Programme Officer - M&E, Gender and Youth vacancy

 

Region: East Africa
 

Office: Nairobi, Kenya
The Sustainable and Secure Smallholder Systems @ Scale (4S@Scale) programme is part of the Green Society (GS) Programme of Hivos.

The Green Society (GS) programme collaborates with local organizations to enhance the economic position of rural entrepreneurial men and women. 

Key areas of work include sustainable agriculture, strengthening smallholder organizations’ access to markets, finance and business development, sustainable energy and carbon finance. Gender is a crosscutting issue is all Hivos’ programs.

The 4S@Scale programme: This five year programme, started in September 2013, aims to enhance the viability of 90,000 smallholder coffee farms in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, thereby allowing the coffee sector in the region to regain its vitality and offer long-term business opportunities for 2.4 million smallholder coffee farmers.

The programme is based on a partnership involving training institutes, national biogas partners and an international company.

Responsibilities:

Your main responsibilities will be on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning on Gender and Youth components.

• Ensuring that the programme reaches its development objectives, by establishing a strong Monitoring & Evaluation system at the programme as well as the country level. Guide and orient the design and implementation of an integrated M&E framework to capture and clearly show these contributions
• Merging different M&E systems from the different stakeholders
• Using M&E data for accountability and programme progress
• Developing the Joint Learning Platform for the PPP together with Solidaridad and SNV
• Designing and developing a strategy and implementation plan to incorporate women and youth in the programme
• General support to the programme

Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in relevant field or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education;
• Minimum of 5-7 years working experience in rural development programmes;
• Proven expertise and experience in designing and implementation of M&E systems.
• Expertise and experience in assessment of gender, youth and social relations;
• Expertise with private sector development;
• Analytical and conceptual skills;
• Well organized and able to keep deadlines;
• Able to work in the multi-stakeholder environment;
• Excellent communication and networking skills;
• Keen understanding of country political and social dynamics;
• Excellent verbal and writing skills in English.
• Willingness to travel frequently within the region and in-country.

Like to apply?

Please send your CV plus motivation letter to: jobs@hivos.or.ke, reference number:  vac4s@scale.