Main Responsibilities
• Prepare educational material or training of trainers’ repository for Men of Tomorrow, Technical Training & Advocacy for Workplace Harassment, Bullying, Mental Health, Labor/ HR policies, HIV and Wellness Programmes, and Male Engagement manuals.
• Knowledge sharing and capacity building on best practices on utilizing the knowledge management repository in the implementation of Gender Equality, GBV Prevention, Child Protection, Fatherhood, Social Entrepreneurship, Learn to Earn, and Transformational Gender Norms projects.
• Cultivate an environment where knowledge management is valued and encourage KI team staff to document male barriers in health seeking behaviors, SRHR, Child Care work, and Mental Health.
• Build capacities to implement more inclusive and innovative initiatives on Diversity and Inclusion, Environment and Climate change.
• Strategic governance and organizational management through effective resource development, risk assessment management, and robust MEAL system.
• Research and analysis for program development on Fatherhood, Men of Tomorrow, Diversity and Inclusion, Child Protection and Positive Parenting initiatives.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate University Degree (or equivalent) in Knowledge Management, Information Management, International Development, Data Science, Information Systems, Communications, Social Sciences, Education, Learning & Development, Organizational Development etc.
- At least 2- 5 years work experience in records management, Knowledge Management, Data Documentation and Databases in an NGO setting.
- Positive attitude with the ability to work well in a team and on their own.
- Attention to detail and problem solver.
- Sensitive to working in different cultural settings and to the divergent interests of partners
- Self-motivated. Gets things done
- Able to capture, reflect and evidence experiences to support self-development
Project description and context:
Crossroads International will engage Canadians, Canadian stakeholders, Crossroads staff and volunteers, local partner organizations and women and men in sub-Saharan Africa to become Gender Equality Champions both in Canada and overseas.
The Volunteer Cooperation Program (VCP) aims to reduce gender inequalities and alleviate poverty by addressing gender-based violence, inequalities in access to resources and economic opportunities, and barriers in exercising strategic forms of choice, voice, and influence.
Description of the partner
Founded in 2012, Kwakha Indvodza (“Building a Man”) is Eswatini’s first male mentoring organization. KI specializes in community-led health and behavior change interventions with men and boys. Since 2012, KI’s activities have been focused on KI’s 3 Pillars, namely: Male Health, Financial Independence and Social Responsibility.
Description the volunteer mandate
Kwakha Indvodza wants to better document its models, success stories, and impact and showcase to donor and partners the effectiveness of male engagement on GBV, Mental health, SRHR, Waste Management & Entrepreneurship programs.
Our organization has limited capacity to document all these with the current team as we are overstretched; we have a lot of data and success stories but has not been synthesized and well documented.
The volunteer will collaborate with the following departments ;
- Programmes for systems, manuals and models
- MERL for data, research and abstracts
- Finance to document social return on investment for every dollar invested in KI programs
- Communications to documents success stories and impact, target communities’ stories, lessons learnt and challenges, policy briefs
- Training & Technical Advocacy: documents and package KI corporate training programs.
Eligibility criteria
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- Be a Canadian Citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
- Willing to conduct fundraising and public engagement activities before, during and after the placement
- Share the commitment of preventing and addressing sexual misconduct
- In good physical and mental health (medical examination required)
- The volunteer needs to bring their own computer.
- The volunteer must be available to attend an online pre-departure training.
Personalized support before, during and after the mandate provided by an experienced and welcoming team. The Crossroads’ experience includes the following:
- Daily living allowance (depending of the country of assignment)
- Plane ticket and local transport
- Pre-assignment online training.
Crossroads International is committed to addressing gender-based violence by supporting the innovative work our partner organizations in ending violence against women and girls.
APPLICATION
To apply for this position, we kindly ask that you fill out Crossroads’ online application form.
Please contact our volunteer mobilization team if you have any question: volunteer@cintl.org
We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
