Summary
Date Posted: Monday, September 02, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About CRS
Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. Our Catholic identify is at the heart of our mission and operations. We welcome as part of our staff and as partner’s people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and commitment to serving those in need. Since 2000 CRS Zambia has been implementing a number of programmes to support vulnerable Zambians. Its recent programming areas include: nutrition, agriculture, food security, HIV/AIDS, WASH, financial inclusion, and early child development.
Background
The Food and Nutrition Security for Enhanced Resilience (FANSER) project is an initiative under GIZ for the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation. The project aims to improve the food and nutritional situation of people living in food-insecure households, especially women of reproductive age and children under the age of 2. Since 2015, CRS has been implementing FANSER in Eastern province, deploying integrated multi-sector interventions to reduce malnutrition and stunting in target communities. CRS is now planning an expansion of FANSER activities to two districts of Luapula province, Mwense and Kawambwa, with implementation slated to run from September 2019 to December 2021. Luapula has the second highest rate of child stunting (45%, including 17% severely stunted), wasting (6%) and underweight children (15%) of all provinces (ZDHS, 2018). FANSER aims to build on its experience in Eastern province to meet the critical nutrition and food security needs in Luapula.
Position Summary
Based in Petauke, the Gender Advisor will provide crosscutting, sectoral leadership on gender for FANSER projects operating across four districts in Eastern and Luapula provinces. The Gender Advisor will work closely with project leadership and technical leads for nutrition, hygiene, savings and agriculture from CRS and implementation partners, including donor/technical partner GIZ, in strategic planning and coordination to ensure strong synergies across the multi-sector nutrition initiative. S/he will be responsible for providing technical leadership on gender activities and adapting and embedding social and behavior change communications tools and activities related to gender within the FANSER Care Group curriculum and project activities. The Gender Advisor will also support program monitoring and evaluation activities as needed.
Travel Required: 50%
Key Working Relationships
Supervisory: Technical supervision of partner staff
Internal: Project Director, Program Manager, Head of Programs, MEAL Coordinator, Project Officers
External: Implementing partners, donor, host country government agencies, donor agencies, international and national non-governmental organizations working in the field of food security and nutrition
Agency-wide Competencies: These are rooted in the mission, values, and principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and to achieve the desired results.
• Trusting Relationships
• Professional Growth
• Partnership
• Accountability .

Key Responsibilities
• Provide technical leadership to project and partner staff, field supervisors and agents to ensure integration of gender in multi-sector project focused on nutrition, hygiene, agriculture and savings/livelihoods
• Design and deliver realistic gender strategies and interventions that will lead to positive gender equality outcomes
• Conduct gender assessments, reviews and audits to assess ways to continually target involvement of women and adolescent girls in nutrition sensitive and nutrition specific activities
• Together with the MEAL Managers, integrate gender considerations in monitoring and reporting mechanisms
• Track and report against gender indicators and disaggregate data by gender to analyze results within key activities
• Review and provide technical feedback on results and project reports to donors in order to ensure quality and progress towards achieving integration of gender in program
• Advise and support implementing partners, including donor/technical partner GIZ, to integrate gender into activities
• Develop tools, frameworks and resources to enable better gender integration in the project, including training agendas and materials, to ensure trainings are properly planned and resourced
• Regularly visit project sites or provide remote support to field staff and partners to monitor and report on the quality of FANSER’s gender activities
• Support Project Director, Program Manager, Nutrition Project Officer and partners to plan and execute appropriate technical training strategies, training of trainers on FANSER curricula and tools, and oversee quality of cascaded trainings offered by partners under the program
• Ensure that timely gender training and lessons are being delivered in the field to intermediaries and beneficiaries
• Adequately prepare for periodic technical reviews with FANSER partners (via meetings, report review, site visits) and GIZ to ensure that the direction is in line with the overall FANSER strategy, and support changes in program direction and focus, based on observations and data generated through monitoring and evaluation
• Identify promising/best practices in the project that can be showcased in publications, communication materials and conferences
• Other tasks as assigned by the Project Director.

Personal Skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions
• Strong relationship management abilities
• Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally
• Good presentation and facilitation skills
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented

Qualifications
• A Master’s degree in a relevant subject area, preferable gender, social work, public health, rural development, or other field required
• A minimum of five years of experience implementing gender equality programs and/or gender components of large food security/multi-sector projects
• Proven record of excellent management, technical leadership, decision-making and interpersonal communication skills, especially working with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to ensure gender integration in project design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation, including training of trainer activities
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management system
• Demonstrated ability with project grants management, including project design, budget preparation, expenditure tracking, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting
• Ability to work both independently and in a team
• Excellent oral and written English skills required
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural team with a high level of respect for local culture..

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Note: By applying to this job, I understand and acknowledge that CRS requires its staff to treat all people with dignity and respect and to actively prevent harassment, abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking. Further, I understand that if I am a successful candidate, I will be subject to a comprehensive background check, and my personal/professional references will be asked to evaluate my behaviors related to the above safeguarding-related topics.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Applicant Instructions: Please email a cover letter, and curriculum vitae which should include three references to: crszambiajobs@crs.org . Please include the position you are applying for in the subject line.
The closing date for applications is 06th September 2019. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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