Gender Inclusion Specialist – Eastern Cape Landscape (Matatiele)
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Conservation South Africa
- Job type: Consultancy
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Not Specified
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: ZAR 280,000 ZAR / Budget
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 30/06/2026
- Location: South Africa
The Economic Inclusion and Empowerment of Women, Youth and LGBTQIA+ Community Members (ECOWYL) Programme will contribute to achieving the EU Roadmap for Engagement with Civil Society in South Africa, by strengthening the partnership between the Delegation of the EU to South Africa and South African Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to achieve transformational change at grassroots level, addressing intersectional issues related to inequality, unemployment, discrimination and the democratic accountability gap.
Overall Objective of the Project
ECOWYL is to increase the economic empowerment, entrepreneurial and financial inclusion of rural women, youth and LGBTQIA+ community members through improving their access to, decision-making authority over, communal grazing land, livestock and entrepreneurship opportunities in three climate vulnerable districts of rural South Africa.
Consultancy Services Required
Conservation South Africa (CSA seeks to work with a Gender Inclusion Specialist to identify and target rural women, youth and LGBTQIA+ community members who seek to participate in rural land management governance and rural economic activities within the Alfred Nzo District of the Eastern Cape Province. Working alongside existing structures such as farmer organizations, informal women’s groups and youth groups at village-level, the service provider will deliver a Gender Action Plan working in close collaboration with the selected Traditional Authority. The Service Provider is expected to strengthen the capacity and amplify the voice of youth and marginalised community networks by developing resource materials, including factsheets, key messages, and basic gender mainstreaming training content, for dissemination across the landscape. CSA will provide the service provider with the ECOWYL Communications Plan and work alongside them to access various media platforms, including social media platforms to distribute the content to a broad audience and raise awareness of the key issues facing rural women, youth and the LGBTQIA+ community in achieving economic inclusion.
Skills and Knowledge Required
The service provider must:
• Have 3-5 years experience in Economic Inclusion and Gender Mainstreaming
• Have 3-5 years experience in youth, women and community engagement
• Have a strong understanding of rural community learning patterns
• Be able to leverage varying communication delivery channels to deliver messages
• Have a proven track record in conducting work in the specified rural areas of training sites and surrounds
• Bidder must be fluent in Sesotho and Xhosa as a working language as beneficiary communities are Xhosa & Sesotho speaking
Overall Objective of the Project
ECOWYL is to increase the economic empowerment, entrepreneurial and financial inclusion of rural women, youth and LGBTQIA+ community members through improving their access to, decision-making authority over, communal grazing land, livestock and entrepreneurship opportunities in three climate vulnerable districts of rural South Africa.
Consultancy Services Required
Conservation South Africa (CSA seeks to work with a Gender Inclusion Specialist to identify and target rural women, youth and LGBTQIA+ community members who seek to participate in rural land management governance and rural economic activities within the Alfred Nzo District of the Eastern Cape Province. Working alongside existing structures such as farmer organizations, informal women’s groups and youth groups at village-level, the service provider will deliver a Gender Action Plan working in close collaboration with the selected Traditional Authority. The Service Provider is expected to strengthen the capacity and amplify the voice of youth and marginalised community networks by developing resource materials, including factsheets, key messages, and basic gender mainstreaming training content, for dissemination across the landscape. CSA will provide the service provider with the ECOWYL Communications Plan and work alongside them to access various media platforms, including social media platforms to distribute the content to a broad audience and raise awareness of the key issues facing rural women, youth and the LGBTQIA+ community in achieving economic inclusion.
Skills and Knowledge Required
The service provider must:
• Have 3-5 years experience in Economic Inclusion and Gender Mainstreaming
• Have 3-5 years experience in youth, women and community engagement
• Have a strong understanding of rural community learning patterns
• Be able to leverage varying communication delivery channels to deliver messages
• Have a proven track record in conducting work in the specified rural areas of training sites and surrounds
• Bidder must be fluent in Sesotho and Xhosa as a working language as beneficiary communities are Xhosa & Sesotho speaking
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