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JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION

JOB TITLE: Senior Gender Specialist

REPORTS TO: Deputy Head of Programmes

REPORTING TO POSTHOLDER: None

LOCATION: Addis Ababa, with frequent travel to the field

DURATION & HOURS: until 31 September 2025, with 60 work days probationary period

SALARY: GBP 1136 /Month

The Gender Specialist will ensure and provide technical assistance in ensuring gender role and issues are taken into consideration to be part of inclusive development. The Gender Specialist will take a lead role in active participation in coordination of Gender Action research and women social empowerment, gender analysis & learning meetings.  The position holder will lead the integration and streamlining of gender and in particular women into Farm Africa the Forest for Sustainable Development (FSD) programme activities and other agriculture related projects within Farm Africa.

The Gender Specialist is principally responsible for the execution and monitoring of the approved gender action research and women social empowerment plan of the Bridging phase project plan and women empowerment activities. The Gender Specialist works hand in hand with the Project and consortium Knowledge Management Coordinator, other key project leads and field team members. The role requires multiple field visits across Farm Africa project area and close collaboration with community and local government offices.

KEY TASKS AND RESPONISBILITES

Key areas of responsibilities are:

Provide technical Advice and empowering support to Project staff and local partners on gender and social empowerment framework, tools and resource mobilization through the lens of climate smart agriculture

• Providing day-to-day technical and capacity building support to the field Project staff in implementing gender empowerment and gender action research components and related activities of the bridging phase Irish Aid funded ISLR-CSA Project
• Provide technical support in integrating gender equality strategies across Farm Africa CSA project results;
• Analyze and understand the gender roles under social, economic and religious context and how that affects the dynamics of agriculture. Focus specifically on the situation of rural women, female jobless youth from a gender perspective, using credible source of evidence including information from women agencies, rural women and men, and organizations working on women empowerment and produce analytical thematic strategies in order to ensure high quality, innovative activities, including direct interventions, policy work, advocacy and popular campaigning;
• Support field level project implementation teams to increase rural women’s involvement in CSA and improvement in their livelihood activities and to liaise with family and community members;
• Conduct gender Action Research/ women needs assessment of the Farm Africa CSA Projects as well as provide substantive inputs to the capacity assessment of the key partners on gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment in CSA and develop the gender analysis and consequent capacity building/learning plan;
• Provide project team with gender mainstreaming/integration and women’s empowerment tools, gender action research framework/TOR/guide and updates on current gender equality trends in Ethiopia;
• Develop and conduct trainings for field level project teams, Development Agents, and data collectors as well as in country team/key partners as needed,  in order to apply practical tools on gender action research, women social empowerment, and gender mainstreaming policy frameworks;

Facilitate and Conduct gender Action Research/analysis and integration into all Project thematic/result areas and activities

• Develop & share gender Action Research framework and women social empowerment or gender integration in CSA guiding document and learnings for implementation teams
• Lead the development and dissemination of Cohort Gender Action research and women empowerment evidence base of assessments and data collection tools in conducting gap assessments relating to gender equality;
• Support field project teams with applying Cohort study on women social empowerment/Gender action research, gender analysis for Project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation to understand why and how issues affect women and men differently and unequally within particular Project working context and what options exist to address them;
• Facilitate collection and analysis of sex-desegregated data through ISLR-CSA project
• Ensure availability of an up-to-date information on all critical issues related to implementation of gender equality commitments in line with Farm Africa gender approach and other key documents
• Develop and coordinate partnership with local women’s organizations and other stakeholders in target woredas.

Provide inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts

• Develop data base on gender equality and women social empowerment and mainstreaming gender in CSA that are essential to gender sensitive CSA programming for gender equality such as researches, statistics and information about policies, programs, services, networks, trainings, and capacity building resources and opportunities;
• Conduct gender analysis and provide project/program level quantitative and qualitative information on the key gender gaps to support the project/program teams to use the findings into Farm Africa Project proposals and visibility plan and its implementation phase
• Ensure balanced number of women and men have access to CSA extension services provided by the projects
• Provide proactive and substantive technical support gender sensitive CSA awareness raising and advocacy events, trainings, workshops and drafting knowledge products;
• Provide inputs to the development of knowledge management products related to gender equality and women’s rights in the Project areas.

These essential functions are not to be interpreted as a complete statement of all duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other job-related duties as required. All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established.