Senior Gender Officer at Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC, KenGen

CS/HRM/11/01/2024

Job Summary

Reporting to Manager-Human Resource Management, the jobholder is responsible for developing gender mainstreaming strategies, policies and creating gender awareness while developing gender initiatives that would position KenGen as a gender friendly environment.

Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities: -

• Ensuring the company has policies that provide for equal opportunities for all genders in areas of recruitment, training, promotions, remuneration, participation in committees, travel etc. without any discrimination.
• Developing affirmative action plans that ensures KenGen is a leading public institution is fulling Kenya’s constitutional requirement in matters of gender representation.
• Ensuring the company has policies that create an enabling working environment for all genders taking care of special needs of any group.
• Planning, Developing and implementing programs and activities that promote gender affairs in the company.
• Developing monitoring and evaluation tools for measuring the success and effectiveness of gender initiatives and compliance levels with statutory requirements on gender affairs in the company.
• Collecting data and maintaining a database on various matters of interest on gender affairs companywide.
• Sourcing external financing for gender activities and programs.
• Establishing and maintaining partnerships with governmental agencies on gender affairs, NGOs and other organization’s that promote gender affairs.
• Offering advice on gender affairs to management.

Person Specifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Social-work, Sociology, or other related disciplines.
• Membership to a relevant professional body.
• At least 4 years relevant working experience.
• Practical experience in writing business plans, proposals and report writing.

Additional Information

• Minimum Years of Working Experience : 4
• Minimum Education Level : Undergraduate