Job Openings at Hivos East Africa

About Voice

Voice is an innovative grant facility to support rights holders and groups facing marginalisation or discrimination in their efforts to exert influence in accessing productive and social services and political participation. Voice operates in a context where civic space and power is shifting at a fast pace, and often closing rather than opening. Where the narrative is negative and underlining marginalisation and vulnerability, rather than the dreams and successful steps made towards a better, more inclusive world. Voice is implemented in ten countries in Africa and Asia: Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia and the Philippines

An initiative from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Voice is implemented by a consortium between Oxfam Novib and Hivos.

Job context

The role of Roving Monitoring and Evaluation (MEL) Officer is a new role within the decentralised Coordination Team, based in Manilla, Nairobi and The Hague. Based on the learnings of the 2019 Mid-Term Review, it was decided to decentralise the global MEL officer into two regional roles: one for Africa and one for South East Asia. These decentralised roles would ensure closer liaisons with the country teams in realising their M&E plan, as part of the global results framework.

Your responsibilities

As Voice’s Roving M&E officer, you develop plans and reports related to the progress and impact of the Voice program, in line with the global results framework. In close liaison with the country and regional teams of Oxfam (Novib) and Hivos respectively you will coordinate and lead on information gathering and impact measurement in East and West Africa. Together with your colleague in South East Asia and your colleagues in country and regional offices, you develop tools for tailor-made assessments, monitoring and evaluations. You also ensure processing monitoring information in the programme registration system. Furthermore, you lead on in-country implementation of the Outcome Harvesting, change stories’ and other relevant qualitative data gathering processes, in close collaboration with the South East Asia Roving M&E Officer and with your colleagues in country and regional offices.

Reports to: Linking and Learning Coordinator

Overall objectives

1. To ensure quality delivery against the global Voice results framework, taking into account the Hivos and Oxfam (Novib) results framework.
2. To develop, assess and refine a global inventory of context-specific tools and approaches for data gathering and analysis, using the Oxfam (Novib) system as a basis.
3. To lead on Voice M & E activities for Africa, ensuring coherence with the global plan.
4. To act as a focal point for M & E related communications in Africa.
5. To enhance quality of country level reporting on results and outcomes in the 6 African Voice focus countries.

Main tasks

1. Develops global-level plans and reports related to the progress and impact of the Voice program, together with South East Asia Roving M& E officer.
2. Together with Voice country teams, develops country-level M & E plans and reports aligned to the global results framework.
3. Coordinates the overall program information gathering and impact measurement process and makes sense of country-level outcome and output data for Africa.
4. Processes project monitoring and evaluation information of the global grants in the program registration system.
5. Supports country teams in Africa to process project monitoring and evaluation information of grants in the program registration system.
6. Supports country teams to gather and analyse project output and outcome data, as per the overall M & E plan.
7. Coordinates the development and peer-evaluation of tools for tailor-made assessments, project monitoring and evaluations.
8. Leads on overall functioning, and manages in-country implementation of the Outcome Harvesting, change stories’ and other relevant qualitative data gathering processes, in close collaboration with the South East Asia Roving M&E Officer and Communications Hub.
9. Together with the L&L coordinator and L&L Community of Practice, develops and curates a global Voice knowledge management and learning system.
10. Ensures evidence-based cross-fertilisation with other programmes in-country and in the region.

Your profile

You have a relevant academic education in the field of social studies or equivalent in work experience. You have at least 3 years of experience with M&E, preferably in developing countries. You are a well organised, independent, decisive and energetic person. You perform quality tasks independently. You have affinity with data monitoring and administration. Your communication skills are excellent both oral and in writing in English and French. Finally, we expect you to have good social interaction skills and affinity with working on diversity and inclusion. Nothing about us Without Us or NOW-Us! is (y)our mantra!

Your experience

• Relevant academic education in the field of social studies or equivalent in work experience.
• 3 years’ professional experience in similar local context.
• Affinity with data monitoring and administration.
• Experience in gathering, analysing and presenting quantitative and qualitative data.
• Excellent knowledge of English and French.

Other essential skills

• Well-organised and results-oriented.
• Attentive to detail.
• Able to perform high quality tasks independently.
• Decisive.
• Energetic.
• Team player, networker, socially interactive.

What we offer

We offer a stimulating work environment within a professional international organisation with very dedicated staff. You will be based in any of the countries (i.e. Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda) either at an Oxfam or Hivos office, while your contract will be with Hivos East Africa. The employment is initially offered for the period of 1 year. Starting date will be as soon as possible.

