About the Organisation

Heifer International began its work in Uganda in 1982 with a small project distributing cows and has since grown into a leading agricultural and community development organization. The organization collaborates closely with local communities, investing in their capacity through knowledge transfer, appropriate technology, and essential farming resources such as livestock and other inputs. By partnering with various organizations, Heifer International mobilizes farmers, helping them form cooperatives to share knowledge and access financial services. Their efforts focus on the dairy, poultry, swine, cereals, and oil seeds value chains, incorporating climate-smart technologies to ensure sustainability and resilience.

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Job Title

Gender & Safeguarding Specialist job at Heifer International

Job Description

The Gender & Safeguarding specialist will provide technical direction, oversight, and leadership to create and maximize opportunities to mainstream gender and safeguarding through direct project activities

Duties and Responsibilities

This is a key management position within the project structure and directly reports to the Project Director. The Gender & Safeguarding specialist will provide technical direction, oversight, and leadership to create and maximize opportunities to mainstream gender and safeguarding through direct project activities.
He/she shall ensure that program implementation emphasizes inclusiveness and responsiveness to the needs of young women as well as providing a safe environment and a robust community feedback and response mechanism.
The scope of work of the Gender & Safeguarding specialist shall require experience and in depth understanding of conducting gender and safeguarding assessments and analyses, designing approaches that address the youth, women, and girls economic, social, leadership and reproductive health issues.
The specialist will be expected to have in depth understanding of the country and regional context of Busoga.
He/she will build capacity of project staff, local organizations, small & medium sized enterprises and relevant partners on gender inclusion related issues, tools, and approaches as well as technical assistance for the delivery of a gender transformative.
She/He will be responsible for overseeing all areas of safeguarding to include policy formulation and implementation, raising awareness, training on compliance, advise and support to teams within the consortium as well as downstream partners to ensure that safeguarding is embedded in all stages of the program lifecycle, from design to completion in a manner that meets local and global standards.

Remuneration Package and Benefits

Our package includes a competitive salary, health insurance cover for up to 4 biological/legally adopted children, comprehensive 24-hour group personal accident cover, global employee life insurance which covers our employees against death by any cause, provident fund of a monthly employer contribution of 10% of the employee's basic salary and access to low interest loans from the Staff Savings and Credit Cooperative Scheme. Heifer Project International promotes a learning and development environment with training & study opportunities aligned to our staff development policy