Summary
Date Posted: Friday, April 01, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Serve as the project-wide gender focal person, ensuring gender is integrated into all project activities, and as the youth focal person, ensuring quality and cohesiveness of all the project’s youth-focused interventions around health, particularly HIV prevention. Serve also as a technical advisor responsible for cross-cutting gender issues across the project.

Key Responsibilities
• Conduct a project-wide gender analysis to determine the state of gender inclusivity within the programme interventions and develop an implementation plan to strengthen diversified packages of services for men, women, boys, and girls.
• Develop and facilitate the implementation of a strategy to use evidence-based approaches to strengthen gender-sensitivity and gender inclusion in all project activities.
• Revise SOPs and project materials to incorporate specific actions to improve gender-sensitivity.
• Facilitate activities to help project and CSO staff improve their own gender attitudes and beliefs and raise awareness about gender dynamics and gender-based violence and develop skills for integrating gender considerations into project activities.
• Lead the design of a gender-based violence prevention toolkit, to be adapted from evidence-based approaches, for use by VSLG groups and other project platforms to facilitate community dialogues on perceptions of violence and harmful practices against women and children.
• Develop and lead the implementation of initiatives to strengthen women’s and girls’ leadership opportunities across the project.
• Provide technical support to other Technical Advisors to help them ensure the quality of project gender-based violence interventions, including male mobilization activities
• Monitor and promote integration of various youth approaches across the project.
• Collaborate and coordinate with the Youth Empowerment Advisor (Restless Development) to develop a programme youth strategy to guide the project in ensuring that all targeted youth can access and are benefitting from the continuum of OVC/AGYW services.
• Lead the implementation and technical quality for the project’s activities including sexual and reproductive health and education subsidies for in-school OVC girls, scholarships to vocational training and start-up kits for out of school OVC girls, and parenting interventions for caregivers of adolescents.
• Collaborate with DREAMS partners, government, and other stakeholders to ensure coordination and attend national level DREAMS related meetings, workshops, etc.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine, Sociology, Gender studies or Public Health.
• Strong technical knowledge of national and international gender guidelines and policies.
• Strong technical knowledge of national and international youth programming guidelines and policies.
• At least three years’ experience in an HIV-focused field position that included gender and youth; PEPFAR experience preferred.
• Demonstrate ability to adapt policies, frameworks, and program analyses into actionable steps for implementation at community level which are appropriate for the OVC adolescents and caregivers.
• Experience with provision of field-based mentorship and use of diverse capacity-building approaches that influence behavior change.
• Experience with creating strong working relationships with diverse stakeholders including local government, CSOs and community members.
• Demonstrate experience with using M&E data for program monitoring and decision-making, and familiarity with PEPFAR indicators and reporting requirements.
• Experience with PEPFAR 3.0 funded projects in Tanzania
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in Kiswahili and English, including report writing
• Creative thinker and energetic team player


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
If you believe you are the right candidate for the job, submit a cover letter including your current and expected remuneration, detailed CV, copies of your academic certificates and transcripts, and three referees to KizaziHodari-SouthernZone@deloitte.co.tz  For your application to be considered


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