Send a Cow is a growing and dynamic international development charity providing ongoing support to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. We give poor families and communities the hope and the means to secure their own futures from the land, in line with our vision of a confident, thriving and sustainable rural Ethiopia.

Employment type:  Fixed term contract (3 years)

No of required : 1

Job Title: Gender and Social Inclusion officer (1)
Duration: Three years’ fixed term contract (36 months)
Department: Programme
Location: Dawuro Zone
Reports to: Programme coordinator

BACKGROUND:

Send a Cow summary

Send a Cow is a UK based charity that operates in many African countries of which Ethiopia is one. Send a Cow Ethiopia has a legal ground to operate in Ethiopia having been registered with Charities and Societies Agency as foreign charity with registration No. 0638. Currently, the charity is operating in Amhara and SNNP regions.

Overall Job Purpose

The Gender and Social Inclusion officer is responsible to lead, guide and take a frontline action in implementing gender and social inclusion aspects of Send a Cow’s Gender and Social Inclusion focused project in Dawuro Zone of SNNPR. This will be through implementation of activities outlined in the project document in collaboration with Gender and Social Inclusion officer and other project staffs. He/she is responsible to ensure that activities are implemented timely in a manner that will benefit farmer communities and households according to the project document and schedule set by the project team.
The post holder will work under direct supervision of the Gender and Social Inclusion officer to improve gender and social inclusion of resource poor households and their families targeted by the project. He/she will directly work through community volunteers, in collaboration with other project staffs to ensure that gender and social inclusion objectives of the project are met.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Develop plan to implement gender and social inclusion activities stipulated in the project document on timely basis
2. Implement planned activities in an effective and efficient manner considering SAC Eth’s community approaches, gender and child sensitivity
3. Undertake instruction from the programme coordinator in favour of smooth implementation of project activities.
4. Ensure project beneficiary families as well as larger community members understand, internalize and practice gender and social inclusion activities
5. Ensure close participation of target families and relevant community groups in the process of project implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
6. Ensure building capacity of community volunteers, self-help groups, Cluster Level Associations (CLAs) for practical and quality implementation of project activities
7. To ensure knowledge and skills on gender and social inclusion become part of the practical life of SHG members, Cluster Level Associations (CLAs), project beneficiary
households and their community at large
8. To ensure necessary technical backup are in place in line with gender equality, girl child education, household relationship, and hygiene in an environmentally sound manner
9. To ensure learning from gender and social inclusion activities through practice and integration of innovative ideas in a cost effective way
10. Ensure that project beneficiary communities are given equal opportunities to access project resource
11. Prepare and submit regular progress report for his/her areas of responsibilities and assignment to the programme coordinator on regular and timely basis.

Person Specifications

Essential

• Educational qualification of MSc in sociology, social anthropology, Gender and Development or related fields
• Minimum of 3 years of field experience in community-based Gender and Development program development
• Experience of living and working under difficult and challenging environments.
• Ability to design and implement plans for capacitating community volunteers, self-help groups and Cluster Level Associations (CLAs)
• Good communication skill at interpersonal and personal level
• Ability to understand nutrition and health information, evaluate and make use of it
• Report writing and timely information sharing
• A good level of spoken and written English.
• Knowledge of local languages (Dawurogna) is a plus
• Computer literacy
• Willingness to live and work at district (Woreda) level