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Position: Gender Officer
Organization: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Location: Accra, Ghana
Contract Type: Full-time
Publication Date: 28 April 2026
Context: The Regional Office for Africa (RAF) is responsible for implementing FAO's regional priorities in food security, agriculture, and rural development. It ensures a multidisciplinary approach, identifies priority areas of action, and oversees the Organization's strategic response in the region. The position is based within RAF in Accra, Ghana.
Main Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the implementation of FAO's Strategic Framework and Gender Equality Policy, aiming to achieve equality between women and men in sustainable agricultural production and rural development to eliminate hunger and poverty.
- Address aspects such as: gender equality in food security and nutrition; gender equality in sustainable natural resource management (forests, fisheries, livestock, water); gender-sensitive value chains and trade; collection, analysis, and use of sex-disaggregated data; gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction and resilience; climate-smart and gender-sensitive agriculture; reducing the workload of rural women; gender mainstreaming across the Organization, including monitoring and reporting; women's land rights; gender and social protection.Key Results: Comprehensive technical, analytical, and/or policy support, and development of specialized tools, methodologies, systems, and/or databases to support the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the work program and related outputs, projects, publications, and services.
Key Functions:
- Plan and lead components of multidisciplinary teams and working groups; participate in Organization-wide committees, project teams, and working groups; provide specialized gender expertise in international technical networks and/or technical standard-setting bodies.
- Develop technical, analytical, monitoring, and reporting frameworks, as well as related tools, methodologies, and systems to support the planning, implementation, and monitoring of work programs, outputs, projects, and services.
- Design and conduct research on gender and socio-economic aspects, data collection, validation, analysis, and/or reporting to support the development of technical standards, international instruments, innovative tools and methodologies, flagship publications/technical reports, and/or policy proposals, as well as the provision of technical inputs and/or policy advice and expertise.
- Respond to requests and provide technical/policy advice, assistance, and solutions to regional, sub-regional, and country offices regarding gender, and provide technical support to field projects in development and humanitarian contexts.
- Promote inter-agency cooperation and collaboration.
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