Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion Officer

Overview of the role

The Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Officer position will provide communication and operational support to the UPLIFT II project. The Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Officer will ensure that gender and youth inclusion issues are appropriately incorporated into activity design and implementation and that necessary data is tracked, monitored, and reported. He/She will design and lead trainings to build gender capacity and awareness of social inclusion approaches and issues.

Main responsibilities

Technical Support and Management

• Provide technical support, mentoring, and expert advice to other members of the project team, implementing partners, and stakeholders to ensure that gender, youth, and inclusion issues are appropriately incorporated into activity design and implementation.
• Ensure that necessary data related to gender, youth, and social inclusion is tracked, monitored and reported.
• Integrate gender and inclusion lenses into research design, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Ensure gender and inclusion considerations are integrated into learning agendas and collaborating, learning, and adapting approaches.
• Contribute to technical knowledge of good practices and gender-related gaps.
• Support trainings to build gender capacity and awareness and strengthen stakeholder competencies in gender and inclusion issues.
• Support annual evaluations of GYSI to measure progress and improve project activities.
• Lead the development of diverse tools including material, scripts, guidelines and gender standards to support project interventions.

Project Implementation

• Develop SOPs, MOUs and templates needed to assess and administer the activities.
• Create a detailed work plan which identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project.
• Develop curriculum on youth, gender and social inclusion topics appropriate for communities, traders/service providers targeted by the UPLIFT program.
• In collaboration with UPLIFT II team sensitize relevant stakeholders to the program
• Contribute to the development and administration of a small grant program, inclusive of developing eligibility and selection criteria, preparing an application form, finalizing a review/evaluation process, and developing a contract between GOAL and grant recipients.
• Chair meetings that will review applications and select grant recipients.
• Ensure that the meetings are transparent, and all applicants are fairly reviewed and evaluated against the established criteria. Prepare decision memos.
• Provide regular progress reports to team members and management.
• Document lessons learned.

Requirements (Person Specification)

• BA degree in Sociology, Development, Business and/or related field
• Strong facilitation and/or training skills.
• Good organizational skills and capacity to work independently, if necessary and/or required. Integrity, professionalism and expertise in processing reports and questionnaires.
• Ability to understand the cultural context of the community, local language, and use that culture as an input for community mobilization.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels.
• Ability to perform duties with minimum or no supervision.

Essential

• Minimum 2 years’ management experience operating your own business or with an NGO, private company, or government department.
• Proven problem solving and coordination skills, communication skills, flexibility, and calmness under pressure.
• Strong computer skills with competencies in Microsoft Office applications (including MS Word and Excel).

Desirable

• Previous experience administering a USAID grant program and/or selection process for beneficiaries.
• Experience working in urban resilience program
• Experience with gender, youth and social inclusion programming
• Experience with cash and voucher assistance programming

General terms and conditions

 Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Accountability within GOAL

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.
Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

GOAL Competencies

Adaptability &Flexibility
Accountability & Dependability
Attention to Detail
Communication
Creative & Innovative Thinking

Other requirements

Ethics & Integrity
Flexibility
Influencing Others
Interpersonal Skills
Planning & Organising
Problem Solving

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