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Gender Expert, East Africa
Devex Talent Solutions
Job Description
Devex
Talent Solutions is assisting Tanager, an international nonprofit that
connects smallholder producers and private businesses to co-create new
ways of realizing life-changing economic and social opportunity in
looking for a Gender Expert, East Africa to be based in either Kenya or
Tanzania. They are also open to remote work in a different country or
location.
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The
Impacting Gender & Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange
in Agriculture (IGNITE) mechanism is a five-year investment funded by
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by Tanager to
improve household nutrition and women’s empowerment by strengthening
African institutions’ ability to integrate nutrition and gender into
their way of doing business and their agriculture interventions. IGNITE
will work with African institutions to design, implement, and evaluate
nutrition-sensitive and gender-integrated agriculture interventions.
IGNITE will also strengthen the ability of African institutions to
incorporate nutrition and gender equality into their policy priorities
and business practices—their way of doing business. Based on the
interventions implemented by IGNITE clients, IGNITE will identify key
mechanisms and drivers of demand for the scale up and replication of
nutrition-sensitive and gender-integrated interventions. IGNITE
activities will be targeted in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and
Tanzania. Potential clients include NGOs, private sector companies, and
government bodies working in agriculture.

As a component of its
work, IGNITE works to support three private-sector poultry companies
under the African Poultry Multiplication Initiative (APMI). IGNITE
builds these companies’ institutional capacity to integrate gender and
women’s empowerment and nutrition into companies’ activities in the
poultry value chain via trainings, SBC support, and consultation with
company staff.

POSITION SUMMARY
Tanager
is seeking a Gender Expert based in Nairobi to lead the design and
provision of technical services to APMI companies and IGNITE clients.
The gender expert will support clients and companies to design,
implement, and monitor gender-integrated agriculture activities and
business strategies. The Gender Expert will also provide thought
leadership on the development of tools and resources that will
facilitate the integration of gender into agriculture interventions and
institutions’ way of doing business. The Gender Expert will spend
approximately 60% of their time supporting APMI companies, and 40% of
their time supporting IGNITE clients, although these percentages are
subject to change. The Gender Expert will report to the IGNITE Deputy
Team Leader (where is the deputy team leader based)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Support
IGNITE clients’ and APMI companies’ with the development, design,
implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of gender-integrated
interventions in agriculture, especially poultry

Lead
the analysis of available desk research and field assessments, as
appropriate, to identify gender-specific challenges and opportunities
for female social and economic empowerment, particularly in household
decision-making, nutrition, and women’s engagement in poultry value
chains.
Co-create the design and implementation of gender
activities that employ intergenerational and male engagement approaches,
as well as social and behavior change theory
Advise on and
support development, collection, and analysis of indicators for
measuring gender gaps and empowerment; support clients to align their
accountability mechanisms and systems to deliver on their gender and
nutrition commitments
Identify and mitigate risks for intended
and unintended impacts; support collection of sex- and age-disaggregated
data; integrate gender into formative research

Strengthen IGNITE clients’ and APMI companies’ capacity to integrate gender into their business practices and policies

Support clients in identifying opportunities to mainstream gender and nutrition at institutional and project level
Design and conduct participatory training and workshops on gender mainstreaming for clients
Support
clients on development, refinement, alignment, and/or roll-out of
policies and procedures to promote gender mainstreaming and equitable
business practices
Develop and pilot capacity building tools and
approaches that integrate both gender and nutrition into the design and
implementation of agriculture activities

Provide technical
thought leadership on identification of effective and efficient models
that increase women’s empowerment in agriculture

Contribute
to development of case studies that make the business case for
integrating gender into agriculture activities and business plans
Collaborate
with evaluation partners in designing tools and assessments that
identify most effective and efficient models for increasing women’s
empowerment in agriculture

Support IGNITE clients’ and APMI
companies’ with the development, design, implementation, monitoring,
and evaluation of gender-integrated interventions in agriculture,
especially poultry

Lead the
analysis of available desk research and field assessments, as
appropriate, to identify gender-specific challenges and opportunities
for female social and economic empowerment, particularly in household
decision-making, nutrition, and women’s engagement in poultry value
chains.
Co-create the design and implementation of gender
activities that employ intergenerational and male engagement approaches,
as well as social and behavior change theory
Advise on and
support development, collection, and analysis of indicators for
measuring gender gaps and empowerment; support clients to align their
accountability mechanisms and systems to deliver on their gender and
nutrition commitments
Identify and mitigate risks for intended
and unintended impacts; support collection of sex- and age-disaggregated
data; integrate gender into formative research

