Project Officer

Key Responsibilities

• Promote and facilitate gender and social inclusion mainstreaming and gender transformative approaches in the day-to-day activities of the Project.
• Ensure that the different inclusive perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the stake holders are reflected in the project strategies and implementation plans.

Build the capacity of staff on Engendering the County Energy plans through training and technical assistance on gender and social inclusion and ensure they embrace gender mainstreaming in all their operations.

• Lead in conducting gender technical studies and assessments.
• Represent the Project in coordination meetings and other related forums to ensure gender and inclusion issues in are captured and acted upon.
• Take lead in establishing dialogue, sensitizing, lobbying and supporting gender mainstreaming and social inclusion among community organizations and partners at local, sub-national and national level to mobilize their support and participation in the project’s advocacy and influencing agenda.
• Contribute to the development of technical guidance tools and approaches and coordinate the operational roll out of the same.
• Network and maintain dialogue with relevant Government Institutions in the five project counties, National and International Development Organizations to ensure collaboration, synergy and sharing of experiences on GEDSI.
• In collaboration with the communications and impact and influence team, contribute to the production of GEDSI related content i.e. knowledge products, success stories, etc.
• Represent Practical Action in the project area to County governments, local communities, NGOs and other actors when requested to do so.
• Contribute to visibility/positioning of Practical Action as a thought leader in gender, clean energy management, including representation at sub/national, regional and international forums.
• Collaborate efficiently and effectively with partners for learning and adoption of innovative interventions to improve project delivery.
• Support the timely and accurate preparation and utilization of project activity budgets.
• Support the preparation of donor project reports and other internal reports as required.
• Keep abreast of information and knowledge specifically in gender and energy synthesize, document and share both internally and externally.
• Perform any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.