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About Free to be Me

Free to me is an ambitious, daring and innovative program that will help build and maintain a vibrant LGBTIQ+ movement that is confident and capable to lobby and advocate for their human and economic rights. The program is led by an alliance of three consortium members – Hivos (the lead party), ILGA World and Positive Vibes – and three technical partners – Sogi campaigns, The Global Interfaith Network (GIN) and Workplace Pride. Together the alliance will coach, accompany, fund and train LGBTIQ+ persons and organizations to influence norms and attitudes, generate (public) support, and promote laws, policies and regulations that recognize, respect and protect LGBTIQ+ people’s human and economic rights.

The program will be implemented in 14 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

The program started on 1 April 2021. The program is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the Power of Voices program, which is part of the Strengthening Civil Society subsidy framework. The five-year program has a budget of EUR 37 million.

Job context

Mutual capacity strengthening is a core element of the Free to be Me program, aiming for it to contribute to stronger, coordinated, LGBTIQ+ -led lobby and advocacy. Free to be Me considers capacity strengthening as a reciprocal process, in which each of the participants both has things to offer and to learn. Capacity strengthening will take place both through workshops and trainings, and through exchange of experiences between organizations and persons, accompaniment and coaching. We are looking for a person to design, implement and guide capacity strengthening efforts. Organizing and realizing on- and offline linking & learning events is part of the job.

The Capacity Strengthening/Linking and Learning officer will support and carry out activities in all program countries across Africa, the MENA region and Southeast Asia. They will be part of the global team, and will report to the global program manager, who is based in Hivos’ regional office in Nairobi.

Your responsibilities

Leadership and management of capacity strengthening efforts

• Strategizes, inspires and collaborates with local organizations, consortium members and colleagues in the design, implementation and evaluation of capacity strengthening efforts, with an emphasis on mutual learning.
• Makes connections between relevant persons and organizations, to enhance capacity strengthening and learning.
• Supports national-level Communities of Action in organizing locally relevant, innovative, inspiring events that facilitate linking and learning within LGBTIQ+ communities, as well as with ‘outside‘ actors, such as artists, technologists, etc.
• Takes a leading role in organizing regional and / or international level linking and learning events, building on local experiences, and in close collaboration with local organizations.

Increased capacities and knowledge of all involved in the partnership

• Ensures insights, results, and lessons from capacity strengthening efforts are fed back to and considered in the Communities of Action, within the alliance and in the overarching management team, and vice versa.
• Ensures and strengthens the meaningful and inclusive intersectional participation as a core value of the program.
• Contributes to overarching plans, monitoring and reports.
• Motivates, trains, supports and guides staff in capacity strengthening efforts. Enables effective teamwork towards agreed objectives.
• Maintains and updates learning across the program and the partnership, stimulates internal and external knowledge exchange and integrates learning into practice.

Your profile

• At least 5 years of knowledge/experience in designing and implementing capacity strengthening and linking & learning.
• Believes in / embodies what Free to be Me stands for, acknowledges LGBTIQ+ leadership and local ownership, and is inspired by and willing to be accountable to its values and principles.
• Relevant international work experience, with a focus on Africa, the MENA region, and Southeast Asia.
• Professional expertise and up-to-date knowledge on on- and offline capacity strengthening strategies and methodologies, that go beyond workshops, and include, but are not limited to mutual exchange and peer-to-peer learning, coaching, learning events.
• Experience in working with LGBTIQ+ people, including from groups marginalized within that community, and having a demonstrable strong commitment to work towards gender equality and inclusion, and the fulfillment of human rights.
• Affinity with and knowledgeable on LGBTIQ+ rights, social inclusion, marginalization, economic development and/or lobby and advocacy strategies.
• Innovative and strategic thinker, able to link capacity strengthening and learning to wider program outcomes.
• Collaborative personality and participatory way of working, able to build trust and inspire people to share ideas and experiences, and work together.
• Sense of humor, takes initiative, brings good energies and positive vibes, dynamic.
• Imaginative, able to make unorthodox connections to solve challenging problems.
• Academic level of working and thinking, acquired through either a relevant degree, for example in educational sciences, psychology, social sciences or through equivalent work experience.
• Full professional proficiency in English, fluency in written and spoken Arabic, French, Bahasa or Portuguese are desirable.
• Lived experience as an LGBTIQ+ person is an asset.
• Able and willing to travel internationally on a regular basis.

We particularly welcome applications from women, trans and/or intersex people (in the broadest sense of each of these terms). We offer a contract based on Hivos East Africa local labor conditions, with a remuneration commensurate with the experience and expertise requested. Reasonable relocation costs will be covered.

Staffing Level: Medior, salary 377,153 KES per month.

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About Voices of Climate Action

The Voice for Climate Action (VCA) program is a lobby and advocacy programme being implemented by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Netherlands, SouthSouthNorth (SSN), Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Fundación Avina and Hivos under the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ five-year strategic partnership: “Power of Voices”. The program aims to ensure that by 2025, local civil society and underrepresented groups will have taken on a central role as creators, facilitators and advocates of innovative and inclusive climate solutions. Their inclusion is crucial for effective and lasting climate responses. It is also crucial , and because the climate crisis is also a societal challenge with ethical and human rights aspects occurring alongside a number of inequalities based on gender, socioeconomic class, race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, and age.

