GENDER & LIVELIHOODS SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR

Job posted by: CARE - USA - Fri, 15 Nov 2019

Job Details:

Organisation: CARE - USA

Deadline Sun, 15 Dec 2019

Job type: Permanent

Location: United States

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CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

CARE is a leading humanitarian and development organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice with a special emphasis on rights programming, gender equality, and women and girls. CARE works in a variety of contexts from protracted crises to stable development settings, as well as contexts in the nexus between these two types, and recognizes that the underlying drivers of food and nutrition insecurity are poverty, gender inequity, non-inclusive governance, poor adaptation to climate change and the inability to manage other economic and political shocks and stressers. To address these underlying drivers of poverty, the CARE Food and Water Systems (FWS) Global Team has developed the “She Feeds the World” (SFtW) framework, which underlies all of CARE’s food and water systems (FWS) programming. The SFtW framework leverages CARE’s experience and tools to bring about access to productive assets and resources to women and vulnerable groups, build capacities to improve their productivity, increase incomes through agriculture and other livelihoods, increase the awareness of the negative impacts of climate change and how to mitigate them, increase access to critical nutrients and the adoption of effective behaviors to reduce malnutrition, ensure healthy lives for all members of society, and increase the capacity of women, men, boys and girls to adapt to and absorb shocks and stressers to build sustainability. Achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is at the center of achieving these outcomes in all of CARE’s FWS programs. Wherever possible, CARE works at the systems level to develop responsive governance systems that address the immediate and longer term needs of food insecure populations. At the same time, CARE works with market actors and systems to build their responsiveness to poor households, women and youth to enable their full participation and benefits from these systems. CARE’s FWS programming worldwide integrates these elements to reduce food insecurity and malnutrition and increase gender equality, women’s empowerment, inclusive governance and resilience.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide direct, high quality TA to CARE’s Food and Water Systems (FWS) programs
  • Provide gender expertise, guidance, and technical support to CARE’s Food and Water Systems projects and programs.
  • Provide leadership, mentorship and coaching to country-based gender advisors
  • Support resource mobilization efforts to scale up/advance CARE’s gender work in FWS
  • Mentor/Coach/Lead CO-based Gender Advisors on transformative gender approaches
  • Improve technical excellence & knowledge management in using transformative gender approaches

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor or Master’s degree in International Development - in the field of women’s/gender studies, Economics, Business Administration, Agribusiness Development, Anthropology, Sociology, or a related field
  • 3 to 5 years experience in international gender programming, or related field
  • Fluency in spoken and written French and English
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct gender analysis and apply findings to a programmatic gender strategy
  • Demonstrated capacity to facilitate trainings and learning on gender discrimination and women’s empowerment (or other social justice issues)
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with diverse teams and effectively communicate new or sensitive topics • Work experience in a developing country context
  • Demonstrated ability to design and adapt program approaches that promote gender transformative programming and support women’s empowerment in diverse cultural contexts
  • Experience in inspiring and supporting colleagues to integrate gender into their work

Please directly apply in our website at:

https://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp02/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CAREU...

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