Field Coordinators

About CASHA

The Creating Shared Value in the Livestock Sector with Young People in Kenya’s ASALs (CASHA) project promotes resilient, climate-smart work opportunities through entrepreneurship in the livestock sector, targeting young women and men, including displaced persons, and persons with disability.  Specifically, the project aims to enable young women and men, including displaced persons, and persons with disability to leverage livestock and related value chains to earn dignified and fulfilling incomes and improve natural resources and ecosystem through increased entrepreneurship activities as well as uptake of climate-smart productivity enhancing technologies and creating an enabling environment by addressing structural barriers that restrict young women and men from gainfully participating in the livestock sector. The project is implemented across 15 ASAL counties in Kenya, organized into four geographical clusters. CASHA operates through cluster offices strategically located within each of the four project clusters. Given the project's implementation across 15 ASAL counties and its reliance on multiple partners, effective coordination is critical to ensure harmonized planning, timely implementation, efficient resource use, consistent reporting, and alignment of activities across counties and partners. A dedicated field-based focal person will be instrumental to coordinate ILRI's activities on the ground, strengthen collaboration with implementing partners, and facilitate timely communication, monitoring, and problem-solving

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and manage stakeholder relationships that improve the ability of the team to achieve the agreed outputs and outcomes.
• Ensure timely and appropriate implementation of project activities.
• Support project monitoring and evaluation activities -survey design, data collection, data cleaning, analysis and reporting on topics involving
  •  Ensure that ethical and sound data collection and information management systems are in place with associated information sharing, planning, evaluation, and advocacy.
  • Regularly visiting project sites to monitor progress, collecting sex-disaggregated data, and reporting on impact
• Coordinate with local partners and community groups in planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation
  • Working with local communities, government partners, and stakeholders to ensure inclusive participation
  • Embedding gender-responsive approaches (empowerment and institutional processes that engage young men and women in livestock and other related value chains) across interventions
  • Building the capacity of partners staff on gender-sensitive approaches.
  • Identifying social, economic, or security risks to vulnerable groups during implementation
  • Undertaking preparation of regular reports on project field activities
  • Contributing to the writing of scientific publications as well as outputs for a wider audience
• Ensure an efficient communication flow between local partners and the ILRI team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Sociology, Development Studies, economics or related fields.
• Over 3 years of experience in gender, social inclusion, or project management in the field.
• Experience in designing, collecting and analysing gender-related data. Good analytical skills – either qualitative or quantitative – is an added advantage
• Experience working with development partners Strong understanding of gender equality principles and local, context-specific barriers to equality. Experience in implementing gender transformative approaches is an added advantage
• Familiarity with gender and livestock system issues and challenges in the local context
• Good interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a multi-cultural professional environment and with minimum supervision
• Willingness to travel frequently, often to rural areas and spend time in the field