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Date Posted: Friday, May 14, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Summary
Action pour le Developpement du Peuple (ADEPE) is a non -Governmental organization legally recognized by The Rwanda Government Board (RGB) under the new Law n° 04/2012 of 17/2/2012. ADEPE works with women, youth, children, and deprived persons in general. In line with the national commitment of empowering women as enshrined in the national gender policy and in contribution to the country’s National Strategy for transformation, ADEPE empowers women as well as girls especially targeting capacity development, supporting women to engage in income-generating activities and provision of legal aid to women and the most vulnerable people. It reintegrates the beneficiaries into the community by engaging them in productive work, education, cooperatives/associations, and advocacy.
ADEPE’s mission is to empower vulnerable people especially children, youth (girls and boys), and women to improve their living conditions and facilitate them to be self-reliant through knowledge and skills development, promotion of social justice and human rights, and poverty eradication for transformational and sustainable development.
ADEPE is looking for a suitable candidate for the position of Gender Officer to support in strengthening the gender mainstreaming while conducting the implementation and monitoring activities of the Public Policy Information Monitoring and Advocacy (PPIMA) project in Nyabihu District.

Job purpose:
• The Gender Officer with the supervision of the ADEPE-Director of programs will have the responsibility to support in strengthening the gender mainstreaming while conducting the implementation and monitoring activities of the Public Policy Information Monitoring and Advocacy (PPIMA) project in Nyabihu District.
• She/he will be in charge of providing clear guidelines on gender, the involvement of tools designing, reporting, field visits, support the program team on a regular basis to incorporate gender in all project cycles.. .

Essential Job Functions
• The Gender Officer will be responsible for planning and implementing gender mainstreaming activities with Project/program staff at field level
• The Gender Officer will support the Program team and Partner staff to implement and monitor activities, making sure that gender mainstreaming is adequately integrated.
• The Gender Officer will monitor the integration of gender mainstreaming through regular visits to the project location, draws the attention of the Program team and Partner staff around successes and challenges faced in the program, and orient the teams to take corrective measures.
• The Gender Officer will work closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation team to design and implement gender-sensitive data collection tools, including but not limited to the collection of Sex, Age, and Disability Desegregated Data. The Gender Officer will contribute to the definition of the methodology and tools of the internal baseline and external mid-term and final evaluations.
• The Gender Officer will participate in mapping Women’s Rights Organisations and facilitate their participation in project implementation. The Gender Officer will participate in gender capacity assessments of Partners.
• The Gender Officer will attend the relevant coordination meetings at the Governorate level (ie: GBV Working Group, Protection Working Group, etc.), connect with other stakeholders to facilitate the orientation of project beneficiaries (especially survivors of GBV), and use the information shared to improve gender mainstreaming in programs.
• The Gender Officer will provide inputs on gender mainstreaming in the monthly and quarterly Sit Rep and review donors’ reports to ensure gender mainstreaming is properly reported and that the reporting language is gender-sensitive.
• The Gender Officer will participate in research around gender equality to support policy and campaign. The Gender Officer will identify success stories, case studies, etc.

Job Requirements
• Leadership
• Influencing skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as a team player.
• Good facilitation skills.
• Strong communication both verbal and written.
• Working with others effectively.

Core skills and training
• University/College qualification in the relevant field (e.g. Gender or development studies, social sciences, or related discipline) or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working in the humanitarian or development sector.
• Good oral and written communication skills in English and Kinyarwanda.
• Knowledge and skills in computer usage especially Microsoft office program (Work, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Female candidates are more encouraged to apply for this position
• Familiarity with PSEA and an understanding of the global context in which this issue impacts ADEPE.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
All interested candidates should submit only soft copies of updated CV along with their academic certificates with at least 3 previous work referees and Motivational letter to; info@adepe-rw.org 
cc: adepeu@yahoo.com 
cc: adeperwanda@gmail.com 
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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