Ethiopia: Volunteer Gender and Leadership Advisor

Jul 18, 2019 | Cuso International
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Women’s rights and gender sensitivity are one of the biggest challenges to gaining proper nutrition in Ethiopia.  The Growing Nutrition for Mothers and Children (GROW) project in Ethiopia is an initiative to address undernutrition in women of reproductive age and children under five years of age. The implementation of the project, led by CARE Ethiopia, will involve deploying volunteers to strengthen the institutional and community nutrition capacity of the different sectors engaged in the implementation of GROW.

Your role as a Gender and Leadership Advisor will be to assist the GROW project to improve nutrition practices and services for women and children through gender sensitivity initiatives. Your role will be to generate engagement opportunities for boys and men and contribution to creating team building manuals for the project staff. 

Apply to this position today and help empower women and create gender equality in Ethiopia.

As a volunteer, you will:

• Mainstream male engagement across all interventions and identify potential challenges 
• Identify the contribution of nutrition specific and nutrition interventions towards women empowerment
• Lead staff transformation dialogues every quarter and assesses its contribution to the project and personal development
• Revise sector plans from a gender perspective and ensure gender is mainstreamed across all sectors, and co-facilitate the gender mainstreaming meeting
• Conduct gap assessment on multi-sectoral coordination at NCC and NTC level and develop team building manual

Essential Academic Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in gender studies; sociology; social work; public leadership

Essential Professional Background:

• 5 years of experience working in a leadership role with a focus on women empowerment