Senior Project Officer – Gender and Inclusion

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Manage implementation of the project as per approved proposal, workplan and budget

• Delivery of leadership, gender mainstreaming, sexual harassment/ gender-based violence mitigation capacity building to key partners and workers.

• Participate in Project Steering Group Meetings.

Producer Organizational Strengthening

• Identify producer needs and develop relevant support plan with reference to FTA’s Strategy, Fairtrade Standards, Project plan and Donor requirements

• Ensure project right holders’ awareness of opportunities and risks and implementation of relevant exploration or mitigation strategies

• Provide support to target Sugar and Tea farms aimed at enhancing visibility of fairtrade certification benefits/impact of the project towards enhancing market opportunities for target Fairtrade Producers.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Closely monitor implementation progress of the project and propose strategies for continuous improvement.

• In close collaboration with the MEL department, lead project monitoring, evaluation and learning processes.

• Submit high quality narrative and financial reports in accordance with FTA, Fairtrade Norway project requirements (monthly, quarterly and annually)

• Establish and maintain an accessible database of all project documents.

Partnership, Advocacy & Resource Mobilization

• Initiate and maintain strategic relationships with FTA Stakeholders and partners to amplify projects delivery and results. In collaboration with FTAs Communications lead, deploy a communications strategy, supporting project visibility including events, media visits and features.

• In collaboration with FTA’s Gender lead, proactively identify policy gaps in thematic area and respective interventions to address these.

• Support the development of project concept notes and proposals to scale up the initiative

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in gender, Rural development, Sociology, Community Development, or any other related relevant area of study.

Experience and Knowledge

• At least 3- 5 years’ experience working with cooperatives and rural farmers.

• Implementing Cooperative strengthening initiatives.

• Demonstrable experience in gender approaches and tools for stakeholder engagement and capacity building.

• Advocacy work on women empowerment and/or social inclusion issues.

• Experience in the Small-Scale cooperatives sector will be desirable Skills.

• Excellent command of spoken and written English and spoken Chichewa

• Experience in report writing.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals across multi-functional and cultural disciplines. Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage multiple work-streams with various partners at any one time.

Other Specialist Training or Certifications

• Project and financial Management •

Training on gender and/or social inclusion and protection is desirable.