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• Work closely with management and personnel
  to integrate gender and youth throughout the project.
• Steer the development of a project gender
  and youth strategy and integration plan.
• Assess gender and youth dynamics in the
  selected clusters and value chains in coordination with project staff and
  sector specialists, addressing barriers to improving participation of
  youth and women.
• The incumbent will assess labor policies
  and identify constraints impacting workforce development and employment.
• Offer support in the development of
  operational manuals to ensure gender and youth equity and sensitivity in
  manual content and presentation.
• Actively participate in gender-related
  meetings with the donor, stakeholders, government officials, and
  implementing partners.
• Work closely with local women’s groups,
  gender-focused organizations, youth-focused organizations and other groups
  implementing similar gender- and youth-related activities in similar
  areas.
• Work in liaison with technical staff to
  design and implement activities that strengthen women’s and youth access
  to finance, training and other resources, such as land.
• Formulate strategies, activities, and
  messages for communicating the business case for investing in women and
  youth enterprises.
• Ensure gender and youth impacts and
  resource utilization are tracked, monitored, analyzed and reported via the
  M&E system.
• Propose indicators and data collection
  methods for tracking changes in women’s and youth’s empowerment, gender
  dynamics, and gender inequality gaps
• Carry out focus groups and interviews with
  program participants as necessary in collaboration with the M&E system
  to gather information on the program’s effect on gender and youth status
  and dynamics.

• The ideal candidate for the International
  Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) Gender & Youth Advisor career
  opportunity must hold a Master’s degree or higher in Social Sciences or a
  related field.
• At least four years’ experience in
  planning, implementing and assessing workforce, and enterprise development
  and access to financial services with a gender and youth perspective.
• Prior experience successfully working in
  societies with low gender and development indicators.
• Extensive work experience in the Uganda
  and/or regionally.
• Strong writing and oral presentation
  skills.
• Fluency in spoken and good written English
  is mandatory.

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