2 Job Positions of Community Development Gender and Youth Specialist at Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB): (Deadline 18 October 2024)

The Community Development, Gender and Youth Specialist shall report to the Cross-Cutting program Manager. He/she is responsible  To Coordinate and liaise with the project managers to ensure effective Community Development, Gender and Youth activities are implemented  Overall coordinate all the social inclusion, gender, youth related activities of the Project at the district and National level; ensure that vulnerable households are included in all Project’s activities, that women and men equally benefit from Project’s interventions and that young people are adequately reached by the Project;  Identify any capacity gap from Project’s implementation partners or service providers that limit achievements of social inclusion, gender/ youth related objectives, and propose practical solutions to address the gap;  Prepare contents for trainings on gender and youth related topics; revise existing training materials and ensure that the materials developed by the Project are gender sensitive in their language and image, considering literacy level of target groups;  Organize specific separate sessions for women and youth during the mobilisation process and during the development of participatory sub-catchment plans, ensuring that the needs of women, youth and vulnerable categories are considered;  Interacting with women in communities to gain better understanding of women’s’ and youth perceptions and guiding empowerment, youth mainstreaming. The basic processes to which the specialist should provide inputs are: Preparation of the Annual Work Plan and Budget; o Design and implementation of project M&E system; o Project Progress Reports; o Project Supervision Reports;  Organize women’s leadership trainings and keep track of monitoring women in leadership positions;  Reviewing (regularly) participation of women and youth in projects activities and decision-making processes and making recommendation to improve processes;  Review basic project implementation processes and outputs to provide feedback and suggestions when needed on how to achieve best possible project outcomes with respect to social inclusion and gender equity;  Review project plans and budgets to ensure that adequate attention is paid (and resources allocated) to support practical and strategic support to women, youth and vulnerable groups as in line with project design document and percentage of outreach by categories is respected;  Work with the M&E specialists to ensure that the M&E, log frame is gender and youth sensitive and reflective of the real time situation. Address any gaps in the supervision reports for further follow up. Furthermore, work with M&E unit to ensure that lessons learned, and success stories of women and youth are fully captured and reflected in relevant reports sections (i.e. Knowledge Management).  Revise the Gender and Youth Strategy of the Project;  Ensure that the project implementation teams are sensitized to gender and diversity issues that they should expect and explore in their interaction with the community through regular trainings and sensitization programmes;  Establish and maintain working relationships with the District authorities to build interaction in gender-sensitive interventions in Project activities and establish coordination mechanisms; ensure coordination and partnership with the Gender Officers or with other relevant stakeholders at the District level for the delivery of gender awareness trainings;  Carry out any other assignment or relevant duties in the field of his competences as may be assigned by relevant authorities; Expertise in working with community groups and/or community level organizations, with additional experience on community development and working with gender and youth groups