Field Coordinators - Gender

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Development Studies, economics or related fields.
  
• Over 3 years of experience in gender, social inclusion, or project management in the field.
  
• Experience in designing, collecting and analysing gender-related data. Good analytical skills – either qualitative or quantitative – is an added advantage
  

• Experience working with development partners Strong understanding of gender equality principles and local, context-specific barriers to equality. Experience in implementing gender transformative approaches is an added advantage
  
• Familiarity with gender and livestock system issues and challenges in the local context
  
• Good interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills
  
• Ability to thrive in a multi-cultural professional environment and with minimum supervision
  
• Willingness to travel frequently, often to rural areas and spend time in the field
  

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage stakeholder relationships that improve the ability of the team to achieve the agreed outputs and outcomes.
  
• Ensure timely and appropriate implementation of project activities.
  
• Support project monitoring and evaluation activities -survey design, data collection, data cleaning, analysis and reporting on topics involving
  • Ensure that ethical and sound data collection and information management systems are in place with associated information sharing, planning, evaluation, and advocacy.
    
  • Regularly visiting project sites to monitor progress, collecting sex-disaggregated data, and reporting on impact
    
• Coordinate with local partners and community groups in planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation
  • Working with local communities, government partners, and stakeholders to ensure inclusive participation
    
  • Embedding gender-responsive approaches (empowerment and institutional processes that engage young men and women in livestock and other related value chains) across interventions
    
  • Building the capacity of partners staff on gender-sensitive approaches.
    
  • Identifying social, economic, or security risks to vulnerable groups during implementation
    
  • Undertaking preparation of regular reports on project field activities
    
  • Contributing to the writing of scientific publications as well as outputs for a wider audience
    
• Ensure an efficient communication flow between local partners and the ILRI team