Care Bangladesh-Project Manager - Gender and Training

CARE Bangladesh Project Summary Through the current phase of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain (SDVC) Project Phase II, CARE has been working toward sustainable solutions to overcome the major challenges to smallholder participation in the dairy sector market, particularly women, in North and Northwestern Bangladesh.   CARE identified increasing access to quality inputs and animal management practices, increasing access to markets, organizing and educating farmer groups, improving milk collector’s business options and markets, and influencing dairy sector policies as the key leverage points needed to make the value chain work for the benefit of rural smallholder low-income producers. SDVC targeted private sector companies and worked with them to pursue inclusive business models that both strengthened the value chain; and better and more equitably integrated poor producers in their supply and distribution chains. SDVC’s major interventions addressed the most critical short-medium term constraints to unlock smallholder dairy productivity and profitability— specifically, access to affordable quality feed and veterinary drugs, better animal health and management at household level, improved access to livestock health services, establishing small-holder dairy farmers into producer groups, and increasing the efficiency and transparency of milk collection. The project has made an impressive contribution to producer access to diverse and competitive community-level service provision across input supplies and collection, while upgrading local level businesses and creating opportunities for women in more advantageous roles. Position Title, Location & Contract Duration Project Manager – Gender and Training (01 position) for Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Project Phase II Location: Based at CARE Bogra Field Office. The duration of the proposed contract is up to December, 2015. I.          Job Summary:   The Strengthening Dairy Value Chain Project of CARE Bangladesh aims to empower small and medium holding dairy producers, especially women to participate in and benefit from dairy sector growth in Bangladesh. The success of vision will be achieved through strengthening dairy value chain and improving their access to dignified employment, markets for their products and information services for their economic activities, and technical assistance for their entrepreneurial initiatives. The Project Manager-Gender & Training is overall responsible for gender equality and empowerment of women through mainstreaming gender issues at all phases of the project cycle (activity planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation) as well as capacity building of the staff and project monitoring. S/he will undertake and operationalize gender mainstreaming and capacity building strategies, develop gender inclusive monitoring framework and support to effective functioning of monitoring mechanism. II.         Responsibilities and Tasks:   Responsibility # 1: Mainstream gender in  project planning, implementation and monitoring stages % of Time Develop gender mainstreaming yearly action plan  encompassing all components of the project including administration, logistic and finance Ensure Gender Mainstreaming Framework for the project in place with required revision Develop gender awareness tools and implementation guidelines as per project requirement and orient field staff on the implementation Consider practical gender need ( PGN) and strategic gender need ( SGN) during project planning, implementation and monitoring Establish and ensure sex disaggregated data base for the project Identify opportunities and bottlenecks in mainstreaming gender in the entire project and recommend effective strategy and support management to resolve them Undertake and suggest affirmative actions for gender equality and women’s empowerment Ensure gender inclusive resource and financial allocation in all project activities  Coach, mentor and support all project staff including the senior management of the project to develop their specific plan and implement those activities  Oversee implementation of the GPOG action plan and provide inputs as necessary. Develop different tools and strategy to explore project impact on women empowerment components Promote gender responsiveness among all staff to make them accountable to support women’s empowerment and gender equality process 30% Responsibility # 2: Develop and operationalize  capacity building strategies and  plan for staff and project participants 30% Develop capacity building strategies and  plan for the staff  and participants of the project Document key learning from different operations and changes in the project strategy to incorporate required topic and make necessary changes in capacity building modules.  Assess training needs of project participants and staff Develop and regularly review training modules to facilitate achieving of project outcome Ensure all training modules are fully considered the needs and abilities of ultra poor farmers and women. Update and facilitate gender and poverty focused training for staffs and oversee their implementation in the field. Enhance lesson learned from different project/ department and incorporate best learning for project compatibility and ensure dissemination of all gender related information, report and learning to other projects within CARE-B and other stakeholders. Work with key Managers to ensure that new training issues, methods and objectives are incorporated as necessary Work with teams to ensure maximum learning of staff and project participants Monitor and evaluate the quality of the training considering baseline, objectives and expectations of concerns Practice and disseminate core values of the mission in all aspects of work Orient all project staff on gender policy, GPOG, women empowerment plan and staffs responsibility to implement the gender specially women empowerment initiatives/action plan Arrange periodic review session on gender and women empowerment progress and follow-up of GPOG and provide right direction with the assistance of GU if requires Responsibility # 3: Ensure gender inclusive monitoring system is in place and continuous monitoring of the project based on gender 20% Develop gender inclusive monitoring framework for the project in consultation with project staff, GED unit and PQ unit  Work closely with M&E team to develop and review M&E tools with gender lens Ensure continuous monitoring of the project with gender perspective Based on the monitoring undertake actions to bridge the gap between desired outcome and actual women’s empowerment status Prepare periodic progress and monitoring report as per project requirement with the assistance of M&E personnel   Responsibility # 4: Promote gender responsive enabling environment and address sexual harassment issues in the project 10% Disseminate key messages of Gender policy and  Zero Tolerance Policy among the project staff Promote GED sensitive behavior among project staff Address sexual harassment within the project staff and participants  Ensure that staffs at all levels adopt and follow the mission’s gender specific code of conduct Responsibility # 5: Establish linkages and coordinate  internal      (inside CARE Bangladesh) and external gender initiatives  10% Maintain close coordination and communication with Gender Equity & Diversity Unit, GFP and others that link the Project with concerned        Participate and contributes in FOMT and ROMT as the gender focal person as well as ensure gender as a regular agenda in the FOMT/Staff meeting (discuss on staff attitude, behavior and programming issues from gender perspective). Aware and support staff, beneficiaries and stakeholders regarding gender issues and other entitlement in the project as well as in the organization Participate in mission/program level initiatives like LRSP revision, Disaster response, strategy development etc. and contribute effectively as GFP of the project Network with women’s movement at local and regional level and actively engage with regional and local level gender related initiatives such as observation of  International Women’s Day, other days and policy/lobbying on gender equality and women’s empowerment issues Represent project initiative on women empowerment to internal and external audience and review strategy based on their feedbacks. III.       Reporting:   The Project Manager (Gender and Training) will report to the Team Leader SDVC project IV.       Working Condition:   Based at Bogra, with approximate 70% of his/her time to be spent in gender equity, women empowerment and training related activities in field involving regular travel, while the remaining 30% will be used with desk work, reporting and other important activities as assigned by Coordinator- Agriculture and Value Chain based on requirements of the program and Mission. V.        Qualification:     MA in Social Science, women and gender studies,  or in any disciplines if accompanied by excellent experience. VI.       Core Competencies:   5 years proven knowledge/experience in gender and women empowerment and rural agribusiness, livestock & market development related project Sound planning and analytical skill In depth knowledge on application of gender and diversity issues especially in business Proficiency in computer skills especially MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and e-mail software Relevant training and facilitation skill Good command over written and spoken English and Bangla Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to work in a team Commitment to work with rural poor men and women Willing to travel to different regions frequently Candidates need to be highly motivated and committed to CARE Bangladesh’s vision, mission, and long term development work to significantly improve the lives of the most vulnerable and marginalized. Candidates must be capable of displaying great learning agility, support and encouragement of knowledge sharing across projects, to the ultimate benefit of all of CARE’s mission wide initiatives. This is an interesting time in the development of CARE as an organization which is shifting towards a program approach where it has developed longer-term impact visions to have MORE sustainable changes in the lives of the extreme poor and marginalized. CARE is looking for a Project Manager – Gender and Training who will play a key role in the leadership of the Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Project Phase II whilst at the same time building a learning culture that promotes knowledge sharing across CARE and excellence.  Compensation Monthly gross salary is Taka 73,000 plus other admissible benefits as per policy. Interested candidates meeting the above requirements should apply online through http://carebangladesh.org/why_join.php on or before January 20, 2015.  Note: 1. Women are particularly encouraged to apply 2. Any persuasion will disqualify the candidates 3. Internal and external applicants shall be treated equally in the entire selection process 4. Please write the position name on top of the envelope/subject line of the mail.