Deadline: Ongoing

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Winrock International is seeking to fill the position of Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director.

The organisation provides solutions to some of the world’s most complex social, Agricultural and environmental challenges.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall GESI leadership and coordination across cross cutting principles to ensure socially responsible design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation of programme interventions and equitable results
• Support project teams to conduct gender and social inclusion analyses in the western Kenya WASH programme area
• Design GESI responsive training curriculum and materials and manage their dissemination to project staff, partners, and beneficiaries
• Ensure GESI mainstreaming in all interventions from design, inclusion in the annual workplans, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting to USAID
• Work with field teams and partners to promote and integrate equity and inclusion into programme interventions by identifying power imbalances and understand marginalised groups’ vulnerabilities and interests
• Support integration of GESI aspects into the monitoring and evaluation system and processes to ensure gender and inclusivity are reflected in output, outcome and impact level indicators
• Design and manage outreach and communication processes to engage women, youth, people living with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups from the targeted counties with the support of the project’s communications team and partners
• Customise and design, when needed, GESI tools for use in the field to maximise stakeholder participation and increase empowerment opportunities for marginalised groups
• Ensure activity design maximises participant engagement from the beginning of the programme while managing and mitigating risks of cultural disrespect and gender-based violence
• Take social change stories identified and gathered from the field and produce as GESI learning documents
• Contribute to the preparation of progress/quarterly reports

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Education, Development Studies, or a relevant discipline (master’s degree in a relevant discipline preferred)
• Eight years, minimum, of GESI work experience
• Five years GESI work experience and/or WASH experience in Kenya or Eastern Africa
• Practical experience in GESI sensitive monitoring and evaluation, particularly survey design and data collection
• Good knowledge of GESI in the context of WASH in Western Kenya
• Ability to supervise staff and coordinate programmes with partners from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences
• Knowledge of the political, social, cultural, environmental, and development context of Kenya strongly preferred
• Experience of building coalition with local partners, local NGOs, government agencies, development partners, civil society organisations and integrating programmes
• Strong training design and facilitation skills
• Good command of written and oral English and Swahili
• Command of another local language is an asset
• Strong communication skills, both interpersonal and written, to fulfill the diverse technical and managerial requirements of the initiative and to effectively coordinate with a wide range of regional stakeholders

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