Gender Intern

I Job Summary

The female-only internship program is a one-year program with the primary objectives of empowering young female graduates and impacting the organization's gender parity that provides emerging female talents an opportunity to apply knowledge and enhance skills through mentoring and coaching, expanding their professional network, working on value-added projects, gaining hands-on experience, and getting acquainted with the oriental difference. The gender intern is required to assist Uplift Her project staffs specifically gender advisor to implement gender responsive project activities and supports HER unit’s other project gender program implementation.

UPLIFT HER is a seven-year project that will be implemented in the West and East Hararghe zones of Oromia and Afar regions of Ethiopia. The Project aims to improve the provision of comprehensive and inclusive gender and adolescent responsive primary SRHN services. 

II. Responsibilities

• Works closely with other project staff and implementing partners in planning and implementing the project activities.

• Participate in the Gender and GBV related assessments. 

• Assist gender training need assessment to identify government line offices and project staff’s knowledge gap and design appropriate training accordingly. 

• Assist and monitor the overall implementation of Gender program activities based on their established indicators, including collating, and analyzing data and information for reporting.

• Assist in the learning brief, technical brief, and project best practices preparation.

• Support program gender technical team in the integration of gender components in the implementation of the project’s planned activities

• Assist to clear and complete gender program documentation of ULH project and other projects in the unit.

• Support organizing Meetings/workshops and prepare reports/minutes. 

• Support conducting field visit to make sure that the gender elements are mainstreamed in the project implementation and government sector offices by maintain field visit reports and keep clear records of travel documents.

• Support preparation and review of learning and technical briefs. 

III Gender 

• Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender, youth and social inclusion issues.
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and PSEAH (safeguarding), as evidenced in previous positions / programming.

Monthly Stipend - 216$

IV Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in gender studies, sociology, development, social studies and related fields 

• Female fresh graduate of 2023-2024 

• Zero years of work experience 

How To Apply

If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through Ethiojob.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners.

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks