Gender Technical Specialist at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Specific Tasks (Project Level)

• Gender Integration and Needs Assessment
• Conducting continuous Gender Assessments so as to gather essential information about gender dynamics and different needs, priorities, and opportunities that exist among different groups within the target project area.
• Coordinating for effective interation of gender-transformative SRHR priorities and GBV measures into planning, budgeting, and learning, ensuring representation of community voices, including vulnerable groups, women, men, and local religious leaders.
• Conducting Gender-Based Violence (GBV) risk assessment to systematically identify, assess, and understand the risks of GBV in the target community and inform mitigation and prevention strategies.
• Gender Equality Strategy (GES) Implementation
• Developing and implementing appropriate GES that ensures all project interventions and activities are both gender responsive and transformative, aligning with the project framework and local priorities, ensuring they are consistent with best practices or standards and inclusion of people disabilities, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds.
• Providing technical guidance and supporting to project staff, partners, and stakeholders on SRHR priorities and GBV interventions.
• Building the capacity of outreach health workers and awareness campaigns about available SRH/GBV services and how to access them.
• Conducting locally-appropriate gender-equality training and awareness campaigns to ensure effective delivery of SRHR needs and GBV support services that are sensitive to cultural and gender specific-needs.
• Faciliating critical reflection sessions to promote awareness on gender equality and harmful social/cultural norms at the community level related to SRHR and GBV.
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
• Ensuring that data and indicators are appropriately sex and disaggregated, contributing to a robust monitoring and implemtation of project indicators and priorities.
• Supporting the monitoring and reporting of GES priorities and project activities that are consistent with the project framework.
• Prepare reports and documentation for donors, stakeholders, and internal purposes on gender equality program progress, outcomes, and impact.
• Document and disseminate best practices, lessons learned, and success stories in gender mainstreaming.
• Contribute to the development of gender-related resources, toolkits, and reports for internal and external audiences.
• Advocacy and stakeholder engagement
• Supporting development of a community gender awareness action plan and follow up on the level of implementation of the plan
• Support advocacy efforts to influence gender-responsive policies and programs at local and national levels.
• Represent the organization in gender-related forums, conferences, and working groups.
• Actively engaging with policymakers and advocating for a comprehensive, gender and age-responsive (GAR), and inclusive approach, emphasizing the importance of filling data gaps to better design policy and programs that support the advancement of SRHR needs and prevents and responds to GBV.
• Other tasks:
• Supports HR in safeguarding hiring practices, conducting staff training and orientation of policy and code of conduct, awareness and capacity building sessions within the communities.
• Formulate, implement and update the organizational level gender
• mainstreaming plan, including training project staff on gender, and coordinating training on gender for other project stakeholders.
• Perform other duty as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of the project objective by the supervisor

Desired Competencies and Minimum Qualifications

• Education University degree or equivalent in Gender and Development Studies, or any other relevant field; – with additional training in gender and development, project management, and/or communications related to SRHR, GBV and gender transformative focused projects.
• Experience Minimum of 5 years of experience in gender equality programming, including SRHR and GBV particularly in the context of development projects or international organizations in Kenya, particularly among the pastoralists).
• Proven experience in gender analysis, gender mainstreaming, and gender- transforamtive programming.
• A good understanding of the social-economic and environmental dynamics of the ASAL counties, of Kenya, particularly, Turkana County