The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. After passing a century, which it celebrated in 2019, it is now a global movement made up of 29 national member organizations which work in 120 countries.

Scope of Role 

Reports to: Gender and SRH coordinator

Staff Directly Reporting to this Post: None

Duration: One year with possible extension

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the children is the world’s leading independent organization for children.  Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Recognized for our commitment to accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity, our work takes us into the heart of communities, where we help children and families help themselves. We work with other organizations, governments, non-profits and a variety of local partners while maintaining our own independence without political agenda or religious orientation.

Project Overview:

The overall goal of Leadership and Economic Empowerment Project (LEEP) is to create opportunities for young women  in business in semi-urban and urban areas to empower themselves to engage meaningfully in their development, improve their technical and transferable skills and have equal access to, and use of capital, resources and services to achieve economic self-sufficiency and well-being. The young women will receive the resources needed to scale their businesses, support their families and become agents of change, role models and leaders in their communities.

LEEP project will be implemented from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026 to address 8900 young women in business in Sidama region, SNNPR and AddisAbaba. The project has the below three objectives:

Objective I: Young women access and use assets to develop and grow their businesses

Objective 2: Young women develop capabilities, skills knowledge and attitudes to manage and grow their businesses

Objective 3: Young women live in a healthy, violence-free and supportive environment in their households, communities and society and are part of a collaborative effort to advocate for equal access to resources and services

Major roles and responsibilities 

• Organize and facilitate different capacity building training and workshops for key stakeholders on women ‘s right and girls empowerment and create awareness about gender equality and rights among the local community
• Organize and facilitate training for young women in business, community dialogues on women leadership and empowerment to enhance their engagement on social, economic and related  participation
• Conduct experience sharing visits to model women and girls on changing gender roles and responsibilities, facilitate girls inspirational session regularly
• Enhancing women and girls empowerment that contribute to the undergoing national efforts to ensure gender equality and women empowerment through their meaningful participation and engagement in economy and social aspects
• Maintains regular communication and interaction with government office partners to facilitate and promote learning and information sharing,
• Document best practices and compile lessons learnt to ensure documentation, learning and advocacy
• Mentor and coach women and girls in the project site, conduct monitoring progress and report project results regularly
• Provide technical support to the project targets on gender, sexual and reproductive health including, early pregnancy, family planning, menstruation and personal hygiene,
• Organize and train young women friendly SRH-FP services to health workers (HWs) and HEWs in line with the national guidelines,
• Conduct SRH-FP and gender-related awareness creation trainings for target young women in targeted kebeles, particularly on SRH behaviors, stigma and judgment surrounding ARSH, life skills in developing sexual behaviors, ARSH problems, HTPs with particular focus on child marriage, FGM, S/GBV,
• Facilitate linkage and work intensively with regional and local health centers and facilities to increase young women’s access and practice to reproductive health services on SRH-FP
• Facilitate and support SRH and gender material provision at the grass-root level in collaboration with YES centers and health facilities/women and youth sectors
• Plan and organize community mobilization platforms and awareness creation events on Gender and SRH issues,
• Promote and Support YES centers’ services particularly SRH programs for the young women to access in their locality
• Establish SRH clubs in YES centers and ensure strong referral linkage between YES centers and health facilities for cases require medical attention
• Collect and avail informational business and SRH related materials in the YES centers
• Closely follow and support the YFS/ youth-friendly services and peer educators’ activities in all health centers
• Conduct Intake assessment on gender and young women reproductive health and regularly monitor their progress
• Gather information and understand key gender issues in the implementation area focusing on boys and girls [e.g GBV, Earley child marriage, SRH and others] and adopt strategies to address them as necessary
• Create and maintain smooth working relationship with government partners and other stakeholders and link program activities with the existing government structure
• Actively participate in trucking the success and best practice documentation process of the project
• Develops quality and timely reports and submits to immediate supervisor,
• Carry out other work related duties and responsibilities assigned by Regional Gender and SRH coordinator

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Educational back ground 

• Bachelor Degree in Gender studies, sociology, social work, Development studies, Public Health, Health Officer, Health Promotion and Health Education, specific experience of working on gender and sexual and reproductive health aspects in rural areas and other related social science fields.

Experience

• Recommended a minimum of three-year experience with solid experience in SRH/FP and gender integration
• Skills in designing and implementing gender integration policy and strategy at different institutional level
• Proven analytical and problem solving skills;
• Ability to travel throughout the focus zone, woredas, kebele and other rural areas as needed.
• Strong results orientation.
• Experience in multi-sectoral coordination.
• Ability to manage complex and demanding workload.
• Experience in NGO setup.
• Experience working in the region and understanding of the context

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency
• Strong training skill
• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices, flexibility in working long hours and ability to work with incoming surge teams;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
• Fluency in written and spoken English;
• Commitment to Save the Children values
• Teams, in the event of emergencies