Women Economic Empowerment Specialist

Women Economic Empowerment Specialist
Location
Lusaka, Zambia
Full time
Job Requisition ID: R12074

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Technical

Participate in Policy reviews and identify gaps that affect women, youth, and other vulnerable groups from benefiting from natural resources.
Work closely with GESI Advisor to design tools and other materials for the project to ensure WEE/GESDI is mainstreamed in the project and impact is captured and reported.
Support WEE and/or GESDI assessments during project design to ensure findings are taken into consideration forming key interventions responding to the identified gaps
Management

Facilitate staff & partner training in Women Economic Empowerment for FMNR and other land restoration interventions within the value chains of focus.
Support staff orientation and team-building initiatives of technical staff through coaching and mentoring for enhanced competency
Integrate women empowerment initiatives into activity implementation and ensure gender inclusiveness and participation of youths in the project
Planning & Budgeting

Support planning and budgeting of women and youth activities in the project
Ensure expenditure of budget is in line with the plans and approved activities Support the development of both project reports (narrative and financial)
Monitoring & Evaluation

Conduct periodic Data Quality Assurance (DQA) to ensure capturing of data on women, youth, and other vulnerable groups as per project requirements.
Work close with Policy Influencing & communication specialist to develop project materials including case studies, or share with donors and other stakeholders on outcomes of the women empowerment of the project.
Support the M&E team and DFs to conduct baseline and evaluation processes of the project to measure the status, impact, and scale of women empowerment interventions
Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

Degree in development studies, Gender studies, or any other related field with a minimum of 7 years of experience.
At least 3 years working in the area of Women Empowerment & Youth Sustainable livelihoods projects.
Experience in Project Management in a complex, international organization preferably in an NGO context will be an added advantage.
Knowledge in M&E and gender mainstreaming and associated indicators and outcome areas with funded projects from various donors,
Experience in project design, implementation, monitoring, report writing, and publishing project materials.
Ability to work in a cross-cultural environment, and must be a mature Christian.
Computer literate in statistical packages including Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
Capacity to function well in a team and contribute effectively to team efforts
Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only