Adolescents Economic Empowerment Specialist
Location: [Africa] [Tanzania]
Town/City: Dar es Salaam
Category: Food Security & Livelihood
Job Type: Fixed term, Full-time
World
Vision Tanzania seeks highly qualified candidates for an anticipated
five-year donor funded project with key objectives to increase
empowerment, reduce exploitation and abuse, increase uptake of ASRHR
services, including Nutrition & HIV and Increased Economic
Opportunities through skills development, job creation, policy and
capacity building. The project is anticipated to be implemented in Dar
es Salaam and Dodoma.
The anticipated project aims:
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To
Improve enabling environment to advance gender equality and rights and
protection from SGBV and adverse SRH and Nutrition outcomes -
Improved
capacity of youth/CBOs to meaningfully participate in and engage local
decision-making structures to advance gender exploitation, adolescent
girls’ and boys’ SRHR, and prevent and respond to SGBV. -
Increased access to improved ASRHR and nutrition services for adolescent boys and girls in and out of schools.
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Increased gender equitable participation of female and male youth from 16-19 years in the labour market.
Adolescents
Economic Empowerment Specialist will be responsible to directly execute
and provide technical advice on adolescent economic empowerment project
activities. This entail workplan activities implementation and
operations to achieve the intended program results and impact with
timely reporting as per approved project design document and log frame
in a cost-effective manner, while maintaining a high level of excellence
and accountability. He/she will specifically be accountable on the
project efforts to achieve enhanced gender equitable participation of
vulnerable adolescents aged 15-19 years, particularly girls, in labour
market and entrepreneurship programs. In addition, Adolescents Economic
Empowerment Specialist will take part in monitoring and evaluation
activities per approved project plan. procedures and donor requirements.
Furthermore, Adolescents Economic Empowerment Specialist will work with
partners and Local and central government actors, and interaction with
the wider project stakeholders.
