USAID NGO GHG Jobs - Gender, Youth and Vulnerable Groups Officer at Mercy Corps ~ Ugandan Jobline Jobs

Organisation: Mercy Corps

Project Name: Growth, Health

and Governance (GHG) Program

Mercy Corps is

an international non-profit organization which implements high-quality,

analytical development work in very difficult places. We have been operating in

Uganda since 2006 and currently implement development programs in the Acholi

and Karamoja sub-regions of Uganda with funding from USAID, EC, SDC, and USDA.

We were recently awarded a market-development focused 5-year USAID/Food for

Peace-funded program working in the northern half of Karamoja.

The project,

called the Northern Karamoja Growth, Health and Governance (GHG) program, aims

to support the immediate needs of program beneficiaries while promoting

long-term development by spurring systemic improvements in key economic sectors

of northern Karamoja. A gender strategy was developed for GHG in the first two

years and was overseen and implemented by a gender advisor, two gender officers

and sector teams. As the program moves into its final two years of

implementation, and the team learns from and adapts its interventions to better

suit the needs of the local context, it will expand its activities so that the

program can better meet the needs of young people, with an additional focus on

vulnerable groups, with the support of the Gender, Youth and Vulnerable Groups

officer.

Job Summary:  The Gender, Youth and Vulnerable Groups

Officer will assist in the implementation of cross-sectoral gender, youth and

vulnerable groups integration strategies aimed at ensuring that program

activities result in equal outcomes for male and female beneficiaries of

different age groups and socio-economic backgrounds across target communities. The

incumbent will assist to build team capacity to integrate a gender and youth

perspective into program activities; work closely with sector team leads to

ensure the effective and timely execution of activities related to gender and

age-based access to opportunities in economic, health and civic engagement

activities; support the M&EL team to include a gender and youth perspective

in research, mid-term and endline evaluations and to mainstream sex and age

disaggregated and gender sensitive indicators into the overall M&EL

framework.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

·        
Support with sectorally-focused gender and youth

mainstreaming trainings for all team members;

·        
Responsible for the implementation of GHG’s gender,

youth and vulnerable groups’ integration strategies and adapting and improving

strategies as needed;

·        
The incumbent will apply gender and youth analysis

to current program activities and with new program design;

·        
Oversight of the gender and youth activities with

other GHG team leads and officers during regular planning and coordination

sessions;

·        
In charge of the roll out of GHG’s gender behavior

change communications (BCC) strategy;

·        
Responsible for the implementation of activities

designed to promote greater access, inclusion and empowerment for traditionally

excluded groups (Karamajong traders, adult women, male youth, adolescent girls

etc.) in the area of conflict mitigation and management and good governance, as

well as at the household and community levels;

·        
Carry out M&E activities to ensure that sex and

age dis-aggregated and gender sensitive data is collected and analyzed in line

with Mercy Corps’ Design for Impact Guide (DIG) recommendations;

·        
Identifying barriers to recruiting and retaining

female program staff and maintaining a gender friendly work environment.

·        
Organizational Learning: As part of our

commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that

learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the

communities they serve – we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time

to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

·        
Accountability to Beneficiaries: Mercy Corps

team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability,

specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding

international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary

communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our

field projects.

Qualifications, Skills and

Experience: 

·        
The Gender, Youth and Vulnerable Groups Officer

should hold a good Bachelor’s degree in international development, women’s

studies, gender or a comparable area of study

·        
A minimum of five years’ experience in youth civic

engagement and/or economic engagement, gender, and development work; with a

minimum of three years in field postings

·        
Significant professional background and experience

in conducting gender training, gender mainstreaming, SGBV prevention and

response and Positive Youth Development (PYD), including civic engagement, good

governance and participatory M&EL methods.

·        
Prior experience working in Northern Uganda a must

·        
Karamoja language skills strongly preferred

·        
Prior exposure and experience working in large

scale, complex programs and challenging environments

·        
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

·        
Strong training and facilitation skills

·        
Ability and willingness to both lead and follow as

appropriate

·        
Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with

shifting needs and priorities

·        
The incumbent should have a broad internal and

external network of gender experts to draw upon as needed

·        
Computer proficiency with Microsoft Office

All suitably

qualified and interested Ugandan candidates should send their applications

including a cover letter clearly stating the salary requirements, updated CV

(with three professional referees), and copies of academic

qualifications/certificates to the HR/Admin Manager, Kampala Head Office on 4th

Floor Embassy Plaza, Plot 1188-1190 Ggaba Road. The E-mail applications with

cover letter should be sent to: mcjobs@ug.mercycorps.org

Deadline: 

25^th September 2015