Gender and Land Tenure Specialist

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Landesa Rural Development Institute

  • 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
  • Renumeration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 31/10/2024
  • Location: Kenya
Climate & Environmental justice Human rights
About Landesa

Grounded in the knowledge that having legal rights to land is a foundation for prosperity and opportunity, Landesa partners with governments and local organizations to ensure that those experiencing the most extreme forms of poverty have secure rights over the land they depend on. Founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1967, Landesa has helped more than 100 million families living in poverty gain legal control over their land.  With secure land rights, these families can eat better, earn more, educate their children, practice conservation, and achieve dignity for generations. 

Essential Job Functions

  • Lead the “Equal Stake in the Soil” project team in Kenya, including overseeing annual workplan development and monitoring and oversight of subgrantee partners.
  • Facilitate development of a coalition of civil society actors in Kenya, in collaboration with the Landesa Kenya team, the Stand for Her Land (S4HL) team, and key land sector partners.
  • Facilitate collective development of a Coalition strategy; assess progress and results, identify problem areas, and take corrective steps to achieve S4HL and project objectives.
  • Rally CSO actors in Kenya to promote and strengthen the leadership, voice, and agency of grassroots women as central to all activities implemented by S4HL Kenya.
  • Perform research, analysis, and synthesis of topics and issues related to Landesa’s work in the country and region from a gender equality and intersectional perspective as needed, and collaborate with S4HL team to identify needs for research and analysis, and identify staff, consultants, or partners who can conduct it
  • Working with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team, oversee fieldwork (key informant interviews, public meetings, workshops, surveys) to gather information about current land tenure conditions and prospects for gender transformational reform.
  • Work with the Coalition to develop gender-transformative policy, program and project recommendations that are useful and realistic.
  • Contribute to plans for implementing recommendations, including advocating for gender transformative approaches to be adequately integrated and resourced.
  • Orally present policy recommendations to government officials and other partners, answer questions and defend recommendations; progressively support grassroots women leaders within the Coalition to engage in policy advocacy as well.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Exceptional ability to communicate in writing and orally in English.
  • A master’s degree or advanced degree equivalent in a related field is required, i.e. law, agricultural economics, gender studies, [feminist] economics, sociology, geography, anthropology, or related field.
  • At least 5 years of experience of relevant international development work experience working at the intersection of gender and land tenure, engaging in policy research and in the design and implementation of projects, including significant focus on the types of thematic and geographic areas mentioned above
  • Proven experience and understanding of working with local communities in implementation of past project/initiatives.
  • Experience in women’s land rights and application of gender in all aspects of project design and implementation.
  • Experience working in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Francophone Africa, and/or South Asia.

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