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Women & Youth Specialist, HAPPY

Women & Youth Specialist, HAPPY

TechnoServeAccra, GHA
17 days ago
Job description

Program Overview :

Harnessing Agriculture Productivity and Prosperity for Youth (HAPPY) is a Mastercard Foundation-funded program, with Nine consortium implementing partners, including Technoserve. The program aims to drive shared prosperity in Ghana by creating, sustaining, or improving dignified jobs and increasing agricultural productivity across the poultry, rice, soy, and tomato value chains. HAPPY will bridge the productivity gaps in these four value chains by building resilient youth-led and women-led food systems. The program will harness the power of young women and men to enhance the sourcing and business models of off-takers, pursue innovative entrepreneurial ventures, support the adoption of improved practices and inputs, and influence the enabling environment by making their voices heard. The result will be a more prosperous and inclusive agricultural sector that propels growth across the country.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities :

  • Provide technical assistance to a portfolio of TechnoServe activities across the HAPPY program
  • Identify, develop, and support the deployment of gender-responsive activities to meet the needs of participants.
  • Help build local capacity among project staff for gender and youth integration, and facilitate gender and youth-related training for staff.
  • Provide support to deliver TTT to staff on gender and youth-focused training and workshop modules
  • Supports the implementation and monitoring of gender action plans
  • Supports the monitoring of gender and youth mainstreaming in activities and inclusion in program reports
  • Contributes to reporting on gender and youth-related issues
  • Support the development of key knowledge products (e.g., case studies, lessons-learned documents, etc.) that facilitate program development, program implementation, and internal knowledge sharing
  • Participate in regular meetings with the Global Practice for Women and Youth
  • Participate in the Gender Champions Network
  • Collaborate with team members to ensure the successful implementation of HAPPY.
  • Undertake other activities as assigned, to advance gender integration in TechnoServe

Basic Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree with 3 years of experience or a Master’s degree in development economics, sociology, anthropology, gender or another relevant discipline with at least 1 years’ experience
  • Demonstrable experience implementing practical approaches to advance gender equality in agriculture programs; experience working with gender equality and youth programming in agriculture programs highly preferred.
  • Experience in adult learning techniques, excellent in-person and virtual facilitation skills
  • Must be able to work across teams to influence behavior and build capacity.
  • Ability to work both persuasively and diplomatically in a team-based environment with a high degree of complexity and ambiguity.
  • Ability to communicate complex gender issues with clarity and precision
  • Demonstrated success in leading tasks, activities, or initiatives requiring a combination of strong analytical, writing, social and management skills
  • A deep, demonstrable commitment to gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.
  • Experience implementing approaches to mitigate and reduce gender-based violence in economic growth programs, is a plus
  • High standards of personal integrity and a flexible, laid back personality with an excellent sense of humor required
  • Required Languages : Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills, including fluency in English (equivalent to R4 / S4)

    Travel : Up to 30% travel to field offices and project sites

    Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

  • Ability to work both persuasively and diplomatically in a team-based environment with a high degree of complexity and ambiguity.
  • Ability to communicate complex youth and gender issues with clarity and precision
  • Must be able to work across teams to influence behavior and build capacity.
  • Experience in adult learning techniques, excellent in-person and virtual facilitation skills
  • A deep, demonstrable commitment to gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.
  • High standards of personal integrity and a flexible, laid back personality with an excellent sense of humor required.
  • We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe's vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply.

    With our commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV / AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.

    We are also proud of our commitment to protecting staff, partners, and participants from abuse and exploitation and thoroughly vet all final candidates through rigorous background and reference checks.

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