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Adolescent Girls Specialist Nike Foundation Project Job Careers – Mercy Corps
Job Title: Adolescent Girls Specialist
Organization: Mercy Corps
Project Name: Girls Improving Resilience with Livestock (GIRL)
Funding Source: Nike Foundation
Funding Source: Nike Foundation
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Senior Program
Manager
Manager
About Mercy Corps:
Mercy Corps is an International NGO that exists to alleviate poverty
and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
Mercy Corps has been fully registered in Uganda as an operational NGO.
Currently Mercy Corps has an office in Kampala and is implementing Food
Security programs which comprise of Water and Sanitation, Livelihood and
Agriculture and Conflict Mitigation Management Program in North and North
Eastern Uganda. We implement programs in the northern districts of Pader,
Kitgum, Agago, Lamwo, Kaabong, Abim and Kotido with funding from USAID, USDA,
Walmart Foundation, SDC, DFID as well as other private donations.
and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
Mercy Corps has been fully registered in Uganda as an operational NGO.
Currently Mercy Corps has an office in Kampala and is implementing Food
Security programs which comprise of Water and Sanitation, Livelihood and
Agriculture and Conflict Mitigation Management Program in North and North
Eastern Uganda. We implement programs in the northern districts of Pader,
Kitgum, Agago, Lamwo, Kaabong, Abim and Kotido with funding from USAID, USDA,
Walmart Foundation, SDC, DFID as well as other private donations.
About Nike Foundation Project:
Mercy Corps is implementing a livelihoods focused 3-year Nike
Foundation program working in the Karamoja (Uganda) and West Pokot and Turkana
(Kenya) regions and require a highly skilled Adolescent Girls Specialist to
provide technical support and knowledge to successfully engage and support
girls across the three regions. The project, called Girls Improving Resilience
with Livestock (GIRL), aims to empower pastoralist girls, to improve their
livelihoods and personal agency, as well as increase the food security and
adaptive capacity of their households and the resilience of their communities.
Foundation program working in the Karamoja (Uganda) and West Pokot and Turkana
(Kenya) regions and require a highly skilled Adolescent Girls Specialist to
provide technical support and knowledge to successfully engage and support
girls across the three regions. The project, called Girls Improving Resilience
with Livestock (GIRL), aims to empower pastoralist girls, to improve their
livelihoods and personal agency, as well as increase the food security and
adaptive capacity of their households and the resilience of their communities.
Job Summary: The Adolescent
Girls Specialist will be responsible for providing insight and technical
support in the design, implementation and monitoring of program activities,
will play a key role in relationship building with community stakeholders and
will be responsible for ensuring educational and livelihoods focused activities
are attuned with girls’ needs and realities. This role is vital in ensuring the
SKY program successfully provides young women-centered, locally relevant
activities resulting in increased livelihood development, young women’s
empowerment and improved food security for the three regions.
Girls Specialist will be responsible for providing insight and technical
support in the design, implementation and monitoring of program activities,
will play a key role in relationship building with community stakeholders and
will be responsible for ensuring educational and livelihoods focused activities
are attuned with girls’ needs and realities. This role is vital in ensuring the
SKY program successfully provides young women-centered, locally relevant
activities resulting in increased livelihood development, young women’s
empowerment and improved food security for the three regions.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
Technical Capacity:
- Work directly with the Senior Program
Managers, Program Officers and CBO partners to ensure all outreach and
activities are sensitive to the needs, challenges and constraints placed
on girls in each community - Strengthen the capacity of local staff and
CBOs through technical support, ongoing training, and conduct regular
meetings with staff and CBOs to monitor the progress of activities and
address any challenges. - Offer technical support on gender
integration in various market facilitation activities within the urban
centers geared towards vocational training, micro-franchise opportunities
and entrepreneurism. Provide general capacity building for young women in
urbanizing contexts in the areas of business, life skills and health.
Activity Design:
- Work closely with each District’s Program
Officer to identify and strategically engage key gatekeepers in each
community, which will contribute to the success of activities - Offer technical support and guidance on
key program activities – young women’s recruitment/training, educational
subsidies, business start-up/expansion, market facilitation and community
sensitization - Actively participate actively in the
design of the livelihoods and education focused activities to ensure young
women are actively engaged in program activities - Provide technical advice on how to recruit
and establish a young women centered safe space program in each District - Offer support in community mapping
activities to locate safe spaces for program activities, referral pathways
for health and other resources, market/business opportunities in each
community - Establish current awareness of the
importance of gender-sensitive programming among target participant groups
including traditional leaders, government officials, health workers and
youth group participants.
Monitoring & Evaluation:
- Develop systems to help recruit, track and
retain young women in training and livelihoods activities - Assess program components for gaps and
additional needs, including outlining potential recommendations for
improvement - Maximize program participation and
retention by conducting ongoing monitoring and evaluation activities - Draft reports on activities and contribute
to regular donor reports - Work in close collaboration with the Mercy
Corps technical support units, set up gender-focused elements of the SKY
monitoring system and work closely with M&E team to ensure sex and age
disaggregated data is collected and that gender analysis is applied.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps Adolescent
Girls Specialist job opportunity should a Bachelor’s degree in relevant
subject, Master’s Degree preferred - At least four years’ experience working
with adolescent young women, including facilitating trainings and
livelihood focused activities targeting adolescent young women - Broad knowledge and understanding of
gender inequality, and issues surrounding violence against young women; - Strong understanding of gender dynamics in
pastoralist communities - Previous exposure and experience working
in the sectors of sexual and gender based violence, harmful traditional
practices, the role of women in community-led processes, especially around
livelihoods and education - Previous experience designing and adapting
programmatic tools to address gender issues or to promote positive gender
outcomes - Experience conducting research and
analysis on gender issues, including leading focus groups or research on
sensitive issues
How to Apply:
All prospective Ugandans who wish to join Mercy Corps are encouraged to
send their applications via email including a cover letter clearly stating your
salary requirements, CV (with 3 referees), and copies of academic
qualifications/certificates to ug-mcjobs@mercycorps.org addressed to the Senior
HR and Legal Manager, Kampala Head Office on 4th Floor Embassy Plaza, Plot
1188-1190 Ggaba Road.
send their applications via email including a cover letter clearly stating your
salary requirements, CV (with 3 referees), and copies of academic
qualifications/certificates to ug-mcjobs@mercycorps.org addressed to the Senior
HR and Legal Manager, Kampala Head Office on 4th Floor Embassy Plaza, Plot
1188-1190 Ggaba Road.
Deadline: 10th July 2017
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