Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Advisor – Nairobi, Kenya
About us
Tetra Tech International Development has a 40-year history in successfully delivering international development projects on behalf of donors around the world, including the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and the European Union (EU). Our people are focused on improving lives by working side by side with local partners to support stability, economic growth, and good governance. You can find out more about our work with UK and European clients here.
Tetra Tech International Development is part of Tetra Tech, a global family of experts providing international development services in over 13 key practice areas in over 100 countries around the world. Tetra Tech serves the major aid markets in the UK and Europe, as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and multilateral development banks.
The Programme
Reducing Insecurity and Violent Extremism in the Northern and Coastal regions of Kenya (REINVENT) is a six-year (2019-2025) programme funded by UK Government through its Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO). The programme aims to improve security and stability in 18 counties across several regions of Kenya to enable investment, inclusive growth, and equitable service delivery. The programme is designed to enhance Kenyan capacity and capability to address, prevent and respond better to criminal violence and weak community-police relations, Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), inter-communal conflict and election-related violence, and radicalisation and violent extremism.
REINVENT is managed by Tetra Tech International Development and delivered in partnership with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI).
The Impact of the REINVENT programme is “Improved community safety and security as measured by effect on inclusive and equitable development, investment and service delivery in Kenya.” The Outcome is “Improved state and non-state actors’ collaboration in a mutually accountable and inclusive manner to respond effectively to root causes of violence”.
The outputs are:
• Accountable and effective police (and other security agencies) addressing community security, violent extremism, and election security.
• Strengthened agency of women and girls in peace, safety, and security.
• Intra and inter institutional commitment to address the root causes and drivers of conflict.
• Knowledge and evidence generated and utilised to enhance community and institutional learning and adaptation.
The Role
The Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Advisor is a crucial role within the REINVENT Programme designed to ensure that we secure outcomes of improved inclusivity of security service provision, peace and community engagement. Programme results are intended to be distributed equitably, and the programme has ambition to progress gender and social inclusion (including rights and representation of persons with disability). This position is central to the planning, designing, implementation, and overall improvement of the programme’s activities by ensuring that GESI is at the core of our approach, to both improve specific GESI outcomes and expand the impact and equitability of REINVENT’s peacebuilding and policing work more generally.
Reporting to: Strengthened Agency of Women and Girls Output Lead
Key Responsibilities
• Update and advise on implementation of the programme’s gender and social inclusion strategy – carry out a light touch assessment of the programme, considering context, opportunities, and risks for GEDSI. Provide leadership with recommendations to maximise GEDSI impact.
• Work closely with the Technical Team, particularly Workstream Leads and regional teams to integrate GEDSI into all programme delivery.
• Work with REINVENT downstream partners to ensure GEDSI is mainstreamed throughout their work and that their GEDSI approaches fit into the programme-level strategy – including reviewing and quality assuring Concept Notes and reports.
• Provide training to local downstream partners to improve systems, processes, and procedure around the inclusion of women, men and underrepresented groups (such as ethnically marginalised groups, the economically vulnerable and PWDs).
• Advise team on GEDSI considerations in policing and peacebuilding work to ensure equity in results and as a means of expanding the impact of work.
• Work alongside the Technical Team and Programme Management Unit to ensure the project Does No Harm, including maximising opportunities for positive effect on peacebuilding and conflict dynamics, such as improved community relations and enhanced mediation, and good governance.
• Develop and lead project gender analysis, particularly centering on the gender dynamics of violence and conflict in Kenya
• Contribute any significant gender work updates to monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc reporting for FCDO.
• Coordinate with other members of the project team to ensure complementarity in work and consistent advice.
• Support the work of the VAWG mitigation lead as required
• Integrate best practice and learning from the GEDSI space, particularly integrating lessons from grassroots to national levels across East Africa and Kenya.
• Support the leadership team to ensure the programme aligns with UK Government’s strategic priorities in gender empowerment, including the FCDO Women and Girls Strategy 2023-2030.
The Person
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in an industry-relevant subject
• 5-10 years of professional experience in international development, peacebuilding, gender studies or similar field
• Strong knowledge of Women, Peace and Security and the dynamics between gender, conflict, security provision and peacebuilding
• Experience with gender and social inclusion mainstreaming in peacebuilding and/or policing programmes, conflict analysis and/or research/think tank or government sectors
• Knowledge of and strategies for ensuring minorities are represented
How to Apply
Please click on the ‘apply now’ button to start your application. Please note applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
For further enquiries please contact us at TTIDE.People@tetratech.com and quote the reference number.
Applications close: 18 April 2024.
Tetra Tech International Development has robust policies and guidelines which exemplify our commitment to safeguarding and technical excellence in gender equality. Our team of dedicated GEDSI and climate advisers work closely with our staff and partners to ensure a context-specific and consistent approach is applied to all of our programmes to improve the livelihoods of the world’s most marginalised groups. Our security and broader HSSE approaches are tailored to contexts we work in, including fragile and conflict affected states.
Region: United Kingdom and Europe Teams and Clients
Role Category: Proposal and Tender Opportunities
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