Career Opportunities in Hivos East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

The Hivos East Africa Regional Office is looking to fill the position of a Programme Officer, Gender
 
Vacancy Name: Programme Officer, Gender
 
Number of hours: 40 hours a week
 
Region: East Africa
 
Office: Nairobi

Hivos is an international development organization that seeks new solutions to persistent and emerging global issues. 

With smart projects in the right places, we oppose discrimination, inequality, abuse of power and the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. 


Our primary focus is achieving structural change and impacting lives. 

We do this through cooperating with innovative businesses, citizens, governments, and development organizations across four continents. We also have long standing experience in mainstreaming gender in our programmes,

Overview of the position: The Programme Officer – Gender works under the supervision of the Programme Manager, Green Foods and Productive Landscapes and hierarchically reports to the Regional Director. 

She/He will provide strategic guidance and technical support for gender mainstreaming in Hivos Hub East Africa. 

She/He also works closely with gender experts at the Hivos Head Office and with Hivos’ regional offices to plan and co-ordinate the implementation of programs and provides technical support to the integration of gender into Hivos’ programmes. 

The position is based in Nairobi with regular travel in the region and some international travel.

Specific Roles and Responsibilities
  • Be technically responsible for mainstreaming gender and youth into programme development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
  • Develop a clear and relevant gender strategy and, establish a regional gender focal point for the Regional office in collaboration with colleagues in East Africa and the Head Office.
  • Provide technical advice to the open and green society teams of Hub East Africa on gender as a cross-cutting theme in programming and operations of the Hub.
  • Provide regular support in the implementation of gender and youth related activities in the field and collaborate with programme officers, managers, partners and donors in ensuring that programs are implemented successfully.
  • Work closely with M&E and finance experts to ensure that gender is well understood and embedded in their operations and reporting procedures, as and when needed.
  • Ensure that capacity development needs related to gender mainstreaming for Hub EA and implementing partners are diagnosed and addressed.
  • Guide and take lead in gender disaggregated data collection, analysis and reporting as per program and donor requirements while observing high standards of quality and ethics.
  • Participate and contribute actively in resource mobilization for programmes with a gender component and readily provide the teams with required inputs and technical guidance.
  • Provide policy guidance and technical support to partners and consultants, as well as implementing institutions on gender mainstreaming in core areas in agriculture and development.
  • Establish and maintain partnerships with civil society, development organizations, governments, grass root organizations, and development partners working on gender in the region and beyond.
  • Ensure effective gender communication with partners and relevant stakeholders in programs to guarantee adherence to donor requirements in implementation and reporting.
  • Develop and disseminate lessons and successes from ongoing and completed programs with all stakeholders and with the public to increase Hivos’ visibility in gender and development.
  • Review current strategies and approaches on gender and provide recommendations on how to improve our operations and increase efficiency. Constantly look to develop working approaches and strategies for smooth implementation of programmes.
  • Organize and steer gender related forums and seminars in the region and in close collaboration with key stakeholders.
  • Actively search for opportunities to develop, analyze, and present promotional content through print and electronic media to show case Hivos’ work in gender.
  • Represent Hivos in an attractive and leading way in gender forums nationally, regionally and internationally.
Minimum Requirements
  • Have an Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, Agriculture and Rural Development, Development Economics, or other related disciplines.
  • At least 8 years of relevant experience in the design, planning, implementation and management of programmes with a focus on gender. Some experience with policy formulation/assistance, monitoring and evaluation in the fields of gender and rural development in the context of agriculture.
  • Experience working in gender related coffee projects in East Africa is highly desirable.
  • High level of familiarity with key gender, women, and youth empowerment issues in East Africa and globally.
  • Ability to organize and conduct capacity development programmes for staff, technical meetings and training sessions organized by Hivos or with partners.
  • Demonstrated ability to set up and guide socio-economic research, including in the generation and analysis of gender disaggregated statistics and data.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, and ability to write high quality technical reports.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop sustained partnerships and knowledge networks, to work in a team and under pressure, and to initiate, plan and organize own work and meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrable capacity to mobilize resources: through written proposals, partnership building, and at-the-table negotiations with donors.
  • Maintains records and updates, databases and web pages, and provides technical support to assigned projects.
  • Well versed in the development of training materials; and the organization of gender related workshops/seminars etc.
  • Works well in a team and possesses excellent networking skills.
  • Excellent strategic, analytical and leadership skills.
  • Administratively self-sufficient: excellent ICT skills with MS Office and Excel, attention to detail.
  • High level of personal integrity and accountability.
Remuneration: Hivos offers a competitive salary and benefits package

How to Apply

If you meet the requirements for the above position send a cover letter and your CV to jobs@hivos.or.ke with Subject as ‘Programme Officer, Gender” on or before 14h February, 2016. 

