Land O’Lakes Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

Land O’Lakes Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

Position Summary:

The Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Specialist will provide technical leadership in implementing inclusive programming and building GYSI skills through NPA project activities in Kenya and Ethiopia.

The specialist will ensure GYSI integration in NPA project deliverables and will work closely with technical, operational, and monitoring, evaluation and learning staff to ensure gender and youth inclusion are considered in all activities, learning, data collection, and grant processes. This position is located in the NPA office in Ethiopia.

Reporting & Supervision:

The Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Specialist reports to the Forage Services Development Manager.

Primary Responsibilities:

Design gender and youth-focused programmatic activities that are within scope of the NPA project goal and that align with best practices to achieve sustainable results.

Build and support partnerships with Women’s organizations in Ethiopia and Kenya (e.g., UEWCA) and collaborate with the International Livestock Research Institute gender team.

Provide technical assistance to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and other private sector partners to reach women and put in place practices that support inclusion.

Provide capacity building to project beneficiaries (MSMEs and farmer/producers) on GYSI and/or support GYSI program staff to provide capacity building.

Providing support to Projects partners and building capacity

Advise the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team and partners on indicators, disaggregates, and data collection practices to ensure that women and youth

perspectives are considered.

Support the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team to conduct internal program pause and reflect events to review progress and drive real-time learning and adaptive management processes in the project.

Job Requirements

A Bachelor’s Degree in International Development, Gender Studies, Women studies, Agricultural Economics or other relevant field.

A minimum of four (4) years of relevant experience designing and implementing women’s and/or youth integration and empowerment activities in agricultural development projects.

Previous experience living and working in developing countries and managing donor-funded development projects in Ethiopia and Kenya

Demonstrated expertise in incorporating gender and youth as a cross-cutting theme into agriculture, livestock and economic development projects.

Demonstrated experience and success in leading, supervising, coaching and developing others

Excellent verbal and written (English) communication skills

Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office and Excel

Right to work in Ethiopia

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Land O’Lakes Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

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