The Organisation
Founded
in 1937, Plan International, Inc. (“PII”) is a globally recognized non-profit
dedicated to advancing children’s rights and gender equality in both
humanitarian and development contexts. With over 80 years of experience, Plan
International addresses the root causes of challenges faced by girls and
vulnerable children, working in 70+ countries. The organization collaborates
with children, young people, supporters, and partners to create a just world,
acknowledging that the potential of every child is often hindered by poverty,
violence, exclusion, disasters, and discrimination.
Plan
International Kenya
Plan
International Kenya (PIK), operational since 1982, focuses on long-term
development. Collaborating closely with local communities and governments, PIK
implements programs to enhance the well-being of children in areas such as
Nairobi, Machakos, Kajiado, Tharaka-Nithi, Siaya, Kwale, Kilifi, Homa Bay,
Kisumu, Tana River, Turkana, Marsabit and Isiolo.
Under the current Country Strategy (July 2021 – June 2026), PIK aims to end
teenage pregnancies and gender-based violence against girls. This goal aligns
with four strategic objectives:
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR): Improve access to SRHR
services and information to reduce teenage pregnancies and harmful practices in
Kenya.
Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence: Ensure functional child and
girls’ rights protection mechanisms to prevent and respond to all forms of
violence and abuse.
Protecting Girls and Young Women in Crisis and Climate Change Adaptation:
Minimize the impact of disasters on girls, young women, families, and communities.
Youth-led and Innovative Partnerships for Job Creation: Build a stronger
ecosystem for youth employment and entrepreneurship, particularly for
vulnerable young women, fostering job seekers and creators.
The
SDC-GBV Horn of Africa project, is a new 4-year project that will be
implemented in Isiolo County. The project’s intermediate outcomes are (1)
Women, men, girls, and boys increasingly recognise, prevent, report and address
GBV, and 2) Governments, formal and informal WLOs at national and local levels
deliver quality GBV prevention and responses.
It will ride on the Gender and Inclusion Approach, which is a gender
transformative and inclusive approach. This approach attempts to tackle root
causes of vulnerability and inequality and promote equal rights whether in a
humanitarian or more developmental context. The anticipated project activities
implementation will consider the different needs of targeted girls and women
and contribute for addressing the root causes of gender inequality and
exclusion.
The
Gender Capacity Development Officer (Gender-CDO) will be responsible to drive
the gender transformative approach of both projects so that they challenge and
address gender-related barriers for sustainable and rewarding change. The
Gender-CDO will support and work with project teams and partners to provide
technical guidance and support to analyse and apply the elements of gender
transformation in project activities, including capacity building of the teams
and partners. Additionally, the role is to ensure that the gender marker
application is managed throughout the project cycle for project work. With
support from the line manager, the Gender- CDO will closely work with teams in
SDC GBV Horn of Africa Project for synergy and integration of project interventions
in Isiolo.
Accountabilities
And Main Work Activities
Planning
and Implementation (40%)
- Ensure the
projects maintains gender-sensitivity in all project activities. These
include but not limited to, addressing gender norms directly, improving
agency, promoting positive masculinity, and fostering an enabling
environment where possible and appropriate.
- Work towards
enabling projects to achieve the highest standards of gender
transformation to address power and gender inequalities that undermine
responsive nutritional and food security outcomes for children and women,
adaptive climate change, improved economic self-reliance and community
resilience and water, sanitation, and hygiene.
- Facilitate
meaningful engagement, consultation, participation and feedback to ensure
gender transformation is on track.
- Facilitate and
support localization and implementation of Gender equality and Inclusion
strategy into all the components of project cycle. They will work towards
promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment, and social inclusion in
the project’s activities, strategies and outcomes.
- Inform community
led beneficiary targeting processes and reporting on interventions being
undertaken from a gender and inclusion perspective.
Reporting
and Influencing (15%)
- Support the
Implementing partner engagement in the mobilization and participation of
women’s rights organizations (WROs)
- Promote
participation of children, girls and communities in project cycle to
explore and challenge gender norms.
- Contribute to
gender sensitive responses/intervention through continuous data collection
during project implementation.
- Contribute to
project periodic reports in line with the laid down donor requirements and
Plan standards.
Monitoring,
Evaluation and Quality Assurance (20%)
- Manage the
application of the gender marker across the projects
- Review and input
into the projects MERL plans and framework, data collection tools and
M&E guidance to ensure that MERL practices are gender sensitive and
the project is expertly capturing gendered outputs and outcomes.
- Participate in
baseline/end-line and other qualitative and quantitative evaluation
activities (i.e. methodology and tool development and data analysis) to
ensure a gender lens is applied.
- Monitor and
advise on the actions that promote gender transformation as defined in the
marker, across all project phases.
- Support and
present in project reviews from a gender and inclusion perspective and
identify areas where we are excelling with gender and areas where we can
improve.
Working
in Partnership (10%)
- Provide support
and capacity strengthening of partners on gender transformation.
- Understand the
partnership context and inform the GEI aspects that affect the project
implementation
- Actively
participate in partnership sessions and support to drive GEI
- Build and
strengthen working relations with local structures (local administration,
schools among others) and ensure their participation from a gender and
inclusion perspective
- Support the
delivery of trainings on gender equality and inclusion for stakeholders
and partners.
- Assess local
partners’ capacity gaps in delivery of program work with attention to
GE&I and develop capacity building plans for mutual development.
Risk
Management (5%)
- Contribute to
development of the project risk assessment on matters GEI.
- Continually
advise on local context in advancing gender transformation.
- Safeguarding
Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and
Inclusion
(GEI) (5%)
- Understands and
puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI
policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that
concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate
procedures.
- Leads the
orientation of programme staff to ensure that they are properly inducted
on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s
safeguarding and GEI policies;
- Ensures that
Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young
People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in project
design, during implementation and as principles applied in day-to-day work
of Programme team;
- Ensures that
Plan Kenya contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure
safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and
data are submitted.
Other
Duties (5%)
As
assigned by the line manager.
Qualifications/
experience essential:
- Bachelor’s
Degree in Gender and development, International development, Development
Studies, Sociology and other related studies.
- Technical
knowledge of Gender Equality and Inclusion in general, and as it relates
to relevant sectors at the Community level and their impact on the
population.
- At least 3 years
progressive experience in Gender Transformative and Rights based
Approaches into project design, implementation and M&E
- Direct project
implementation experience, reporting and capacity building, preferably in
the field of either nutrition, natural resource management, community
development, and climate change adaptation.
- Hold personal
values, ethics and attitudes which are in alignment with the principles of
the Plan’s values
Qualifications/
experience desirable:
- Experience
working in Isiolo or the North
- Strong report
writing skills
- Documentation of
project impact stories of change
- Community
facilitation, networking, partnership development and management skills
- Good
communication, negotiation and advocacy skills
- Good
interpersonal, relationship and team working
- Conflict
Management skills
- Ability to
understand the cultural context of the coastal communities.
- Experience in
program phase out management
- Motorcycle
riding skills and experience
- Languages
required:
- Excellent
written and verbal communication skills in Kiswahili and English. Northern
dialect is an added advantage.
