National Gender, Vulnerable Youth Expert - Belgian Development Agency (BTC)

Organisation: Belgian Development Agency (BTC)

Project

Name: Skilling Uganda

Duty

Station: Kampala, Uganda

Belgian Development Agency, BTC Uganda

and Ministry of Education, Science Technology and Sports will implement

together a support program to the implementation of the Skilling Uganda

Strategy. The main aim is to raise standards and expand coverage of training,

create employable skills and competencies relevant to the labour market instead

of educational certificates.

Key

Duties and Responsibilities:  The National Gender & Vulnerable

Youth Expert shall work closely with the project coordinators as well as with

the national technical advisor and the project field managers, with following

tasks:

1. Gender and Social Targeting 40%

·        
Set

up the framework for gender and social targeting for the relevant project’s

components;

·        
Steer

the gender mainstreaming approach and gender audit of the project;

·        
Actively

contribute to the development of gender and social eligibility criteria in the

framework of the pSDF

·        
Ensure

gender and social sensitive labour market information gathering;

2. Coaching and Promotion 30%

·        
Oversee

the promotion campaign to increase the participation of disadvantaged groups to

BTVET

·        
Work

closely with relevant M&E, gender and social working groups and

coordination structures.

·        
Coordinate

and seek synergies with other programs targeting gender and disadvantaged youth

·        
Contribute

to the mainstreaming of other cross cutting issues of the project, including

disability, environment, and HIV-AIDS mainstreaming

3. M&E/knowledge Sharing 30%

·        
Actively

contribute to the set-up of project’s monitoring framework following the MORE

results,

·        
Support

gender sensitive and social disaggregated monitoring including tracer studies

of pSDF other

·        
Ensure

monitoring of the project’s M&E matrix;

·        
Compile

lessons learned on promotion of gender and social targeting from project

supported activities.

Qualifications,

Skills and Experience: 

·        
The

ideal candidate for the National Gender & Vulnerable Youth Expert career

job must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in gender studies, social

sciences, business management, education;

·        
A

minimum of four years of proven, relevant M&E experience

·        
A

minimum of four years of proven, relevant experience in gender mainstreaming

and/or social targeting

·        
Previous

experience in facilitating the cooperation between BTVET institutions and

private sector is a plus

·        
Experience

working with bilateral or multilateral agency is an advantage.

·        
Ability

to work autonomously and in a team, sometimes under stressful conditions.

All suitably qualified and interested

candidates are encouraged to send their updated CVs, motivation letters and

sustaining documents to Belgian Development Agency BTC, Lower Kololo Terrace

1B, Kololo, Kampala. Uganda. Please clearly indicate the position you apply for

on the envelope.

Deadline:

15^th January 2016 by 4:00pm.