Position Title: Gender Officer Position Available
Employer: World Vision
Employment: Full-Time | Contract
Place of Work: Bahir Dar - Ethiopia
Posted date: 6 hours ago
Deadline: February, 28/2026 (12 days left)
About the Compnay
With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Major Responsibilities
- Provide technical support in the conduct of gender-based conflict assessments, baseline, and research initiatives, particularly in the operational areas.
- Ensure gender issues are effectively executed as per proposal within gender and other intervention areas of the project.
- Ensure that the different community, government, and like-minded NGOs institutions receive sufficient support towards women and girls.
- Regularly monitor, review, and evaluate the implementation of the project on gender sector perspectives and take appropriate and timely action.
- Ensure that inclusive and participatory processes are adhered to, and women and girls are empowered and increase their participation in community dialogues.
- Contribute to the documentation of good practice and learning.
- Ensure timely and quality report writing.
- Cooperate baseline, engage in comprehensive gender conflict analysis and other assessments.
- Closely work with other officers/specialists and respective area government sector offices so that gender issues are effectively addressed with all types of interventions.
- Undertake the preparation of detailed annual activity vs finance, purchase, and other required plans and follow up on their implementation.
- Serve as the gender focal person of the project delivery towards quality annual plan, implementation, and reporting in the target districts, and serve as the main contact point for partnership communications.
- Carry out gender training based on the project logic model for staff and stakeholders relating to participating in community dialogues and issues that need their involvement.
- Identify, stretch, and establish women-centered CBOs, FBOs, and the like towards empowering.
- Ensure women's participation in community dialogues and leverage their contributions for nonviolent approaches.
- Ensure that women benefit from inclusive and gender-transformative market opportunities.
- Ensure targeting is aligned with the project.
- Review and validate gender-related targets and indicators of the project and consult with the peace-building project.
- Undertake execution of project DIP with women-centered approaches.
- Conduct regular field visits to ensure all concerned are familiar with gender approaches to be used in day-to-day programming.
- Implement project planned activities in line with the agreed work plans and budgets; successfully deliver against timeframes and milestones.
- Regularly monitor, review, and evaluate the implementation of the project, take appropriate and timely action, and extract lessons learned closely working with MAEL (where available).
- Ensure that learnings are applied in the DIP revision and contribute to the documentation of good practice and learning.
- Ensure that at all times the project target identifications and selections in line with the planned log frame milestones are made.
- Facilitate documentation of best practices and success stories on the roles of women in peace-building and community dialogues.
- Conduct regular support and monitoring visits to intervention regions to ensure the progress of gender-based activity implementation is on a good track and develop mechanisms to monitor and evaluate the impact of women in peace-building and conflict resolutions in different structures.
- Provide technical support including capacity building trainings on trauma, women in peace-building, GBV prevention, and response for the community and other partners and key government stakeholders, and ensure timely submission of project reports as per WV and donor requirements. Conduct timely documentation of project progress through case studies, stories, photos, and videos.
- Establish effective working relationships with government counterparts, implementing partners, private and public sectors, consultants, and other development organizations and target populations in the program operation. Work with the implementation partners to identify and address potential capacity building and/or support needs. Participate at Zonal and Woreda Level monthly GESI, CP, and GBV cluster meetings as required.
- Prepare quality and timely regular reports and submit the same to concerned GO and HO.
- Other related activities when assigned.
Qualification
- BA in Sociology, social development, business management, development studies, or other related fields of study.
- Ability to work with local organizations and actors with knowledge about and experience from the relevant Amhara, Tigray, and Benishangul areas context, and working in fragile areas and knowing the local cultures of the community is most advantageous.
- 2-3 years relevant experience, at least 1 year must be in a similar position; Gender project officer and experience working on peace-building or security sector reform in a conflict-affected environment.
Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement
The position requires the ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 20% of the time and be on call 20%.
Language Requirements
English and Amharic.
Safeguarding Commitment
World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries, and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.
Disclaimer
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Applicant Types Accepted
Local Applicants Only
