International Water Mgt. Inst: Volta Gender Specialist

The International Water Management Institute (www.iwmi.org) is an international, non-profit research organisation dedicated to providing evidence-based solutions to sustainably manage water and land resources for food security, people’s livelihoods and the environment.

IWMI is a member of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food secure future.

Job Description

The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE), led by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), is looking  for a Volta Gender Specialist.

As set out in WLE’s Gender Strategy, achieving the program’s vision demands transformative research and action grounded in the improved understanding and recognition of the importance of the influence of social relations and institutions in shaping women’s and men’s roles and capacities in agriculture and their relationship to water, land and ecosystems, both as stewards and consumers.

The Volta Gender Specialist will provide gender perspectives, methodologies and analysis to carry out components of research projects related to water, land and ecosystems under the themes of gender, poverty and institutions.

The position holder will be based at the West Africa Office of IWMI in Accra, Ghana, where the WLE Volta program is conducted, and will report to the Focal Region Coordinator and the Coordinator – Gender, Poverty and Institutions, WLE.

You will:

• support existing research activities related to gender analysis and integration;
• conceive and define innovative gender research activities, approaches and related activities independently or in consultation with senior researchers and project leaders;
• ensure substantive and high-quality inclusion of gender within research activities, including a review of the work of others to ensure that quality standards are met; and
• initiate, develop and sustain partnerships with WLE collaborators to promote gender research across the region.

Required Skills or Experience