Specific objectives are:

• Work package 1 – To provide capacity development measures to strengthen individual Gender Change Agents (GCAs) in their ability to promote, champion, and enable positive changes for the empowerment of women.
• Work package 2 – To increase the strategy development and communication, and advocacy skills of another set of GCAs who have already acquired technical skills but who need to increase the strategy development and communication and advocacy skills of another set of GCAs who have already acquired technical skills but who need.
• Work package 3 – To strengthen the institutional capacity of 9 women’s organizations to act for the sustainable management of land resources with a special focus on gender equality and the 3R approach.

Note: Position is contingent upon receipt of donor funding.

Availability

The Pool of Resource Persons in Mali, Madagascar, and Kenya should start work on October 1st, 2025.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaboration with all the experts in developing a capacity development program for the work package.
• Supporting the preparation of training material.
• Active participation in F2F trainings under work package 1 as resource persons or role models.

Providing expertise on the following topics, among others:

• Personal experiences in women’s empowerment action.
• Other topics that the contractor chooses to add.

Hard Skills

• Education/training: University degrees (Bachelor) in Gender Studies and Development Studies OR Communication.
• Language: depending on country of service (English for Kenya; French for Madagascar and Mali).
• English language skills, C1-level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL).
• French language skills, C1-level in the CEFRL.

General professional experience: 5 years of professional experience in the field of capacity development.

Specific professional experience: 3 years of experience in each of the following fields:

• personal experiences on successful women’s empowerment action.
• advising or teaching on gender equality-related topics.
• advising or providing training on advocacy skills.
• Professional experience in the country/region of assignment: 2 years of professional experience in consulting or teaching in Africa.
• A deep commitment to the mission of a better, safer future for the world’s poorest people through secure access to land.