Position Summary
The Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion
officer will be responsible for implementing the gender and social dimensions’
interventions of malnutrition, food security and resilience. They will ensure
effective and efficient roll out of planned gender/social change activities
through day-to-day coordination at the sub-county level. Under the overall
guidance of the Gender, Youth and Social Dynamics Lead, they will support the
implementation of gender transformative approaches as captured in the gender
strategy.
Through research and learning
activities, that are designed and executed in close collaboration with county
government, civil society, private sector, and communities themselves, there is
an inherent need to understand the opportunities and challenges that are unique
to women, youth and adolescents in Turkana and Samburu so that programming can
be adapted. The Gender, Youth & Social Inclusion Officer will support and
action our understanding of the complex causality of persistent acute
malnutrition as it relates to the varied needs of women, men, girls, and boys
in Turkana County. To ensure the gender and social dimensions of food security
and resilience are effectively addressed across all activities and components,
the Gender, Youth & Social Inclusion Officer will work with the team and
coordinate closely with partners to fulfill gender and social change goals of
the program.
Key Responsibilities
Program management:
- Supports the Gender, Youth and Social Dynamics lead
in contextually translating the vision for Nawiri’s approach when it comes
to the integration of gender, youth and social dynamics.
- Support the development, integration and
mainstreaming of Nawiri’s Gender Strategy with a view to strengthen gender
responsiveness and gender transformational approaches in all programmatic
interventions, with a nutrition lens.
- Ensure high quality and timeliness of deliverables
against intended objectives and targets.
- Ensure broad-based sub-county co-creation mechanism
towards the development of a contextually relevant Structural and Social
Behavior change strategy to guide effective integration in key sectors
such as nutrition, health, water systems, and governance – throughout the
program’s cycle.
- Contribute to and support the development of
detailed implementation plans of gender and social change interventions.
- Support field research, learning and implementation
of adolescent and youth interventions ensuring the adoption of mechanisms
and approaches that enhance agency and leadership of adolescents and youth
with a view to challenge intergenerational cycles of poverty and
persistent acute malnutrition.
- Provide oversight to the gender/social change
program components at the sub-county level, including undertaking field
visits to oversee implementation and generate field visit reports.
- Support in the monitoring of project activities to
ensure they are inclusive and support reflection and adaptation to improve
inclusion as required.
- Work with the M&L team to ensure effective
gender differentiated data is both captured and documented.
- Identify and support documentation of best practices
and use them to profile the impact of local level gender /social change
approaches and promote sharing of lessons.
- Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in
gender integration for the program staff and partner organizations at
Sub-County level.
- Represent the project to internal and external
partners including the county government and other project partners and
key stakeholders on relevant gender/ social change information at
Sub-County level
- Other duties, as required.
Team management
- Create and maintain a work environment where mutual
respect among team members prevails and where the pursuit of individual
and collective excellence is valued.
- Supervise assistants, short-term consultants,
enumerators and partners in various field activities in gender, youth,
social dynamics scope to deliver on time and quality, from time to time.
- Promote individual accountability and commitment by
clearly and regularly communicating and providing constructive feedback.
- Support field level collaborative efforts and
learning to drive overall effectiveness and coherence of program
operational strategies.
- Work collaboratively with all consortium partner
staff in delivering a cohesive, integrated, gender and youth responsive
program.
- Effectively communicate the program’s best practices
and learning to the County and development stakeholders
Security
- Ensure compliance with security procedures and
policies as determined by country leadership.
- Proactively ensure that team members operate in a
secure environment and are aware of policies.
Minimum Qualification & Transferable
Skills
- Degree in Social Sciences, Gender and development
studies or other relevant discipline.
- At least three years of experience in designing,
implementing gender integration interventions, including a focus on youth
and adolescents
- Training in gender and youth responsive
interventions.
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding and application
of technical principles and concepts in gender integration that ensure
proper cross-sectoral/integrated approach.
- Familiarity with principles and approaches in gender
transformative approaches and understanding of programs addressing
persistent acute malnutrition
- Demonstrated coordination, teamwork and planning
skills with proven ability to function effectively programs/projects in
both the public and NGO sectors.
Success factors/ essential skills:
- Initiative-taker, multi-tasker, and able to work
effectively and respectfully with local government, private sector, civil
society and donors.
- Demonstrated experience in setting up and managing
systems and procedures as well as experience in building team commitment
toward the achievements of program objectives.
- Team-player with positive attitude to problem
solving and conflict resolution. Focused on team building and
capacity-building of program staff and will be able to apply creative
solutions to program quality.
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities under tight
deadlines and to calmly and diplomatically deal with unexpected events
impacting program operations.
How To Apply