Senior Nutrition and Gender Officer

Position: Senior Nutrition and Gender Officer

Department: Program Unit

Reporting to: Program Manager

Contract duration: Fixed

Location: JigJiga, Fafen Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia

Number of Positions One (1)

Starting date: January 16, 2026

Contract duration: 12 Months

Career Level: mid-level (four years’ experience)

Employment Type: Full-time

Salary: CAAP salary scale

CAAP Background

CAAP is a local NGO operating in the Somali region, with a vision to create a poverty-free Somali regional state in which women are empowered to build a resilient, inclusive, and fair future for themselves, their families, and their communities. CAAP’s strategic plan for the next seven years (2024-2030) aims to empower girls and women through integrated, sustainable, cost-effective, evidence-based, coordinated, and impactful programs in the Somali region and throughout Ethiopia.

CAAP is planning to implement the Climate Adaptive Livelihoods (CAMEL) Program in partnership with WFP to improve the resilience, food, and nutrition security for the targeted vulnerable pastoral and agro-pastoral populations across Harshin, Mulla, Erer, Aw-Bare, Tuliguled, and Haroreys woredas of Sitti and Fafen Zones of the Somali region, Ethiopia, through increasing agriculture and livestock production and productivity, access to market and market linkages, financial inclusion, and promotion of production and consumption of diversified foods to improve the nutrition status of the population in target woredas.

The implementation of this program will improve smallholder farmers’ productivity, enhance their incomes, and build resilience, contributing to the country’s vision of becoming a middle-income country by 2030. Therefore, CAAP is seeking competent, committed, and professional staff to fill the Senior Nutrition and Gender Officer position in the Somali Region, Ethiopia.

Job Purpose Summary:

The Senior Gender & Nutrition Officer ensures the integration of gender equality, social inclusion, and nutrition-sensitive approaches across all components of the CAMEL Program (agriculture/CSA, livestock, market/value chain, post-harvest management, water/land management, VSLA/financial inclusion) using an SBCC approach. The role ensures that interventions are gender-transformative, nutrition-sensitive, and equitable for women, youth, and persons with disabilities, in line with program objectives, outcomes, and targets.

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight into the SBCC/ Gender program components, including undertaking field visits to oversee implementation, providing on-site feedback on required improvements, and generating field visit reports with timely and appropriate follow-up on action points
• Act as the nutrition, gender, and protection focal point of the CAMEL program
• Lead the design, contextualization, translation, validation, dissemination, and rollout of context-specific, evidence-based SBCC and gender tools and materials tailored to the CAMEL program.
• Ensure all tools, job aids, flipcharts, posters, and community engagement products are culturally appropriate, locally validated, and linguistically accurate for target communities.
• After rollout, collect user feedback and community responses to SBCC tools and provide structured reports with recommendations for iteration within 3 months of rollout.
• Build the capacity of field staff, development agents, HEWs, and frontline workers on how to apply and use the SBCC/ Gender tools and messages, facilitation techniques, gender-transformative programming, inclusive practices, and nutrition-sensitive approaches, through trainings, mentoring, coaching, and on-demand technical assistance, as required.
• Provide ongoing technical support to Agriculture & Livelihoods Specialists, field officers, and VSLA facilitators to integrate gender and nutrition into all field activities (e.g., CSA, livestock, market forums, PHLM, water/land management).
• Support cooking demonstrations and community dialogues that address dietary diversity.
• Develop detailed implementation plans for supported SBCC/Gender interventions and ensure high-quality and timeline delivery of deliverables against intended objectives, targets, and timelines by the development agents and HEWs.
• Ensuring gender equality is a core component of the CAMEL Program, addressing women’s empowerment, access to resources, and decision-making, in all trainings and interventions.
• Use gender analysis information on household dynamics and gender roles in decision-making about land use, agricultural input use, and labour/time allocation, control of resources, access to markets, finance and information, and income
• Provide ongoing technical support to Agriculture & Livelihoods Specialists, field officers, and VSLA facilitators to integrate gender and nutrition into all field activities (e.g., CSA, livestock, market forums, PHLM, water/land management).
• Ensure that gender analysis informs site selection, group formation, and resource allocation
• Work with MEAL Manager to define gender, disability, and social inclusion and nutrition indicators in the M&E framework.
• Work with MEAL Manager to develop and help track critical indicators of SBCC and gender implementation and uptake, and behaviour change at the community level.
• Identify and support documentation of best practices and use them to profile the impact of local-level SBCC/ Gender approaches and promote learning and lesson sharing
• Submit Gender, disability, and Social Inclusion and Nutrition integration reports, documenting how each sector’s activities incorporate gender and nutrition.
• Ensure compliance with gender equality, child safeguarding, disability inclusion, AAP, and PSEA policies.
• Represent the CAMEL program to internal and external partners, including the RHB, gender, and nutrition clusters and working groups, and key stakeholders on relevant Nutrition/SBCC/Gender technical engagements at regional, Zonal, and Woreda level.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree in food science and Nutrition, Gender, Health, Social Sciences, or related field.
• At least four years’ experience in an NGO, of which 2 years in Gender, Nutrition, and SBCC
• Demonstrated experience with SBCC, behavior change, and community engagement.
• Work experience at the community level in programs that require active engagement with families and the community.
• High proficiency in developing SBCC materials and training curricula, gender and nutrition analysis.
• Excellent reporting and presentation skills.
• Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay in the field/Hardship environment (>70%)
• Proven ability to work under pressure and with multiple concurrent demands.
• Fluency in English and Somali languages
• Computer skills, particularly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience using Outlook, ability to organize meetings in teams, Kobo tool, and ODK