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• Support CARE and partners’ staff in
  conducting capacity assessment for partners and impact groups to identify
  their strength and weaknesses in the implementation of gender
  transformative approaches and particularly in Engaging men and boys
  initiatives.
• Carry out periodic reviews, updates and
  ensure quality implementation of men and boys engagement strategies and
  ensuring consistency and coordination with other key elements of the
  program.
• Offer technical assistance, mentorship,
  guidance to Country offices and partners organizations on men and boys’
  engagement, sexuality, masculinities, continuously making linkages with
  transformative gender theories.
• Support and coordinate the developing of
  capacity development plans across all program countries based on above
  assessment
• In charge of coordinating technical
  assistance (including remote TA), providing on-site periodic technical
  support, guidance and accompaniment to country specific capacity
  building/training, directly delivery TA to country level CD coordinators
  and identifying other means (in county and regionally) that can provide
  such support.
• Working closely with Country offices to
  facilitate and organize support to training workshops for skills building,
  sensitization and capacity building for the relevant stakeholders, and
  implementing partners
• Lead the hiring and technical monitoring of
  gender/ engaging men and boys resource persons and or consultants.
• Take lead in the selection of and support for
  external, technical assistance consultants on EMB assignments as may be
  required by the different country offices
• Ensure that CARE and partners are well
  trained on issues of accountability to women’s rights work as per
  international standards
• Roll out training for CARE and partner staff
  of the Men Engage Accountability Toolkit and adapt as needed.

• Represent CARE in relevant national, regional
  and international spaces related to Engaging Men and Boys for Gender
  Equality
• Provide strong inputs to the CARE International
  Working Group on Engaging Men and Boys for Gender Equality
• Design of appropriate and impact ful models,
  approaches and tools for gender trans formative work and men and boys
  engagement.
• Carry out ongoing assessment of existing
  gender trans formative programming in countries of implementation to
  determine what has worked, what has not and why and to inform the design
  and implementation of CARE and partners’ gender trans formative and men
  engagement strategies;
• Ensure CARE and partner’s staff are trained in
  these approaches, strategies, tools and models.

• With Country office leads, develop, design and
  adapt men and boys training materials and training programs to motivate,
  and mobilize staff and partners expertise and commitment to the
  application of innovative approaches

• Provide on-going mentoring support, guidance
  and coaching to country offices to ensure delivery of quality services and
  program quality within the EMB component field
• In collaboration with the Knowledge
  Management & Learning thematic lead, Support CARE and partners’ staff
  with the development and maintenance of effective gender transformative
  approaches, male engage models and approaches.
• Support offices to develop an M&E system
  (indicators, tools for data collection, for analysis, for data storage,
  etc.) that allows measuring the results (at outputs, but also outcome and
  impact levels) from the gender transformation component of the sub program
  and from the male engagement work in particular;
• Considering the sensitivity and risks of
  causing harm by poorly thought through and poorly implemented gender
  transformative approaches, particular attention will be paid to tracking
  and assessing potential negative unintended effects such as an increase in
  domestic violence, etc.
• Support the development of a cross country
  learning agenda around gender transformational approaches and particularly
  around male engagement, ensuring lessons about what works, what does not
  and why is identified, documented and shared to inform our strategies and
  approaches and to feed into the learning component of the EMB initiative.
• Actively participate in evaluating progress
  towards achievement of EMB program/project outcomes, with a focus on
  gender transformational approaches and men engagement; practically, it may
  mean contributing to the design and implementation of base lines, midterm
  reviews, annual reviews, specific learning events, end lines and / or
  final evaluations, etc.
• Follow up and dissemination of Phase III
  evaluation results regarding the Added Value of Engaging Men approach for
  other development outcomes (at least for Roco Kwo, Berchi in Ethiopia) and
  support to staff to integrate these findings into trainings and
  programming

• The ideal candidate should hold a Master’s
  degree in gender, Social work and Social development, Community
  Psychology, adult education, Sociology or relevant Post graduate
  qualification.
• Advanced knowledge and at least five years of
  prove practical experience technically supporting gender transformative
  approaches.
• A minimum of five years of hands on
  professional experience in community development work (including working
  with institutions, understanding their culture, breaking taboos in
  conversations, ability to discuss sensitive topics such as masculinity and
  sexuality in a sensitive but direct way) with experience implementing
  gender transformative programs a must.
• Previous experience working with large, cross
  cultural teams with multiple deliverables is desirable.
• Excellent inter-personal communication and
  facilitation skills; sound judgment and decision making skills.
• Proven ability to network, build
  relationships and establish collaboration with different partners,
  agencies local and international networks.
• Ability to link with community activists and
  social movements
• Knowledge and strong skills in M&E, report
  writing and documentation.
• Unshakable commitment to gender equality.
• Knowledge of languages used in the
  participating countries (Ethiopia, Rwanda, Northern Uganda) are considered
  an added value

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