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I. Job Summary

The purpose of the Gender and Social Accountability Advisor is to provide a technical assistance and capacity building for the Supporting adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), nutrition, and economic empowerment in Ethiopia project (Uplift Her) implemented by CARE and funded by Global Affairs Canada. The position holder will assist in refining the program design and implementation of all components of the program related to the intersection between gender issues, women’s empowerment, social accountability sexual and reproductive health, and nutrition in the target communities. The position holder will coordinate gender Analysis, social accountability study and training materials/guidelines development. The Advisor will inform the formative research in gender and social accountability areas to identify key issues, social norms, and barriers and to make recommendations on how to address gender and government responsiveness-related concerns and challenges. The Gender and Social Accountability Advisor is also expected to ensure effective design, implementation learning extraction and dissemination of a program. The incumbent is also responsible to extract, document and share good practices within the organization, stakeholders, and its partners. The Gender & Accountability Advisor will work closely with other technical advisors and program staff to ensure program quality and impact in line with the goals and objectives of the program. The position holder will also support report preparation and budget management related to gender and social accountability. This position will be supervised by program manager of Uplift Her.

II. Responsibilities and Key Result Areas

1.Job Responsibility #1: Technical support on planning and program Implementation (time: 35%)

• Develops contextualized gender strategy and implementation manual in collaboration with other project staff;
• Closely follow up, Lead and ensure the implementation of strategies mainly in the area of gender and social accountability:
• Support implementation of CARE’s Social Analysis and Action (SAA) approach for challenging and transforming positively gender and social norms in favor of women’s empowerment;
• Technically lead the social accountability approach of the program to improve the governance of SRHR and nutrition services with the focus of adolescents.
• Ensure and lead the program social inclusion / diversity / programming, like youth, out of school girls particularly, pastoralists, married girls, unmarried girls, girls affected by SGBV, CEFM and or FGM, girls with disabilities,
• Develops gender sensitive indicators to measure results in collaboration with learning, design and measurement (LDM) team;
• Technically lead the gender and gender-related assessments carried out in project operational areas;
• Designs concepts, and inputs into problem identification, causal and problem analysis to support operationalization of gender strategies and plans;
• Actively contributes to Detailed Implementation Plans (DIP) to ensure gender transformative planning;
• Supports definition of areas (and appropriate methodologies) in all facets related to gender equality and women empowerment;
• Facilitates the adoption and ensure implementation of national gender guidelines, international standards and donors protocols;
• Supports partners and sub awarded local NGOs in developing or operationalizing a gender framework and conducting gender analysis.
• Lead the implementation process of the program’s gender and social accountability approaches
• Establishes all necessary relationships with partners and government to ensure that gender and social accountability issues can be shared.
• Monitor progress and provide ongoing feedback and recommendations to the project management;
• Lead preparation of report in the thematic area that s/he is assigned to lead;

2. Training and Capacity Building (time: 30%)

• Establishes staff and key partner’s induction and ongoing training processes on gender and social accountability-focused program quality;
• Develops and implements follow-up coaching plans to sustain staff expertise and commitment to apply new skills in relation to gender and accountability;
• Conducts capacity assessment and based on the results, prepares plans and advises the consortium on key learning competency and skill requirements in staff and partners pertinent to gender and social accountability.
• Leads the development and facilitation of trainings for partners and staff development on gender and social accountability specific initiatives.
• Continuously updates staff and partners on emerging gender and social accountability issues to enhance and sustain conceptual clarity and awareness of partners and others’ best practices;
• Participates in the selection of and support to external, temporary technical assistance (consultants, interns) as required;
• Works with the relevant government structures to facilitate gender -related activities and monitoring in the operational areas;
• Designs and leads gender surveys, analyze results and write reports;
• Develops and facilitates the adoption and translation of training curriculum/manuals, modules and technical assistance methodologies.
• Advises and helps promote appropriate community mobilization strategies around gender and social accountability;
• Documents and shares lessons/results of gender, social accountability, adolescent girls, and women -related work and strategies in program operational areas.

3. Monitoring, evaluation, assessment, learning and reporting (10%)

• Support adherence to PSHEA accountability mechanisms aligned with CARE polices and processes in Uplift HER program implementation areas’
• Technical support establishing Up lift Her baseline; Closely collaborate with LDM manager, PQL and partners to develop a monitoring system to collect periodic data for tracking progressive changes;
• Ensure that proposals, implementation, evaluations, and monitoring reports make explicit reference to approaches used to promote social accountability and address unequal gender relations and challenge culturally embedded practices/attitudes and social norms that inhibit participation of women and girls.
• Collaborate with measurement team in developing progress monitoring and learning extraction tool in the area of gender and social accountability.
• Identify/extract good practices and learning related to gender and social accountability for further program quality improvement.
• Record and document lessons from program processes and achievements;
• Share good practices and learning with CARE staff, stakeholders and partners;
• Disseminates on a regular basis information regarding the sub awarded local NGO’s gender and social accountability accomplishments among stakeholders, including the government.
• Organize forums and experience sharing visits to extract/share success stories and challenges;
• Identify partners with good and relevant practices for potential experience sharing;
• Prepare reports on gender and social accountability intervention areas.

