Vacancy: Gender Officer (Agree Activity)

CARE Ghana is excited to invite your applications for new job openings in our programs and operations. Not only do we offer exceptional opportunities for career growth for Ghanaians especially women and young people, but we are also proud to welcome talented people such as yourself into the global CARE community where our core values of Transformation, Integrity, Diversity, Equality and Excellence are the benchmarks against which we measure ourselves as leaders and employees

If you share these values and our passion for saving lives, defeating poverty, and achieving social justice, then CARE Ghana is the place for you. We hire and nurture great people from diverse backgrounds, abilities, and identities, striving every day and at all levels to build and sustain an inclusive workplace and a sense of belonging for our teams. Your wellbeing and satisfaction with your job in CARE Ghana matter as much to us as your performance.  Our compensation and benefits package are generous, and we offer flexible working conditions to enable you to enjoy life outside of work, and as part of our commitment to equity.

At CARE, we recognize that skills and expertise can come from a range of experiences from work and life, in addition to education or past job titles. As such, we welcome applications from dynamic, curious, and creative Ghanaians with a passion for learning and problem-solving.

Interested? If yes, please see details of the job opening below:

The USAID-supported Agricultural Governance, Resilience and Economic Empowerment (AGREE) Activity has the overall goal to ensure responsive governance for improved agricultural sector development in Ghana. In September 2020, the scope of the Activity was expanded to include the Women in Shea (WISH) Initiative to advance women’s economic empowerment. The Activity aligns with USAID’s Country Development and Cooperation Strategy for Ghana in ensuring:

1. Strengthened Responsive, Democratic Governance


2. Sustainable and Broad Economic Growth.  

USAID recently extended the conflict component to consider social cohesion, early warning, chieftaincy and natural resource management and media.

The Gender Officer will lead interactions with 30 Women in Agriculture Platforms (WAPS) in 30 MMDAs and 3 regional oversight bodies, to promote their livelihood activities and engagements for the participation of women in peacebuilding. Other targeted constituents are women smallholder farmers and VSLA groups in East Gonja Municipality, whose adoption of farming, environmental and economic development models impact on achieving the objectives of the Women In Shea (WiSH) Initiative. Hence, the incumbent will and use a collaborative learning method to engage community partners to develop, update and implement the project gender strategic plan to work towards gender transformative domains, to drive participation, inclusion, and responsive decision-making at all levels. S/he will support analysis of relevant national and international laws, policies, protocols and strategies for achieving gender equality and women empowerment for holistic social and economic development issues aligned to the project mandate, as well as ensure that gendered MEAL approaches (data gathering and management) are mainstreamed in the MEAL system design and implementation.

The Gender Officer will report directly to the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP). S/he will be based in the Tamale Sub Office in the Northern Region and cover project implementation districts in northern Ghana.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE

• Technical support on Development and Implementation of Gender Equality Results Outcomes and Capacity Building of Staff and Partners


• Review and provide input in planned training design and manuals (GESI Tools, PSHEA and SAA in FNS) and ensure they address specific gender issues that directly affect target populations.


• Lead and use a collaborative method to work with partners to develop, update and implement project gender strategy and ensure that the project strategy is gender transformative to deliver on the gender equality results/outcomes outlined in the project results framework.


• Together with project partners, design and implement a gender outcome capacity strengthening strategy for project partners-WAPs, VSLAs etc.


• Guide and support the partner’s technical staff, to implement the gender strategy and any other agreed gender equality results in line with the project objectives.


• Provide input in the design of new layering initiatives to ensure the gender needs of impact groups are addressed in accordance with the AGREE Project needs.

Strategic Engagements, Partnerships & Coordination of Gender Activities

• Represent AGREE in CARE internal and external gender strategic partnerships, networks, platforms, coalitions, and opportunities.


• Liaise with the Gender Advisors in CARE Ghana, to learn and to share models, tools and best practices for the project.


• Work with the Advocacy Focal Point to develop and integrate gender strategies into the project advocacy activities/workplan.


• Support policy analysis of relevant laws, policies and strategies that impact gender equality and women empowerment issues aligned to the project mandate.


• Coordinate all gender result activities under the AGREE Project to ensure the project achieves its gender outcomes.


• Liaise with the Gender Specialists  of SAGES Systems Strengthening Activity, GROWING and other CARE Projects on activities within overlapping project districts to ensure complementarity of efforts.

Reporting, Documentation, Knowledge management and Learning support

• Ensure that project reports and any additional reporting on gender mainstreaming at project level is planned for and delivered on time.


• Review project gender equality outcome results achievements against indicator targets with a view to strengthening reporting, planning, implementation as well as decision making.


• Keep up to date project gender related data and reports for reference by the project team as well as other stakeholders.


• Provide gender outcomes data for internal and donor reports as well as internal documentation and reporting systems such as PIIRS.


• Work with the team in documentation of lessons learnt, innovations and best practices as well as dissemination on the same.


• Provide technical support in filling in the Gender Marker accurately during reporting and design new projects for layering on the existing one.


• Contribute to the development of the project work plans, ensuring alignment of the gender equality results with program approach and achievement of annual/quarterly target indicators.


• Ensure mainstreaming of gendered MEAL approaches in the MEAL system design and implementation with support from the MEAL Coordinator of the project.


• Promote and support the dissemination of gender related project information within project team.

Promote Gender Equity and Diversity and Safeguarding Practices              

• Organize orientations to partner staff to familiarize with:
  
  
  
  • The CARE International Safeguarding policy, Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse and Child Abuse (PSHEA)
  
  
  • The anti-discrimination and harassment policy
  
  
  • Code of conduct and CARE’s values.
  
  
  
  


• Ensure that CARE Safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to by all project staff and participants.


• Promote behaviour consistent with CARE’s core values, and promotion of gender equity and diversity goals.

Coordination, collaboration and networking with internal and external concerns

• Support preparation of concept notes and proposals working closely with the Project Manager and Advocacy Focal Point.


• Support Country Office’s effort to position for new business opportunities by capturing and documenting best practices for increased visibility and strategic partnership with close collaboration with DCOP.


• Scope out existing opportunities in areas of expertise to allow program growth and sustainability with DCOP.