Summary
Date Posted: Monday, November 06 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Background
Heifer International is a global development organization on a mission to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way. We work with farmers and their communities to identify and invest in business opportunities that deliver living incomes. Since launching in 1944, Heifer International has assisted more than 40 million families to build sustainable food and farming businesses that strengthen rural economies and put people on a pathway to Sustainable Living Income. We work with local farmers, and food producers because we believe ending poverty begins with agriculture.

Heifer International started work in Uganda in 1982, and has since reached and helped over 5 million families across the country. Heifer has worked in 52 districts of Uganda and currently, we are present in 15 districts of Central, Eastern and Northern Uganda. In the last 12 years, Heifer Uganda has reached over one million families through agriculture and environmentally sound economic development programs.

About the Stimulating Agribusiness for Youth Employment Project.
Heifer International in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, and four local partner organizations is implementing the Stimulating Agribusiness for Youth Employment - SAYE project in Busoga sub- region from 2023 2029. The project targets 11 selected districts in Busoga sub-region, Eastern Uganda: Jinja, Mayuge, Iganga, Kamuli, Kaliro, Namutumba, Bugweri, Luka, Buyende, Bugiri, Namayingo.

The goal of the SAYE Project is to improve the socio-economic wellbeing and resilience of young people in Busoga sub-region by 2029. The project targets to reach 250,000 young people between 16-35 years (70% females, 3% youth with disabilities). The project will further the Mastercard Foundation's Young Africa Works Strategy (2018- 2030) by addressing employment challenges in Busoga sub-region. SAYE will take two pathways towards job creation; the agri-hub development and MSME promotion to deliver three major outcomes: 1) Increased access to and utilization of market relevant skills among youth; 2) Increased growth of youth-led agriculture and service-based enterprises; and 3) Increased participation of youth in decision making, resource allocation, and utilization.

To deliver on this goal, Heifer Project International- Uganda is currently seeking to fill the below vacant positions to support on project implementation.

Position Title: Gender & Safeguarding Specialist
Reports to: Project Director
Location: Jinja
Travel Required: 50% Annually

Function:
This is a key management position within the project structure and directly reports to the Project Director. The Gender & Safeguarding specialist will provide technical direction, oversight, and leadership to create and maximize opportunities to mainstream gender and safeguarding through direct project activities. He/she shall ensure that program implementation emphasizes inclusiveness and responsiveness to the needs of young women as well as providing a safe environment and a robust community feedback and response mechanism.

The scope of work of the Gender & Safeguarding specialist shall require experience and in depth understanding of conducting gender and safeguarding assessments and analyses, designing approaches that address the youth, women, and girls economic, social, leadership and reproductive health issues. The specialist will be expected to have in depth understanding of the country and regional context of Busoga. He/she will build capacity of project staff, local organizations, small & medium sized enterprises and relevant partners on gender inclusion related issues, tools, and approaches as well as technical assistance for the delivery of a gender transformative. She/He will be responsible for overseeing all areas of safeguarding to include policy formulation and implementation, raising awareness, training on compliance, advise and support to teams within the consortium as well as downstream partners to ensure that safeguarding is embedded in all stages of the program lifecycle, from design to completion in a manner that meets local and global standards.

Remuneration Package and Benefits
Our package includes a competitive salary, health insurance cover for up to 4 biological/legally adopted children, comprehensive 24-hour group personal accident cover, global employee life insurance which covers our employees against death by any cause, provident fund of a monthly employer contribution of 10% of the employee's basic salary and access to low interest loans from the Staff Savings and Credit Cooperative Scheme. Heifer Project International promotes a learning and development environment with training & study opportunities aligned to our staff development policy


Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
For a detailed job description and to apply, please follow this link:
https://jobs.jobvite.com/heifer/ 

Deadline for submission is November 17th, 2023.


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