RECRUITMENT OF A GENDER OFFICER FOR RWANDA WOMEN’S NETWORK
TITLE: Gender Officer
STARTING DATE: Immediately
LOCATION: Kigali
SUPERVISOR: Director
BACKGROUND
Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN) is a national humanitarian non-governmental organisation (NGO) dedicated to promoting and strengthening strategies that empower women in Rwanda since being established in 1997, and has extensive experience in fostering women’s participation and grassroots responses to community challenges.
RWN’s mission is to work towards the improvement of the socio-economic welfare of women in Rwanda through enhancing their efforts to meet their basic needs and this is done through five core programs i.e. Health Care and Support, Education and Knowledge sharing; Socio-economic Empowerment; GBV Prevention and Response and Governance and Leadership. Overall, RWN supports and works with over 52 grassroots associations, cooperatives and spaces that cater to over 4000 people within each community across 9 districts in Rwanda. The vision of RWN is to promote a healthy, empowered and peaceful Rwandese society.
We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of: Gender Officer.
Description:
The Gender Advisor leads the integration of gender sensitive programming elements in accordance with global best practice, donor requirements. The Gender Advisor participates in strategy, program implementation, program monitoring, evaluation in relation to gender integration in the project that is focused on interventions at the community and household level. This include capacity building and technical assistance to government, civil society and community stakeholders. This position will be based in Rwanda Women’s Network
Job Summary / Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership to RWN and Rwanda CSO SDG5 Forum to ensure integration of gender in program interventions.
- Design and deliver realistic and pragmatic gender strategies and programming interventions that will lead to positive gender equality outcomes.
- Track and report against gender indicators and disaggregate data by gender to analyze results within each domain.
- Conduct gender assessments, reviews and audits to assess ways to continually target involvement of women in program activities.
- Review and provide technical feedback on results and project reports to donors in order to ensure quality and full compliance with gender policy and progress towards achieving integration of gender in program.
- Advise and support the programs and partners to integrate gender into activities.
- Develop tools, frameworks and resources to enable better gender integration in the Project.
- Identify successful practices in the project that can be showcased in publications, communication materials and conferences.
- Prepare communications materials that highlight project’s gender equality programming, successes and lessons learnt.
- Contribute to resource mobilization of projected budgets towards Rwanda Women’s Network program goals.
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- Hold a university degree in a relevant field (Gender studies, Social sciences, Sociology).
- Experience in successful leadership and coordination in NGOs, especially those working in the area of Women empowerment and Gender Equality environments (minimum 3 years), including delivering and closing projects and communicating with donors and partners.
- Ability to analyse policies, conduct situational research, and develop strategies to effect change.
- Strong analytical skills, with experience in managing monitoring and evaluating programs and financial as well as personnel management.
- Demonstrated report writing skills and strong representation and negotiation skills in English (French will be an asset).
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Ability to integrate and mainstream gender equity and social inclusion into program activities as a cross-cutting area,
Ability to manage and nurture collaborative relationships at all levels and work across multiple project teams; contribute effectively at senior management level both internally and externally
- Ability to take initiative to organize time effectively within a range of often conflicting deadlines and competing priorities.
- Enthusiasm, creativity and flexibility with excellent interpersonal skills and team spirit to respond to occasional heavy, peak workloads.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Women and Rwandan Nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application procedure:
Please submit a motivation letter describing how you meet the desired qualifications and professional qualities, copy of your notified degree, comprehensive curriculum vitae with 3 names of referees by March 02nd, 2021 to Rwanda Women’s Network by email rwawnet@rwanda1.rw. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Done at Kigali on February 23rd, 2021.
