Banyan Global ,Gender and Youth Specialists Job Vacancy in Uganda

Job Title: Gender
and Youth Specialists (Several Jobs)

Organisation: Banyan Global

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Banyan:

Banyan Global is a
development consulting firm committed to improving livelihoods through market
approaches to international development. The firm has offices in Washington, DC
and New York City and staff working in a number of developing countries. Banyan
Global operates seamlessly within four practice areas: microfinance, financial
sector development, enterprise development, and the health sector.

Key Duties and
Responsibilities:

Ensure that all project activities includes sufficient attention to
gender and youth considerations and that project activities protect youth,
women and children in targeted communities from malaria and other health
issues;
Offer strategic technical direction and guidance on gender and
youth integration to key personnel, project staff, government ministries,
and project partners and stakeholders;
Ensure that gender and youth are mainstreamed across the program,
including training materials, monitoring, operations, policies and
procedures, and design activities that target women and youth within the
scope of the project;
Carry out gender analyses and research on gender norms and
constraints in project locations in Uganda;
Utilize available and active women’s and youth networks and
organizations in the planning and implementation of project activities.
Intuitively review and provide input to project work plans, with
attention to gender and youth dimensions of technical activities and
operations, and discuss gender issues and priorities with project senior management
and other technical specialists;
Work closely with technical staff to ensure that gender and youth
considerations are assessed and accounted for;
Maintain an up-to-date and thorough understanding of gender and
youth issues related to project components.

Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:

The ideal candidates for the Gender and Youth Specialists vacancies
should have a minimum of five years of experience in gender and youth
integration, public health and malaria prevention programming.
Possess at least a Master’s Degree in international development,
international affairs, public health, gender, or a related field;
Three or more years of experience effectively integrating gender
and youth considerations into health and malaria programming;
Five or more years of experience partnering with government
ministries;
Past exposure and experience designing and facilitating trainings
on gender and youth issues and gender and youth integration processes and
techniques;
Good knowledge and understanding of monitoring and evaluation,
including experience with effective gender and youth indicators and data
collection considerations;
Capacity to be original and creative in strategies to integrate
gender and youth considerations into non-gender related programming.
The candidates should be based in Uganda;