Gender Expert

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Tanager

  • 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
  • Deadline: 06/09/2024
  • Location: Kenya
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
BACKGROUND

Tanager is an international nonprofit that connects smallholder producers and private businesses to co-create new ways of realizing life-changing economic and social opportunity. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead technical advisory engagements with AAIs to support the development, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of gender-integrated interventions in agriculture and gender mainstreaming approaches at institutional level. (40%)

  • Diagnose: Contribute and participate in institutional and programmatic diagnostic processes with AAI clients
  • Advise: As a technical advisor, provide technical advisory and implementation support to clients 
  • Strengthen: Strengthen institutional systems and structures towards gender mainstreaming. As a technical advisor and thought leader, support IGNITE clients’ capacity to integrate gender into their business practices, policies, systems, and structures.

Provide technical thought leadership on identification, capturing, and documentation of approaches, innovations, lessons, and insights about gender TA demand creation and service delivery models (40%)

  • Co-create demand creation: Working with project partners - local service providers (LSPs), support in developing strategies to create demand and expand the reach of Gender technical advisory services.
  • Sustain: Working alongside other IGNITE+ technical (MEL, Nutrition, etc.) and operational experts, contribute to sustaining a network of technical service providers. 
  • Document: Contribute to development of case studies, success stories, learning briefs, that bring lessons from the project implementation to make the business case for integrating gender into agriculture activities, institutional systems and structures. 

Manage partnerships and relations with project stakeholders (10%)

  • Nurture relations: Create and nurture strong and long-term relationships with clients and serve as a point of contact on select client engagements, shepherding clients through the phases of a TA engagement and ensuring their needs are addressed at each stage
  • Manage relations: In consultation with the project leadership, address any concerns and complaints raised by the client and coordinate and lead regular reflection meetings with clients and LSPs
  • Participate in strategic meetings: Alongside the project leadership in strategic donor-facing project meetings

Contribute to Resource Mobilization/New Business Development – 10%

  • Resource Mobilization and New Business Development: Support the Country Representative to identify, pursue, and secure new growth opportunities both with existing donors, and new and non-traditional donors and investors, including the private sector.
  • Proposal Development: Serves as technical writer and reviewer on selected Tanager proposal efforts focused on gender components.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree with atleast 12 years of work experience or Master’s/university degree with atleast 8 years’ work experience in gender studies, development studies, sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, or other related discipline
  • Minimum of 8 years’ work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa in mainstreaming gender into food systems, nutrition, or agriculture programs; including a minimum of 6 years’ experience facilitating trainings on gender, leading gender analysis and/or gender audits, providing gender technical support to government, NGOs and/or private sector clients;
  • Demonstrated experience in offering gender technical assistance or advisory services in the agriculture sector with a focus on strengthening institutional systems, structures, and processes.
  • Fluency in English, written and oral, required.

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