Greater Rural Opportunities for Women 2 (GROW2) Project

Greater Rural Opportunities for Women 2 (GROW2) Project

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Job Description

Job Details                                                                                     Date Updated/Created: July 2024

JOB TITLE:Gender Officer
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DIRECT REPORTS: START DATE:August 2024
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DEPARTMENT:GROW2 JOB STATUS:Full-time

Position Summary

The Greater Rural Opportunities for Women 2 (GROW2) is a five-year Global Affairs-funded project implemented by URBANET in partnership with the Mennonite Economic Development Associate (MEDA) in the Northern, Upper West, and Savannah Regions of Ghana. The project is women-focused and driven by a strong market system approach that fully integrates Nutrition, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability, and Innovation in its implementation. The Project will increase the economic and social empowerment of women farmers, entrepreneurs, and agribusinesses in northern Ghana through increased productivity, and an improved business environment.

The goal of the Gender Officer is to ensure that consideration of the specific gender-based constraints faced by women is integrated into all aspects of GROW2 field project implementation. The Gender Officer is the Focal Point for all Gender Equality, and Social Inclusion  (GESI), and nutrition activities undertaken by Key Facilitating Partners (KFPs). This integration will be critical to the project’s ability to facilitate sustained change. Specifically, the Gender Officer among other things, will assist in the design and delivery of training for Field Officers, Savings and Loans Groups, and entrepreneurs, and organization of advocacy on land access for women.  The Gender Officer will work closely with project GESI Manager to ensure that they bring a gender lens in project’s outreach to community leaders, men, and women in the areas where the project is operating

This position is in URBANET head office with frequent travels to the districts to support officers and also implement activities. She will be receiving technical guidance from the MEDA GROW2 GESI Manager. This position is highly collaborative and will involve working with Field Officers, Project Coordinator, and others with frequent field travel to project communities of the operational area.

Key Accountabilities

  • Act as point-person for GROW2 to ensure the integration of GESI considerations into field project activities with support from the GESI Manager.
  • Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) issues of GROW2’s Project clients including key players in government, and local civil society organizations.
  • Work closely with other project team members to remain current on project implementation and to consistently assist the project team to integrate gender considerations into implementation plans and activities
  • Work closely with project facilitation team to continue to learn about gender issues at that community level as well as to provide support to assist women in addressing barriers to full economic participation.
  • Facilitate gender training for women farmers and their families, particularly following up to strengthen the capacity of families to incorporate this training into family dynamics. 
  • Participate in project planning, monitoring, and evaluation, identification of lessons learned, and ongoing improvement of project implementation as needed
  • Extend the current gender analysis to understand the specific roles/responsibilities, access/control, decision-making/power, and needs/priorities of women more clearly in the communities in which the project operates 
  • Support in developing detailed work plans with budgets to ensure that GESI is mainstreamed in GROW2 project activities.
  • Promote and facilitate all activities in the communities as may be directed by the Manager and in consultation with the MEDA GESI Manager
  • Work with the GROW2 GESI technical team to organize and conduct training/workshops on best practices, learnings, and innovations in gender including GROW2’s Gender Transformative Approaches
  • Participate in GROW2 GESI Community of Practice (CoP) meetings. 
  • Organize community meetings for leaders, assembly persons, and chiefs as well as monthly debriefing on gender activities implemented and those to be implemented.
  • Provide technical support on gender and make evidence-based recommendations to the relevant Project Manager and Partners.
  • Support in providing guidance to Field Officers in the identification and writing of stories of change.
  • Support the Project Coordinator in developing project and organizational reports.
  • Support in the consolidation of all reports for the organization
  • Support the project team in dealing with any other tasks as may be required

Documentation and Reporting:

  • Provide inputs in annual work plans and reporting activities, including engagement with WSHFs and entrepreneurs, input and seed dealers, aggregators, processors, and off-takers
  • Support disseminating best practice examples of agriculture-related innovations and work practices within the project clients

Any other duties and/or requirements as assigned

Position Qualifications

Education: Degree in a related discipline.

Experience: Minimum of 3 years’ experience in programming designed to assist women to improve their economic situation

Additional Qualifications

  • Understanding and appreciation of business principles and approaches to poverty reduction.
  • Knowledge of gender issues as they relate to value chain development and entrepreneurship 
  • Ability to work collaboratively to achieve results 
  • Demonstrated ability to mobilize stakeholders into partnerships and alliances 
  • Experience in providing capacity building and training.
  • Fluency in English and any local language in the Northern, Savannah regions is an added advantage.  

Please send your application by hand delivery or to the email: additionalcapacity2019@gmail.com