Gender, SRH and Enterprise Development Officer

• Lead and support gender analyses, social norms assessments, and gender audits, and integrate gender-transformative approaches across project interventions.
• and adapt gender-transformative training materials and strengthen the capacity of project staff, government partners, training providers, employers, and community structures on gender and social equity and women’s empowerment.
• Engage community leaders, customary and religious institutions, families, men and boys, and youth groups to address harmful social norms, discrimination, and barriers to women’s economic participation.
• Support solidarity groups, youth dialogue platforms, mentorship, and role-model initiatives that strengthen young women’s voice, agency, leadership, and decision-making.
• Promote meaningful participation of young women, women with disabilities, and other marginalized groups, ensuring accessibility, safeguarding, protection, and Do No Harm principles across project activities.

Sexual and Reproductive Health

• Provide technical oversight and guidance to partner CSOs implementing SRH interventions, ensuring quality, accountability, safeguarding, and alignment with project objectives and national standards.
• Strengthen partner capacity on youth-friendly SRH services, disability inclusion, community engagement, referral systems, and quality improvement.
• Review partner work plans, budgets, reports, indicators, and progress; conduct supportive supervision and joint monitoring and provide timely feedback and follow-up.
• Strengthen coordination with health facilities, government health offices, Women and Social Affairs Offices, and youth-serving institutions to improve referral pathways and access to youth-friendly SRH services.
• Monitor SRH results and support quality data management, learning, and documentation of implementation challenges, lessons, and good practices.

Enterprise Development and Financial Inclusion:

• Support labour market and enterprise opportunity assessments to identify viable business and employment opportunities for young women.
• Facilitate entrepreneurship development through business skills training, business planning, start-up and growth support, coaching, mentoring, incubation, and peer learning.
• Promote women’s participation in high-potential and non-traditional sectors, and facilitate market linkages, business networking, value chain connections, and enterprise formalization where applicable.
• Strengthen employability through employer engagement, internships, apprenticeships, job placements, career guidance, job-readiness support, and follow-up of graduates in collaboration with TVETs, IFAL centres, and private training providers.
• Facilitate linkages with banks, MFIs, SACCOs, digital financial service providers, and savings groups; support financial literacy, savings mobilization, and access to appropriate savings, credit, insurance, and digital finance services.
• Engage financial institutions on women-friendly financial products where feasible and monitor the implementation and effectiveness of financial inclusion interventions.

Partnerships Coordination, Monitoring and Learning:

• Build and maintain working relationships with government institutions, training providers, employers, financial institutions, partner CSOs, women’s organizations, and community structures at regional, zonal, city, woreda, and kebele levels.
• Coordinate with relevant sector offices and participate in technical working groups, coordination forums, gender taskforces, youth platforms, and livelihood networks; contribute to advocacy on systems and practices affecting young women’s empowerment.
• Prepare work plans and monitor implementation against agreed plans, indicators, and targets in collaboration with supervisors and project teams.
• Collect, analyse, and report data on gender equity, SRH, enterprise development, employment, and financial inclusion; ensure timely and quality reporting to HELVETAS, donors, and government stakeholders.
• Document lessons, innovations, success stories, and promising practices, and contribute to project reviews, assessments, evaluations, and learning activities to inform adaptation and scaling.