Overview

Job Title: Gender Officer

Job location: Simiyu

BRAC

 

 

The BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania designs context-specific, meaningful initiatives using a participative, community-based, and inclusive approach.

 

 

A Career at BRAC International

The BRAC is an award-winning worldwide non-governmental development organization that envisions a future free of all types of exploitation and prejudice, where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential. BRAC is a pioneer in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs to help poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income nations, particularly conflict-prone and post-disaster areas. It is an organisation run by and for people from the Global South, pioneering new development and social entrepreneurial ways to help communities thrive.

 

The BRAC is not only the world’s largest NGO in terms of staff and people directly touched, but it is also consistently named as the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organisation dedicated to recognizing innovation, impact, and governance in the non-profit sector. For the fifth year in a row, BRAC ranked first among the top 500 non-governmental organizations in 2020.

The BRAC was established in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It launched its first program outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002 and has since served millions of people in 11 Asian and African nations.

BRAC takes a holistic approach to development, utilizing a diverse range of programs and social enterprises in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender, and human rights. BRAC believes that everyone has inherent potential, and that when an enabling environment is created and that potential is realized, even the poorest people may become agents of good change in their own lives, families, and communities.

The BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania is part of a prominent development organization that began operations in Tanzania in 2006, with an emphasis on agriculture, youth and women’s empowerment, food security, and livelihood.

 

 

About the Programme:

The WFP (World Food Programme) has awarded BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania a Smallholder Sorghum and Sunflower Development Project, known locally as Vijana Kilimo Biashara (VKB), to be implemented in the Simiyu region to address the challenges that smallholder farmers face in the sorghum and sunflower value chains. The project will be implemented in two districts: Meatu and Maswa (Simiyu). The project aims to reach 15,000 people, including young people and adult farmers.

The BRAC International seeks applications from qualified, active, and self-motivated individuals to fill the following post at BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania.

 

 

Position Title: Gender Officer

Location: Maswa, Simiyu

 

 

The Purpose of this job:

The Gender Officer will assist in the execution of gender interventions under the Kijana Kilimo Biashara Project. The role entails incorporating gender considerations into all project operations, ensuring active engagement by women and youth, and promoting gender equity in the sorghum and sunflower value chains. The Gender Officer will collaborate closely with project stakeholders, such as farmers, partner groups, and government officials, to promote inclusive and equitable agricultural development.

 

 

The Responsibilities:

The Technical and Implementation Support:

  • Create and implement a gender-integration strategy for the Kijana Kilimo Biashara Project.
  • To ensure that project activities are consistent with gender equity goals and address the specific needs of women and young farmers.
  • To conduct a baseline, midterm, and end-of-project gender analysis, as well as an assessment of staff gender capability needs.
  • To organize and deliver gender training and awareness programs to project staff, farmer groups, and stakeholders.
  • Enhance the ability of women and youth to actively engage in agricultural value chains.
  • Create gender-sensitive metrics and methods for tracking and evaluating project initiatives.
  • To collect and analyze gender-disaggregated data to evaluate the project’s impact on women and youth.
  • Work with local governments, community-based organizations, market actors, and other stakeholders to promote gender-inclusive farming practices.
  • As the project’s gender focal point, you will represent the initiative in gender-related forums.
  • Create frequent reports on gender-related initiatives, achievements, and difficulties.
  • To document success stories and lessons learned while promoting gender equity within the project.
  • In partnership with the Communication Team, contribute to the dissemination of best practices and lessons from the organization’s work, as well as to the promotion of experience sharing and learning inside the organization and amongst stakeholders.
  • Compare the project’s gender equality outcome results to the indicator targets to improve reporting, planning, implementation, and informed decision-making.
  • Encourage the adoption of technology and practices that minimize women’s burden while increasing productivity.
  • Encourage local men and boys to become change agents for gender equality in agriculture.
  • To provide technical assistance to the project team regarding gender-sensitive methods to agricultural development.
  • Adhere to safeguarding rules and procedures to protect project participants, especially women and youth, from exploitation, abuse, or harassment.
  • To provide staff and stakeholders with training and awareness sessions on SEA prevention and safeguarding.
  • Create and maintain a reporting mechanism for SEA occurrences, ensuring proper documentation and reaction.

 

 

The Safeguarding responsibilities:

  • To ensure team members’ safety from harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation in order to meet the program’s safeguarding implementation goals.
  • Serve as a primary source of assistance, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding in order to create a safe workplace.
  • To practice, promote, and advocate safeguarding policies among team members, as well as guarantee that safeguarding standards are followed in all courses of action.
  • To follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in the event of a reportable occurrence, and encourage others to do the same.

 

The Educational Requirements:

  • A bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Agriculture, or a closely related discipline.

 

 

The skills and competitions:

  • A thorough awareness of gender issues in agriculture and rural development.
  • The experience in gender training and capacity building projects.
  • A proficiency in data collection, analysis, and reporting, with an emphasis on gender-disaggregated data.
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation, and interpersonal abilities.
  • The ability to collaborate with a variety of parties.

 

 

The Experience Requirements:

  • At least 3-5 years of experience implementing gender mainstreaming in agricultural or rural development initiatives.

 

The employment type: Contractual

Remuneration (Salary): Negotiable.

 

Mode of application:

If you believe you are the best fit for the above-mentioned post, please follow the application guidelines carefully:

Candidates should email their CV and a letter of interest to bimcf.tanzania@brac.or.tz, including educational grades, years of experience, and present and expected income.

Please provide the name of the position and your preferred region in the subject line.

Only complete applications will be accepted, and individuals who have been shortlisted will be notified.

 

Deadline for application: April 3, 2025.

The BRAC is committed to protecting children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expects all workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

We believe that every stakeholder and member of the communities we work with has the right to be safeguarded from all types of injury, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation, regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, gender, status as a disabled person, or ethnic background. As a result, our recruitment process includes rigorous reference and background checks, self-disclosure of prior difficulties related to sexual or other misconduct, as well as criminal records, and our values are integrated into our Performance Management System.

 

The BRAC is an equal opportunity employer.