***IMPORTANT ELIGIBILTY CRITERIA:
- Be a Canadian Citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
Crossroads International is a leading Canadian international cooperation organization, advancing equality for women and girls and eradicating poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries in Africa where women and girls face great adversity: unequal access to resources and economic opportunities, gender-based violence and limited participation in political and public life. Crossroads International works in partnership with local organizations in 9 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, to draw on the skills, expertise, and resources, from the North and the South, required to enable people, particularly women and girls, to overcome poverty and defend their rights.
Crossroads is a registered charity supported by government and non-government funders, and many individual donors around the world.
OUR VISION
ONE WORLD where poverty is eliminated, equality prevails, and the rights of women and girls are fulfilled.
Project description and context:
Crossroads International’s 2020-2027 Volunteer Cooperation Program (VCP) entitled Championing Gender Equality Together, funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), will engage Canadian women and men, Canadian stakeholders, Crossroads staff and volunteers, local partner organizations and women and men in sub-Saharan Africa to become Gender Equality Champions. Collectively these Gender Equality Champions constitute a global community of strong change agents and advocates for the advancement of gender equality both in Canada and overseas.
The Project 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, which are the culmination of unequal and discriminatory power relations entrenched in society. Crossroads will address the root causes of gender-based inequalities and discrimination through a multidimensional holistic approach in the VCP that will, 1) promote women’s rights; 2) advance access to justice and the reduction of gender-based violence (GBV), 3) promote equal representation of women and men, and 4) target inequalities that limit women’s ability to participate in and benefit from economic activities. Crossroads applies a rights-based approach to programming, which extends to promoting, protecting, and defending women’s rights, including strengthening the capacity of women’s rights organizations to participate in and influence policy formulation and hold accountable those who have a duty to act.
Description of the partner
Crossroads collaborates with WiLDAF Ghana which is part of a Pan Africa Women’s Rights network called Women in Law and Development in Africa, whose mission is to use the law as a tool for development to ensure that women’s rights are respected, promoted and protected by way of promoting and reinforcing strategies that link law and development in order to increase women’s participation and influence at the local, national and international levels. WiLDAF is operational in several African countries including Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
This volunteer mandate is needed because the volunteer will assist in the coordination of all communication activities and strategies of WiLDAF Ghana to ensure that the impact and scope of our work are captured to first keep our network members, partners and donors informed, as well as preserving institutional memory.
Main responsibilities
(26% of total time – 50% on FSTP, 18.2% No-FSTP)
The Project Coordinator will be expected to spend 26% of their time on the EU Enough! Project. Out of this, 18.2% of their time is to be spent directly managing the subgranting scheme, monitoring sub-grantees’ implementation, and overseeing subgrantees’ financial management (FSTP). They will ensure third parties achieve timely and quality delivery of project outputs, according to their detailed plans and budgets. Another 7.8% of their time will be spent organizing and providing technical assistance and training to strengthen the organizational, advocacy, and technical capacities of the co-applicant and third parties to prevent and respond to SGBV (no-FSTP because technical assistance and training are ineligible).
- The project coordinator will work closely with the Oxfam gender justice program team to support a coordinated, robust team effort based on Oxfam core values accountability, empowerment and inclusiveness.
- Collaborate with the Project Finance Officer to coordinate all strategies and activities under WiLDAF Ghana’s component of the ENOUGH! Project at both the FSTP and non-FSTP levels,
- Ensure the timely submission of reports (Financial and Narrative) and engaging directly with the OXFAM on all issues relating to both the FSTP and non-FSTP components of the project from WiLDAF Ghana
WILDAF GHANA ENOUGH! PROJECT PROPOSED STAFF JD 3
- Provide Supervision to the Project Officer in the execution of the activities under the ENOUGH! project
Activities
- Supervise and provide back-up support to the Project Officer to ensure that all activities under the project are delivered on-time and within scope
- Supervise the Project M&E Officer to track and analyse the project’s performance,
- Collaborate with the Finance Officer to track expenditures, procurement and report any potential or existing impediments, risks, overflows, deficits to the project
- Communicate to WiLDAF Management and ENOUGH PMU any changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs
- Together with the Project Officer and the M&E Officer, create and maintain comprehensive project documentation and knowledge management options
- Participate in team’s performance reviews
Qualification criteria for selection include:
- A Degree in Law, Development Studies, Gender and Development
- A Master’s Degree in any of the above fields will be a plus
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work well with large and diverse teams and under pressure
- Experience with task scheduling and resource assignment
- Experience with project management practices and tools to create, manage, and track project performance
- Strong attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Computer Literacy in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Eligibility criteria
- ***IMPORTANT: 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 trainings: May 25th to June 1st.
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
- Medical insurance and vaccinations
- 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.
