Gender Specialist at Aga Khan Hospital Kisumu

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY

Reporting to the Project Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the planning and implementation of the project’s Gender Strategy and ensure that gender issues are appropriately mainstreamed throughout project implementation; provide technical support during the gender analysis; review capacity building packages, information, educational and communication materials to ensure they are gender sensitive and appropriately incorporate gender issues; facilitate capacity building of the project staff; monitor and document gender activities including lessons learned and best practices and take part in research.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Determine priorities and activities of the center in collaboration with Comprehensive Cancer Centre team.
• Facilitate and take lead on gender quality assessment of the Cancer Center activities.
• Prepare the Centre’s gender progress and analytical reports, statistics, gender disaggregated, project briefs and ensure that management and stakeholders are up to date.
• Provide technical support and guidance and lead the gender assessment to ensure sufficient data on gender issues gathered to inform the centers interventions and that collected data is gender disaggregated.
• Conduct gender training needs assessment and develop training plan and strategy on gender equality and mainstreaming for different levels of staff.
• Identify and develop innovative activities related to gender equality that contribute to social changes in the project area and facilitate the gender learning agenda.
• Initiate gender audits at the center and ensure that all the center activities incorporate and promote gender equality in appropriate ways.
• Coordinate all gender related activities at the field level.
• Work closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation officer to oversee the monitoring of the implementation of outputs related to gender and provide appropriate technical advice and support to the center staff and partners during the implementation ensuring that the project is implemented within the set gender objectives and activities.
• Participate in evaluating the centers gender equality performance and lead on gender equality action planning.
• Prepare project gender progress and analytical reports and statistics, gender disaggregated data, project briefs and ensure that management and stakeholders are updated regularly.
• Any other roles assigned by the Supervisor or His/Her Designee

The requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Gender, Sociology, Law or related field.
• Minimum Four (4) years working experience. Experience in a health setup will be an added advantage
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Good organizational and data presentation skills
• Fluent in English and Kiswahili.