About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization operating in the sectors of Emergency Response, Sustainable Peace and Development, and Economic and Markets Development. Mercy Corps currently has programs in the Regions of Afar, Somali, Oromiya, Addis Ababa and SNNP, and works through the principles of Accountability, Participation and Peaceful Change. Mercy Corps employs a community-led, market-driven approach as it works with partners at the community, government, private, and research institution levels.

Program / Department Summary

Mercy Corps is implementing Climate-Proofing Food Security in Ethiopia’s Drought-Prone Lowland Areas project (IFTIIN), the objective of this project is to enhance the livelihood, resilience, and food security of vulnerable communities, strengthen the adaptive capacities of communities, ecosystems, and systems, to reduce aid dependency by enabling program participants to become more self-reliant; and to demonstrate the effectiveness and impact of this integrated approach to bring it to scale. this project funded by World Food Program (WFP), with duration of one year in the inception period and three more years implementation period, this project will be targeting 50,000 communities from Dollo ado and Dollo bay woredas of Somali region of Ethiopia.

General Position Summary

The position holder shall oversee technical quality implementation and delivery of the standalone GEDSI related activities and GEDSI mainstreaming across IFTIIN projects.  The position holder will mainly be responsible to identify GEDSI related concerns in IFTIIN project areas in line with other Livestock, crop, NRM and financial inclusion sectors. In addition, the position holder is also responsible to provide capacity building trainings on different GEDSI and GBV related topics to government line bureaus, community representatives and market actors. S/He will also be responsible for day-to-day documentation of GEDSI related activities, compile reports (weekly, and monthly); as well as represent Mercy Corps gender, GBV, protection and other related forums or network and so on.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Strategy & Vision

• Collaborate and work closely with projects team members to make sure effective integration of gender concerns and social inclusion.

• Collaborate with local authorities and other actors in the project areas including the market actors to effectively identify gender and social norm issues to inform project designs and activities.

• Able to learn and update his/ her information or knowledge to adapt the changing situation and context in promotion gender equality and social inclusion.

Program Management

• Make sure gender and social inclusion concerns to be integrated in all programs related assessments to better understand the concern and to inform program design and strategy development across various sectors including market system development.

• Lead implementation of women, youth and other unrepresented groups empowerment strategies and activities

• Ensure projects to have gender sensitive and gender equality indicators has put properly which focus on access to and control over resource, leadership, and participation and so on.

• Coordinative with monitoring and evaluation team to do regular monitoring and evaluation.

• Lead/oversee the process of gender and social norm reflections at the community and organizational levels.

• Work with local government and strengthen the system in a way to mainstream GEDSI issues.

• Coordinate and prepare weekly and monthly reports on GEDSI related activities and submit to area program manager, and other responsible team in the FO as well as Mercy Corps country office.

Finance & Compliance Management

N/A

Influence & Representation

• Make sure to coordinate with other development and humanitarian actors in the areas to promote gender equality and social inclusion.

• Represent Mercy Corps in various platforms, networks and coordination forums that focuses on gender, social inclusion, and protection.

• Provide timely training and orientation to community volunteers and make sure that they transmit/convey messages clearly to the community on GEDSI related topics.

• Coordinate with community volunteers and other community structures in the area to provide information to community member on GEDSI related issues.

• Always upholds the image and values of Mercy Corps

Security

• Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.

• Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

Organizational Learning 

• As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

Accountability to Beneficiaries

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically
  to our program participants and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to implement community accountability reporting Mechanism (CARM) effectively

• Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values always and in all in-country venues.

Supervisory Responsibility

The GEDSI adviser is responsible to provide technical support to all project team members to be able to properly integrate GEDSI concerns during day-to-day activity implementation; as well as responsible to provide a capacity building training.   

Accountability

Reports Directly to: MEL Manager

Technical report to: GEDSI adviser Dollo

Works Directly with all project and operation team in the FO

Job Requirements

Knowledge and Experience

• BA degree in Gender and social development, Sociology, Psychology, Social work, or other similar social science field of studies; and minimum three years’ work experience in NGOs in gender and GBV related roles.

Success Factors

• Ability and willingness to frequently travel to villages and willingness to reside in rural areas

• Good training facilitation skill

• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions like long distance walking to reach the community

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

• Experience in closely working with regional and Woreda government offices

• Excellent coordination skill

• Communication skill, good human relations

• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality and social inclusion 

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can apply online using THIS LINK