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Tanzania Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Lead (Fixed-Term)
One Acre Fund
Posted 4 months agoDar es Salaam, Tanzania
Location
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Product Management
Job Description
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.
To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.
The Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Lead will be responsible for incorporating gender-responsive, youth-inclusive and socially inclusive approaches to the One Acre Fund Tanzania (OAFTz) program, ensuring that they address the needs and challenges of women, youth and marginalized groups. This person will ensure that the social dimensions in access, awareness and equity are effectively addressed across all activity components and at all levels throughout implementation. The GYSI Lead will be responsible for developing and implementing the gender and youth strategies that ensure the inclusion of women, youth and marginalised groups in the OATz program.
19 May 2026. Please note that we hire
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Requirements
- Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- Technical skills:
- Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Google Docs, Sheets, Slides.
- Fluency in Swahili and English.
- Excellent professional written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science, preferably Sociology, Social Development, Gender Studies, Marketing.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a similar role.
- Ability to conceptualize, plan, guide, and implement work with demonstrated experience in mainstreaming GYSI.
- Program Implementation
- As soon as possible
- City, Country
- This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Tanzania.
Responsibilities
- Gender, Youth and Social inclusion Assessment and Strategy
- Make recommendations to reach youth & women through both traditional and non-traditional channels.
- Program Implementation
- Identify and document best p
- Lead the collection, analysis and utilization of information from a wide variety of sources to inform the program’s gender, youth and social inclusion approaches.
- Ensure the use of participatory and collaborative problem-solving approaches to develop strategies and action plans for gender and youth integration and promotion of social inclusion for marginalized groups within the program plans, Theory of Change (ToC) processes, monitoring and learning plans and implementation guides.
- Contribute to refined period formative research and data collection, and related program strategies to ensure gender and youth integration
- Provide gender and youth-related technical support on an ongoing basis to team leads and participate in team planning processes and the implementation, including embedding GYSI principles within extension services and field activities.
- Provide technical support on the implementation of the Social Behavior Change Strategy (SBC) and SBC Communication, ensuring messages and delivery channels are tailored to effectively reach and influence women, youth and marginalized groups at community level.
Benefits
- Health insurance, paid time off
- 2 years
