Tuesday, June 1, 2021

New Job Opportunity at Devex Talent Solutions Tanzania – Gender Expert, East Africa

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Devex Talent Solutions

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Gender Expert, East Africa
Devex Talent Solutions
Job Description

Devex
Talent Solutions is assisting Tanager, an international nonprofit that
connects smallholder producers and private businesses to co-create new
ways of realizing life-changing economic and social opportunity in
looking for a Gender Expert, East Africa to be based in either Kenya or
Tanzania. They are also open to remote work in a different country or
location.
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The
Impacting Gender & Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange
in Agriculture (IGNITE) mechanism is a five-year investment funded by
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by Tanager to
improve household nutrition and women’s empowerment by strengthening
African institutions’ ability to integrate nutrition and gender into
their way of doing business and their agriculture interventions. IGNITE
will work with African institutions to design, implement, and evaluate
nutrition-sensitive and gender-integrated agriculture interventions.
IGNITE will also strengthen the ability of African institutions to
incorporate nutrition and gender equality into their policy priorities
and business practices—their way of doing business. Based on the
interventions implemented by IGNITE clients, IGNITE will identify key
mechanisms and drivers of demand for the scale up and replication of
nutrition-sensitive and gender-integrated interventions. IGNITE
activities will be targeted in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and
Tanzania. Potential clients include NGOs, private sector companies, and
government bodies working in agriculture.

As a component of its
work, IGNITE works to support three private-sector poultry companies
under the African Poultry Multiplication Initiative (APMI). IGNITE
builds these companies’ institutional capacity to integrate gender and
women’s empowerment and nutrition into companies’ activities in the
poultry value chain via trainings, SBC support, and consultation with
company staff.

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POSITION SUMMARY
Tanager
is seeking a Gender Expert based in Nairobi to lead the design and
provision of technical services to APMI companies and IGNITE clients.
The gender expert will support clients and companies to design,
implement, and monitor gender-integrated agriculture activities and
business strategies. The Gender Expert will also provide thought
leadership on the development of tools and resources that will
facilitate the integration of gender into agriculture interventions and
institutions’ way of doing business. The Gender Expert will spend
approximately 60% of their time supporting APMI companies, and 40% of
their time supporting IGNITE clients, although these percentages are
subject to change. The Gender Expert will report to the IGNITE Deputy
Team Leader (where is the deputy team leader based)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Support
IGNITE clients’ and APMI companies’ with the development, design,
implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of gender-integrated
interventions in agriculture, especially poultry

  • Lead
    the analysis of available desk research and field assessments, as
    appropriate, to identify gender-specific challenges and opportunities
    for female social and economic empowerment, particularly in household
    decision-making, nutrition, and women’s engagement in poultry value
    chains.
  • Co-create the design and implementation of gender
    activities that employ intergenerational and male engagement approaches,
    as well as social and behavior change theory
  • Advise on and
    support development, collection, and analysis of indicators for
    measuring gender gaps and empowerment; support clients to align their
    accountability mechanisms and systems to deliver on their gender and
    nutrition commitments
  • Identify and mitigate risks for intended
    and unintended impacts; support collection of sex- and age-disaggregated
    data; integrate gender into formative research

Strengthen IGNITE clients’ and APMI companies’ capacity to integrate gender into their business practices and policies

  • Support clients in identifying opportunities to mainstream gender and nutrition at institutional and project level
  • Design and conduct participatory training and workshops on gender mainstreaming for clients
  • Support
    clients on development, refinement, alignment, and/or roll-out of
    policies and procedures to promote gender mainstreaming and equitable
    business practices
  • Develop and pilot capacity building tools and
    approaches that integrate both gender and nutrition into the design and
    implementation of agriculture activities

Provide technical
thought leadership on identification of effective and efficient models
that increase women’s empowerment in agriculture

  • Contribute
    to development of case studies that make the business case for
    integrating gender into agriculture activities and business plans
  • Collaborate
    with evaluation partners in designing tools and assessments that
    identify most effective and efficient models for increasing women’s
    empowerment in agriculture

Support IGNITE clients’ and APMI
companies’ with the development, design, implementation, monitoring,
and evaluation of gender-integrated interventions in agriculture,
especially poultry

  • Lead the
    analysis of available desk research and field assessments, as
    appropriate, to identify gender-specific challenges and opportunities
    for female social and economic empowerment, particularly in household
    decision-making, nutrition, and women’s engagement in poultry value
    chains.
  • Co-create the design and implementation of gender
    activities that employ intergenerational and male engagement approaches,
    as well as social and behavior change theory
  • Advise on and
    support development, collection, and analysis of indicators for
    measuring gender gaps and empowerment; support clients to align their
    accountability mechanisms and systems to deliver on their gender and
    nutrition commitments
  • Identify and mitigate risks for intended
    and unintended impacts; support collection of sex- and age-disaggregated
    data; integrate gender into formative research

