National Individual Consultant, Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence Training Package

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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Hybrid
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Deadline: 06/07/2025
  • Location: Kenya
Gender-based violence (GBV)
The Position:

Funded by Global Affairs Canada, the Making All Spaces Safe (MASS) global programme  was implemented between March 2024  and  March 2027. The aim of the programme is to increase the benefit of technology, free from gender-based violence and discrimination, for women and girls in all their diversity. 

To build and entrench foundational capacity amongst Kenyan GBV service providers on TFGBV, the MASS programme will contextualize the UNFPA Global TFGBV Training Package (Training Package), which will be used to facilitate training sessions in Kisumu, Mombasa and Nairobi counties. The Training Package will support capacity building in key areas, including but not limited to, understanding and responding to TFGBV and its impacts; coordinating responses for TFGBV survivors, including persons with disabilities, preventing TFGBV, amongst others. This Training Package will specifically be used to equip GBV service providers with knowledge of TFGBV, digital technologies, tools, platforms, and spaces, improving their own technology use and building their confidence and capacity to effectively support survivors of TFGBV.


How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. 

Job Purpose:

The consultant will contextualize a pre-existing Training Package aimed at building the capacity of targeted GBV service providers in key sectors in Kisumu, Mombasa, and Nairobi Counties. These sectors include, but are not limited to, healthcare, social services, education, justice, law enforcement, psychosocial services, and ICT/technical security. The consultant will liaise closely with the GBV/Gender Advisor, the GBV/Gender Programme Analyst and the TFGBV Consultant to maintain consistency and quality; ensure inputs from, and validation of, the adapted Training Package by Kenyan experts, stakeholders, and service providers; and submit a contextualized TFGBV Training Package and TFGBV Lexicon.

Qualifications and Experience: 
Master’s degree in the relevant field, ( social sciences, gender studies, or other relevant field). A degree with a specific focus on gender and technology, or GBV would be highly advantageous.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrable experience in the field of gender-based violence (GBV), learning, knowledge management, or any other related area in the context of GBV programming, with a specific focus on technology-facilitated GBV (TFGBV), is preferred.
  • Specialized knowledge of gender-based violence, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, and technology in the Kenyan context.
  • Proven experience in developing and delivering training programmes, ideally related to GBV and/or TFGBV. 
  • Proven experience adapting and contextualizing existing training materials for different audiences in Kenya.
  • Experience conducting and/or facilitating consultations, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and workshops.
  • Familiarity with the UNFPA GBV guidance on ethical data collection and management, and UNFPA’s ‘A Framework for TFGBV Programming.’
  • Initiative, sound judgment, and demonstrated ability to work harmoniously with teams from different cultural backgrounds.
  • Fluency in English and Kiswahili is required.

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