Job Opening at Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)

Job description

Role Overview

To provide support to VSO Kenya in carrying out capacity building in Social Inclusion and Gender Analysis for the employees, volunteers and VSO partners ;take lead in conducting phase two of the Social Exclusion and Gender Analysis (SEGA) research in Kenya and support in embedding the findings of SEGA research phase one in VSO Kenya’s programme design.

Essential

Skills, qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Social Sciences.
• Experience in Gender, Exclusion or environmental issues with an understanding of how change happens.
• An understanding of social exclusion analysis and other participatory methodologies and a commitment to people led development
• Experience in participatory research, appraisals and assessment

Skills In One Or More In The Following Areas

• Qualitative research
• Power analysis
• Gender and gender analysis
• Social exclusion analysis
• Social inclusion
• Environmental analysis
• Livelihoods and resilience
• Economics for equality
• Stakeholder mapping
• Systems mapping
• Systems approaches
• Theories of change
• Transformational processes
• You will have strong facilitation skills and ability to train, mentor and coach others.
• You will be passionate about participation and social inclusion
• You will have specialized in gender, livelihoods resilience, participatory development.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working in the international development contexts.
• Being up-to-date on the current thinking in international development and approaches to poverty
• Understanding of key considerations in working cross-culturally.
• Experience working in Kenya and knowledge of the local context

Allowance and accommodation

All volunteers have an allowance paid in local currency. The allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home.

VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.

VSO is the world's leading development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. We are unique in the way we bring people together to share their skills and experience, generate insights and ideas and, most of all, take action against poverty and exclusion. It's a highly effective approach that works, and today is helping millions of people in some of the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty.