Gender, Disability Social Inclusion and Education Advisor

World Vision is an international Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation working in almost 100 countries world-wide to create lasting change in the lives of children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

Gender, Disability Social Inclusion and Education Advisor

Job Description:

• The purpose of this position is to provide technical guidance and coordination across World Vision Kenya’s strategy, programming, policy, grant acquisition and program implementation to enable World Vision Kenya’s strategies, organizational policies, structures and processes and programming to effectively integrate Gender Equality, Disability and Social inclusion and Education. In addition, the position will foster greater collaboration with sector teams and external partners to push for effective responses to the Gender Equality, Disability and Social inclusion (GEDSI) related vulnerability of girls and boys in fragile contexts and other emergencies. The position will provide the overall coordination for the education sector for the office.

Job Responsibilities:

Ensure effective mainstreaming of Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion in World Vision Kenya and Provide the general coordination and collaboration for the education sector for the office.

• Develop and review WVK gender, Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion national approaches/plans regularly to ensure compliance with the World Vision Partnership, donor, national and international standards.

• Develop and review assessment tools in line with World Vision Partnership, donor, national and international standards

• Ensure assessment in gender and disability adequately done for all projects and grants as per partnership, donor, national and international standards.

• Ensure well planned strategic interventions to address disability and gender issues in all programs and projects

• Ensure Gender, Equality, disability and social inclusion issues well mainstreamed in programme/project designs, plans and budgets

• Ensure skills and capacity development for staff and partners in, Gender, Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion and Education models and approaches.

• Provide timely technical programming support for Gender, Disability and Education to staff at the national and field level

• Champion meaningful Gender, Equality, Disability and social inclusion integration in organizational processes, structures and systems

• Ensure staff and community partners are aware of expectations and standards regarding gender sensitive behavior, recognizing or reporting gender discrimination to appropriate channels.

• Continuously identify Gender and disability programming gaps from ongoing projects and programs.

• Provide effective technical support and quality assurance to ADPs and Grants implementing Education interventions

• Participate in the development and review of relevant documents to ensure Education is integrated as applicable.

• Participate in technical coordination, planning and review meetings for Education internally and externally.

• Ensure that business processes, standards and guidelines related to education initiatives are effectively applied by field programs

Fund raising and increased resource acquisition for Gender Equality, Disability and Education

• Actively participate in Program Development and Grants Acquisition

• Ensure well mainstreamed gender and disability issues in all proposals as per donor requirement.

• Ensure that Education, Gender and Disability proposals/concepts prepositioned, developed and marketed

• Support Resource Acquisition & Management in start-up and handing-over processes of relevant projects.

• Support effective prepositioning for Education and GEDSI

Quality assurance of gender, disability and Education in WV Kenya

• Ensure accountability, learning and innovation in GEDSI and Education programming

• Ensure that Gender and Disability issues captured in baselines and evaluations of Programs and grant projects

• Ensure good practices in Education gender and disability programming are profiled and shared to unsure adaptation/up scaling of promising practices.