Position Purpose:

The Gender and Youth Advisor is responsible for the coordination of all gender and youth related activities in DF. The Gender and Youth Advisor will be focal person for different partners and project in DF Ethiopia as assigned and will also lead the overall gender and youth work in all DF programs providing strategic direction and overall leadership on all Gender and Youth related matters.

Under the general supervision of the Country Program Coordinator, the Gender and Youth Advisor ensures the active and effective involvement of DF in interaction with partners. This includes project planning and management; contributing in establishing partnership with relevant partners/ stakeholders; providing technical support and capacity development; prepares project proposals/ annual plans, reviews including budget; follow up progress, budget utilization and proper implementation of projects as agreed with partners; ensure timely periodic reports to donors and government organizing and documenting information, data, experiences and lessons; etc. The Gender and Youth Advisor, in close collaboration with DF Gender expert partner, is also responsible to ensure all DF programs’ implementing partners adopt gender mainstreaming in their work, by supporting in gender audits & analysis and develop gender responsive working strategies, policies and procedures based on audit and analysis and implement accordingly.

Detail Duties and Responsibilities

Focal in assigned projects/programs

• Contributes for the revision of program manual; review for continuous improvement and changing circumstances
• Follow up the partners in the area of adhering to the prevailing agreements and special focus to Gender and Youth related support and follow up to partners
• Develop guideline for Gender and Youth related work in DF projects
• Provides technical support to DF partners’ relevant staff throughout PCM
• Develop new program ideas and advice partners in the development of full application in close consultation with the CPC and partners;
• Provides close technical support to partners in the preparation/design of new projects;
• Review and ensure quality and consistency of annual plan and proposal received from partners
• Follow up on the status of program implementation and project budget utilization;
• Work closely with finance team in review of budget realignment request from partners
• Plan and conduct periodical monitoring visits to program/projects assigned as focal person; Join other focal persons in their monitoring visit to provide technical support in Gender and Youth
• Closely follow up regular reports form partners are received timely; review and provide feedback;
• Take part in consolidation of reports reviewed and cleaned to be sent to donors and other relevant stakeholders in consultation with the CPC and FAM
• For a closing project, My life My Choice, follow up finalization of tasks from handover note of previous staff and lead the report compiling and closing of the project
• Closely work with partners and create good interaction and communication with partners and other relevant stakeholders;
• Assist in partnership strategy development and revisions;
• Provide proactive responses to queries and requests from partners/collaborators and potential partners;
• Performs other related tasks as required

Gender and Youth

As the leading person for all gender related works within DF and its implementing partners, the Gender and Youth Advisor  is responsible to ensure gender is not practiced by only one person rather it is understood, internalized and practiced by everyone – men, women, children, elders within DF staff, partners’ staff as well as community members. In doing so, the advisor is expected to lead both internal and external gender mainstreaming in DF.

Internal Gender mainstreaming

• Be the DF Ethiopia contact person towards the DF Oslo gender focal person
• Overview and internalize existing policies, guidelines and tools and ensure access to these policies, guidelines and tools by the organizations’ staff
• Assess the level of understanding and ensure internalization and practice of these existing documents by the organizations’ staff
• Assess available budget for internal gender activities within the organizations and promote allocation of internal budget periodically
• Assess gender related gaps periodically and promote capacity building at different levels (can be trainings, improving existing document, increasing accessibility through provision of documents in different language and handy materials etc…)
• Raising awareness among DF and partner organizations’ staff on current issues and creating periodical forum where staff can discuss on gender matters and share experiences – This should include commemorating of different gender related dates through meaningful celebration
• Ensure the DF gender core group is functional and work towards improving the overall organizational gender responsiveness

External Gender mainstreaming

• Overview existing projects’ activities and budget related to gender and establish system to rate projects as comprehensive in terms of gender mainstreaming and if they have parts missing or if they are totally gender blind. The system will allow to identify who needs support where
• Improve existing tools or develop new tools to properly follow up gender related activities
• Periodical follow up on implementation of gender related activities and gender mainstreaming within all projects
• Ensure newly designed projects include gender analysis in assessment and design stage, implementation and monitoring and evaluation stages. Using the system to rate projects, apply it uniformly to all DF projects as they begin.
• Make sure government and community based organizations are involved from assessment to evaluation stage of projects undertaking gender analysis together with DF and implementing partners’ staff ensuring sustainability
• Ensure the gender core group of all DF implementing partners are functional ensuring organizational and program level gender responsiveness
• Establish and maintain functional and effective relationship with organizations that are experts in gender

As the leading person for all Youth related works, there is a need to develop guide on how to work on youth empowerment and support to facilitate the work of others. The advisor will give technical support to other project focal persons on issues related to youth empowerment and support. Provide technical advice remotely and give support on the ground occasionally coordinating with project focal persons.

Communications and Networking

• Crate good interaction and communication with partners and other relevant stakeholders;
• Develop good working relationship with other stakeholders in the sectors where DF is working
• Be the DF Ethiopia contact person towards the DF Oslo Gender and Youth focal person
• Represent DF in relevant forums related to Gender and Youth
• Performs other related tasks as required and assigned by the CPC

Personal behaviour

• Respect and adhere to the DF code of conduct
• Follow and promote the DF Vision, Mission and values in action and words
• Have personal integrity and promote zero tolerance to corruption in all forms

 Reports To:

• Country Program Coordinator

Place of Assignment: 

• Addis Ababa (With extensive travel to the project sites)

Valid from:

• 11^th November 2019 (1 year with possibility of extension)

Qualifications

The candidate should have a minimum of:

• Degree in any social and development related fields such as Development Studies, Gender, Social work or other related fields
• 3 year working experience on gender related activities
• 2 years working experience on youth related activities
• 2 years of experience with project implementation/management
• Those that have been part of youth groups, clubs and organizations and meet the above qualifications will have an advantage

Skills

The incumbent must demonstrate the following skills:

• Ability to  administer youth programs
• ability to coordinator gender related tasks
• team building skills
• be able to build personal relationships with various stakeholders
• analytical and problem solving skills
• decision making skills
• effective verbal, presentation and listening communications skills
• effective negotiation and mediation skills
• effective written communications skills
• basic counseling skills
• computer skills including the ability to operate computerized accounting, spreadsheet, word-processing, graphics and website development programs at a highly proficient level
• stress management skills
• time management skills

Personal Attributes

The incumbent must also demonstrate the following personal attributes:

• have a passion for development work
• willing to learn
• see the benefit in collaboration and working together
• be honest and trustworthy
• accountable 
• be respectful
• possess cultural awareness and sensitivity
• be flexible
• demonstrate sound work ethics