VACANCY NO: 2/SIGO/2023: SOCIAL INCLUSION AND GENDER OFFICER
Reporting to the Senior
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, the Social Inclusion Officer will be
responsible for the successful implementation of the social inclusion
strategies of RK-FINFA. The specific duties of the Social Inclusion Officer
will include:
Key Responsibilities
- Be
responsible for the implementation of the RK-FINFA gender equality and
women empowerment, youth, and social inclusion strategies in project
interventions to ensure results for gender transformation and youth
sensitive programming are achieved and on track.
- Liaise
with the PMU to work with the other project officers and County Gender and
Youth Officers, keeping them informed about the projects targeting
strategy and progress and identifying any opportunities for complementary
support for the project’s beneficiaries from other government or donor
initiatives.
- Review
and monitor the Service Providers’ plans for community mobilization
including the socio-economic, youth and gender assessments, community
entry, situation analysis, social and institutional mapping, wealth
ranking, and assessment of individuals, community groups and beneficiary
selection processes to ensure inclusion of the project’s key target groups.
- Oversee
and monitor the implementation of the youth empowerment, gender
transformative approaches, women empowerment and GALS approach including
contracting consultants or service providers for technical assistance,
reviewing the TORs, and coordinating between the project and the required
technical assistance.
- Track
the project’s effectiveness in targeting strategy, gender equality and
women empowerment, youth and vulnerable groups in collaboration with the
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, to ensure that gender, age and
vulnerable-groups’ disaggregated data is collated and reported.
- Document
best practices and emerging issues for course correction highlighting
challenges, achievements and lessons learnt in the gender, youth and
social inclusion aspects in progress reports.
- Carry
out any other relevant duties as may be assigned by the Senior Monitoring
and Evaluation Specialist.
Minimum Requirements
- A
Master’s degree and a bachelors degree in social science or a field
related to rural community development.
- A
minimum of 7 years of experience in community development and applied
gender mainstreaming at project or institutional level, 3 of which in
Development Partner funded project.
- Knowledge
of participatory and household methodologies, especially GALS.
- Demonstrated
experience in the techniques of data collection, data entry, data analysis
and design of management information systems to facilitate the planning
and decision-making processes within the institution/s.
- Good
communications and IT skills as required for the SIO position.
Other Requirements
- Experience
in rural development project management and implementation.
- Experience
with poverty, gender and youth targeting in agriculture- based rural
development programmes.
How to Apply
Interested applicants who
meet the qualification requirements should send their applications along with
copies of their academic and professional certificates, testimonials and
detailed Curriculum Vitae indicating names and addresses of three referees and
daytime telephone and email contacts. Only
short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Applications should be
clearly marked quoting the reference number of the position applied for on the
letter and envelope and addressed to:
The Principal Secretary
The National Treasury
National Treasury Building,
P.O Box 30007-00100, Nairobi,
Kenya
Suitably qualified
candidates are advised to apply for the positions through Email:
recruitment.rkfinfa@treasury.go.ke OR drop their
applications at the National Treasury Building, 3rd Floor, Room No.303 before 17th March
2023 at 1700hrs East Africa Time.
