CARE began working in Zimbabwe in 1992 in response to a severe regional drought. After establishing a drought mitigation program, CARE began longer term developmental programs with local partners in building small dams, strengthening local microfinance institutions, and launching projects to assist small businesspersons in the rural areas.CARE Zimbabwe’s overall goal is to empower disadvantaged and poor households to meet their basic needs. Programs promote sustainable livelihoods of poor and vulnerable people. CARE International in Zimbabwe is recruiting for an anticipated food security project targeting food insecure areas of Masvingo and Manicaland provinces. This project seeks to achieve sustainable food security with desired high-level objectives of poverty reduction and adaptive and absorptive capacity improved.  The organisation seeks to recruit outstanding candidates who are known for their excellence, professionalism, integrity and who are committed to providing support to vulnerable communities in remote locations of the targeted provinces. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for the positions posted below, which will be filled upon confirmation of funding availability for the project.

The incumbent will lead the implementation of gender assessment and integration strategies aimed at ensuring that program activities result in positive outcomes for program beneficiaries. S/he will build team members’ and partners’ capacity to integrate a gender and youth perspective into project activities and raise awareness of the importance of gender and youth integration and empowerment. The GYSD Lead will collaborate with sector team leads to ensure the effective and timely execution of activities related to gender and youth-based access to opportunities. The Gender, Youth, and Social Dynamics (GYSD) Lead will ensure that the social dimensions of food security and community resilience are effectively addressed across all activity components, at all levels, throughout the entire award period. Key duties and Responsibilities •    Engages with program staff, partners and other stakeholders to develop, integrate, and implement innovative gender and youth integration and empowerment strategies for all program activities and for the life of the project. •    Contributes to annual work plan development and monitoring. •    Collaborates with the M&E Lead and team on gender/youth integration and analysis tools, ensuring sex and age disaggregated and gender and youth-sensitive data is collected and analyzed and makes recommendations based on assessment findings and regular monitoring to inform program strategies to better meet the needs of the project participants. •    Contributes to any other research activities to ensure gender and youth dynamics are fully represented. •    Assesses the underlying causes that hinder women’s participation in agriculture, income generation, the labor market, and attention to gender equity by institutional systems. •    Integrates and implements gender, youth and social inclusion cross-cutting themes in such a way that women of all ages and social groups will be incorporated as a resource to guide project activities and outcomes. •    Manages the possible effects that program activities may have on sexual and gender-based violence at the household and community levels; monitor and manage how activities will be tracked over time to ascertain any unintended consequences related to gender and gender-based violence. •    Works closely with field level staff to ensure quality implementation in line with the program strategy.

•    Bachelor’s degree in a relevant academic (e.g., social science discipline) plus 7 years of field experience at the community level is required, preferably in the context of gender-related programming. This could include gender equality; prevention of gender-based violence; women’s empowerment’ and women’s education. •    In-depth understanding of gender, age, and other socio-cultural factors in the context of food security programming. •    Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a broad range of sources in order to ensure effective integration of gender and youth concerns throughout the project’s duration. Demonstrated skills in participatory data collection. •    Demonstrated ability to foster commitment and build capacity among activity staff and in-country actors to gender integration and empowerment. •    Experience in participatory learning & action and facilitating collaborative problem solving; demonstrated ability to foster commitment and build capacity among activity staff and in-country actors to ensure gender and youth integration and empowerment. •    Strong skills in planning and organization, partnership, and collaborative problem solving. •    Demonstrated strong management and interpersonal skills. •    Demonstrated ability to network, communicate, and build/maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. •    Full fluency in English (written and oral communications skills) is required