Strengthen IGNITE clients’ and APMI companies’ capacity to integrate gender into their business practices and policies

  • Support clients in identifying opportunities to mainstream gender and nutrition at institutional and project level
  • Design and conduct participatory training and workshops on gender mainstreaming for clients
  • Support
    clients on development, refinement, alignment, and/or roll-out of
    policies and procedures to promote gender mainstreaming and equitable
    business practices
  • Develop and pilot capacity building tools and
    approaches that integrate both gender and nutrition into the design and
    implementation of agriculture activities

Provide technical
thought leadership on identification of effective and efficient models
that increase women’s empowerment in agriculture

  • Contribute
    to development of case studies that make the business case for
    integrating gender into agriculture activities and business plans
  • Collaborate
    with evaluation partners in designing tools and assessments that
    identify most effective and efficient models for increasing women’s
    empowerment in agriculture

Support local service providers to expand the reach of IGNITE technical support services

  • Support
    identification of local service providers; conduct trainings and other
    capacity building activities for identified local service providers;
    accompany local service providers in providing technical support to
    IGNITE clients
  • Develop and test tools that integrate both gender and nutrition into the design and implementation of agriculture activities

Lead engagements with select IGNITE clients

  • Create and nurture strong and long-term relationships with IGNITE clients
  • Serve
    as IGNITE point of contact on select client engagements, shepherding
    clients through the phases of an IGNITE engagement and ensuring their
    needs are addressed at each stage
  • In consultation with the Team Leader, address any concerns and complaints raised by the client
  • Liaise
    with nutrition technical experts to support integration of nutrition
    sensitive agriculture considerations into client program design
  • Maintain
    the IGNITE client tracker and update the team, including subaward
    partners, on client progress; participate alongside the Team Leader in
    quarterly client meetings

Provide thought leadership to Tanager in other gender-integrated agriculture investments

  • Contribute
    technical input into the pursuit and design of gender-integrated
    agriculture interventions in Tanager’s future new business opportunities
  • Train Tanager staff on the importance of gender integration, as appropriate

Other duties as assigned by your supervisor.

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QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master’s/university degree in sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, gender studies, or other related discipline
  • Minimum
    of 8 years’ work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa in mainstreaming
    gender equity into food security, nutrition, or agriculture programs;
    including a minimum of 5 years’ experience facilitating training on
    gender mainstreaming in agriculture designing and leading gender
    analysis and/or gender audits, providing gender technical support to
    government and/or private sector clients; OR an equivalent combination
    of education and experience. Experience in poultry value chains is
    especially desired.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and skills in
    designing and implementing tools and approaches to support government
    and private sector institutions in integrating gender in their
    agriculture work
  • Demonstrated knowledge of and proven
    successful ability to conduct in-depth gender analyses, including
    leading research teams, facilitating focus groups, and conducting
    interviews.
  • Proven ability to successfully design and facilitate participatory training and workshops.
  • Demonstrated
    experience in offering technical assistance or advisory services in the
    agriculture sector and with a focus on gender mainstreaming
  • Demonstrated
    ability to develop evidence-based recommendations and interventions to
    promote gender equity and women’s empowerment.
  • Excellent
    understanding of global and continental commitment mechanisms for gender
    and nutrition in agriculture for stakeholders like governments and
    private sector; ability to design technical assistance that enhances
    accountability.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of social and behavior change communication theory and techniques.
  • Understanding
    of nutrition-sensitive agriculture concepts in Africa and ability to
    integrate a nutrition-sensitive lens into gender approaches.
  • Experience
    working with agricultural market systems, rural producers, farmers’
    associations, agribusinesses, private sector agricultural production,
    marketing, or sales, and/or governments. Excellent interpersonal and
    communication skills required. Ability to build relationships and
    rapport with teams, staff, and clients and navigate challenging or
    unexpected circumstances with creativity, calm, and positivity. Ability
    to communicate effectively with persons on all levels both inside and
    outside the company on issues that could be complex or sensitive in
    nature.
  • Excellent client relationship management skills.
  • Adaptable and innovative. Collaborative and open to feedback. Able to work independently and in a team setting.
  • Strong
    analytical skills, including ability to gather and analyze a variety of
    information pertaining to issues and to develop appropriate
    recommendations for action.
  • Strong written communication skills,
    including demonstrated ability to write required documents in a clear,
    concise, well-organized manner.
  • Advanced computer skills in a Windows based environment including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel.
  • Fluency in English, written and oral, is required. French or Portuguese language skills preferred.
  • Travel in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected 40%.
  • Applicants from African countries strongly encouraged to apply.

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