Position: Senior Nutrition and Gender Officer
\nDepartment: Program Unit
\nReporting to: Program Manager
\nContract duration: Fixed
\nLocation: JigJiga, Fafen Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia
\nNumber of Positions One (1)
\nStarting date: January 16, 2026
\nContract duration: 12 Months
\nCareer Level: mid-level (four years\u2019 experience)
\nEmployment Type: Full-time
\nSalary: CAAP salary scale
\nCAAP Background
\nCAAP is a local NGO operating in the Somali region, with a vision to create a poverty-free Somali regional state in which women are empowered to build a resilient, inclusive, and fair future for themselves, their families, and their communities. CAAP\u2019s strategic plan for the next seven years (2024-2030) aims to empower girls and women through integrated, sustainable, cost-effective, evidence-based, coordinated, and impactful programs in the Somali region and throughout Ethiopia.
\nCAAP is planning to implement the Climate Adaptive Livelihoods (CAMEL) Program in partnership with WFP to improve the resilience, food, and nutrition security for the targeted vulnerable pastoral and agro-pastoral populations across Harshin, Mulla, Erer, Aw-Bare, Tuliguled, and Haroreys woredas of Sitti and Fafen Zones of the Somali region, Ethiopia, through increasing agriculture and livestock production and productivity, access to market and market linkages, financial inclusion, and promotion of production and consumption of diversified foods to improve the nutrition status of the population in target woredas. The implementation of this program will improve smallholder farmers\u2019 productivity, enhance their incomes, and build resilience, contributing to the country\u2019s vision of becoming a middle-income country by 2030. Therefore, CAAP is seeking competent, committed, and professional staff to fill the Senior Nutrition and Gender Officer position in the Somali Region, Ethiopia.
\nJob Description
\nJob Purpose Summary: The Senior Gender & Nutrition Officer ensures the integration of gender equality, social inclusion, and nutrition-sensitive approaches across all components of the CAMEL Program (agriculture\/CSA, livestock, market\/value chain, post-harvest management, water\/land management, VSLA\/financial inclusion) using an SBCC approach. The role ensures that interventions are gender-transformative, nutrition-sensitive, and equitable for women, youth, and persons with disabilities, in line with program objectives, outcomes, and targets.
\nCore Responsibilities:<\/p>\n
Provide oversight into the SBCC\/ Gender program components, including undertaking field visits to oversee implementation, providing on-site feedback on required improvements, and generating field visit reports with timely and appropriate follow-up on action points
\nAct as the nutrition, gender, and protection focal point of the CAMEL program
\nLead the design, contextualization, translation, validation, dissemination, and rollout of context-specific, evidence-based SBCC and gender tools and materials tailored to the CAMEL program.
\nEnsure all tools, job aids, flipcharts, posters, and community engagement products are culturally appropriate, locally validated, and linguistically accurate for target communities.
\nAfter rollout, collect user feedback and community responses to SBCC tools and provide structured reports with recommendations for iteration within 3 months of rollout.
\nBuild the capacity of field staff, development agents, HEWs, and frontline workers on how to apply and use the SBCC\/ Gender tools and messages, facilitation techniques, gender-transformative programming, inclusive practices, and nutrition-sensitive approaches, through trainings, mentoring, coaching, and on-demand technical assistance, as required.
\nProvide ongoing technical support to Agriculture & Livelihoods Specialists, field officers, and VSLA facilitators to integrate gender and nutrition into all field activities (e.g., CSA, livestock, market forums, PHLM, water\/land management).
\nSupport cooking demonstrations and community dialogues that address dietary diversity.
\nDevelop detailed implementation plans for supported SBCC\/Gender interventions and ensure high-quality and timeline delivery of deliverables against intended objectives, targets, and timelines by the development agents and HEWs.
\nEnsuring gender equality is a core component of the CAMEL Program, addressing women\u2019s empowerment, access to resources, and decision-making, in all trainings and interventions.
\nUse gender analysis information on household dynamics and gender roles in decision-making about land use, agricultural input use, and labour\/time allocation, control of resources, access to markets, finance and information, and income
\nProvide ongoing technical support to Agriculture & Livelihoods Specialists, field officers, and VSLA facilitators to integrate gender and nutrition into all field activities (e.g., CSA, livestock, market forums, PHLM, water\/land management).
\nEnsure that gender analysis informs site selection, group formation, and resource allocation
\nWork with MEAL Manager to define gender, disability, and social inclusion and nutrition indicators in the M&E framework.
\nWork with MEAL Manager to develop and help track critical indicators of SBCC and gender implementation and uptake, and behaviour change at the community level.
\nIdentify and support documentation of best practices and use them to profile the impact of local-level SBCC\/ Gender approaches and promote learning and lesson sharing
\nSubmit Gender, disability, and Social Inclusion and Nutrition integration reports, documenting how each sector\u2019s activities incorporate gender and nutrition.
\nEnsure compliance with gender equality, child safeguarding, disability inclusion, AAP, and PSEA policies.
\nRepresent the CAMEL program to internal and external partners, including the RHB, gender, and nutrition clusters and working groups, and key stakeholders on relevant Nutrition\/SBCC\/Gender technical engagements at regional, Zonal, and Woreda level.<\/p>\n
About You<\/p>\n
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE<\/p>\n
University degree in food science and Nutrition, Gender, Health, Social Sciences, or related field.
\nAt least four years\u2019 experience in an NGO, of which 2 years in Gender, Nutrition, and SBCC
\nDemonstrated experience with SBCC, behavior change, and community engagement.
\nWork experience at the community level in programs that require active engagement with families and the community.
\nHigh proficiency in developing SBCC materials and training curricula, gender and nutrition analysis.
\nExcellent reporting and presentation skills.
\nAbility and willingness to frequently travel and stay in the field\/Hardship environment (>70%)
\nProven ability to work under pressure and with multiple concurrent demands.
\nFluency in English and Somali languages
\nComputer skills, particularly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
\nExperience using Outlook, ability to organize meetings in teams, Kobo tool, and ODK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"","_company_name":"Community in Action Against Poverty (CAAP)","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[11],"job-categories":[],"job-types":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-2140","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"job_listing_region-ethiopia","7":"job-type-full-time"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}