Program Officer – Gender

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AGRA

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 26/04/2025
  • Location: Zambia
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
AGRA is an African-led institution that actively supports the drive towards inclusive agricultural transformation and sustainable food systems. We do this by empowering the continent’s 33 million small-farming households to transform their agriculture from a struggle to survive to profitable businesses. The continent’s farmers regularly face challenges, and we aspire to provide uniquely African solutions that respond to their agricultural and environmental challenges, leading to increased harvests for reduced hunger and more income.

The Position
Program Officer – Gender Job Reference: PO/ZA/04/2025

The Program Officer – Gender will support programs in Zambia, Malawi and one more country (as will be advised) ensuring sustainable, inclusive, and equitable program outcomes and that each component of the program carries key gender-responsive actions and not only ensures equal participation of women but also actively empowers women within the FL-RS value chain.

The ideal candidate will ensure the availability of business development opportunities that directly target women’s and youth groups and women/ youth-led enterprises, recognizing them as key actors in the market, and supporting these groups to establish robust, sustainable services in the FL-RS value chain. The role holder will ensure the provision of platforms that will promote gender and youth integration, hence leading to gender-sensitive outcomes. The role will focus on addressing gender disparities in post-harvest practices, promoting gender equality, and empowering women, youth, and marginalized groups in food production, storage, processing, and distribution systems. The Program Officer will be responsible for the implementation of gender-responsive strategies, advocating for women’s participation in decision-making, and ensuring the program’s activities are inclusive and equitable.


Key Qualifications and Experience Required:

  • Bachelors in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Agriculture, Social Sciences, or a related field.
  • Experience working on gender-related issues, particularly in agriculture, food systems, or resilience programs.
  • Experience in designing and implementing gender-sensitive strategies in international development projects.
  • In-depth understanding of gender analysis approaches, frameworks, and tools.
  • Proven ability to design, implement, and evaluate gender-sensitive interventions.
  • Familiarity with post-harvest food loss, food security, and resilience-building frameworks is desirable.
  • Experience in providing technical support in identifying opportunities for the development of relevant advocacy and communication and advocacy materials to address gender issues.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple stakeholders, and meet deadlines.
  • Experience working with vulnerable populations, particularly women and youth in rural areas.
  • Demonstrates knowledge in gender-related challenges in agriculture and food systems, with a focus on post-harvest losses and resilience.
  • Demonstrates capacity to engage in advocacy for gender-sensitive policies, ensuring that women’s needs and voices are included in policy discussions on food security, agriculture, and post-harvest management.
  • Familiarity with international frameworks and agreements on gender equality and food systems.
  • Ability to prepare project plans, budgets, timelines, and monitoring frameworks and adapt program strategies based on monitoring and evaluation data, particularly from a gender perspective.
 

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