Gender Officer Vacancy at BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania

Gender Officer Vacancy at BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania

Gender Officer

BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania

Simiyu

BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania takes a participatory, community-based, and inclusive approach to designing context-specific, impactful programmes.

Career with BRAC International

BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organisation, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost- effective, evidence-based programmes to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low- income countries, including in conflict- prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organisation of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As well as being the world’s biggest NGOby number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the non-profit sector. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first programme outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002, and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programmes and social enterprises, including in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created and that potential is unleashed, even the poorest can become agents of positive change in their own lives, for their families and their communities.

BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania is part of a leading development organization that started its operations in 2006 in Tanzania, focusing on thematic areas of Agriculture, Youth and Women Empowerment, Food Security and Livelihood

About the Programme

The WFP (World Food Programme) has awarded BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania with a Smallholder Sorghum and Sunflower Development Project locally named Vijana Kilimo Biashara (VKB) to be implemented in Simiyu region addressing the challenges facing the smallholder farmers in sorghum and sunflower value chains. Specifically, the project will be implemented in 2 districts of Meatu and Maswa (Simiyu). The project anticipates reaching 15,000 people including young people and adult farmers.

BRAC International is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self- motivated individuals to fill the following position in BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania

Position (01): Gender Officer

Job Location: Maswa

Purpose of this job:

The Gender Officer will support the implementation of gender interventions under the Kijana Kilimo Biashara Project. The role involves mainstreaming gender considerations in all project activities, ensuring the active participation of women and youth, and fostering gender equity within the sorghum and sunflower value chains. The Gender Officer will work closely with project stakeholders, including farmers, partner organizations, and government officials, to promote inclusive and equitable agricultural development.

Responsibilities:

Technical and Implementation Support:

• Develop and implement a gender integration strategy for the Kijana Kilimo Biashara Project.
• Ensure that project activities align with gender equity objectives and address the unique needs of women and youth farmers.
• Conduct base-line, midterm and end-line gender analysis of the project, and conduct gender capacity needs assessment among the staff
• Organize and conduct gender training and awareness sessions for project staff, farmer groups, and stakeholders.
• Build the capacity of women and youth to actively participate in agricultural value chains
• Develop gender-sensitive indicators and tools to monitor and evaluate project interventions.
• Collect and analyze gender-disaggregated data to assess project impact on women and youth.
• Collaborate with local government, community-based organizations, market actors and other stakeholders to promote gender-inclusive agricultural practices.
• Serve as the project’s gender focal point, representing the project in gender-related forums.
• Prepare regular reports on gender-related activities, achievements, and challenges.
• Document success stories and lessons learned in promoting gender equity within the project.
• Contribute to dissemination of good practice and lessons from the organization’s work and promote experience sharing and learning in the organization and among stakeholders in collaboration with Communication Team.
• Review the project’s gender equality outcome results against indicator targets to enhance reporting, planning, implementation, and informed decision-making.
• Promote the adoption of technologies and practices that reduce the workload of women and increase their productivity.
• Foster the engagement of man and boys of the communities as change makers for gender equality in agriculture
• Provide technical advice to the project team on gender-sensitive approaches to agricultural development.
• Ensure adherence to safeguarding policies and guidelines to protect project participants, particularly women and youth, from any form of exploitation, abuse, or harassment.
• Provide training and awareness sessions for staff and stakeholders on safeguarding and SEA prevention.
• Develop and maintain a reporting mechanism for SEA incidents and ensure proper documentation and response.

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation
• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do the same

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Agriculture, or a related field.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Strong understanding of gender issues in agriculture and rural development.
• Experience in gender training and capacity-building initiatives.
• Proficiency in data collection, analysis, and reporting with a focus on gender- disaggregated data.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• At least 3-5 years of experience in gender mainstreaming within agricultural or rural development projects.
• Employment type: Contractual

Salary: Negotiable

How to Apply :

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

Candidate needs to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades,years of experience, current and expected salary at: [email protected].

Please mention the name of the position and your preferred region in the subject bar.

Only complete applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline: 03.April.2025.

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender,status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment process includes extensive reference and background checks, self-disclosure of prior issues regarding sexual or other misconduct and criminal records and our values are a part of our Performance Management System.

BRAC is an equal opportunities employer