Gender Specialist , International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology

GENDER SPECIALIST

 

icipe — African Insect Science for Food and Health is a world-class research centre with a mission to alleviate poverty by ensuring food security, improving health, protecting the environment, and building the capacity of researchers and communities across the developing world, through the application of insect sciences. Employing more than 500 national and international staff, icipe is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with outposts in Ethiopia and on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. icipe has a proud reputation and history of delivering world- quality science that has made crucial contributions to African food and health policy, delivered development outcomes to rural communities, and has been at the forefront of building Africa’s biological research capacity. The Centre’s research activities span the African continent with partnerships linking research organisations, not only across Africa, but also the globe. In addition, more than 100 graduate students, and a number of postdoctoral fellows, contribute to icipe’s research portfolio annually. For more information visit: www.icipe.org

 

Please also download icipe’s Vision and Strategy 2013–2020http://www.icipe.org/images/stories/pdf/ about_us/icipe_Vision_and_Strategy_2013-2020.pdf

 

icipe is seeking to appoint an outstanding, dynamic, and self-motivated Gender Specialist to support a major initiative targeted at reducing youth unemployment in regional Ethiopia through the deployment of icipe technologies in silk and honey production, outreach activities, and youth training in enterprise development. The selected candidate will be based at icipe’s Ethiopia office on the ILRI campus. This is a two-year contract, renewable after successfully completing a six-month probation period of the first contract. A competitive and generous compensation package, including children education allowance up to university first degree, health and life insurance, generous pension, housing and transport allowances, duty free privileges, home leave and relocation allowances, and much more, will be offered to the right candidate. Only shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.

 

Job Description

The Gender Specialist will lead the process for advancing gender equality outcomes, and support the development of systematic measures for assessing the impact of project interventions on gender—together with gender data collection and analysis—to ensure that the overall emphasis on women’s empowerment is included in all project documentation and activities.

 

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure learning and analysis related to gender are captured and incorporated into project activities and planning.
• Provide guidance on the use of performance indicators and evaluations, with the intention of reflecting progress toward gender equality outcomes and impacts throughout the life of the project.
• Assist in the design of gender analyses to: (a) assess gaps between men and women in the target project areas, (b) provide recommendations on empowering leadership and expertise of women and girls, and devise strategies for meeting their needs.
• Ensure identified indicators incorporate consideration of gender sensitivities,geographic focus, population segmentation, and similar cross cutting strategic issues of importance to MCF/icipe/Ethiopia.
• Establish gender disaggregated information requirements for data collection activities and reports, and highlight gender-based constraints and issues in connection with, for example, all assessments, surveys, and studies.
• Support development of curriculum and training materials by embedding gender concepts.

Requirements/Qualifications

• A master’s degree (or equivalent advanced qualification) in a relevant discipline.
• Five (5) years’ professional experience.

Other desirable attributes

• Strong interpersonal skills.

Reporting

This position reports to icipe’s Project Team Leader.

 

The selected candidate should be available to start as soon as possible.

 

HOW TO APPLY

 

Applications will be accepted up to 5th November 2015, or until the position is filled, whichever is earlier.Interested applicants should submit: (a) a confidential cover letter, (b) detailed CV with names and addresses of 3 referees (including e-mail addresses, fax numbers), and (c) a statement of suitability.

Candidates are required to apply online through: http://recruit.icipe.org

 

                                       icipe is an Equal Opportunity Employer