Call for grant applications

Hivos is looking to partner with Kenyan civil society organisations that will contribute to the goals of the program in different ways. We are looking for organisations that can present an exciting, innovative program that will contribute to amplifying marginalised voices and stories by citizens, enhancing public participation and action in climate policy and budget processes and contributing to policy and financing change that will lead to enhanced climate action at local, national and global levels. This program will not support any ‘hardware’ or ‘implementation’ projects.

Hivos also intends to support organisations to collaborate in coalitions to achieve these goals. This will be done over the time period of 2021-2025 with the first phase set to begin in July 2021 and end in December 2022. Please read on for details of each specific grant. More information about the coalition and organisation requirements can be found below in the FAQs.

Campaign/movement grant: for an organisation or coalition (two or more organisations)

Hivos seeks to partner with organisations aligned with the goals of the program, which are involved in existing climate movements in Kenya. Of key interest are movements led by youth, women, indigenous people or other marginalised groups. This grant will focus on strengthening the movement to achieve its goals through supporting campaigns spearheaded by the movement, and any capacity development the organisation might need. If applying as a coalition, one organisation must be designated the lead in the application. The lead organisation should also be able to demonstrate in assessments if shortlisted, institutional capability to manage sub-granting to the other organisations in the coalition.

This grant will last for an initial period of approximately a year and a half from July 2021 to December 2022. Budget: EUR 80, 000.

Climate grant: for a coalition (three or more organisations)

This grant will support a group of organisations that will create a program in any combination of the program pillars related to climate action and climate justice. The coalition must consist of at least three organisations, and one organisation must apply as the lead organisation. The lead organisation should also be able to demonstrate in assessments if shortlisted, institutional capability to manage sub-granting to the other organisations in the coalition. This program must include an element of policy and/or budget influencing and can operate at either sub-national or national level, or both. If operating at sub-national level please indicate the counties you intend to work in. The program pillars are:

• Mutual capacity strengthening for co-creating alternative scaled climate solutions;
• Agenda setting and movement in climate action through amplified storytelling;
• Joint lobbying and advocacy to make policy and financial flows responsible to locally shaped climate solutions.

This grant will last for an initial period of approximately a year and a half from July 2021 to December 2022. Budget: EUR 210, 000.

Indigenous organisations grant: for a coalition (three or more organisations)

This grant will support a group of organisations representing the specific concerns and perspectives of indigenous people and communities in Kenya. The coalition will create a program in any combination of the program pillars related to climate action. The coalition must consist of at least three organisations, and one organisation must be designated the lead organisation. The lead organisation should also be able to demonstrate in assessments if shortlisted, institutional capability to manage sub-granting to the other organisations in the coalition. This program must include an element of policy/budget influencing and can operate at either sub-national or national level, or both. If operating at sub-national level please indicate the counties you intend to work in. The program pillars are:

• Mutual capacity strengthening for co-creating alternative scaled climate solutions.
• Agenda setting and movement in climate action through amplified storytelling.
• Joint lobbying and advocacy to make policy and financial flows responsible to locally shaped climate solutions.

This grant will last for an initial period of approximately a year and a half from July 2021 to December 2022. Budget: EUR 210, 000.

Media fellowship or storytelling grant – for an organisation or coalition (two or more organisations)

Hivos seeks to partner with Kenyan organisations active in the media space to see an increase in both stories of inspiring climate action in the media, and more citizen stories being amplified for the public. Your organisation should have experience in facilitating storytelling sessions with communities and citizens with tangible outputs, and/or experience implementing media trainings and fellowships, as well as using stories for influencing at local and national level. If applying as a coalition, one organisation must be designated the lead in the application.

This grant will last for an initial period of approximately a year and a half from July 2021 to December 2022. Budget: EUR 120, 000.

Organisational eligibility

• Locally registered non-profit Kenyan organisation with an operational bank account in the applicant’s name.
• For coalitions, the lead must fulfil the eligibility criteria. It is not required for other members of the coalitions to be registered organisations.
• Organisations must have a clean human rights record.
• Applicant with ability to link to and mobilise larger networks or capacity to access, mobilise, convene, and influence power holders.
• It will be considered favorable if the coalitions/organisations:
  1. Have prior experience on lobby and advocacy, capacity strengthening, movement building, storytelling, or collaborating closely with and representing marginalised groups including but not limited to indigenous people, women and girls, youth, and people with disabilities.
  2. For coalitions, the inclusion of actors not traditionally working in climate justice issues, but that have skills and tools which are relevant and/or scalable is a plus; especially as lead organisations.
  3. Willing to collaborate with other organisations within and outside the programme for increased impact.

Not eligible:

• International organisations