Gender Specialist

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Verité

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: USD 35,000 USD-USD 45,000 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 24/04/2026
  • Location: Côte D’Ivoire
Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI) Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
 Verité is a growing, award-winning non-profit organization that illuminates and addresses serious human rights and labor rights violations in factories, farms, and other workplaces around the world. We serve private sector and public-sector clients by building their internal understanding of the labor rights problems they face in their supply chains and operations and enhancing their skills to solve those problems. 

 Responsibilities 
• Review results of previously conducted gender analyses for the Protecting Migrant Workers in the West African Agricultural Sector project and build gender-responsive and gender-transformative project strategies to address research findings on gender-related vulnerabilities among migrants in the cashew sectors of Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria 
• Provide technical guidance, resources, and tools on integrating gender responsiveness in project implementation, monitoring, and evaluation 
• Support the development of gender-sensitive tools and resources to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning 
• Provide core support for outreach and collaboration with migrant workers, women-led grassroots organizations in the regions, and other relevant local and national stakeholders in project areas 
• Design and deliver training programs and workshops to enhance stakeholder understanding of migrant-related gender issues 
• Develop and implement gender-sensitive Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) frameworks to assess the impact of interventions and track progress towards goals 
• Support project Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) as it relates to gender and related issues 
• Provide regular reports on gender-related indicators and recommend corrective actions as needed 
• Conduct regular visits to cashew growing areas of project implementation within and out of Côte d’Ivoire 

 Required Qualifications 
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in gender studies or equivalent in social sciences 
• Dedicated professional expertise and experience in gender-responsive and gendertransformative and intersectionality programming (at least 7-10 years), including substantive experience conducting gender analyses and integrating robust gender engagement in program design and implementation 
• Strong knowledge of gender analysis methodologies, gender mainstreaming approaches, and gender-responsive and gender-transformative program models, with the ability to share 3 gender analyses performed for previous projects 
• Experience working in agricultural commodities, preferably the cashew sector or similar global agricultural supply chains 
• Familiarity with community mobilization and sensitization/training in agricultural contexts 
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including government actors, community organizations and others 
• Experience working on donor-funded projects is an added advantage 
• Familiarity with the United Nation’s Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs) is an added advantage 
• Strong organizational skills, including experience planning and coordinating trainings, workshops and other events 
• Ability to work well independently as well as collaboratively in team settings 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Intellectual curiosity, adaptability and the ability to learn quickly in dynamic environments 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (World, Excel, PowerPoint) 
• Fluency in written and spoken English and French 

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