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About CASHA

The Creating Shared Value in the Livestock Sector with Young People in Kenya’s ASALs (CASHA) project promotes resilient, climate-smart work opportunities through entrepreneurship in the livestock sector, targeting young women and men, including displaced persons, and persons with disability.  Specifically, the project aims to enable young women and men, including displaced persons, and persons with disability to leverage livestock and related value chains to earn dignified and fulfilling incomes and improve natural resources and ecosystem through increased entrepreneurship activities as well as uptake of climate-smart productivity enhancing technologies and creating an enabling environment by addressing structural barriers that restrict young women and men from gainfully participating in the livestock sector. The project is implemented across 15 ASAL counties in Kenya, organized into four geographical clusters. CASHA operates through cluster offices strategically located within each of the four project clusters. Given the project's implementation across 15 ASAL counties and its reliance on multiple partners, effective coordination is critical to ensure harmonized planning, timely implementation, efficient resource use, consistent reporting, and alignment of activities across counties and partners. A dedicated field-based focal person will be instrumental to coordinate ILRI's activities on the ground, strengthen collaboration with implementing partners, and facilitate timely communication, monitoring, and problem-solving

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and manage stakeholder relationships that improve the ability of the team to achieve the agreed outputs and outcomes.
• Ensure timely and appropriate implementation of project activities.
• Support project monitoring and evaluation activities -survey design, data collection, data cleaning, analysis and reporting on topics involving
  •  Ensure that ethical and sound data collection and information management systems are in place with associated information sharing, planning, evaluation, and advocacy.
  • Regularly visiting project sites to monitor progress, collecting sex-disaggregated data, and reporting on impact
• Coordinate with local partners and community groups in planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation
  • Working with local communities, government partners, and stakeholders to ensure inclusive participation
  • Embedding gender-responsive approaches (empowerment and institutional processes that engage young men and women in livestock and other related value chains) across interventions
  • Building the capacity of partners staff on gender-sensitive approaches.
  • Identifying social, economic, or security risks to vulnerable groups during implementation
  • Undertaking preparation of regular reports on project field activities
  • Contributing to the writing of scientific publications as well as outputs for a wider audience
• Ensure an efficient communication flow between local partners and the ILRI team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Development Studies, economics or related fields.
• Over 3 years of experience in gender, social inclusion, or project management in the field.
• Experience in designing, collecting and analysing gender-related data. Good analytical skills – either qualitative or quantitative – is an added advantage
• Experience working with development partners Strong understanding of gender equality principles and local, context-specific barriers to equality. Experience in implementing gender transformative approaches is an added advantage
• Familiarity with gender and livestock system issues and challenges in the local context
• Good interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a multi-cultural professional environment and with minimum supervision
• Willingness to travel frequently, often to rural areas and spend time in the field

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Key Responsibilities:

Strategic publications and thought leadership

• Help manage and support the planning, production and delivery of ILRI’s strategic publications, including the livestock flagship report and other thought leadership briefs, ensuring they are delivered to a high standard and on schedule
• Coordinate with communications and advocacy colleagues to ensure strategic publications are packaged and launched for maximum visibility and influence with target audiences
• Review and realign (where necessary) ILRI’s overall publication portfolio to ensure it is strategically aligned with ILRI objectives
• Engage with research programs and scientists to identify, plan and pipeline candidate flagship and thought leadership content, ensuring strategic publications reflect ILRI’s priority research and advocacy messages

Publications management and oversight

• Oversee a publishing pipeline that is fit for purpose for ILRI and supervise publication staff, providing regular performance feedback and support designed to facilitate professional development, learning, innovation, and effective teamwork
• Manage ILRI publishing processes, policies and guidelines to ensure they are efficient, effective and fit for purpose
• Manage and maintain relations with external consultants and service providers (editors, designers, graphic artists, photographers, printers, translators, and videographers), ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products on behalf of ILRI and its programs
• Ensure quality control of publications and other outputs by doing final branding and consistency checks before products are made openly accessible.
• Engage with research programs to ensure ILRI’s editorial and publishing services are delivered to the highest standards and appropriate planning is done
• Stay abreast of innovations in the editing and publishing fields to enhance the quality of products
• Copy edit, edit, and proofread publications to agreed standards and guidelines
• In close collaboration with other communications staff, support the unit and programs, where required, by producing written and other communications products for ILRI blogs on research products and events

Knowledge management

• Coordinate publishing with CGSpace and curation team to ensure ILRI publications are effectively curated on ILRI and CGIAR platforms.
• Contribute to the ILRI-wide CAKM, sharing and communicating work updates and lessons, participate in CAKM review and planning activities
• Perform any other related duties as may be required

Requirements:

• Masters’ or Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, International Relations, Political Science, or relevant field
• Relevant professional certification
• Seven years relevant experience with masters or ten years relevant experience with bachelors
• Experience working in a busy editorial or communications department, editing and copying materials for publication, preferably with experience managing processes and people, and/or knowledge of international development issues
• Ability to communicate complex research results in a concise and engaging fashion
• Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks; keen attention to detail
• Ability to work independently on agreed priorities and deliverables
• Ability to read, understand and assimilate complex technical information to produce clear, well-written summaries
• skills in desktop publishing, HTML, photography and photo editing
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and well within teams