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Job Title:  Gender Officer    

Organisation: PALM Corps

Duty Station: Moyo and Obongi, Uganda

About Organisation:

PALM Corps together with Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Dan Church Aid (DCA) are implementing the Uganda Refugee Resilience Initiative (URRI) project. The objective of the URRI programme is to enhance climate resilience for women, men and youth in refugee and host communities and promote inclusive, cohesive and environmentally sustainable development in refugee affected areas. The programme has three outcome areas; 1) Enhanced climate adaptation and resilience for women, men and youth in refugee and host communities through inclusive climate-smart agriculture, 2) Sustainable management of the environment in refugee-affected areas through inclusive interventions leading to enhanced conservation of natural resources, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and productivity, and 3) Enhanced gender equality and women’s empowerment and rights among refugees and host communities in relation to agriculture, climate change adaptation and sustainable management of the environment.

Job Summary: She/he will be responsible for promoting gender equity and inclusion of all peoples especially vulnerable women, PWD, children and refugees in URRI programming and all the interventions of PALM Corps.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:   The specific roles include:

• Advising management on questions and issues related to gender equity, child protection and disability inclusion.
• Coordinate development of relevant policies and procedures for gender, children and disability inclusion.
• Promoting and integrating gender analysis and mainstreaming into programing including proposal development and MEAL processes across sectors.
• Creating inclusive work environments.
• Develop and deliver training programs and workshops to raise awareness and build capacity among staff, volunteers, and stakeholders on disability inclusion, reasonable accommodations, and best practices for interacting with individuals with disabilities. This includes providing resources to keep staff abreast with latest policies and context.
• Work closely with technical staff and MEAL to design and implement activities that strengthen young women and men’s access to education finance training, and other resources.
• Coordinate with the safeguarding focal point to ensure adherence to safeguarding concerns.
• Advocate for the rights and needs of women, men, boys and girls and individuals with disabilities both internally and externally and participate in community outreach efforts to promote inclusion and raise awareness about relevant issues.
• Coordinate and build strategic alliances with other gender focused and protection focused partners or key actors to advocate for gender transformative/sensitive programming.
• Generate gender briefs, concepts and success stories; lead in documenting successes/failures in gender programming for sharing with stakeholders.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The applicant should have relevant qualifications

Please note:  Apply for only one position– those who apply for multiple positions will not be short-listed for interview

How to Apply:

Your application should contain no more than three documents

• Motivation letter
• CV
• Highest/relevant academic transcript attained; other relevant documents will be required if you are shortlisted.

Applications should be addressed to the Executive Director and submitted to only hr@palmcorps.org

Deadline: 29th November 2024 by 5:00pm

NB: Qualified and competent refugees and female candidates are encouraged to apply.  PALM Corps is an Equal Opportunity Employer; all candidates will be treated fairly, and recruitment decision is based on merit (qualification and competence). However, recognizing the barriers women and refugees face, consideration will be given for them to foster inclusion.

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