Vacancy: National Project Coordinator - Kenya
Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Economic Empowerment
Since 2002, the ILO has been promoting women’s entrepreneurship
development (WED).
Women’s entrepreneurship development contributes to outcome 3:
Sustainable enterprises create productive and decent jobs.
mainstreaming gender equality issues into its work in enterprise development.
Through its partners, ILO aims to create an enabling environment
for women’s entrepreneurship that generates quality jobs, builds institutional
capacity and provides tools and support services in order to serve
the strategic needs of women entrepreneurs.
the strategic needs of women entrepreneurs.
A new two-year project financed by Irish Aid will enable the ILO’s WED programme to reach scale and access a new target population, by building off of existing networks of trainers and WED tools introduced in the past in the country and reaching out to new partners serving young women through the ongoing ILO-Africa Commission Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF). The WED country projects (Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda) will be closely linked to a global component, focussing on knowledge sharing and generation.
The project will be based in ILO’s sub regional office in Dar-es-Salaam. The national WED project coordinator (NPC) will work within the YEF team, which covers the same countries, and implement the project’s specific activities, outputs and outcomes to further strengthen women’s entrepreneurship development and gender mainstreaming. The NPC is supervised by the Chief Technical Advisor of YEF and falls under the overall responsibility of the ILO director in Dar-es-Salaam.
A National Project Coordinator will be recruited for Kenya and
be based in Nairobi.
The position has been graded as NOB and the contract is for one
year, with the possibility of extension.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following
tasks:
- Coordinate
and ensure the timely delivery of the WED project’s outputs in the project
country, working together with partners.
- Actively
promote the project and its partners in the country in order to gain
visibility for the ILO and the donor agency.
- Identify
problems, propose solutions and actions, and follow up with the Chief
Technical Advisor, technical specialists in headquarters and Pretoria, the
ILO country office in Dar-es-salaam, and project partners as appropriate
to expedite implementation and meet targets and deadlines.
- Assist
the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) to further mainstream gender in
their workplans and activities.
- Monitor
progress in implementation of activities with national partners by
reviewing, verifying and analyzing work plans, writing progress and final
reports in association with the YEF Chief Technical Advisor and backstopping
global coordination unit in headquarters.
- Provide
programming and administrative support and ensure synergies are created
with the YEF project, other relevant ILO projects in the country as well
as with the UN joint programming process (especially with other UN
agencies working on women’s and youth entrepreneurship development).
- Undertake
missions to project sites independently or accompanying other ILO
officials and members of team as required.
- Assist
in updating and validating the national WED assessment by government,
constituents and other key partners in the country.
- Coordinate
the collection of baseline data and ensure the ongoing collection of data
and reporting to monitor and ensure progress of the project’s activities
towards it set goals.
- Coordinate
the gathering of profiles of women entrepreneurs linked to the project
through written documents and videos highlighting how the project is or
has positively influenced or helped them.
- Coordinate
and support the launching of campaigns that raise awareness about women
entrepreneurs.
- Supervise
the work of external consultants and project support staff.
- Assist
in the programming and control of resources, prepare budget estimates and
expenditure forecasts by analysing and monitoring situation of resources
as compared to planned activities and making recommendations to Chief
Technical Advisor for remedial action.
- Perform
other duties assigned by the YEF Chief Technical Advisor and the ILO
office Director.
Qualifications requirements:
- Qualifications:
BA degree in social sciences or another relevant degree, with technical
training and experience in gender mainstreaming.
- Previous
working experience in the technical area of women’s entrepreneurship
development and gender equality.
- At
least three years of experience implementing technical cooperation
projects in this technical area.
Competencies:
- Good
knowledge of project formulation, implementation, administration and
evaluation techniques and practices;
- good
knowledge of the role and operations of the UN system activities for
development; knowledge of office financial rules and regulations;
- ability
to perform various conceptual analyses required for the formulation,
administration and evaluation of projects;
- ability
to communicate effectively both orally and in writing (see languages
below);
- excellent
analytical skills;
- good
computer application skills, ability to work individually and as part of a
team;
- ability
to forge relations with diverse stakeholder groups;
- excellent
time management and organizational skills.
Languages: Excellent command of English and one local language is required.
Qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume and a
one-page letter of motivation, detailing how their work experience and
qualifications meet the specific duties of this post to wedgeky@ilo.org by June
1, 2012.
Please include in the title of the message, ‘Recruitment of
National Project Coordinator for Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and
Economic Empowerment’. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
*This is an extension of a previous recruitment call.
Candidates who already
submitted to the early call are not required to resubmit.