At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of healthy life. Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalize discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future

Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development. Pact Tanzania is a field office of “Pact” an international non-governmental and non-profit making organization with its headquarters in Washington DC.

For efficient execution of its duties, Pact Tanzania is looking for enthusiastic, creative, energetic individuals to fill in this vacant position

The Gender & Youth integration Advisor will serve as the Kizazi Kipya project-wide gender focal person, ensuring genders is integrated into all project activities, and as the youth focal person, ensuring quality and cohesiveness of all of the project’s youth-focused interventions around health, particularly HIV prevention

Key responsibilities

1.       Serve as technical advisor responsible for cross-cutting gender issues across the project

·         Conduct a project-wide analysis to determine the state of gender inclusivity in Kizazi Kipya intervention and develop an implementation plan to strengthen diversified packages of services for men, women, boys, and girls.

·         Develop and facilitate the implementation of a strategy to use evidence-based approaches to strengthen gender-sensitivity and gender inclusion in all project activities

·         Revise OSPs and project materials to incorporate specific actions to improve gender-based violence and develop skills for integrating gender consideration into project activities.

·         Lead the design of a gender-based violence prevention toolkit, to be adapted  from evidence-based approaches, for use by Village savings and Loans Groups(VSLGs) and other project platforms to facilitate community dialogues on perceptions of violence and harmful practices against women and children

·         Develop and lead the implementation of initiatives to strengthen women’s and girls’ leadership opportunities across the project

·         Provide technical support to other Kizazi Kipya Technical Advisors to help them secure the quality of project gender-based violence interventions, including male mobilization activities.

2.       Monitor and promote integration of various youth approaches across the project

·         Collaborate and coordinate with the Kizazi Kipya Youth Empowerment Advisor(Restless Development) to develop a Kizazi Kipya youth strategy to guide the project in ensuring that all targeted youth can access and are benefiting from the continuum of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)/ adolescents girls and young women(AGYW) services

·         Lead the implementation and technical quality for the project’s DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and safe) activities including sexual and reproductive health and education subsidies for in-school OVC girls, scholarships to vocational training and start-up kits for out of school OVC girls, and parenting interventions for caregivers of adolescents.

·         Collaborate with national level DREAMS partners, government, and other stakeholders to ensure coordination and attend national level DREAMS related meetings, workshop etc.

·         Work with the project case management & Child Protection Advisor to ensure that the case management approach is tailored to the needs of all targeted adolescents

·         Serve as the technical lead for the rollout of the “Behavior Change and Communication Curriculum for Adolescent Girls and Young Women,” gender-transformative HIV-prevention intervention aiming to reduce sexual risk-taking and intimate partner violence, for out of school OVC girls.

·         Serve as the technical lead for the provision of vocational scholarships and start-up kits out of school OVC, which include identifying innovative opportunities, applying best practices to mentor youth select course and complete courses, etc.

3.       Cross-cutting responsibilities

·         Help to define the project learning agenda on youth and gender, including working with M&E team on defining critical data to be collected, and on analysis of data.

·         Contribute to documentation and dissemination of project lessons learned in youth and gender

·         Stay up to date on state-of-the-art and evidence-based approaches in gender and youth, and work out integrate them into project activities.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirement

·         Master’s Degree or higher in international development or a related field preferred; public health and/or gender studies an advantage

·         Strong technical knowledge of national and international youth programming guidelines and policies.

·         At least eight years’ experience in an HIV-focused field position that included gender and youth;  PEPFAR experience preferred

·         Demonstrated the ability to adopt policies, frameworks, and program analyses into actionable steps for implementation at the community level which is appropriate for the OVC adolescents and caregivers.

·         Experience with provision of field-based mentorship an use of diverse capacity-building approached that influences behavior change

·         Experience with creating strong working relationships with diverse stakeholders including local government, CSOs and community members

·         Demonstrated experience with using M&E data for program monitoring and decision-making, and familiarity with PEPFAR indicators and reporting requirements

·         Experience with PEPFAR indicator and reporting requirements

·         Experience with PEPFAR 3.0 funded projects in Tanzania

·         Excellent written and oral communication skills in Kiswahili and English, including report writing.

·         Creative thinker and energetic team player

·         Able and willing to travel throughout Tanzania