GESSI Integration Manager

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FHI 360

  • Location: Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Location: Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana
PSEA/ Safeguarding Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
Technical Requirements
  • Provide technical leadership to activities related to GESSI (Gender, Equity, Safeguarding and Social Inclusion).
  • Liaise and coordinate with key collaborators, including YALI Africa, RLCs, alumni chapters, and other key counterparts including host institutions, government officials, private sector, and civil society organizations.
  • Mentor junior technical staff in tracking, analysis, and synthesis of GESSI results to advance learning both within the program and externally.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

Project Design and Implementation
  • Coordinate closely with the technical staff at the project office in Kenya and with YALI RLC staff in Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa to ensure effective integration of GESSI approaches in workplan deliverables, activities, and needs identified by key YALI collaborators and counterparts.
  • Lead the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Analysis
  • Create a GESSI Action Plan
  • Ensure the timely implementation of the GESSI Action Plan
  • Serve as the project’s Safeguarding Focal Point
  • Revise and apply existing tools to conduct a GESI Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA)

Operations Management
• Raise challenges or issues to project leadership, as needed.

Project/Program Reporting
  • Support the tracking of technical assistance and refinement of GESSI activities.
  • Support documentation and collation of GESSI-related lessons learned, standard processes, and success stories.
  • Review and strengthen regular programmatic reporting on GESSI approaches and activities.

Quality Assurance
Ensure technical deliverables related to capacity strengthening from assigned countries are of high quality and meet client / funder contractual obligations.

Applied Knowledge & Skills
  • Ensure appropriate and timely technical support for activities.
  • Strong GESSI knowledge and skills
  • Strong knowledge and skills on youth leadership development through training, networking, and related activities.
  • Must be able to read, write and speak fluent English.

Supervision Given/Received
  • The GESSI Manager reports to the DCOP and is a senior member of the technical team.
  • May supervise other staff members.
  • Self-motivated, proactive orientation to setting and achieving priorities and meeting
  • Works under general guidelines for completion and accuracy as determined by the supervisor

Education
Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in a relevant field such as Public
Policy, Organizational Development, or Education, or a BA with commensurate work experience.

Experience
  • At least 6 years experience working in international development settings with local or international organizations.
  • At least 5 years experience working on gender and or inclusion issues.
  • Experience developing GESSI training curricula and training a variety of stakeholders.
  • Experience conducting a gender and social inclusion analysis or experience developing a GESSI Action Plan
  • Experience working in countries in Africa.
  • Advanced skills in French, Portuguese, or other widely spoken African languages other than English are preferred.
  • Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting.

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