Vacancies at SNV Netherlands Development Organisation 

• Lead the Empowering Young Women component of the program
•  Lead the design and implementation of the GESI strategy of the program
• Lead gender analysis in the context of the program to generate  more in-depth insights on GESI
• Build program and partners’ staff capacity in GESI and provide coaching and mentoring
• Together with national-level advisors, identify intervention areas for each component of the project to ensure young women’s engagement and benefit
• In collaboration with the program safeguarding advisor, ensure that proper safeguarding frameworks and reporting mechanisms are developed and implemented
• Identify gender barriers for young women and men and work with the youth, community, local leaders, and informal and formal institutions to address the barriers
• Lead the team to identify and implement innovative approaches to ensure young women’s and men’s empowerment
•  Position the program at higher levels to develop strategic partnerships, improve  the program’s visibility and bring in ecosystem-level changes to ensure young women’s equality
• Support the MEAL team in developing GESI indicators and systems for proper monitoring and tracking progress.
• Ensure that gender indicators and measurement tools are incorporated in regular monitoring tools, baseline, midterm, and final evaluation.
• Develop/review GESI and young women empowerment  learning questions/agenda and oversee the action research
• In collaboration with the MEAL coordinator, develop knowledge management strategies for the projects
• Oversee periodic (quarterly and annual) project reflection processes to ensure quality implementation of GESI strategy  and for required adaptation
• Conduct regular monitoring of the implementation of the interventions at various levels and provide feedback
• Contribute to internal and external knowledge sharing by documenting project insights, attending workshops and conferences, and applying lessons learned. Use the knowledge to influence the ecosystem for better Young women’s and men’s engagement and benefit
• Contribute to the development of timely, accurate, consistent and informed reports for the donor and SNV

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Gender studies, social studies, social work, or any related fields with experience of 10 years in GESI, women’s economic empowerment, and social inclusion, preferably in market system development or value chain development, and youth employment projects.
• Experience in conducting gender analysis and the development of gender transformative intervention projects with strong private sector engagement
•  Experience in designing and implementing training and capacity-building for program staff and partner organisations. A strong understanding of GESI aspects of rights and justice issues in Ethiopia is required.
• Experience managing complex activities involving coordination with multiple programme partner institutions
• Strong reputation and network with government and private sector, preferably in rural agriculture context, with extensive knowledge of the political economy of the country.
• Experience in policy, social norms and practices influencing and advocacy
• Solid understanding of young woman agri-preneurship specificities in the Ethiopian context
• Experience in collaborative and adaptive monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Familiar with both national and regional level strategies related to women, youth and agriculture
• Understanding of public-private partnerships, private sector development, and working with various local institutions

• Lead design and analysis of the livestock sector to identify agribusiness opportunities for rural young women. Work closely with partner organizations to identify and analyse livestock agribusinesses and market system constraints and propose market-based solutions to address these constraints.
• Based on the analysis, design market-based intervention strategies for the respective clusters based on the context
• Ensure implementation of the livestock value chain/market system interventions, including market development, market linkages, market intelligence, and direct business development support for sustainable markets.
• Facilitate  young women-led livestock-related business linkages among private sectors, cooperatives, unions and farmers groups that contribute to  increasing   production, income and employment;
• Map existing youth-led MSEs and develop a strategy to enable them to grow their business and employ more young women
• Provide technical support for implementing partners, private sector actors and other stakeholders through a systematic coaching and mentoring approach
• Facilitate the strengthening of livestock value chains by introducing and promoting new technologies, productivity improvement training, value addition and engagement of the private sector in the provision of embedded services;
• Support the annual reviews, midterm assessments and final evaluations and progress report preparations;
• Ensure that implementation of the project activities for livestock value chains according to approved plans;
• Ensure strong communication of value chain and agricultural marketing concepts and procedures with partners and other stakeholders with a focus on livestock
• Manage Livestock  Multi-stakeholder meetings’ preparation, documentation and facilitation and share the meeting proceedings with relevant stakeholders;
• Ensure the Livestock Multi-stakeholder platform meetings contribute to providing  strategic guidance and solving  challenges in the input and output marketing system
• Build and maintain strong networks with stakeholders and other projects and programs  in the livestock  sector

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s in a relevant field (Livestock Development, Agribusiness, agricultural marketing, agricultural economics, and related fields);
•  Minimum 10 years of relevant experiences working with value chains gained in private sector or in a professional consultancy firm/reputable advisory organisation with an international outlook or NGO/GO development mainly in the livestock sector and related fields
• Specialization in value chain development, preferably with experience in the livestock sector
• Sound knowledge of marketing of agricultural commodities and market systems analysis
• Adequate experience in facilitating and supporting youth employment
• Good experience in advisory and capacity building of smallholder producers in livestock feed technologies and husbandry practices and in livestock markets,
• Knowledge of local, national and international livestock trade systems and market linkages for the advantage of the poor in practice;
• Familiar with livestock sector policies and national strategies, functioning of government/public sector, private sector and farmers organizations;
• Recognized expertise in working as an advisor and process facilitator to plan, implement and monitor input and output marketing strategies for livestock development ;
• Good experience in facilitating stakeholder forums, business and market linkages, working with sectoral associations and strengthening of cooperatives;
• Knowledge and experience with participatory techniques, coaching, networking, learning, alliance building and team building
• Experience in the area of strategy development and partnership development
• knowledge of gender, climate and nutrition concepts and mainstreaming in value chain selection and implementation;
• Excellent project management and planning, analytical skills combined with a practical and pragmatic approach oriented towards lasting results;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills