Gender Programme Officer Full Time

Job Description

How can you make a difference?

• Identify gender-related barriers for youth continued education, skilling and livelihood opportunities in targeted regions and develop and implement evidence-based gender integration framework/action plan for the program.
• Provide technical support and guidance to program teams across different sectors and partners in understanding gender dynamics and adopting a gender-transformative approach that puts young women at the center in the design and delivery of all activities.
• Establish/strengthen partnerships with local women- and youth-led organizations and facilitate their active engagement and contribution to the program implementation and monitoring.
• Support with capacity building of women- and youth-led organizations, public and private sector on the importance of creating employment opportunities for youth, apprenticeships, child and youth rights, business principles, etc.
• Work closely with the Social and Behavioral Change (SBC) team to integrate gender equality in the behavioral insights study and SBC strategy to bring positive social and behavioural outcomes and address negative gender and social norms that hinder girls’ and women’s access to education and employment opportunities.
• Document, disseminate and facilitate the uptake of lessons and promising practices in closing gender gaps in accessing quality education and dignifying employment or self-employment pathways.
• Work with governmental and non-governmental partners to develop gender responsive education and training systems that take into consideration the needs and interests of female and male youth in the targeted regions.
• Develop and implement monitoring and tracking mechanisms to assess concrete gender outcomes/results in the program.
• Facilitate and advocate for young women’s meaningful engagement in program design, implementation and monitoring.
• Design and implement capacity strengthening plan for relevant program team and implementing partners in gender-transformative livelihood programming.
• Contribute to needs assessments, reports, evaluations, studies, development of strategies documents and policy briefs that support UNICEF’s efforts in promoting young women’s socio-economic empowerment.
• Provide support to the implementation of Global and UNICEF Ethiopia’s Gender Action Plan in coordination with the Gender Specialist and gender working group.
• Build strategic alliances for gender equality with various partners, including institutional links with UN agencies and other relevant entities.
• Support resources mobilization efforts for gender focused and impactful gender programming in close collaboration with the resource mobilization unit and sectoral teams.
• Represent UNICEF in relevant internal and external platforms in consultation with ECO’s Gender Specialist.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

Education:

• A university degree in one of the following fields is required: Gender, Development Studies, Social Science, or related fields.

Work Experience:

• At least 2 (two) years of progressive experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken and led substantive programming on livelihood and gender.
• Experience in designing, implementing, managing, and delivering results-based programmes on gender or any other cross cutting programme, especially at country/regional level.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English language is required.

Desirables:

• Knowledge of another official UN language (French, Spanish, Arabic, or Russian), Amharic or the local language is an asset.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (1)

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (1)

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact (1)

(4) Innovates and embraces change (1)

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

(6) Thinks and acts strategically (1)

(7) Works collaboratively with others (1)

How To Apply

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.