Inclusion Officer at Shining Hope For Communities

Job Purpose

SHOFCO is looking at promoting inclusivity in all its programs including the youth engagement project across 40 counties in Kenya. Promoting gender, equality, disability and social inclusion is critical in achieving effective, sustainable, contextually relevant and impactful programming. The Inclusion Officer will work with the youth engagement team to provide technical leadership across SHOFCO to ensure that gender, equity, disability and social integration is mainstreamed into all aspects of SHOFCO’s programming and its operations. The candidate will work with Head of the Gender Department to lead the integration of gender sensitive programming elements, mainstreaming efforts, inclusivity and youth social integration. The Inclusion Officer will participate in strategy and program development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in relation to the integration of gender, disability, and social inclusion.

Position Objectives and Responsibilities

The candidate will be responsible for the following essential functions:

• Provide technical leadership to program teams to ensure that there is innovative and contextually relevant integration of gender, disability and social inclusion into SHOFCO’s workplans and programming across the Youth Engagement project.
• Design and deliver realistic strategies and programming interventions to ensure the promotion of gender equality, disability, young women’s empowerment and inclusion of under-represented groups of youth that will lead to positive gender equity and social inclusion outcomes, including by strengthening existing tools, frameworks, methodologies and resources.
• Work with the project team focal points to facilitate process for establishing and gathering inclusion best practices in order to learn from and strengthen activities and ensure that the values are incorporated into youth programming and planning.
• Assist the Program Heads, Field Teams and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Team to develop, track and report against gender and other inclusion indicators and disaggregate data by gender and the other inclusion parameters to analyze results.
• Assist the Program Teams in establishing and implementing inclusivity (gender sensitive, disability, social inclusion) sensitive monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting systems, processes across the programs.
• Design and conduct gender and social inclusion assessments, reviews and audits that can inform programming in a way that ensures young women and other under-represented youths are included in a meaningful way in SHOFCO Youth Engagement program.
• Design and provide trainings, as well as technical support and strategies to field program staff with respect to gender, disability and social inclusion activities.
• Prepare project materials together with the communication team that highlights SHOFCO’s youth gender, disability and social inclusion programming successes and lessons learned in every stage of the project cycle.