Team Lead & Lead Trainer at Landesa

The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the rights, resources, and representation of women in rural areas with regard to the sustainable use of land resources in selected partner countries.

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 Team Lead & Lead Trainer should start work on October 1st, 2025.

Essential Job Functions

• Responsible for the development and implementation of the overall capacity development program.
• Overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor.
• Specific responsibility to conceptualize and deliver trainings under work packages 1 and 2.
• Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at the local and national level.
• Design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners in the area of women’s empowerment in sustainable land resources management in rural areas.
• Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality)
• Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments, and supporting experts.
• Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out.
• Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines.
• Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the commission manager at GIZ.
• Supporting the commission manager in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations, and in preparing a follow-on phase.

Hard Skills

• Education/training: University degree (e.g. ‘master’s or German Diplom’) in International Development Studies, Rural Development, or Gender Studies.

Language:

• 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: 9 years of professional experience in the development and implementation of capacity development programs in relation to women’s empowerment.
• Specific professional experience: within the past 10 years, 3 years of professional experience in managing multi-stakeholder processes in the field of gender equality.
• Leadership/management experience: within the last 7 years, 3 years of management experience in projects, companies, or other organizations with disciplinary leadership responsibility for 5 people.
• International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment: Within the last 10 years, 2 years of international professional experience outside Africa.
• Professional experience in the country/region of assignment: within the last 10 years, 2 years of professional experience in Eastern and Western Africa (in accordance with UN DESA Statistics Division), of which 1 year either in Kenya or 1 year in Mali or Madagascar.
• Experience in the field of development cooperation: within the past 10 years, 5 years of experience in development cooperation projects.

Soft Skills

• A deep commitment to the mission of a better, safer future for the world’s poorest people through secure access to land.
• Strong problem-solving.
• Strong oral presentation skills and an ability to think on one's feet when defending policy recommendations.
• Familiarity with concepts that can be applied to rural development.
• Ability to develop concrete work plans and manage elements so that work is performed according to agreed-upon budgets and plans.
• Ability to manage documents and correspondence, track, and report on project labor, and carry out other administrative tasks efficiently, routinely, and in conformance with Landesa standards and procedures.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a range of people at all levels, including those from host country governmental and non-governmental organizations, and other counterparts, clients, and funders.
• Ability to demonstrate cross-cultural sensitivity, tact, and poise.
• Ability to lead and work collaboratively as a member of teams, regardless of role within the team, through consensus building, communication, and leadership.
• Ability to make and use distinctions as to types, frequency, tenor, and levels of communication, depending upon the circumstances and audience.
• Legal right to work in the country of assignment.
• Female are encourage to apply
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