Closing date: Monday, 19 January 2015
Job opening ID: 143
Department: AWARD
Posting title: Deputy Director, Gender Responsive Agriculture
Designation: Deputy Director, Gender Responsive Agriculture
Job Summary
This position will work closely with the Director on major initiatives that raise AWARD’s global and regional profile by taking a leadership role in ensuring that AWARD’s M&E and Communications support to the program (both internally and externally) has a strong and expertly informed gender-focus. The ideal candidate will be able to translate AWARD’s M&E data into compelling narratives and share these in a variety of formats with key stakeholders.
Deadline: 01/19/2015
Number of positions: 1
Job type: Full time
Location: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Posted on: 12/22/2014
Job Category: Internationally Recruited Staff
Roles and responsibilities
- Direct and manage the department that is responsible for effective, impactful, and credible monitoring, evaluation, communication, learning, adaptive management, and resource mobilization.
- Prepare and manages department budget based on annual operating plans and monitors to ensure activities are operating within budgetary limits.
- Provide direction to the Senior Officers for Communication and M&E, as well as overall leadership to other staff in the department, all from an expert focus on gender in agriculture.
- Responsible for development of M&E and communications initiatives and collaborations, with an expert focus on gender in ARD, African women scientists) and the larger ecosystem (their institutions, other partner organizations, donor community, M&E professionals, media).
- Oversees the management of the communications activities to ensure materials, messages, and materials are consistent, of high quality, and supportive of the strategic direction of the program.
- Supervise overall M&E activities to ensure that data collection, analysis, and use are in line with the high standards expected from AWARD.
- Supervise resource mobilization activities and ensures synergies and triangulation with M&E and communication.
- Provide strategic support to the Director in overall leadership of the program’s current activities as well as planning and preparations for a future Phase III, with a view of building up AWARD as a leading contributor to knowledge about gender in agriculture.
- Serve as contents expert in programmatic discussions on gender in agricultural research and development.
Skill set
- A Master’s in agricultural research or social science, with a particular focus on gender and gender-responsive research (a PhD degree would be preferred).
- A minimum of 10-15 years international experience working in research, and/or international development environment.
- Knowledge of, and experience in communication of program results, e.g. through proven track record in monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management, communication, or public relations.
- Proven ability in publication and communication of program results to a variety of audiences.
- Professional experience in Africa in gender-responsive agricultural research and development, with Western and Southern Africa experience (and language and cultural knowledge) being particularly advantageous.
- Excellent leadership, supervisory, planning and organization skills.
- Strong analytical skills, expertise in handling both quantitative and qualitative data.
- Effective communication, presentation and problem handling skills.
- Strong written and oral skills, flexibility and sense of humour.
- Must be ‘digitally savvy’ with demonstrated affinity for social media, electronic data management systems, and/or other online tools.
- Team-building skills with a collaborative management style.
- Creative, conceptual and analytical thinker.
- Ability to interview, select and supervise staff, as well as delegate work effectively.
- Ability to establish goals and priorities for staff and evaluate performance.
- Ability to forge and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of representatives of AWARD’s diverse stakeholders.
Work experience: 10 years
Duty station: Nairobi, Kenya
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