Gender specialist

Organizational Setting

The consultant will be hire by FAO Angola Representation, under a Personnel Services contract or COF.REG.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the FAO Representative Assistant for Program (A-FAOR-P), the Gender Officer main role is to ensure an effective gender mainstreaming mechanism (equality approach incorporated) in all projects at country level office. The Gender specialist should also promote and advocacy an organizational learning at individual level on how to practically and effectively mainstream gender´s issues into projects and programs and also on FAO Angola office´s structure within the framework of existing programmatic support from Head Quarters and Regional Officer. The consultant will be responsible for make links between gender and specific thematic areas such us work, political participation, education, sexual and reproductive health, human rights and violence against women.

Reporting Lines

The international consultant will report direct to FAO Representative (FAOR) in Angola and work closely with FAO Representative Assistant for Programme (A-FAOR –P).

Technical Focus

Gender equality and socio-economic development

Tasks and responsibilities

The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Ensure an affective gender´s issues mainstreaming mechanism in FAOR programs and projects
• Participate in gender´s training and pertinence’s activities
• Ensure the support in the formalization of Projects with the sectoral engagement of women
• Support the integration of gender issues in the daily management of programs and projects and insert gender equity issues as key points in the projects documents proposal
• Take on the issues of gender, with focus to social and economic framework as well as national and regional statistical references.
• Day-to-day manage the ongoing projects and the activities including the monitoring of women participation on trainings and workshops, mapping of gender equality, parity and gender balance promotion.
• Contact the focal points networking (at HQ, Regional and Sub regional level) and establish regular briefing sessions as well continued as UN Women
• Compilation documents related with gender profile and create a digital and physical office collection of Gender assessment (national, regional and global view), Gender database (sectorial profile), Gender guidelines, ToR, other references (UN recommendations, FAO checklist, etc)
• Oversee and review, from a gender perspective, data collection, validation, analysis and reporting activities to support the development of technical standards, international instruments, innovation, FAO flagship publications
• Apply operational and administrative procedures according to UN rules and FAO standards for an effective gender mainstreaming mechanism
• Promote and advocacy an organizational learning at individual level on how to practically
• Perform briefings, actions or activities on gender issues with/to colleagues on Country Office in order to consolidate concepts and awareness of the problematic
• Ensure the policy procedures and sensibility of the issue together with all stakeholders including the Government of Angola and UN agencies

• Provide trainings on gender for FAO Staff, master trainers and rural communitive

  CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• University degree in Political science, social sciences, gender, institutional development or other relevant social science
• At least five (5) years’ experience in gender in rural development context and training.
• Working knowledge of English, French or Spanish and limited knowledge of one of the other two or of Arabic, Chinese, Russian (for COF.REG).
• Working knowledge of English, French or Spanish for PSA.SBS.

FAO Core Competencies

• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Additional Selection Criteria

• Professional experience in FFS in Portuguese/ Spanish-speaking countries.
• Experience in Angola and familiarity with Angola’ rural context is considered as asset
• Knowledge of national information rules, regulations and procedures and good communications skills
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to an evolving and complex context and within multidisciplinary and different cultural background teams;
• Demonstrated ability to establish good working relationship and team spirit both inside the Organization and with external partners such as government officers, UN partners, donors or NGOs;