Gender Officer

1. Core Technical Delivery

• Familiarize with the objectives and scope of HRNS-Ethiopia’s program and its specific activities in targeted areas to support effective implementation.
• Provide overall leadership on HRNS-Ethiopia’s gender strategy to ensure gender mainstreaming across design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Develop and submit a gender action plan with clear activities, timelines, and expected outcomes.
• Design tailor-made training materials and organize gender-focused training workshops for stakeholders.
• Conduct awareness creation programs on gender for YAIGs, cooperative members and union leadership.
• Train and coach youths, rural coffee farming households to enhance women’s economic participation and promote systemic changes in labor and business practices.
• Review and update the gender strategy based on assessments of women’s and men’s roles along the project farm products value chain.
• Design and implement communication campaigns to increase women’s participation in cooperative membership and leadership positions.
• Provide technical assistance to HRNS-Ethiopia staff and partners on gender monitoring and impact assessment tools.
• Deliver in-house gender sensitization sessions for HRNS-Ethiopia staff.

2. Monitoring & Supervision

• Work closely with the MEAL Officer and Country office MEAL team to ensure accurate data collection and documentation aligned with standard guidelines.
• Regularly monitor project activities to ensure gender considerations are effectively integrated and structured to maximize women’s participation while minimizing risks of conflict.

3. Reporting and Visibility

• Prepare activity progress reports, quarterly reports, and annual reports based on the set schedule
• Assist in compiling and preparing reports and documentation for submission to donors, government entities, and partner organizations.
• Record and document success stories, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations related to gender interventions.

4. Compliance & Stakeholder Coordination

• Communicate and coordinate regularly with the Field Office Coordinator and Development Agents on ongoing and planned activities.
• Collaborate with development agents and implementing partners in executing gender-related communication campaigns and field-level interventions.
• Responsible for carrying out any project-related assignments assigned by the line manager,

Job Requirement

Education

• Requires degree in sociology and related fields.

Experience

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in the field.
• Good communication skill and ability to prepare progress reports.
• Oral and written English communication skills.
• International NGO experience is an asset.