Senior Gender Specialist at International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

Education:

• Master's degree in Gender studies, Demography, Community Development, Economics, Law, or other social sciences required; PhD preferred.

Experience:

•  Minimum of six (6) years of experience with master's degree or four (4) years of experience with PhD.
•  Substantial experience in and knowledge of gender norms, women's economic empowerment programming, and approaches to engage men to create more gender equitable norms in East Africa.
•  Experience leading qualitative research, including project/personnel management, budget management, submission for ethical review, communicating with implementing organizations.
•  Experience conducting in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.
•  Experience analyzing qualitative data.
•  Experience with male engagement.
•  Experience writing (as lead author) qualitative evaluation reports for lay audiences.
•  Experience writing narrative reports for donors.

Primary Duties:

•  Project management:
•  Manage overall operational requirements of the project, including managing personnel, hiring consultants, writing donor reports, reviewing financial reports, and ensuring timely submission of deliverables.
•  Manage project budgets, including overseeing resource allocations and spending, consultant payments, and ensuring compliance with donor requirements.
•  Coordinate with other institutional actors (such as Finance and Administration team, Institutional Review Board, etc.) to ensure compliance with ethical and contractual requirements.
•  Serve as primary point of contact for all implementing organizations.
•  Technical leadership:
•  Serve as study PI, including revising protocols and tools as needed, submitting the renewal of institutional and local ethical reviews/approvals, ensuring compliance with ethical protocols and procedures during conducting the research, regular and as-needed reporting to ethical review boards, proper closeout and reporting after all data collection is complete.
•  Travel to project sites to oversee project activities.
•  Lead analysis of program evaluation findings, including developing analysis plans, updating codebooks, coding, developing code summaries, and overseeing a small technical team (assigning and reviewing work).
•  Develop products to disseminate program evaluation results to implementing partners and the donor, including virtual presentations and written reports/briefs.
•  Undertake other tasks as assigned by the Director of ICRW Africa based on team and institutional priorities.

Skills:

•  Fluency in English and Swahili.
•  Strong writing skills in English.
•  Mastery of qualitative coding software(s) like Atlas.ti, Nvivo, or similar and qualitative analysis techniques.
•  Excellent time management skills, including the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously, organize, prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
•  Clear, timely communication skills; and
•  Demonstrated, successful project management skills, along with maturity, diplomacy, and independence to work effectively with in-country partners, donors and project staff.
•  Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) and internet applications.