Contract Type : Internship Contract (3 months with possibility of extension to maximum 6 months)

Reporting to : GESI Officer – Link Community Development Ethiopia – Soddo Field Office

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development Ethiopia (LCDE) is part of Link Education International (LEI), a family of not for profit organizations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over 2,000,000 children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalized children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. LEI, based in Edinburgh – Scotland, supports all project, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our four sub-Saharan partner countries.

‘INCREASING YOUTH WORKFORCE WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON WOMEN’ INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME – GESI INTERN

This year, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, LCDE has decided to launch the ‘Increasing Youth Workforce with Special Focus on Women’ Internship Program which will offer internship opportunities to only Ethiopian female students and graduates from accredited universities for academic and practical on-the-job trainings and mutual sharing of skills and expertise, as a way to identify and attract future talent into our organization and a strategy to increase and empower our female national workforce both in number and leadership roles.

As part of our Internship Program, we are looking for a GESI Intern responsible for learning and performing a variety of tasks related to gender equality, social inclusion and safeguarding to support her knowledge acquisition as well as the GESI Team at LCDE – Soddo Field Office.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist the GESI Officer in facilitating and coordinating girls direct support program activities (such as scholastic material support, bursaries and sanitary materials)
• Assist the GESI Officer in integrating safeguarding and GESI aspects into the MEAL framework to ensure, in close collaboration with the MEAL team, that data are collected according to gender and inclusivity principles
• Take part and/or support the implementation of all other STAGES program activities, by ensuring that they are seen through GESI lens 
• Capture all field level data on regards to SGESI activities
• Assist the GESI Officer in strengthening all routine activities to ensure the active participation of girls (particularly marginalized girls) in the design, implementation and evaluation of project activities
• Perform other related tasks as per the GESI Officer’s request.

Job Requirements

PERSON SPECIFICATION

QUALIFICATIONS

As per the LCDE ‘Increasing Youth Workforce with Special Focus On Women’ Internship Program, an intern is either:

• A female youth student from an accredited university, both graduate and undergraduate, who in her last year before graduation, needs to attain practical work experience to fulfil academic requirements
• A female youth graduate who—within 12 months of her graduation date—needs to gain practical work experience in her area of study.

Interns should be between 18 and 29 of age as per National Youth Policy of the Ministry of Women, Children and Youth which states that “a youth is anyone from the ages of 18 to 29”.

Essential

• Undertaking a, or in possession of, a BA Degree in Gender studies, Education, Social Science, International Development and related areas
• Good communication skill in English and Amharic
• Good interpersonal and team skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills.
• Sympathy with the aims and objectives of Link
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and action;
• Commitment to Link’s Safeguarding and gender policies.
• Be an individual with high standards of integrity, with excellent negotiating skills and ability to manage external relationships.

How to Apply

• Please send a Cover Letter and CV to: abaynew@lcdethiopia.org copying: bruk@lcdethiopia.org with the subject line "GESI Intern Application"
• Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria & It should also include your available start date
• The closing date for applications is April 28 2021
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview. Unsuccessful applicants will not be notified. Only women candidates and women with disabilities are encouraged to apply!