Strengthen IGNITE clients’ and APMI companies’ capacity to integrate gender into their business practices and policies

Support clients in identifying opportunities to mainstream gender and nutrition at institutional and project level
Design and conduct participatory training and workshops on gender mainstreaming for clients
Support
clients on development, refinement, alignment, and/or roll-out of
policies and procedures to promote gender mainstreaming and equitable
business practices
Develop and pilot capacity building tools and
approaches that integrate both gender and nutrition into the design and
implementation of agriculture activities

Provide technical
thought leadership on identification of effective and efficient models
that increase women’s empowerment in agriculture

Contribute
to development of case studies that make the business case for
integrating gender into agriculture activities and business plans
Collaborate
with evaluation partners in designing tools and assessments that
identify most effective and efficient models for increasing women’s
empowerment in agriculture

Support local service providers to expand the reach of IGNITE technical support services

Support
identification of local service providers; conduct trainings and other
capacity building activities for identified local service providers;
accompany local service providers in providing technical support to
IGNITE clients
Develop and test tools that integrate both gender and nutrition into the design and implementation of agriculture activities

Lead engagements with select IGNITE clients

Create and nurture strong and long-term relationships with IGNITE clients
Serve
as IGNITE point of contact on select client engagements, shepherding
clients through the phases of an IGNITE engagement and ensuring their
needs are addressed at each stage
In consultation with the Team Leader, address any concerns and complaints raised by the client
Liaise
with nutrition technical experts to support integration of nutrition
sensitive agriculture considerations into client program design
Maintain
the IGNITE client tracker and update the team, including subaward
partners, on client progress; participate alongside the Team Leader in
quarterly client meetings

Provide thought leadership to Tanager in other gender-integrated agriculture investments

Contribute
technical input into the pursuit and design of gender-integrated
agriculture interventions in Tanager’s future new business opportunities
Train Tanager staff on the importance of gender integration, as appropriate

Other duties as assigned by your supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s/university degree in sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, gender studies, or other related discipline
Minimum
of 8 years’ work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa in mainstreaming
gender equity into food security, nutrition, or agriculture programs;
including a minimum of 5 years’ experience facilitating training on
gender mainstreaming in agriculture designing and leading gender
analysis and/or gender audits, providing gender technical support to
government and/or private sector clients; OR an equivalent combination
of education and experience. Experience in poultry value chains is
especially desired.
Demonstrated knowledge and skills in
designing and implementing tools and approaches to support government
and private sector institutions in integrating gender in their
agriculture work
Demonstrated knowledge of and proven
successful ability to conduct in-depth gender analyses, including
leading research teams, facilitating focus groups, and conducting
interviews.
Proven ability to successfully design and facilitate participatory training and workshops.
Demonstrated
experience in offering technical assistance or advisory services in the
agriculture sector and with a focus on gender mainstreaming
Demonstrated
ability to develop evidence-based recommendations and interventions to
promote gender equity and women’s empowerment.
Excellent
understanding of global and continental commitment mechanisms for gender
and nutrition in agriculture for stakeholders like governments and
private sector; ability to design technical assistance that enhances
accountability.
Demonstrated knowledge of social and behavior change communication theory and techniques.
Understanding
of nutrition-sensitive agriculture concepts in Africa and ability to
integrate a nutrition-sensitive lens into gender approaches.
Experience
working with agricultural market systems, rural producers, farmers’
associations, agribusinesses, private sector agricultural production,
marketing, or sales, and/or governments. Excellent interpersonal and
communication skills required. Ability to build relationships and
rapport with teams, staff, and clients and navigate challenging or
unexpected circumstances with creativity, calm, and positivity. Ability
to communicate effectively with persons on all levels both inside and
outside the company on issues that could be complex or sensitive in
nature.
Excellent client relationship management skills.
Adaptable and innovative. Collaborative and open to feedback. Able to work independently and in a team setting.
Strong
analytical skills, including ability to gather and analyze a variety of
information pertaining to issues and to develop appropriate
recommendations for action.
Strong written communication skills,
including demonstrated ability to write required documents in a clear,
concise, well-organized manner.
Advanced computer skills in a Windows based environment including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel.
Fluency in English, written and oral, is required. French or Portuguese language skills preferred.
Travel in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected 40%.
Applicants from African countries strongly encouraged to apply.