Community and Gender Officer

Our Client Heifer' International is a global non-profit, humanitarian development organization founded by Dan West in 1944 dedicated to ending hunger and poverty and caring for the Earth by empowering smallholder farm families around the globe become self-reliant and attain sustainable livelihood through economically viable animal agricultural enterprise. The global headquarters is located at 1 World Avenue, Little Rock Arkansas, USA. Heifer International has been working in Tanzania since 1974. Heifer International currently supports a wide portfolio of livestock development projects including the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD-2) ; which is an ambitious five-year program designed to transform the lives of resource poor farming families through a competitive and inclusive dairy value chain in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

In light of this, Heifer International Tanzania is seeking to recruit fifteen (15) project staff for East Africa Dairy Development Project in Tanzania .                                                        
Interested and qualified individuals are invited to apply for these positions. Female qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

POSITION: Community and Gender Officer (One Position)
LOCATION: Mbeya Municipality

IMPORTANT NOTE TO APPLICANTS:QUALIFIED APPLICANTS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO APPLY FOR ONE POSITION ONLY; CLEARLY SPECIFYING THE PREFERRED DUTY STATION AS INDICATED ABOVE

The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences i.e. Gender and Enterprise Development, Anthropology, Rural Development, Sociology, Economics, Agricultural Sciences or related discipline. He/she should have at least five (05) years of experience working on gender issues preferably in agriculture, rural development and/or livestock production and marketing.

Extensive knowledge in gender, agriculture and rural development, including demonstrated expertise in conducting gender analysis, gender assessments, and/or gender-focused research of agricultural issues especially related to dairy.

Will be responsible for the coordination of Gender mainstreaming in all EADD's projects with the goal of exploring the potential programme area of Gender, looking specifically at protection of gender-based violence at the same time, enhance women's empowerment through performance monitoring, evaluation, reporting and documentation of best practice and lessons learnt. 'i The Coordinator will work together with Country Teams the plan, budget, implement and monitor Youth and Women targeted dairy :1 enterprise programs. The Community and Gender Officer will ensure that women and youth fully participate in and benefit from the project equitably.

Selection criteria

• Minimum requisite academic and professional qualifications
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with people at different levels, including colleagues, partners and donors. 
• Excellent facilitation skills and experience in developing training modules and packages
• Experience in using community based approaches.
• Availability to work extended hours and travel extensively in country and when necessary internationally.
• Demonstrate excellent proficiency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili.

Application procedure
Only email application with the position title placed in the subject line is accepted please send your application to recruitment.hrsolutionsltd@gmail.com. Please note that the application deadline is 5th January 2014 and only Shortlisted Candidates Will Be Contacted.

Please include       

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae with name and telephone contacts of three referees.
• Copies of relevant certificates
• Salary history.

 
 Source: The Guardian December 23, 2013