Job Description
VACANCY NO: 2/SIGO/2023: SOCIAL INCLUSION AND GENDER OFFICER
Reporting to the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, the Social Inclusion Officer will
be responsible for the successful implementation of the social inclusion strategies of RK-
FINFA. The specific duties of the Social Inclusion Officer will include:
a) Be responsible for the implementation of the RK-FINFA gender equality and women
empowerment, youth, and social inclusion strategies in project interventions to ensure
results for gender transformation and youth sensitive programming are achieved and
on track.
b) Liaise with the PMU to work with the other project officers and County Gender and
Youth Officers, keeping them informed about the projects targeting strategy and
progress and identifying any opportunities for complementary support for the project’s
beneficiaries from other government or donor initiatives.
c) Review and monitor the Service Providers’ plans for community mobilization including
the socio-economic, youth and gender assessments, community entry, situation
analysis, social and institutional mapping, wealth ranking, and assessment of
individuals, community groups and beneficiary selection processes to ensure inclusion
of the project’s key target groups.
d) Oversee and monitor the implementation of the youth empowerment, gender
transformative approaches, women empowerment and GALS approach including
contracting consultants or service providers for technical assistance, reviewing the
TORs, and coordinating between the project and the required technical assistance.
e) Track the project’s effectiveness in targeting strategy, gender equality and women
empowerment, youth and vulnerable groups in collaboration with the Monitoring and
Evaluation Specialist, to ensure that gender, age and vulnerable-groups’ disaggregated
data is collated and reported.
f) Document best practices and emerging issues for course correction highlighting
challenges, achievements and lessons learnt in the gender, youth and social inclusion
aspects in progress reports.
g) Carry out any other relevant duties as may be assigned by the Senior Monitoring and
Evaluation Specialist.
Minimum Requirements
a) A Master's degree and a bachelors degree in social science or a field related to rural
community development.
b) A minimum of 7 years of experience in community development and applied gender
mainstreaming at project or institutional level, 3 of which in Development Partner
funded project.
c) Knowledge of participatory and household methodologies, especially GALS.
d) Demonstrated experience in the techniques of data collection, data entry, data
analysis and design of management information systems to facilitate the planning
and decision-making processes within the institution/s.
e) Good communications and IT skills as required for the SIO position.
Other Requirements
a) Experience in rural development project management and implementation.
b) Experience with poverty, gender and youth targeting in agriculture- based rural
development programmes.