Job Purpose

Gender mainstreaming Officer is responsible for supporting Concern team in the area of Gender mainstreaming, Cross cutting issues. He /she will play a role in the implementation of gender transformative training for north area coordination office and in the implementation of gender sensitive programming, including Concern’s engaging men and boys approach.

Main duties & Responsibilities

• Carry out rapid gender analysis and gender related assessments
• Oversee the development and monitoring of gender sensitive indicators.
• Make sure marginalized/ vulnerable women’s are incorporated, participated and benefited from the project/program.
• Follow up planned program activities are being implemented using the Gender continuum tool.
• Deliver gender transformative training for stakeholders, community leaders and religious leaders.
• Carry out program specific gender training for staff relating to attitudes, behaviour and programmatic implementation
• Regularly monitor, review and evaluate the implementation of programmes on gender mainstreaming, take appropriate and timely action and extract lessons learned for future program development and implementation.
• Document best practices on the implementation of gender mainstreaming.
• Support the programme teams in the implementation of Concern’s Engaging Men and Boys Strategy
• Actively promote sharing of learnings from baselines, end-lines, reviews and evaluations internally and externally.
• Support project learning reviews and donor reports, as required.
• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy.
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect.
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.
• Ensure GBV prevention and risk mitigation throughout the programme and Deliver training on GBV pocket guide for Non GBV specialist.
• Address the existing stereotypes/social norms and Gender injustices against women, men, boys , girls during community meetings and distributions
• Map GBV services available in the region and follow up the referral pathways are posted.
• Campaign with stakeholders and community members on International Women’s day and 16 days of activism.
• Network with the available and relevant gender and protection coordination platforms to promote global standards and for better learnings.
• Produce case stories with quality pictures for publication
• The duties and responsibilities of the job holder not limited to the above activities but includes other duties assigned by the line manager.

Emergency Response

Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopian Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.

Gender Equality 

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

Safeguarding

• Able to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, and feel confident that they have been understood.
• Understands local safeguarding structures and arrangements.
• Practices in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect.
• Identifies and refers to appropriate services any other associated persons including careers, family members and children at risk.
• Able to document safeguarding concerns, and maintain appropriate record-keeping, recording the wishes and views of the adult or child at risk, differentiating between fact and opinion.

Accountability 

In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS): 

• Actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
• Work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
• Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities. 

Job Requirements

Person Specification

Essential minimum qualifications and capacities

• Bachelor’s degree in social science (research related), Social work, sociology, Gender studies/ Monitoring and Evaluation/statistics and other relevant fields of studies (related to M&E, development, research, data analytics, etc.) with over two years of relevant experience 
• Experience in humanitarian programming in addition to development programming is an advantage
• Clear understanding and experience in directly implementing primary quantitative data collection (surveys, etc.)
• Clear understanding and experience in directly implementing primary qualitative data collection (key informant interviews, focus group discussion, participatory qualitative methods, etc.)
• Clear understanding and experience of quality assurance in data collection
• Ability to provide technical advice and support
• Experience of providing training and capacity building to programme and M & E staff
• Excellent communication skills; able to work as part of a team and establish relationships with field offices

Competencies

• Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay at the field
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across the organization developing effective working relationships to deliver outstanding results for children.
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff and working with community members
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written English.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Local language is preferable  

What We Offer

• A competitive salary and benefit package
• Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)
• 20 days annual leave
• 26 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 18weeks(unpaid) parental leave

How to Apply

Interested applicants should send non-returnable C.V., application letter outlining how their experience and education fit this vacancy, please note that no need to submit your supporting documents at this stage:   

• Apply through CLICK HERE or in person at our Kombolcha Office 

This vacancy is only for Female Candidate 

Safeguarding at Concern: Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking

• Women and people with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply