SayPro Technical Advisory on Gender and Youth- CUSP

A. Key Responsibilities.

The advisor on Gender and Youth will be responsible for:

§ Mainstreaming of Gender in all projects of CUSP and within the CUSP team

§ Promoting needs of women, youth and minorities in all three components

§ Advancement of a mentoring programme for women and youth

*The Technical Advisor on Gender and Youth performs the following tasks:*

B. Specific Tasks **

1. Strategic conceptual work:

§ Elaborate a strategic alignment of the components to gender equality as a cross-cutting issue.

§ Advise development of gender focussed organisations and women’s associations and or networks.

§ Develop institutional capacity development for CSO Partner Organisations in collaboration with other team members

§ Advise and support youth and women leadership and mentorship programme

§ Advise on strengthening CSO engagement with regards to gender and youth in different sectors (governance, water, energy and agriculture sectors) on national and district level.

§ Ensure gender mainstreaming within the CUSP team and cooperate with the GIZ advisor for HIV and gender mainstreaming in the country office

2. Communication:

§ Ensure timely and smooth communication between programme partners and within the programme.

§ Support internal and external representation of the programme in coordination with the line management.

§ Close coordination within all relevant actors of the programme.

3. Administration and Reporting:

§ Support programme activities, outputs and outcomes.

§ Support the reporting according to EU standards.

§ Contribute to M&E as well as reporting requirements.

§ Take over administrative tasks for a smooth implementation of the programme.

Other duties/additional tasks.

§ Performs other duties and tasks at the request of line manager/management.**

C. Required qualifications, competences and experience Qualifications.

Qualification

§ Master in a relevant field, preferably in Law, Political Science, Social Science, Development Studies, Gender Studies.

Professional experience.

§ Minimum of 7 years professional experience in gender and youth within civil society, relevant experience in the area of mentoring is an added asset.

§ Accelerates processes through high motivation and experience.

§ Experience from governmental structures and their interaction with the civil society.

§ Experience from CSO networks and/or formal/informal participation processes is an asset.

§ Excellent interpersonal skills.

§ Ability to work under tight schedules and to multitask/fast-track appropriately.

§ High level of integrity, honesty and professionalism.

§ Supervisory, coaching, mentoring, monitoring and evaluation skills.

§ Experience in qualitative and quantitative research, data collection and data analysis.

§ Very good working knowledge of English (written and spoken); knowledge of German is an added value.

§ Excellent people skills and ability to negotiate between different stakeholder groups.

§ Good communication, presentation and reporting skills

§ Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.

§ Self-drive, creativity, and problem-solving capacity are required.

§ Able to work independent, responsible and target oriented.