Key Responsibilities:

Effective Technical Program design, Planning and Implementation,

• Work closely with the Senior Program Manager to provide effective and innovative technical advice in the IMARA Program towards reaching the program goal.
• Responsible for the implementation of the all activities in the IMARA program with focus on Rangeland/dry land forest management, Water access and protection, Disaster Risk Management and Renewable energy options in partnership with partners within the consortium.
• Provision of technical skills in integrated natural resource management practices across communities and partners in targeted areas
• Train the partners, selected farmer groups and partners on the various recommended focal areas (Community Based Natural Resource management, Dry land forestry, Climate smart agriculture, Sustainable energy options, soil and water conservation, Disaster Risk management, Advocacy and policy influence etc).
• Support implementation of water access and protection for enhanced water supply in collaboration with relevant line ministries
• Mobilization of smallholder farmers into Farmers Marketing groups geared to strengthen tree based value chains market systems enhancing increased production
• Develop a program capacity building plan of action for partners, CBOs and Community Owned Resource Persons as per context with specific focus on the key objectives.
• Ensure timely and efficient expenditure at acceptable levels as per donor requirements
• Actively participate in the collection and collation of views from stakeholders for the development of program plans and budgets
• Providing technical leadership and supporting collaborative partnership engagements within the IMARA NRM focus areas across county.
• Contribute to effective and timely implementation of all levels of interventions and initiatives with communities and partners;
• Collaborate with Senior Program manager, IMARA MEAL Coordinator, Program Director and the Environment and Climate Change specialist to effectively support the program to carry out all measurements – baselines, assessments, designs, monitoring and evaluations in accordance with Consortium guidelines and donor requirements.
• Support the program technically in relation to your expertise in the event of any disaster and/or crisis response when called upon to do so;
• Monitor and support the timely and appropriate utilization of budgeted resources for all L&R program interventions as well as ensure effective and timely response plans.
• Together with key partners conduct on site trainings and strengthening community groups in issues on integrated NRM in respect to climate change

Partnership, networking and resource acquisition

• Ensures collaborative roles and partnerships with key partners in the leverage county partners including GoK line Ministries at the county and national, Community Based organization, NGO, Learning Research institutions and any relevant authorities
• Gender and Youth integration in program activities through the implementation strategies.
• Develop working agreements / MOUs with partners as per need.
• Coordinate stakeholder / partner forums on IMARA counties strengthening strategic NRM alliances.
• Coordinate reflection and learning forums for community and partners for purposes of providing forums for experiential learning & reflection.
• In liaison with Partners, lead/support development of data collection and monitoring tools as required
• Strengthen advocacy on prioritization and increased resource allocation for NRM related activities by county government and other CSOs.
• Build capacity on community groups on advocacy to engage service providers and participate in forums to relating to sustainable NRM and related interventions.

Quality Assurance, Monitoring, Reporting & Documentation,

• Participate/Support program assessments, planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation, documentation and dissemination of promising practices
• Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework that ensures that the targets from leveraging sites are tracked.
• Coordinate joint monitoring visits with key partners to track and document program progress in the targeted leverage counties.
• Ensure the feedback from monitoring exercises feed into the working of environment technical working group within the program counties.
• Support the development and submission of program reports and core documents as per WVK guidelines and donor standards.
• Develop context specific electronic and live media communications on NRM activities.
• Support development of technical papers and or policy breifs on key issues for external engagement with decision makers

Others

• Participate in Trans teams and support other initiatives by partners in the spirit of integration
• Perform any other duties as assigned by supervisor or designee.

