Gender & Safeguards Specialist
Conservation International
Lokasi pekerjaan
Gaborone
Status Pekerjaan
Waktu penuh
Detail Pekerjaan
Conservation International protects nature for the benefit of humanity. Through science, policy, fieldwork, and finance, we spotlight and secure the most important places in nature for the climate, biodiversity, and for people. With offices in 30 countries and projects in more than 100 countries, Conservation International partners with governments, companies, civil society, Indigenous peoples, and local communities to help people and nature thrive together.
POSITION SUMMARY - This position is based in Gaborone, Botswana
The “Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Mitigation in Botswana’s Communal Rangelands” Project funded by Green Climate Fund (GCF) aims to will utilize collective management of livestock and ecosystems to restore Botswana’s communal rangelands, increasing the climate resilience of vulnerable populations and reducing GHG emissions. Over 8 years, the project will undertake activities in 104 villages in the Project Areas: Ngamiland, Kgalagadi, and Bobirwa geographic areas of Botswana to improve the management of 4.6 million hectares of rangelands. The day-to-day activities of the Project are implemented in each of the three Project Areas, and the Gender & Safeguards Specialist will be responsible for oversight, coordination, and technical support for the implementation of the project’s Gender Action Plan and Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP), including multiple safeguards plans that fall under the ESMP, outlined below:
• Labor and Working Conditions Risk Management Plan
• Environmental Management Plan
• Involuntary Resettlement and Restriction of Access to Natural Resources Plan
• Community Health, Safety, and Security Management Plan
• Conflict Mitigation Plan
The position is considered a key role within the project team, helping the project team to problem solve, propose adaptive changes, and participate in monitoring and other activities. The Gender & Safeguards Specialist engages in close collaboration with the science team, management team, and field staff, as well as other key project partner ministries and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Provide oversight, coordination, leadership and technical support to the project’s Gender Action Plan and Safeguard plans (ESMP), which includes:
Team Oversight And Leadership
• Lead a team of at least 10 individuals who will collaborate and support each other, the project team, and partners in successful implementation of the GAP and ESMP.
• Recruit, onboard, and lead the project’s gender and safeguards team, including at least 10 graduate monitors.
Training And Capacity Building
• Develop and deliver appropriate capacity building for colleagues and delivery partners that are well-designed, clear, tailored to the context, and practical.
• Design and facilitate project-tailored/specific gender and safeguards training and consultations for project stakeholders, carried out at the start of the project and ongoing in each community cluster.
• Create and support a ‘women champion network’, consisting of women role models across sites/villages, including tailored leadership training for the network.
• Design and deliver engagements with male community members and leaders to gain support for women’s empowerment and to proactively address perceptions that may drive GBV.
• Guide Stewardship Agreement design and negotiations to be gender inclusive, equitable, and include safeguard measures.
• Mentor restoration team leaders and female restoration team members on gender/women’s leadership and safeguards issues.
• Facilitate workshops with red meat private sector actors on best practices for working with women producers.
Technical support to mainstream gender, women’s leadership, and safeguards in the project:
• Work across the project’s many activities and initiatives to ensure that gender equity and safeguards practices are included and have the desired results.
• Ensure Project employment procedures include best practice considerations and activities to advance gender equity, including recruitment, deployment, in-service training, and access to childcare during training (through a nursery school partnership).
• Manage and implement the project’s Grievance and Redress Mechanism (GRM)
• Adapt professional herding & rangeland rehabilitation Curriculum & Training Programme to include robust gender and safeguards considerations.
• Help identify women and men to be part of the Farmer Learning Exchanges, with a goal of 50/50 participation.
• Connect/support women and men to access support services such as from CEDA (to secure investment capital), and government poverty eradication programs.
• Work with project partners to strengthen gender equity and safeguard provisions in their operational strategies (e.g., CEDA, LEA, BMC, Meat Naturally).
• Ensure that the social safety net program is gender inclusive and considers labor rights as well as other relevant safeguards.
Collaboration And Communication
• Communicate internally and externally to share materials, project results, and lessons learned among project/program stakeholders and external audiences.
• Lead formal collaboration with the Department of Gender Affairs, including establishing an MoU with clear, agreed-upon, areas of technical support. Collaborate with the Ministry of Agriculture.
• Develop relationships with GBV actors, create localized referral lists of relevant Gender-based Violence actors and service providers in each of the project Districts and at the national level, and ensure close collaboration and communication with them throughout the project.
• Collaborate with the Ministry of Agriculture gender focal point of the Draft Gender Strategy of the Ministry.
• Contribute lessons and best practices to the National Gender and Development Policy.
• Engage in Herding for Health Forums to share best practices & results.
• Liaise and collaborate with CI’s Gender Director and gender working group.
Monitoring & Reporting
• Monitor and report on gender and safeguard-related results through established project-specific indicators and through qualitative information gathering and communication.
• Collect and report on relevant data and results (outlined in the GAP and ESMP) including relevant reports for internal and external communication.
• Ensure the project’s Accountability and Grievance Mechanism is designed and implemented in a gender-sensitive way, providing leadership and technical support to respond to any gender-related grievances that are received (including GBV).
• Integrate gender and safeguards into the new Rangeland Stewardship Information Portal.
WORKING CONDITIONS
• Work is typically performed in an office environment.
• Ability to work extended and irregular hours.
• Flexibility in work schedule to accommodate time differences with regions.
• Ability to travel to field locations in Botswana.
• Guidance on flexible work arrangements will be shared during the interview process.
Required
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience on development, gender, social science, international development, or related discipline, plus 4 to 6 years of relevant work experience leading the implementation of gender/social analyses and gender action plans in conservation/climate/NRM-related projects involving rural populations.
• Up to 2 years of supervisory experience.
• Strong facilitation and training skills.
• Knowledge of GBV in the context of rural Botswana and understanding of appropriate risk mitigation measures and best practices in response and support to survivors.
• Experience designing and leading community-based information gathering through surveys and focus groups.
• Keen desire and ability to spend extended amounts of time in rural, sometimes challenging, field locations.
• Proficiency in English and Setswana.
• Excellent skills in written and verbal communication.
• Executive and analytical capacity to implement projects, manage multiple tasks and adapt to a dynamic environment.
• Ability to work well in an interdisciplinary, multicultural, diverse, and dynamic team environment.
• Strategic, creative, flexible, and able to work under general supervision and take the initiative to solve problems.
Preferred
• Postgraduate studies (specializations, diplomas, master's degrees, etc.)
• Work experience and existing networks in NGOs, community development, local authorities, or government at the district level.
• Work experience with environmental and social safeguards.
• Proven ability to manage teams.
• Supporting the staff in the implementation of other activities outside of its main responsibilities.
To apply for this position please submit a resume and cover letter.
Application Deadline: March 31, 2023 (11:49 PM EST)
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