Cuso International Gender And Leadership Advisor - Volunteer Job Positions in Ethiopia

Cuso International Gender And Leadership Advisor - Volunteer Job Positions in Ethiopia

Closing date: 30 Sep 2019

Location Chiro, Ethiopia

Start Date Aug - Oct 2019 (flexible)

Length of Placement 8 Months

Language Requirements English

The Volunteer’s Role

Women’s rights and gender sensitivity are one of the biggest challenges to gaining proper nutrition in Ethiopia.

The Growing Nutrition for Mothers and Children (GROW) project in Ethiopia is an initiative to address undernutrition in women of reproductive age and children under five years of age.

The implementation of the project, led by CARE Ethiopia, will involve deploying volunteers to strengthen the institutional and community nutrition capacity of the different sectors engaged in the implementation of GROW.

Your role as a Gender and Leadership Advisor will be to assist the GROW project to improve nutrition practices and services for women and children through gender sensitivity initiatives.

Your role will be to generate engagement opportunities for boys and men and contribution to creating team building manuals for the project staff.

Apply to this position today and help empower women and create gender equality in Ethiopia.

As a volunteer,

you will:

Mainstream male engagement across all interventions and identify potential challenges

Identify the contribution of nutrition specific and nutrition interventions towards women empowerment

Lead staff transformation dialogues every quarter and assesses its contribution to the project and personal development

Revise sector plans from a gender perspective and ensure gender is mainstreamed across all sectors, and co-facilitate the gender mainstreaming meeting

Conduct gap assessment on multi-sectoral coordination at NCC and NTC level and develop team building manual

Essential Academic Qualifications:

Masters Degree in gender studies; sociology; social work; public leadership

Essential Professional Background:

5 years of experience working in a leadership role with a focus on women empowerment

Support Package

Modest monthly living allowance (varies depending country)

Accommodation while in placement

Return airfare and visa/work permit costs

Cost of required vaccinations, antimalarial medication and health insurance

Pre-departure training and in-country orientation

Travel and accommodation for reintegration debriefing weekend

Access to Employee Assistance Program while in placement and upon return

Travel and accommodation for the pre-departure training course and for in-country orientation

How to Apply:
Cuso International Gender And Leadership Advisor - Volunteer Job Positions in Ethiopia