications in relation to the job's responsibilities and prerequisites, internal fairness, the competitive state of the job market, as well as potential organizational and budgetary considerations.