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Specialist - Gender (PRS-2012-243-FM) - IRRI - India

Type: Fixed-term (Renewable), National


Apply by: 01/04/2013
Location: India
Specialization/Skills: Social Science, Sociology, Economics, Gender Studies or related fields


Basic purpose

The successful candidate is responsible for facilitating gender integration and women empowerment in then CSISA Bihar hub by identifying and addressing gender issues through supporting capacity building of gender equity with all stakeholders of the project. In addition, the gender specialist leads, supervises and monitors the gender integration implementation process in the hub. she/He will be responsible to the CSISA hub manager in Bihar.

Roles and responsibilities

- Leads and facilitates gender analysis in the CSISA huv ti identify gender issues and woman empowerment needs
- Improves gender equity awareness of stakeholder through organizing capacity building activities in order to have common understanding and awareness on genderequity and women's empowerment issues
- Closely works with the CSISA gender specialist to develop the hubs' gender related outcome indicators, collecting tools and methodologies
- Leads and follows up, supervises and monitors the woman empowerment implementation process in the hub
- Creates, supports linkage and cooperation with other stakeholders working on gender equity, in particular NGOs, as well as development and research institutions for sharing, learning and advocacy process
Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor or Master degree in Social Science, Sociology, Economics, Gender Studies or related fields
- At least 5 years experience in research on gender equity and woman empowerment
- Good to excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Hindi