Oromia Development Association Gender Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia
Oromia Development Association Gender Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia
The Gender Specialist is the key staff member within an organization taking the leading of gender mainstreaming strategy and building capacities among his or her colleagues for incorporating gender issues into their work, in terms of content and processes.
The Gender specialist will advocate for increased attention to and integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment in ODA’s policy and programming.
Therefore, the Gender specialist work in collaboration with management, program and project team on regular basis and is responsible for the coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the organization’s gender mainstreaming strategy.
She /he will support gender mainstreaming by advocating, advising and supporting professional staff and monitoring and reporting on progress.
Further, she /he will work with consultants or external specialists.
Duties and Responsibilities
Take the Leading role for the implementation of Organizational Effectiveness (OE) grant; support and enhance the capacity of organizational leaders to institutionalize gender equity and women empowerment at organizational and program level.
Lead and support preparation of gender policy implementation plan across ODA’s organizational structure
Promote gender mainstreaming in policy and program formulation process at organizational and program level of the association
Raise awareness and create understanding on gender concepts, women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming approaches within the organization.
Support and encourage colleagues to promote equality of women and men participants in events, trainings and projects coordinated by the unit or office, as well as gender balance among the unit or office staff.
Work with program staff for inclusion of gender-specific objectives, outcomes and indicators, and activities in the program design.
Work with program staff to ensure earmarked funds for gender mainstreaming activities in each projects
Provide technical support for the inclusion of gender issue for management and programs/projects staff
Participate actively and contribute to activities of relevant meetings and technical working groups on gender issues organized by Government, civil society organizations and other partners
Develop and follow the application of gender mainstreaming checklist or the gender mainstreaming concept and the implementation of any other gender mainstreaming initiatives
Collect, analyze and disseminate data on a regular basis
on the representation of women in all process of the organizational activities and program interventions
Document and report on gender mainstreaming approaches and activities in ODA’s various projects, including those supported through the Packard Foundation.
Develop, maintain and disseminate a resource-base of gender issues in work area of different departments and projects, which can be used throughout the different department especially Human Resource department and projects as necessary
Ensure organizational commitment to placing gender-balanced staff at all levels including at top leadership and management level
Assist in organizing capacity building for colleagues on gender concepts , gender equality women empowerment
Take leading role in the gender-disaggregated baseline survey and/or gender analysis in ODA’s various projects, including those supported through the Packard Foundation.
Lead, Investigate and solve gender related problems (If any) happened within the organization
Leading the adoption of best practices from other ODA’s model project on empowering women in mobilizing and improving women participation in development projects
Participate in designing and implementing women’s empowerment initiatives that Create opportunities for women targets in accessing resources, decision making
Do other activities assigned by program manager
Job Requirements
Educational Requirements & work experience
Post Graduate degree in Gender studies, Social work, sociology, public health or related social sciences from recognized University with at least 5 years working experience in NGOs on gender programs or related projects.
Job Requirements
Females are highly encouraged to apply.
Strong understanding of gender mainstreaming, broad overview of Gender policy matter
Self-motivated, hard work and analytical.
Ability to communicate with people from different cultures and time zones.
Fluency in written and spoken English and local language/Afaan Oromo
Proficiency in MS Office tools, including Word and Power Point
How to Apply
Interested applicants meeting the requirements of the positions can submit application letter, updated CVs and original & copy of relevant educational & work experience to the following address in person with in 10 (ten ) consecutive workin days as of the announcement date
Oromiya Development Association (ODA Head Office , Oromia Tower , 6th floor , HRD dep't Near Bole Medhaniale
Office Telephione 01 16 39 21 96
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