Knowledge, Qualifications and Skills for the Role

• Bachelor’s degree in Natural Resource Management, Environmental Science, Rangeland Management, Forestry, or Climate Change from a recognized University.
• Minimum of four years’ experience in implementing sustainable natural resource management (SNRM) programs in ASAL/degraded parts of Kenya integrating livelihoods strengthening
• Technical knowledge in NRM, Agriculture/Food security, Livestock and other Livelihoods, Social Protection, Gender issues and Youth inclusion.
• Experience working with private sector, local communities, institutions, governmental and traditional authorities in ASAL regions;
• Demonstrable competencies in designing, planning, implementation, documenting, record-keeping and reporting
• Must have skills and ability to provide training and mentorships
• The holder of this position must be a results orientated person who can handle a heavy work load as well as manage and satisfy multiple and at times conflicting organizational, donor and other stakeholder demands
• S/he must be a self-starter, able to work under minimum supervision and maintain good relationships.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, networking and representation skills;
• Proven leadership qualities, problem-solving and negotiation skills, and evidence of successful team player

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Key Responsibilities:

Gender, Equality Disability and Social Inclusion Technical Expertise

• Develop and review WVK gender, Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion national approaches/plans regularly to ensure compliance with the World Vision Partnership, donor, national and international standards.
• Develop and review assessment tools in line with World Vision Partnership, donor, national and international standards
• Ensure assessment in gender and disability adequately done for all projects and grants as per partnership, donor, national and international standards.
• Ensure well planned strategic interventions to address disability and gender issues in all programs and projects
• Ensure Gender, Equality, disability and Social inclusion issues well mainstreamed in all technical programmes with clear indicators
• Coordinate the planning and designing of programs and projects.
• Support effective mainstreaming of gender Equality, disability and social Inclusion in all technical programs and grants.
• Ensure skills and capacity development for staff and partners in, Gender, Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion approaches. 
• Provide timely technical programming support to project staff at the national and field level
• Lead and guide innovations to ensure effective mainstreaming 
• Ensure Gender, Equality, Disability and social inclusion integration in organizational processes, structures and systems
• Ensure staff and community partners are aware of expectations and standards regarding gender sensitive behavior, recognizing or reporting gender discrimination to appropriate channels.
• Work with Senior Leadership Team to ensure the organizations, systems, structures, processes are gender, equality disability and social inclusion friendly.
• Continuously identify Gender and disability programming gaps from ongoing projects and programs.

Fund raising and increased resource acquisition for Gender Equality, Disability and projects

• Actively participate in Program Development and Grants Acquisition
• Ensure well mainstreamed gender and disability issues in all proposals as per donor requirement.
• Ensure that Gender and Disability proposals/concepts prepositioned, developed and marketed
• Support Resource Acquisition & Management in start-up and handing-over processes of relevant projects.

Quality assurance of gender and disability across all sectors in projects implementation

• Ensure accountability, learning and innovation in gender and disability programming
• Ensure that Gender and Disability issues captured in baselines and evaluations of Programs and grant projects
• Ensure Good practices in gender and disability programming profiled and shared to unsure adaptation/up scaling of promising practices.
• Analyze and interprete Gender and disability monitoring data ad ensure the data is utilized in programming and decision making
• Support staff with relevant Gender and Disability training (ensuring that staff, community and partners have an understanding of gender sensitivity and explain gender in terms of normative, transformative concepts.

Collaboration, partnering and policy Influencing

• Ensure adequate engagement, networking and advocacy at all levels in the gender and disability space
• Identifying policy gaps and inconsistencies in the polices and providing recommendations
• Document and disseminate gender and disability best practices/evidence for use in compiling key advocacy messages for policy influencing.
• Lead in development and utilization of MOUs / working agreements with partners.
• Lead WVK into Participation in key National/ International Days such as International Women’s day and international disability day is ensured.
• Any other duty assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications,Work Experience and Skills Required for the Role

• Bachelor’s degree in Gender /Special needs education, Social Sciences or related degree in a recognized university
• Relevant Post graduate qualification(s) will be an added advantage
• At least 7 years’ experience in Gender, Equality and Disability and Social Inclusion programming with evidence of successful implementation of program
• Experience in the humanitarian sector is an added advantage
• A good understanding of the international gender mainstreaming approaches
• He/ she should have demonstrated track record in proposal development, funding acquisitions and grant management.
• Proven track record in engaging with government ministries and other stakeholders
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of WV working systems, policies and standards will be an added advantage
• Membership to national/international social workers professional body will be an added advantage
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English and Kiswahili.