Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion Lead Internship

CARE seeks a Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion Lead for an anticipated USAID Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Mozambique. CARE, in consortium with partners, is designing a five-year project, scheduled to start early in calendar year 2022, to cover 4 target districts (Mocuba, Ile, Alto Molocue and Gurue) in Zambezia province. There is a possibility that the project may be extended for up to five additional years.

This project focuses on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and improved nutrition for pregnant and lactating women. The program will also have a large food commodities component, using donated and imported food commodities from the United States to improve the nutritional status of beneficiaries while simultaneously working to increase the availability of high-nutrient local foods and improve livelihoods opportunities, particularly for young people and women.

CARE anticipates that this position will be based in Quelimane or Mocuba, but a final decision on the location of the position may be a point of negotiation with the selected candidate, and will depend on various factors including the candidate’s level of experience and expertise.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the design and lead the implementation of a gender and youth assessment to ensure that project activities lead to positive outcomes for women and adolescent girls. Assess the underlying causes that hinder women’s access to services and  participation in agriculture, livelihoods and income generation activities and attention to gender equity by institutional systems;
• Lead in developing gender and youth integration strategies to address the assessment findings. Ensure that the social (gender and age) dimensions of nutrition are effectively addressed across all activity components throughout the life of the project;
• Help to build staff and partner capacity to develop innovative and effective ways to integrate gender and youth perspectives into project activities and raise awareness of the importance of gender and youth integration and empowerment;
• Working closing with sector team leaders in Nutrition, WASH, and Livelihoods, ensure the effective and timely execution of activities that increase the access of girls, women and youth to opportunities;
• Collaborate with the M&E team on developing analytical tools to measure gender/youth integration. This includes ensuring that sex and age disaggregated and gender and youth-sensitive data is collected and analyzed. Make recommendations based on assessment findings and regular monitoring to improve program strategies to better meet the needs of beneficiaries, especially women, girls and young people. Contribute to any other research activities to ensure gender and youth dynamics are fully represented. Contribute to annual work plan development and monitoring;
• Design strategies and approaches to mitigate any possible negative impact that project activities might have on sexual and gender-based violence at the household and community levels; monitor and manage how activities will be tracked over time to ascertain any unintended consequences related to gender and gender-based violence;
• Work closely with field level staff to ensure quality implementation of activities in line with the program strategy.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in development, gender studies, or any related field. Master’s Degree is helpful but not required;
• 5-7 years of community development experience is required, preferably working on youth and/or gender-related programming. This could include prevention of gender-based violence; women’s empowerment’ and/or girls’ education;
• Deep understanding of the gender and demographic dynamics in rural Mozambique, including the relevant government ministries, strategies and policies;
• Monitoring and Evaluation experience, including demonstrated ability in participatory data collection, and data analysis and utilization of information from a broad range of sources in order to ensure effective integration of gender and youth concerns in the project;
• Experience in participatory learning & and facilitating collaborative problem solving; demonstrated ability to build capacity among staff and partners to ensure gender and youth integration and empowerment;
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, as evidenced in previous management positions and programming. Demonstrated commitment to PSEAH (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Harassment);
• Strong skills in planning and organization, partnership, and collaborative problem solving;
• Demonstrated ability to network, communicate, and build/maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders;
• Fluency in Portuguese and professional proficiency in English are required. Proficiency in Lomwe is beneficial but not required;
• Ability to travel within target districts as required.

How to Apply

Are you interested in joining CARE’s efforts to improve the rights of women and girls in Mozambique and the world? Send your CV and application letter with the position name to: Mozrecrutamentos@care.org, until the 31, August 2021.  E-mail submissions strongly preferred.

These vacancies are open to Mozambican and International applicants

CARE Mozambique is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from women, people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups.

We do not tolerate any type of harassment, sexual abuse and exploitation among workers, Implementing Partners and Beneficiaries.

We do not make any kind of charges for any type of hiring and we do not proceed through recruitment agents.

We offer a competitive compensation package and the possibility to build a career in the development sector, through long-term engagement and access to resources and experience around the world.

Note: Only selected candidates will be contacted!