Senior Gender Coordinator

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TechnoServe

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Renumeration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Location: Ethiopia
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
About TechnoServe
TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. We are a non-profit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital, and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that given the opportunity, hard working women and men in even the poorest places can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With five decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.

Position description
Key responsibilities include:

Technical and logistical Support

  • Producer level:
  • Coordinate and deliver leadership training to women in coffee growing households
  • Collaborate with and advise agronomy advisors and senior agronomy advisors to support implementation of CREW’s household empowerment approach
  • Collaborate with agronomy advisors and senior agronomy advisors on the inclusion of women in stumping incentive activities
  • Wet-mill level:
  • Coordinate and deliver women’s leadership training at the wet-mill level
  • Work with business advisors to assist wet mills to train leaders on gender equitable business practices and develop and implement gender action plans to support the inclusion of women in wet-mills as workers and full-time elected positions.
  • Support business advisors to establish and monitor grievance mechanism to respond to and address workers’ complaints (e.g., GBV, child labour, and sexual harassment)
  • Enhance the good relationship with local stakeholders and community leaders at local level.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning:

  • Track women’s leadership attendance records
  • Contribute to monitoring efforts on gender-related topics
  • Contribute to reporting on gender-related topics
  • Provide support on other tasks assigned by supervisor

Required Knowledge, skills and experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree preferably in sociology, gender studies, social work and/or agriculture or plant science
  • At least two years professional experience preferably on gender or social inclusion or in community development projects with special focus on gender equality
  • Experience coordinating training and/or meeting logistics at community-level
  • Experience facilitating training at community-level; gender-related training preferred
  • Strong interest in advancing women’s economic empowerment
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently, and to work collaboratively, with a flexible approach.
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills
  • Fluent communication skills in local languages (Oromifa for Bulehora), Amharic and English (listening, speaking and writing)
  • Computer literate

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