The Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Officer, will report to the Project Coordinator (AMS Project) and work in close collaboration with the Gender focal person – ACORD Uganda.

S/he will provide technical assistance for the application of a GYSI lens to further identify and address barriers to and gaps in optimal delivery and uptake of Agriculture and Market Support (AMS) Planning programming and services delivery across the three Districts of; Napak, Nakapiripirit and Nabilatuk in Karamoja Sub-region of Uganda

Technical Focus
The Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Officer, will provide technical assistance and capacity building on gender and youth development to the Agriculture and Market Support (AMS) implementing field offices and stakeholder staffs in the operational areas. The position holder will support and coordinate gender analysis and lead studies to explore employment opportunities for the youth. Proactively and/or upon direction provided by the technical teams, s/he will identify gaps, consolidate best practices in the field and share lessons to all concerned. The Officer will ensure that standard quality training, guidelines and tools are adopted consistently without major deviations in all Agriculture and Market Support (AMS) technical sectors to ensure gender, women empowerment and youth priorities are integrated uniformly. In consultation with the Project Coordinator, the officer will support and contribute to formative research in implementation areas to identify key issues, social norms and barriers and to make recommendations on how to address gender and youth related concerns and challenges.

The key tasks and responsibilities of the role include:
Specifically, the incumbent will carry out the following activities:
Responsibility #1: Strategy design, planning, monitoring and implementation
• Lead/support the development and implementation of evidence based, realistic and effective gender, women empowerment and youth engagement strategies, as directed by the technical leadership team under the Agriculture and Market Support (AMS) project including food security, nutrition, livelihoods and community mobilisation;
Input into problem identification, causal and problem analysis and activity development;
• Participate in Agriculture and Market Support (AMS) detailed implementation planning (DIP), and annual reviews, to ensure Gender and Youth responsive project planning processes are implemented throughout the life of the project;
Ensure that proper records are available to respond to the World Food Programme (WFP) result framework indicators in areas of women empowerment and gender equality indicators-access to resource, control, leadership status within community and etc;
• Actively keep abreast of results of research and regular monitoring and suggest ways to improve the nature and depth of activities in their implementation area;
Provide technical leadership and technical support for the integration of the integration of Gender, Adolescent, Youth, and marginalized groups’ interests and concerns across the Agriculture and Market Support (AMS) Planning programming and service delivery and;
• Produce and share with the Gender focal person and/or project gender and youth related aspects of reporting for WFP for all regular and incidental reports.

Responsibility #2: Staff training and coaching
• In-collaboration with the Advisor and/or independently, provide staff induction and ongoing training/capacity building training to ACORD-WFP Project staff and government stakeholder staff;
• Lead the development and facilitation of trainings on staff development initiatives for gender, including the staff transformation process;
• Develop and implement follow-up, engagement and coaching plans to build staffs and institutions capacity to increase knowledge and accountability for gender equity and to increase their level of expertise, skills and their commitment to apply strategies;
• Provide ongoing backstopping and technical support to staff.

Responsibility #3: Networking, Learning, Policy Implementation
• Establish all necessary relationships with WFP gender equality and youth empowerment partners with in ACORD and government stakeholders to ensure that gender and youth issues and priorities are tabled, addressed and lessons are shared;
• Support formative research in the assigned operational districts;
• Disseminates learning and ensures all staff at the field office level are updated on gender and youth priorities;
• At the direction of the Gender focal person, support field level related experts/staffs to measure the impact and document lessons learned and best practices;
• Work closely with District Local Governments to improve GBV prevention and response services and develop technical and operation strategies for GYSI for sustainability;
• Document and disseminate knowledge management products including lessons learnt and best practices for the integration of GYSI in Agriculture and Market Support (AMS) and;
• Prepare periodic technical reports for both internal and external clients. Perform other duties as may be assigned by and agreed upon with the supervisor..

Responsibility #4: Gender and social inclusion in project interventions:
• Ensure gender and social inclusion component in any type of project interventions; and
• Manage data disaggregated by sex, age, and ethnicity from the records of project interventions.

Candidates will be Assessed Against the Following
Minimum Required Skills and Experience
Education:
• A degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies Gender and/or Women’s Studies, Public Health, or a health-related field.
• A Master of Public Health, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Gender and/or Women’s Studies, or a health-related field will be an added advantage.

Experience:
• 3-5 years of work experience on gender or social and behavioral change, conversant with adult learning and training of trainers’ methodologies, practical experience in women and youth programming
• At least 2 years of work experience in gender analysis, training and mainstreaming.
• Gender related work in an NGO setting.
• Previous experience with livelihoods programs and or food assistance interventions.

Competencies
Functional Competencies:
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English;
• Effective interpersonal skills, maturity, intuitive, tact and a high sense of responsibility,
• Analytical, training/facilitation skills;
• Sensitivity to different aspects of diversity (cultural, religious, disability), firm belief in teamwork and sensitivity to HIV/AIDS

Language Requirement:
• Fluency in spoken and written English. Other:
• Good knowledge of computer applications such as word, excel, power point and statistical applications.

Additional Information
• ACORD Uganda does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing).
• Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.