Technical Lead – Gender

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VVOB - education for development

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • 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
  • Deadline: 12/04/2024
  • Location: Kenya
Education Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
You will: 
• Provide organisational leadership (on-the-job mentoring,   coaching,   capacity development,   change management) for your direct reports(Regional Strategic Education Advisors) and foster good relationships with and between partners and teams, supporting a positive organisational culture. 
• Design and develop relevant and scalable gender-responsive pedagogy projects in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide both short and long-term strategic advice, information and guidance to VVOB and VVOB’s partners on gender and gender-responsive pedagogies, in line with policy trends, new developments and the latest research and thinking in education and international development.
• Take up a variety of roles in capacity development as well as knowledge exchange,  learning and development processes, according to the needs, particular situations, and phases of the programme. 
• To implement our regional project(s)and activities, you will contribute to securing cooperation and support from VVOB’s partners and maintaining a strong network with them. You will promote VVOB as a reliable partner and you will represent our organisation to external stakeholders.   
• Support the Regional Strategic Education Advisor, Advocacy and Communication on developing content for communication (e.g., website, video, social media...) and contribute to the dissemination of findings and results (e.g., international conferences, seminars, workshops, and other events) on scaling gender-responsive initiatives.
• Support the Regional Strategic Education AdvisorScaling in guiding country teams and partners in assessing the scalability of gender-responsive initiatives and developing effective scaling strategiesthat  take into account the specific needs and contexts of the initiatives.

Who are you?
Your expertise and experience
• Master’s degree in education, human sciences or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience managing and leading multicultural and effective teams.
• In-depth understanding of the national education system and education sector; especially in regard to gender equity and gender responsive pedagogy.
• Experience with scaling teacher professional development initiatives.
• Experience in organisational and institutional capacity development.  
• Experience with international development cooperation and with managing projects and programmes of different donors.
• Fluency in English

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