Overview
The job holder is primarily responsible for effective and efficient project coordination, including project planning, quality implementation, technical expertise, budget management, donor compliance, partner coordination, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, and capacity building.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead in conducting gender analysis to identify needs, barriers, and opportunities.
- Oversee implementation of regional gender strategies and action plans.
- Support implementation of URRI using gender-appropriate strategies.
- Ensure equal access and equitable participation of all gender groups.
- Coordinate and collaborate with other technical teams to integrate marginalized groups.
- Identify gaps in staff and partner capacity on gender equality and GBV.
- Collaborate to provide capacity building and facilitate workshops on gender equality.
- Participate in the creation of educational materials and resources.
- Participate in relevant coordination platforms to integrate gender equality issues.
- Collaborate with partners and stakeholders in campaigns to lobby gender-sensitive practices.
- Support communications and advocacy teams to promote advocacy messages.
- Advocate to district authorities on behalf of marginalized groups.
- Communicate feedback, learnings, and interests of marginalized groups.
- Support the achievement of URRI Outcome 3, outputs, and indicators.
- Integrate gender equality into all MEAL processes.
- Monitor and ensure gender considerations are woven throughout project activities.
- Regularly collect monitoring and evaluation data from engagement of communities.
- Document implemented gender equality approaches and share best practices.
- Disseminate research findings and good practices at regional level.
- Establish and maintain close linkages with relevant district local government departments and partners.
- Collaborate to carry out partner mapping and support capacity building plans for partners in gender equality.
- Document best practices and unique experiences for sharing and learning.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of Project coordination experience coordinating Projects for an international NGO.
- Experience working in consortium and external representation including with donors and coordination meetings.
- Demonstrable technical expertise in the assessment of, design and project implementation, including monitoring and evaluation.
- Demonstrate technical expertise in integrating gender components across activity implementation.
- Good understanding of gender and demonstrated experience in working with the government authorities at all levels.
- Demonstrated skills in program planning, and all aspects of project management.
- Demonstrated skills in leadership and supervision of staff and in building and maintaining a high performing team.
- Experience in promoting children’s rights and gender, including participation in programming, design, implementation and evaluation.
- Ability to analyze information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.
- Inter-personal skills to influence and guide staff and partners in identifying programming opportunities and resolving program challenges.
- Demonstrated capacity and experience in capacity building approaches in their technical area (trainings, on the job support, mentoring) including the development of individual capacity building plans.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision in stressful environments.
Qualifications
- At least a bachelor’s degree in development studies and other social sciences with bias to Gender Social Work and Social Administration, and Community Development.
- Other specialized training/certificates is added advantage.
