The Gender Advisor will be responsible for promoting and strengthening the inclusion and mainstreaming of gender issues in SNV programs and projects, and for developing SNVs institutional capacity to address issues of gender mainstreaming, economic empowerment and social inclusion. To achieve this, the Gender Advisor will be responsible for the overall development and delivery of the Gender Integration Strategy and its cascading and implementation within SNV's Agricultural portfolio to permit women, men and youth to benefit from SNV interventions while ensuring that these benefits are scalable and can be sustained in the long term.
This position reports to the Global Sector Coordinator -Value Chains and works in close collaboration with the Country Sector Leaders, Project Managers, Marketing and Business Development team and the Global Agriculture Sector team.
Undertake frequent travel to the projects/countries.
Master's degree in international development, gender, behavioural economics, agronomy, sociology, or other related disciplines.
Knowledge of the Africa national community development and gender policies is an advantage.
This is a full-time position with the successful candidate being contracted on a two-year basis with the possibility of renewal. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. The duty station for this position is yet to be confirmed.
Please submit your application via SmartRecruiters on or before 02 November 2018 if you wish to be considered for this position. All information will be in the strictest confidence. We will revert to you as soon as feasible when we have reviewed your application.
We will require that you provide us with full details of three people who are willing to act as a referee. We will not contact these referees without your explicit permission. Please note that reference checks may be conducted prior to your face-to-face interviews.
Should SNV wish to proceed with your application two interviews with the Selection Committee will take place.