Vacancy Name: 4S @scale Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
 
Number of hours: 40 hours per week
 
Region: East Africa
 
Office: Nairobi

Hivos is an international development organisation with long-standing experience in development programs that seeks new solutions to persistent and emerging global issues. 


With smart projects in the right places, we oppose discrimination, inequality, abuse of power and the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. 

Our primary focus is achieving structural change and impacting lives. We do this through cooperating with innovative businesses, citizens, governments, and development organisations across four continents.

Overview of the position: The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer works under the supervision of the Program Manager, Green Foods and Productive Landscapes and hierarchically reports to the Regional Director. 

She/He will provide strategic guidance and technical support for monitoring and evaluation within the Sustainable and Secure Smallholder Systems @Scale program (4S @Scale) and limited support to the Gender and Generational Empowerment program. 

These two programs are large public private partnerships currently being implemented in East Africa. 

The programs mainly focus on increasing the business viability of smallholder coffee farmers while also mainstreaming gender and youth into partner operations and implementation.  

The successful candidate will work closely with M&E experts, and program staff in the Hivos regional office. 

The position is based in Nairobi with regular travel in the region and may involve some international travel.

Specific Roles and Responsibilities
  • Provide technical direction and strategic advice to ensure that the programs’ M&E activities are designed and implemented in line with the agreed monitoring and evaluation framework, and defined results in compliance with donor requirements.
  • Develop, test and implement participatory approaches for monitoring and evaluation at community, project and organisational levels
  • Contribute to the development and use of livelihood, gender, and impact indicators for evaluating the outcomes and impacts of our program related interventions, technologies, and policies.
  • Carry out data collection and analysis and undertake impact assessment in our projects using qualitative and quantitative methods. This includes training of enumerators, quality assurance standards and checks.
  • Manage and regularly update and maintain baseline and M&E databases; including working with the institutional M&E officers to incorporate M&E indicators into the overall data platform for systems analysis and synthesis, to inform strategic decision making.
  • Ensure that M&E activities integrate global best practices in measurement of program results Design/monitor/ modify performance reporting tools.
  • Assess the M&E capacity gaps/needs of the program staff and partners offer regular capacity development and set up systems to counter these gaps.
  • Undertake regular and rigorous monitoring and evaluation of program results according to established timelines, and design reporting and data collection formats/templates to consolidate data and information from partners for internal and external reporting.
  • Coordinate and compile required program reports, success stories and lessons learned. This includes dissemination of publications (e.g. annual reports, policy briefs, book chapters, journal articles etc) generated from the programs to wider audiences.
  • Plan, coordinate and participate in regular, independent evaluations by external and internal evaluators.
  • Ensure that all service provider contracts include specifications for the internal monitoring required of them, the reporting systems and the penalties for failure to report as specified.
Minimum Requirements
  • MSc. in Agricultural or Development Economics, Statistics or a related discipline – that must contain significant content relating to monitoring & evaluation.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation at household, community and organisational levels.
  • Good understanding of Impact, Monitoring and Evaluation theory and applications extending to study design, quantitative and qualitative analytic methods.
  • Familiarity with coffee farming systems and gender mainstreaming.
  • Good analytical skills and extensive experience of using statistical packages for data analysis (SPSS, STATA, Excel, Nvivo).
  • Experience in producing high quality project reports, training manuals and publications.
  • Ability to work effectively in multi-regional teams and partners with members drawn from a diverse range of nationalities, cultures and scientific disciplines.
  • Ability to work under pressure, often to tight deadlines without compromising the quality of deliverables.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and able to work with little or no supervision.
  • Strong English language skills, both written and spoken.
  • Willingness to travel frequently, often to rural areas in East Africa.
  • High level of personal integrity and accountability.
Remuneration: Hivos offers a competitive salary and benefits package

How to Apply

If you meet the requirements for the above position, please send a cover letter and your CV to jobs@hivos.or.ke with Subject as ‘4S @scale ME Officer” on or before 14h February, 2016. 


Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.