Gender-Based Violence Coordinator (FTA) NOC

About

The Gender-Based Violence Coordinator is based at the UNFPA Kenya Country Office and provides technical support, programme management, daily execution, and implementation monitoring for the Kenya CSEA and GBV Response and Prevention Support Program. The role leads work to expand survivors' access to the Essential Services Package, strengthen local civil-society implementing partners, operationalize community-facing grievance response mechanisms, and coordinate GBV and CSEA prevention interventions. Applicants need an advanced relevant degree and at least five years' progressively responsible experience in results-based management and GBV prevention and response. Job grade: NOC. Duty station: Nairobi, Kenya. Terms of service: Individual Consultancy (NOC). Salary: Competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.

How to apply

Apply online through the official advert page on UNFPA Kenya using the “APPLY NOW” button.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of UNFPA Kenya’s GBV prevention, response, and safeguarding programmes and initiatives, including the Kenya CSEA and GBV Prevention and Response Support Programme, ensuring effective coordination, quality delivery, accountability, and achievement of programme results.
• 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 approache
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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, and CSOs.
• Fluency in the English language is required.
• Excellent working knowledge of Kiswahili is highly desirable.
• Exemplifying integrity.
• Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system.
• Embracing cultural diversity.
• Embracing change.
• Achieving results.
• Being accountable.
• Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen.