Uganda: GENDER ADVISOR -- UGANDA DFAP

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CARE seeks a CARE seeks a Gender Advisor for a five-year, Food for Peace (FFP) Development Food Assistance Program (DFAP). The Gender Advisor will lead gender and youth analysis, mainstreaming, integration, and coordination throughout the life of the project. This position is anticipated to be in South Karamoja, Uganda.

This position is contingent on project award and funding. The position will be a local contract and is only open to candidates who are eligible to work in Uganda.

The Gender Advisor will lead the implementation of gender assessment and integration strategies aimed at ensuring that program activities result in positive outcomes for program beneficiaries. S/he will build team members’ and partners’ capacity to integrate a gender and youth perspective into project activities and raise awareness of the importance of gender and youth integration and empowerment. The Advisor will collaborate with sector team leads to ensure the effective and timely execution of activities related to gender and youth-based access to opportunities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Engage with program staff, partners and other stakeholders to develop and implement innovative gender and youth integration and empowerment strategies for all program activities and for the life of the project. Contribute to annual work plan development and monitoring.
• Collaborate with the M&E team on gender/youth integration and analysis tools. This includes ensuring sex and age disaggregated and gender and youth-sensitive data is collected and analyzed. Make recommendations based on assessment findings and regular monitoring to inform program strategies to better meet the needs of the project participants. Contribute to any other research activities to ensure gender and youth dynamics are fully represented.
• Assess the underlying causes that hinder women’s participation in agriculture, income generation, the labor market, and attention to gender equity by institutional systems.
• Implement gender, youth and social inclusion cross-cutting themes in such a way that women of all ages and social groups will be incorporated as a resource to guide project activities and outcomes.
• Manage the possible effects that program activities may have on sexual and gender-based violence at the household and community levels; monitor and manage how activities will be tracked over time to ascertain any unintended consequences related to gender and gender-based violence.
• Work closely with field level staff to ensure quality implementation in line with the program strategy.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline. In-depth understanding of gender, age, and other socio-cultural factors in the context of food security programming is required.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience working with in the context of gender-related programming. This includes gender equality; prevention of gender-based violence; women’s empowerment’ and women’s education.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a broad range of sources in order to ensure effective integration of gender and youth concerns throughout the project’s duration.
• Demonstrated ability to foster commitment and build capacity among activity staff and in-country actors to gender integration and empowerment.
• Strong skills in planning and organization, partnership and collaboration.
• Evidence of outstanding writing and communication skills in English.
• Ability to travel within project areas as the security situation allows.

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