4. Partnership, and Networking (time: 10%)

• Establish and maintain productive relationships with partner organizations working with CARE;
• Establish and maintain productive relationships with government offices, non-government organizations, and expert institutions and draw different experiences to be shared with project staff;
• Liaises with relevant government institutions and authorities to keep updated information on new or improved policies, strategies, guidelines, related with the program to inform project strategies and activities accordingly.
• Provides linkage support to networks with other organizations working on gender and social accountability issues;
• Identifies, establishes and maintains productive relationships with like-minded non-government organizations;
• Work to progressively improve CARE’s engagement in gender and social accountability.
• Actively participate in gender and social accountability forums to facilitate learning and scaling up of good practices;
• Ensures the communication of new developments in the area, strategies, concepts and approaches within the organization, with partners and other stakeholders.

5. Leadership and Representation (10%)

• Contribute to transparent and participatory management and decision making;
• Coach the field level staff to build their technical and function capacity in gender and social accountability;
• Actively participate and support programmatic coordination and synergy;
• Contribute to healthy work environment;
• Promote transparent and accountable system;
• Participate in project management meetings and be a team player and team builder;
• Represent CARE/Uplift Her program and contribute on gender and social accountability-related forums and discussions at different levels;
• Exhibit model behaviors consistent with principles, values, vision and mission of the organization;
• Bring issues and feedback to the attention of the project management;
• Implement decisions made by the project management.
• Represent CARE professionally when delegated/authorized;

6: Perform other duties as assigned (5%)

• Perform other duties, as assigned.
• The duties and responsibilities described above are subject to change, depending on CARE Ethiopian funding or programming.

IV. Qualifications

A) Education/Training

Required:

·BA/BSc Degree in Gender/Women’s Development, Development Studies, social sciences, or related field of study

Desired:

·MBA/MSc Degree in Gender/Women’s Development, Development Studies, social sciences, or related field of study

B) Experience :

Required:

• 5 years’ relevant experience with first degree and 4 years of relevant experience plus post graduate degree in related to gender/women’s and girls’ empowerment, social accountability, and experience with challenging social norms, particularly as it relates to sexual reproductive health, adolescent SRH, nutrition, and health, out of which 1 years’ service in managerial level .
• Experience technically managing people, with strong coaching and mentoring expertise.

Desired:

• Experience working on adolescent SRHR programming highly desired
• NGO experience

C)Technical Skills

Required:

• Proficiency in computer (Word, Excel & Access);
• Expertise in gender and women’s empowerment program design and management;
• Good knowledge of written and spoken English;
• Project design, monitoring and evaluation skill;
• Effective interpersonal skills,maturity, initiative, tactics, and a high sense of responsibility,
• Ability to work harmoniously with people of different educational and cultural backgrounds;
• Ability to analyze technical issues, to write clear and concise reports and make effective oral presentations;
• Solid understanding of gender and women’s empowerment and social accountability frameworks and tools; and
• Good analytical, communication and organizational skill.
• Basic Managerial Skills,
• Technical and Reporting skills

Desired:

• Expertise in gender and women’s empowerment analysis and social accountability approaches and strategies.
• Experience and understanding of successful male engagement strategies, and approaches that foster social and social and gender norms transformation
• Proven training and facilitation skills.
• Computer skills in database management.
• Gender/women’s empowerment assessment, analysis and report writing

D) Competencies: CARE core values (respect, accountability, courage, and excellence), building partnerships, and managing performance for success, initiating action, interpersonal skills, contributing to team success, pro-active problem solving and organizing.

E) Problem Solving (Thinking Environment): All the three levels of problem solving apply to the incumbent. But category number two and three is most applicable to this position because, the incumbent must use interpersonal skills to pick and choose the right strategy to address a given problem and also has to deal with variable solutions, which need analysis, problem definition and development of alternative solutions.

III. Contacts/Key Relationships:

The incumbent is expected to establish and maintain good relations with all staff and partners in at all levels. S/he will also be expected to have productive and professional relations with various technical and operation staff in the organization and with sub awarded local NGO.

VI. Working Conditions and Level of Travel Required.

This position is based in Addis Ababa, CARE Ethiopia office and requires 30 – 40% of his/her time for travel to program operational areas in the country including to sub awarded local NGO implementation areas.