| ASI is seeking a Gender Intervention Manager to serve on the Programme Management Unit (PMU) for an anticipated multi-year DFID-funded Zimbabwe livelihoods programme. The objective of the programme is to improve food security, reduce malnutrition and strengthen livelihoods amongst rural households, as well to facilitate market linkages in the agricultural sector. The programme aims to improve incomes of 100,000 vulnerable smallholders, 60 percent of whom are women.
The Gender Intervention Manager will be responsible for mainstreaming gender throughout all programme activities and for evaluating and promoting practices that increase women‘s equity in project outcomes. H/She will also lead key initiatives to empower rural and smallholder farmer women and increase their access to markets, access to inputs, capacity in business and agronomic areas, and strengthen control over resources and assets. The Intervention Manager will develop and implement interventions focussed on improving livelihoods of women within the overall M4P strategic framework. This position is contingent upon ASI being awarded a contract.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct a gender assessment, building on existing research, to identify the constraints to achieving gender equity within the project target areas.
- Advise the market development team on integrating gender analysis into the market analysis process to identify the value chain and core transactions, and key rules and supporting functions for improving livelihoods for women.
- Develop a gender strategy for the program to address the underlying constraints to gender equity through activities that are within the M4P framework, defining appropriate project interventions.
- Develop specific and practical activities on how to integrate gender and enhance women and girls’ empowerment throughout the programme implementation in close collaboration with local implementing parnters, and market stakeholders.
- Where applicable, the Intervention Manager will directly contribute to the development of intervention tools and the capacity building of key stakeholders in the market;
- Design and conduct gender awareness trainings for staff and partners;
- Assist in the development of other training manuals and curricula to ensure gender sensitivity in the training content and presentation.
- Contribute to monitoring and evaluation framework, reports and project outputs from gender sensitive perspective.
- Participate in gender-related meetings with DfID representatives, government officials, and implementing partners.
Qualifications:
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (gender, development studies, agricultural economics). Master’s degree strongly preferred.
- More than 8 years of experience working in Southern Africa on gender issues, particularly related to agriculture, nutrition and/or food security is required.
- Demonstrated experience conducting gender analyses and gender integration programming.
- Demonstrated awareness of and responsiveness to gender and social issues in cross-cultural contexts.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation, conducting focus groups and surveys is preferred.
- Experience in facilitating trainings for staff and beneficiary populations is required.
- Experience with M4P programs and value chain experience essential.
No phone calls please. Only finalists contacted. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. EOE |
