Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Team Lead

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ACDI/VOCA

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Not Specified
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Renumeration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Location: Madagascar
Youth Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of the GYSI strategy which will guide the integration of GYSI concepts and approaches into all program activities, including technical implementation, monitoring, operations, policies, and procedures
  • Collaborate with the Chief of Party, technical teams, MEL, and other personnel on GYSI strategy implementation and monitoring
  • Lead or assist in the design and implementation of GYSI analyses, impact assessments, and other learning studies
  • Provide technical advice and trainings to program staff, partners, and stakeholders to build their capacity to integrate gender, youth, and other relevant social considerations into designing interventions, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation
  • Review and provide input to project work plans, with attention to GYSI dimensions of technical activities and operations and discuss GYSI issues and priorities with project senior management and other technical specialists
  • Support the M&E Lead to ensure that all data is disaggregated by sex and age in data collection processes, analysis, and reporting
  • Work with M&E and technical teams to incorporate GYSI into Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) plans and practices
  • Develop GYSI indicators and learning questions, incorporating GYSI issues into pause and reflect sessions and ensuring that the program reports on GYSI outcomes and impacts
  • Lead or assist in the preparation of reports and documents for submission to USAID and ACDI/VOCA home office
  • Excellent written communication skills required, with a demonstrated ability to write reports in a clear, concise manner.
  • Write, coordinate, and disseminate lessons learned among team and program stakeholders
  • Maintain an up-to-date and thorough understanding of GYSI related to project components

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in sociology, gender, international development, agriculture, business administration, or related field is required; master’s degree is preferred.
  • Minimum 7 years of progressive work experience in international development, preferably in an agricultural or food systems context, including 5 years of experience in GYSI programming.
  • Knowledge of and experience with USAID and/or other international donor programs’ rules and regulations related to GYSI is required, such as knowledge of proven approaches and best practices for integrating women, youth, and other historically excluded populations into access to finance, agriculture, and/or market systems programs.
  • Preference for experience integrating gender, youth, and social empowerment across activities to promote entrepreneurship, natural resource management, and nutrition.
  • Knowledge of do no harm, women’s empowerment, and positive youth development frameworks and approaches is encouraged.
  • Experience conducting gender analysis and research a plus.
  • Experience working with GYSI considerations (constraints and opportunities) in Madagascar’s food systems sector is highly desired.
  • Experience working in Madagascar is required.
  • Fluency in English is preferred.
  • Fluency in French and/or Malagasy is required.

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