Current Job at Voluntary Service Overseas for a Gender Specialist

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), is the world's leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our highimpact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place. We are recruiting to fill the position below:   Job Title: Gender Specialist - Volunteer Job Reference Number: JOB0108280 Location: Niger State Job type: Voluntary Job Descriptions

• Improving Market Access for the Poor project IMA4P aims to increase income and income security for the poor and marginalized through more equitable participation in soybean and maize value chains.
• Under the direction of the Project Coordinator, the Gender Specialist will be responsible for positioning farmer collectives to maximize the benefits sourcing inputs, farming, selling, negotiating and advocating as a group and ensure that the most marginalized are not left behind.

• The ideal appilcant has a good overview of farmer collectives,cooperative management, agronomy and agribusiness systems and challenges, people centered security and peace and conflict prevention issues and an active interest in the workings of civil society networks.
• He/she also has a minimum of two year relevant work experience supporting farmer cooperatives, CSOs/networks and the ability to advocating on issues that affect poor marginalized farmers, as well as a good understanding/knowledge of the local context and sensitivities [Niger State].