TechnoServe Nigeria Job Vacancies For Senior Gender Specialist
TechnoServe is an internationally recognized leader in the field of economic development, employing more than 400 people. Our work has transformed the lives of millions of people in more than 30 countries; the support of numerous partners is enabling us to replicate our success, with four new country programs launched this year in Brazil, Chile, India and Rwanda.
Today, TechnoServe focuses on developing entrepreneurs, building businesses and industries, and improving the business environment. All our work revolves around helping people identify and capitalize on good business opportunities that help to transform the lives of the rural poor, by generating jobs and markets for their products and services.
We work with a range of public- and private-sector partners, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Rockefeller and W.K. Kellogg Foundations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google.org, Lenovo, Cargill and numerous individuals.
In keeping with our private-enterprise approach, we track and evaluate our impact using business metrics, including wages paid and supplies bought from the rural poor. We also track and evaluate the social impact of our work.
The results are evident in villages and towns throughout Africa and Latin America, where thanks to TechnoServe, businesses are thriving, economic activity is robust, and hardworking families have jobs and steady incomes. These changes have sustained improvements in infrastructure, health, education and other vital community social services.
TechnoServe was founded in 1968 by Connecticut businessman Ed Bullard. While volunteering at a hospital in rural Ghana, he was struck by how difficult it was for hardworking people in the area to lift themselves out of poverty. So he created an organization to transform lives by providing poor people access to productivity-enhancing tools— hence the name TechnoServe: Technology in the Service of Mankind.
Our Mission — TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries.
Job Title: Senior Gender Specialist, Northern Nigeria
Program Description
TechnoServe Nigeria is currently pursuing funding from a large European institutional donor to design and implement a six-year market development program, which will create enhanced employment opportunities for the poor in Northern Nigeria.
The program will be based on the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) methodology and will increase employment and improve productivity in selected agricultural market systems in Northern Nigeria. This will be accomplished by improving market access for poor producers, increasing economic activity and trade, creating jobs and raising the incomes of poor people, particularly women and adolescent girls, and those from excluded and vulnerable groups in rural Northern Nigeria.
The program will provide intensive support to a range of market functions and value chains in selected sectors, support entrepreneurship development and enterprise innovation, stimulate private sector provision of services and promote innovative and inclusive business models with the potential to reach a large number of low-income people. As it is expected that at least 50% of the beneficiaries of the program will be women, the successful development and implementation of the gender dimension will constitute a major objective of the program.www.nigerianjobsupdate.com
Position Description
It is expected that the program will deliver the following results:
1. At least 500,000 poor people in Northern Nigeria, 50% women, will see their incomes raised by at least 50%.
2. At least £100m of additional public and private investment will be stimulated in support of the agriculture sector.www.nigerianjobsupdate.com
In order to reach the program’s ambitious gender target, the Senior Gender Specialist will:
• Conduct a robust gender analysis of socio-cultural and economic gender constraints facing women within the target beneficiary population; recommend gender initiatives needed to meet program targets for women’s participation.
• Establish and grow relationships with TechnoServe gender thought partners in Nigeria.
• Work with TechnoServe staff and thought partners to ensure that gender considerations are fully integrated into the program design, including staffing, participant recruitment, program activities and M&E.
• Design and implement program gender strategy, including management of women-focused special initiatives, as required.
• Design and conduct gender sensitization training for TechnoServe staff, implementation partners and beneficiaries.
• Conduct periodic program gender evaluations; recommend and implement course corrections, as necessary.
• Monitor program performance and contribute content for internal and external reporting.
• Design and conduct robust gender impact evaluation at the close of the program.
Required Skills and Experience
• Advanced degree in gender studies, sociology, anthropology or related field
• Minimum of 5 years experience in best practice gender integration in economic development
• Preferably a recognized gender expert in the field, with first-hand knowledge of gender priorities of leading donor agencies and/or other key institutions
• Practical field-based development/nonprofit sector experience essential
• Experience in design and implementation of M4P programs preferred
• Native English speaker, Hausa a plus
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a multi-cultural environment
• Excellent communications skills, written and verbal
• Strong diplomatic skills to support effective work through implementing partners
• Strong writing, Excel and PowerPoint presentation skills
Application Instructions:
To Apply:
Please submit a resume, cover letter, salary history and three professional references to: jantista@tns.org
Please place, “Senior Gender Specialist” in the subject line. No phone calls please. Only those individuals identified as “short-listed candidates” will be contacted.
Deadline: 24th May, 2011
TechnoServe is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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