GROOTS Kenya – Program Officer.

Location:

Nairobi & Tana River

• Serve as the project technical expert on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and gender analysis
• Participate in project baseline, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting to ensure gender mainstreaming. This will include developing and monitoring gender indicators
• Lead Publication of online project outcomes on Gender Mainstreaming in Food security and DDR
• Support the collective organizing of mapped women networks/groups in Tana River, developing leadership capacities and support all the policy advocacy and lobbying activities
• Build capacity of project staff, partners and project stakeholders in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming in Food security and DRR

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:

• Educational level required: Degree in gender and development or related field
• Technical Training required. Gender analysis and mainstreaming
• Experience: At least four years’ experience working on gender equality and women’s empowerment, gendered approaches to agriculture, food security, disaster and climate issues
• Technical experience in supporting women entrepreneurships and market systems
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) for communicating with communities and partners
• Passionate about grassroots women empowerment and community development

Other Attributes:

• Must be a committed to gender equality and women empowerment
• Ability to meet deadlines without failure
• Ability to manage multiple tasks
• Cooperation and Teamwork
• Self-driven Leader and a strategic and critical thinker
• Exceptional Time Management skills with a high sense of agency:
• Highly Innovative
• High Planning and Organization skills:
• Great Interpersonal Skills (Internal and External stakeholders):
• Conflict management skills; demonstrates tact and diplomacy when resolving conflicts,
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• High performing and result oriented person