UGAMA/CENTRE DE SERVICES AUX COOPERATIVES
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
UGAMA GENDER SPECIALIST
POSITION TITLE: Gender Specialist
ORGANIZATION: UGAMA/CSC
REPORTS TO: UGAMA Coordinator
LOCATION: Muhanga, Rwanda
EXPECTED START DATE: First week of December 2012
UGAMA/CSC (the Centre of Services to Cooperatives) is a non-governmental organization that works to support and strengthen cooperative groupings across Rwanda. UGAMA provides management and technical advice and support aiming to improve the socioeconomic viability of cooperatives and its members. The main interventions of UGAMA are focused on food security, micro-agricultural processing technology as well as cross-cutting themes such as gender, good governance and HIV/AIDS. UGAMA works with a number of beneficiaries and partners (both local and international) to realize its goals.
SUMMARY:
UGAMA is seeking a full-time Gender Specialist to offer gender expertise for a 5-year project intended to improve the agricultural production and marketing capacity of 15 cooperatives and their members in seven districts of Rwanda. The Gender Specialist will work closely with UGAMA member cooperatives as well as UGAMA staff and volunteers to provide guidance on integrating gender sensitive policies into programming. The Gender Specialist will also provide gender awareness and sensitizations to both men and women in targeted cooperative communities where project activities will take place.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical expertise in the areas of gender mainstreaming, policy formulation and advocacy
- Ensure that gender is appropriately integrated in the organization and programming of cooperatives
- Work in collaboration with cooperatives to enhance their capacity to address gender issues and to formulate gender policies
- Offer advice and guidance to cooperatives on how to better integrate gender sensitive policies within cooperative activities
- Contribute to MAMA annual work plans, strategies, recruitment policies and budgeting to ensure gender sensitivity
- Work with UGAMA staff to elaborate and finalize its gender policy
- Liaise with UGAMA staff and partners to better integrate gender sensitivity within activities and policies
- Develop indicators fur assessing progress in gender mainstreaming
- Conduct gender-disaggregated data collection as well as monitoring and evaluation that measures results against a baseline (through gender analysis, focus group sessions and assessments)
- Analyze and interpret collected data, report on findings and present gender-related best practices to UGAMA and partner
- Conduct training sessions and workshops in gender sensitivity, family planning, female, well as other themes such as HIV/AIDS
- Work with interested cooperatives to help forts gender committees
- Work with cooperative partners to promote an increased participation of women in the production of higher valued crops and specific income generating projects within cooperatives
- Work with partners ,to promote a fair gender balance representation in cooperative governance and management positions
REQUIREMENTS:
- Knowledge of gender issues at the community level
- Understanding of gender dynamics at the household level
- Knowledge and experience in the collection of gender disaggregated data (both qualitative and quantitative)
- A Bachelor´s degree in Gender and Development or a similar field is preferred
- Fluency in Kinyarwanda and French (fluency in English is an asset)
- Technical expertise in the areas of gender integration, gender mainstreaming, policy formulation and advocacy
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working in community gender issues and developing gender programming
- Experience in facilitating group learning and training sessions (preferably in gender sensations, HIV/AIDS, family planning etc...)
- Knowledge in community participation methodologies
- Familiarity with preparing donor reports
- Understanding of cooperative development in Rwanda
- Knowledge on Rwandan national policies and frameworks on gender is an asset
- Experience and knowledge on women´s participation in co-operatives and agriculture in Rwanda is art asset
- Willingness to travel frequently to different districts of Rwanda to conduct cooperative site visits
- Formal computer skills (Microsoft Office)
HOW TO APPLY
Individuals interested in working with UGAMA as a Gender Specialist should email the following to Jean Damascene Ndahimana (ugamacsc@rwanda1.com) no later thanNovember 23th, 2012 at 09 am:
- CV
- Cover letter
- Copy of academic certificate (degree)
- 3 references
Hard copies can also be sent by mail to the following address: UGAMA-CSC (Centre de Services aux Cooperatives) P.O. Box 28 MUHANGA.
