Forest Peoples Program (FPP) is an international NGO which helps forest populations to assert their rights to control and manage their territories and forests. FPP helps communities open up space to deal with the various threats to their human rights, in particular their territorial rights and their resources. FPP's work, which integrates gender considerations, consists of providing legal and technical assistance to indigenous peoples and other forest dependent communities to guarantee their human rights; to facilitate the governance of local communities through mechanisms including territorial mapping, participatory assessment of land tenure, documentation of traditional knowledge; and to hold international financial institutions, businesses and governments accountable when they violate or risk violating the human rights of forest dwellers. FPP works with forest peoples in South America, Africa and Asia to help them assert their rights, create their own organizations and negotiate with governments and businesses to ensure that all economic and conservation on their lands respects their right to self-determination. For more information, please visit our website to help them assert their rights, create their own organizations and negotiate with governments and businesses to ensure that any economic and conservation activity on their lands respects their right to self-determination. For more information, please visit our website to help them assert their rights, create their own organizations and negotiate with governments and businesses to ensure that any economic and conservation activity on their lands respects their right to self-determination. For more information, please visit our websitewww.forestpeoples.orgFPP places safeguarding issues at the heart of its work. By safeguard, we mean the protection of people (women and girls, men and boys) against harm that may result from contact with FPP staff and associated staff, or programs. The harm can be either physical, sexual or emotional harassment, or exploitation or abuse. FPP is looking to recruit a part-time Gender and Safeguard Officer who will be based in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and who will work with our national team, our local partners, other local associations of indigenous peoples, as well as directly with the indigenous and local communities with which FPP and its partners work. We are looking for a dynamic and autonomous person, with solid experience in the field of gender equality and community work and, ideally, experience in safeguarding. Additional backup training will be provided. Subject to funding, we hope that this position can evolve into a full-time position and support our work throughout the Congo Basin region.

Main responsibilities:
• Coordinate the deployment of the FPP safeguard policy in Cameroon 
• Support partner organizations and other indigenous associations in the development and deployment of their own safeguard policies 
• Support capacity building for staff and communities FPP and partners on gender and women's rights 
• Develop, in collaboration with colleagues, appropriate methodologies for community consultations and discussions on gender and safeguarding issues
• Provide support, training and advice on gender-specific approaches to the Aboriginal communities with which FPP and its partners work, in particular by facilitating sessions at the community level 
• Contribute to the development of information, communication and communication tools effective and appropriate learning at the community level 
• In collaboration with the Cameroon national officer and the Congo Basin team at large, help ensure that the Cameroon and Congo Basin programs have a strong gender component and integrated into their work program
• Contribute to FPP internal organizational learning on gender and protection with FPP staff working in other countries, in particular by actively participating in the work of FPP gender and protection teams

Other general responsibilities:
• Stay in regular communication with the task managers (supervisors), those responsible for well-being as well as with other staff members, in particular by responding in good time to e-mails 
• Prepare mission reports after all field visits or participation in conferences / meetings 
• Complete and submit expense claims in a timely fashion after field visits 
• Provide timely information necessary for financial and narrative reporting to project managers
• Contribute, if necessary, to the development of FPP political or advocacy positions, by participating in internal discussions on the main areas of FPP intervention 
• Assist other team members in their tasks if necessary, and peer review the work of other FPP staff 
• Conduct security assessments for business travel when necessary, and follow agreed security procedures for business travel 
• Assist and direct fundraising when appropriate 
• Support the general strengthening of the capacities of FPP partners and communities

Qualifications and experience required

Essential: 
• Fluency in written and spoken French and English 
• At least three years of professional experience related to the rights of indigenous peoples and / or local communities, human rights, gender equality , community development or similar field 
• A good understanding of gender and human rights issues, especially at the community level 
• Experience working directly with communities 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including understood in an intercultural context 
• An ability to present and facilitate the discussion of new or stimulating ideas in a context where they may meet resistance
• Excellent ability to work in a team 
• Experience in project and budget management or a willingness to learn quickly 
Desirable: 
• Experience working in the Congo Basin 
• Experience as a trainer, including developing materials of accessible training 
• The ability to speak Baka or other relevant Cameroonian languages 
• A diploma or a higher diploma in social anthropology, gender and development or in another relevant discipline 
• Experience in the development and implementation backup policies 
• Excellent computer skills and efficient use of online communication networks / databases

Terms
Part-time (50%), based in Yaoundé, Cameroon, with frequent trips to the field. Initial 12 month contract (with a 6 month trial period) starting as soon as available. Salary proportional to the position, depending on qualifications and experience. Please note that this position is open to Cameroonian nationals only (or to those who have a Cameroonian work permit). The feminine candidacies are deeply encouraged.

Interested candidates must submit a cover letter and CV by email with "their name and Gender and SG Officer" in the subject line to the address: catherine@forestpeoples.org no later than March 1, 2020.

The interviews for the post will be held in Yaoundé during the week of March 9, 2020.