Gender and Agriculture Advisor
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Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI)
Remote (local)- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: 10+ years
- Organisation type: Consultancy
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Renumeration: $125,000-$160,000 / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 24/10/2024
- Location: United States
Position Overview
DAI seeks a Gender and Agriculture Advisor for the USAID-funded Advancing Women for Resilient Agricultural Supply Chains (AWRAS) program. The Gender & Agriculture Advisor will oversee and support both operations and technical areas in a crosscutting role, ensuring gender integration across the program. This a long-term position based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and support both operations and technical areas in a crosscutting role, ensuring gender integration across the activity.
- Integrate gender considerations into all aspects of the partnership's projects and activities. This includes leading gender assessments and ensuring that gender considerations are included in project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Develop and deliver training programs focused on gender equality and women's empowerment in the agriculture sector.
- Contribute to the planning, implementation, and monitoring of all project activities to ensure they align with the project's gender goals and objectives;
- Advocate for policies and practices that promote gender equality and women's empowerment in agriculture within the partnership's scope.
- Develop appropriate tools and protocols for use by technical teams in the development, implementation, and documentation of gender integration actions in the program’s technical assistance activities.
- Review activity designs and outputs to inform improved gender integration and sustainable, equitable outcomes in activity implementation; and
- Participate and contribute to quarterly performance and risk management reviews by identifying risks and opportunities while working in coordination with project and home office project management to design time-bound and accountable mitigation actions.
Qualifications & Skills
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience and a college degree in a relevant field such as gender studies, sociology, international development, or a related field. A Master’s degree is preferred.
- Experience with and deep technical knowledge of gender in agriculture and food systems;
- Extensive experience in gender mainstreaming and promoting gender equality in development projects, preferably with international organizations or NGOs;
- Experience with Private and Public Sector Partnerships preferred;
- Experience working with projects incorporating a gender perspective in agriculture and/or corporate sustainability topics preferred;
- Experience developing MEL frameworks that incorporate gender-related F indicators preferred;
- Experience working with the private sector strongly preferred, ideally in supply chains
- Demonstrated experience working with diverse teams in a fast-paced environment;
- Strong knowledge of USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy, relevant USAID regulations, and international best practice;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including a track record of successful coordination and effective working relations with a wide range of stakeholders;
- Demonstrated ability to responsibly and ethically handle sensitive and confidential information;
- Strong communication skills in writing and presentations in English.
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