Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 22 Aug 2015
Gender Specialist, Mozambique Monitoring and**Evaluation Mechanism and Service, Mozambique**
Proposal Summary:
The Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Service (MMEMS) project will work with Mission staff and its affiliated implementing partners to improve the mission’s performance planning monitoring and reporting systems, thereby making USAID/Mozambique a more effective and adaptive development organization. MMEMS will focus its effort on systems which will enable the Mission to fulfill its performance monitoring, evaluation, reporting and dissemination requirements, and improve the overall planning, design and management of its development activities. It will do this by facilitating improved activity management and learning capacity, improved monitoring and performance data and high quality and efficient evaluation services.
Position Summary:
The Gender Specialist will lead gender technical design for all key project components, including knowledge management, performance monitoring, performance and impact evaluations, and sharing lessons learned and best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Supervise implementation to ensure effective and culturally appropriate methods are used to capture accurate, timely and useful data from ongoing programs.
- Guide development of reports, powerpoint presentations, on-line media, etc. to share lessons learned and best practices in women’s empowerment and gender equality for diverse audiences and stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Minimum five (5) years work experience in programming for women’s development or gender with skills and abilities working with women in Mozambique or similar environment.
- Deep understanding of women’s and gender equality issues in Mozambique both at national and local levels.
- The candidate must have an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of gender mainstreaming strategies and methodologies and of gender dynamics and complexities and cultural issues/constraints in facilitating women’s participation in development.
- Expertise in strategic gender planning, gender analysis, gender budgeting, preparing/conducting gender impact assessments, and gender mainstreaming is highly desirable.
- S/he shall have an ability to develop and interpret monitoring results of gender-sensitive indicators.
- As a gender specialist s/he will have demonstrated experience in identifying areas where gender issues are likely to arise and plan strategically to ensure gender inclusion in activity design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
- Familiarity with key policies and stakeholders related to women’s and gender equality issues in Mozambique (local and international governmental and non-governmental actors).
- A substantial understanding of gender equality with knowledge of relevant international and national gender and human rights instruments, conventions and legislation is highly desirable.
- Evaluation, data collection and analytical skills required.
- Fluent English and Portuguese is required.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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