Job Recruitment 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
• Please include “Expert #1 - Team Lead & Lead Trainer” in the email subject line

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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.

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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 Subject Matter Experts should start work on October 1st, 2025.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaborating with all the other experts in developing a capacity development program and content for work packages.
• Supporting the preparation of training materials.
• Active participation in online training under work package 2.

Providing expertise on the following topics, among others:

• Status quo of the differentiated situation for women and girls in the management of land resources and the underlying social inequalities (WP 1&2).
• Political communication and advocacy skills (WP 1&2).
• Empowerment strategies and actions (WP 1).
• Negotiation in international conferences (WP 2).
• Other topics that the contractor chooses to add.

Hard Skills

Education/training:

• University degree (e.g. ‘master’s or German Diploma) in Gender Studies (5 of 10 points) OR;
• University degree in 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 developing and facilitating online trainings.

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

• gender-equality.
• advocacy and empowerment strategies and action.
• change management.
• negotiation in international conferences.
• International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment: 2 years of professional experience in consulting or teaching outside Africa.
• A deep commitment to the mission of a better, safer future for the world’s poorest people through secure access to land.

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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 Organizational Development Expert in Rural Development should start work on October 1st, 2025.

Essential Job Functions

• Development of the capacity development program under work package 3.
• Observation visits and needs assessment of participating organizations.
• Developing an objective-oriented strategy, based on the needs assessment and objective-oriented, for the capacity development program.
• Close collaboration with the Team Lead to create synergies between the work packages 1, 2, and 3.
• Preparing and conducting training sessions in the country with participating organizations on targeted topics.
• Prepare and conduct online and coaching sessions.
• Participate in the kick-off session.
• Support the team lead in all matters of the overall advisory packages.
• Coordination with international and local experts in the tendered expert pool and other stakeholders in relation to work package 3.

Hard Skills

• Education/training: University qualification (e.g. Master`s or German Diploma) in Economics, Psychology, Education, Pedagogy, or International Development 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: Within the last 10 years, 5 years of professional experience in advisory service in the field of organizational development in rural development and women’s empowerment.
• Specific professional experience: Within the last 10 years, 5 years of specific experience in advisory service in the field of change management and advocacy, and strategy development.
• International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment: 2 years of professional experience in the field of organizational development outside Africa.
• Professional experience in the country/region of assignment: 2 years of professional experience in Africa (in accordance with UN DESA Statistics Division).