Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
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.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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