Gender-Based Violence Coordinator (FTA)

The Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Coordinator supports the UNFPA Kenya Country Office by providing high-level technical expertise in managing, coordinating and supporting the implementation of the Kenya CSEA and GBV Prevention and Response Support Program. The role involves managing an integrated, survivor-centered response ecosystem, ensuring compliance with safeguarding and environmental plans, and supporting GBV prevention interventions across Kenya.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and provide effective management and guidance throughout all stages of programme implementation to ensure successful delivery of programme results aimed at preventing and responding to CSEA and GBV through survivor-centred, rights-based, gender-transformative, and intersectional approaches.
• Lead programme planning, implementation, coordination, and oversight of all programme components, ensuring alignment with UNFPA policies, donor requirements, national priorities, and international standards on GBV, child protection, safeguarding, and human rights.
• Provide technical support and guidance to implementing partners, government institutions, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders on GBV prevention and response programming, survivor-centred case management, referral systems, safeguarding, and prevention interventions.
• Assess emerging policy developments, institutional priorities, and implementation challenges and provide technical recommendations to strengthen programme effectiveness and sustainability.
• Ensure quality programme and project design by incorporating evidence, lessons learned, best practices, innovation, and adaptive management approaches into implementation frameworks.
• Coordinate technical support to implementing partners and sub-grantees to strengthen delivery of integrated prevention and response interventions, including community-based prevention, case management, referral pathways, grievance response mechanisms, and safeguarding systems.
• Support implementing partners in preparing and submitting workplans in conformity with donor agreements, UNFPA requirements, and programme accountability standards.
• Provide technical support to ensure programme compliance with the Environmental and Social Plan (ESP), safeguarding requirements, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) standards, information management protocols, and donor commitments.
• Facilitate effective coordination among government counterparts, civil society organizations, UN agencies, development partners, private sector actors, and programme stakeholders to ensure coherent and complementary implementation of programme interventions.
• Support the identification of operational, institutional, and technical risks affecting programme delivery and coordinate appropriate mitigation measures to ensure continuity and achievement of programme results.
• Provide substantive technical inputs to national and county-level policy discussions, strategies, frameworks, and coordination mechanisms related to GBV, CSEA, child protection, safeguarding, and access to quality survivor services.
• Contribute to the achievement of programme results by ensuring that effective monitoring, reporting, accountability, and oversight mechanisms are established and implemented.
• Contribute to programme monitoring processes, including routine review of programme performance indicators, partner reporting, data quality assurance, and progress tracking against approved workplans and results frameworks.
• Support the analysis, and utilization of programme data and evidence to support strategic decision-making, programme adaptation, policy engagement, and donor reporting.
• Coordinate regular field monitoring missions to assess programme implementation progress, safeguarding compliance, effectiveness of referral systems, functionality of grievance response mechanisms, and achievement of intended outcomes.
• Support implementing partners in preparing and submitting high-quality technical and financial reports in conformity with donor agreements, UNFPA requirements, and programme accountability standards.
• Participate actively in programme reviews, assessments, evaluations, audits, and learning exercises, ensuring that recommendations are translated into actionable programme improvements.
• Facilitate documentation and dissemination of lessons learned, innovations, good practices, and evidence generated through programme implementation to strengthen national learning and policy dialogue.
• Ensure effective knowledge management systems are established and maintained to capture programme achievements, implementation experiences, emerging risks, and evidence for future programming.
• Support the generation of evidence and analytical products that inform policy advocacy, systems strengthening, institutional reforms, and sustainable GBV prevention and response interventions.
• Prepare high-quality analytical reports, briefs, presentations, and programme updates for UNFPA management, donors, government stakeholders, development partners, and relevant coordination platforms.
• Participate actively in relevant national, county, inter-agency, and donor coordination forums to promote evidence-informed policy discussions and strengthen collective accountability for programme results.
• Coordinate strategic partnerships and mobilize support for national and county-level initiatives that strengthen prevention and response to CSEA and GBV through integrated, survivor-centred approaches.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with government institutions, civil society organizations, survivor networks, private sector stakeholders, development partners, financial institutions, UN agencies, and other relevant actors to advance programme objectives.
• Support the Country Office's advocacy, visibility, and resource mobilization efforts by preparing high-quality technical briefs, concept notes, project summaries, donor reports, presentations, speeches, and other strategic communication materials.
• Facilitate the development and dissemination of knowledge products, factsheets, infographics, learning materials, and communication products that demonstrate programme results, innovations, and impact.
• Strengthen multi-sectoral partnerships and coordination mechanisms that enhance access to quality prevention and response services for survivors and populations at risk of GBV and CSEA.
• Identify opportunities for strategic engagement, policy influence, resource mobilization, and institutional partnerships that contribute to programme sustainability and scale.
• Support capacity strengthening of implementing partners, government institutions, community organizations, and service providers in programme management, safeguarding, survivor-centred approaches, monitoring and evaluation, data management, and accountability systems.
• Coordinate technical assistance and institutional capacity development initiatives aimed at strengthening partner systems, programme quality, governance, financial accountability, and organizational sustainability.
• Support programme visibility and accountability through effective stakeholder engagement, communication, documentation of results, and dissemination of evidence and success stories in accordance with donor and UNFPA requirements.
• Work closely with communications and advocacy teams to strengthen public awareness, policy engagement, and strategic positioning of programme achievements while ensuring adherence to survivor confidentiality, safeguarding principles, and data protection requirements.
• Facilitate identification of resource gaps and contribute technical inputs to resource mobilization initiatives, funding proposals, and partnership development efforts.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (Master’s level or higher) in gender studies, human rights, public health, social work, development studies, international relations, or a related social science discipline.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience at the national or international level in results-based management, including designing, managing, and coordinating GBV prevention and response frameworks within development and/or humanitarian contexts.
• Technical knowledge of survivor-centered case management, the UN Essential Services Package framework, and global inter-agency child protection standards.
• Operational understanding of the Kenyan legislative landscape, including the Sexual Offenses Act, the national GBV policy framework, and county-level protection mechanisms.
• Knowledge of data protection protocols, maintaining information-sharing protocols, and interpreting analytical software and digital platform engagement metrics.
• Experience in multi-sectoral institutional coordination, with a background navigating high-level collaborations across government, UN entities, International Finance Institutions, development partners, CSOs.
• Fluency in the English language is required.
• Excellent working knowledge of Kiswahili is highly desirable.

Skills

• Result-Based Management
• GBV Prevention
• GBV Response Frameworks
• Survivor-Centered Case Management
• UN Essential Services Package
• Child Protection Standards
• Kenyan Legislative Knowledge
• Sexual Offenses Act
• GBV Policy Framework
• County-Level Protection Mechanisms
• Data Protection Protocols
• Information Sharing Protocols
• Analytical Software Interpretation
• Digital Platform Engagement Metrics
• Inter-sectoral Coordination
• Government Collaboration
• UN Coordination
• International Finance Institutions Engagement
• Civil Society Organizations Coordination

Languages

English, Kiswahili