Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, February 08, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
CARE is a leading humanitarian and development organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice with a special emphasis on gender equality, and women and girls. CARE works in a variety of contexts from protracted crises to stable development settings, as well as contexts in the nexus between these two types, and recognizes that the underlying drivers of food and nutrition insecurity are poverty, gender inequity, non-inclusive governance, poor adaptation to climate change and the inability to manage other economic and political shocks and stressors.
Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls is at the center of CARE's Food and Water Systems (FWS) programs. CARE commits to support 75 million people, majority of them women and girls, to fulfill their rights to food, water and nutrition security as part of CARE’s Vision 2030.

CARE’s proven, women-focused Farmers’ Field and Business School (FFBS) approach helps small-scale farmers build the skills they need to increase production, improve resilience, adapt to climate change, diversify diets and boost nutrition. Since 2014, FFBS has directly improved the lives of more than 2.5 million farmers especially, women and their families. CARE has now lunched a new global 6 years long program that will upscale the FFBS model to new countries and promoting adoption of FFBS by governments. Up-scaling FFBS directly ties into CARE’s strategic priorities contained in CARE’s Vision 2030 and is aligned with CARE’s Right to Food, Water and Nutrition Impact Area Strategy and the She Feeds the World (SFtW) strategic framework, which highlights FFBS as a critical lever for our work in food systems.
The role of the FFBS Gender Senior Technical Advisor, reporting directly to the FFBS Program Manager, will primarily be as follows:

Responsibilities:
• Leadership and support to global programming on FFBS: review, adapt and develop existing and upcoming FFBS modules to ensure they are gender transformative; contribute to the development of quality project products, tools and approaches; s/he will contribute to cross sectorial learning and innovation with other FWS/CO teams on FFBS scaling.
• Provision of technical backstopping to ongoing programs: provide capacity building, technical assistance and training on women empowerment and gender transformative tools and approaches to County Offices and programs applying the FFBS model.
• Design of new proposals: review and contribute to the design to new CARE FFBS proposals in order to ensure they are gender transformative.
• Knowledge management and learning: support Country Office (CO) staff to identify and capture innovations, best or promising practices, and lessons learned and to translate these breakthroughs into tools, systems, processes, and/or approaches to increase technical excellence.
• Advocacy: contribute to CARE's global and country level advocacy efforts for FFBS adoption by governments and private sectors.

Qualifications:
• High education (Master’s degree) on relevant topics (e.g. gender, international development, agriculture, social studies).
• At least 5 yrs experience in implementing gender transformative/women empowerment programing in the agriculture/food security sector, including field experience in developing country context or within an international development organization.
• Training and experience on gender/women empowerment programing.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical and programmatic support in gender.
• Experience in designing and implementing highly effective and efficient gender transformative programing.
• Social skills, inclusive leadership skills, creativity and innovative mindset.
• Experience on FFBS, FFS or other community-based extension programing design and/or implementation.
• Interpersonal and intercultural communications skills, with the ability to communicate knowledge in a manner appropriate to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to work in partnership with other professionals, and to support learning and sharing of lessons and best practices.
• Demonstrated abilities in strategic planning, management, and oversight of complex technical initiatives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Preferred locations: Atlanta, DC, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, Bangladesh, Niger, Turkey, Jordan, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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