Job Purpose:

• Gender mainstreaming Officer is responsible for supporting Somali Concern team in the area of Gender mainstreaming, Cross cutting issues. He /she will play a role in the implementation of gender transformative training and in the implementation of gender sensitive programming, including Concern’s engaging men and boys approach.

Main duties & Responsibilities:

Gender mainstreaming

• Assist Carry out gender analysis and gender related assessments
• Assist the development and monitoring of gender sensitive indicators.
• Assist Carry out gender training for staff relating to attitudes, behaviour and programmatic implementation.
• Closely monitor and follow up mother to mother and father to father support groups discussed gender issues
• Ensure pre/post-test is carried out for all the support groups.
• Assist Regularly monitor, review and evaluate the implementation of activities under programme on gender mainstreaming, take appropriate and timely action and extract lessons learned for future program development and implementation.
• Document best practices on the implementation of gender mainstreaming.
• Assist and Support the programme teams in the implementation of Concern’s Engaging Men and Boys Strategy
• Assist and Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with  dignity and respect
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.
• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with  dignity and respect
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities
• The duties and responsibilities of the job holder not limited to the above activities but includes other duties assigned by the line manager.

Gender Equity

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with  dignity and respect
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities

Accountability

• In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):
• actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
• work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed; work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities.

Emergency response

• Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopian Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.

Safeguarding

• Able to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, and feel confident that they have been understood.
• Understands local safeguarding structures and arrangements.
• Practises in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect.
• Identifies and refers to appropriate services any other associated persons including carers, family members and children at risk.
• Able to document safeguarding concerns, and maintain appropriate record keeping, recording the wishes and views of the adult or child at risk, differentiating between fact and opinion.