Job opportunity: Gender and Science Expert at AWARD

Senior Manager, Gender Responsive Agricultural Science (AWARD)

Location: Nairobi Closing Date: May 8, 2015

The position holder will provide strategic direction and oversight of AWARD’s science and gender responsive agricultural science initiatives.

Roles and responsibilities

Science

Provide strategic leadership of AWARD’s science initiatives including implementation of the advanced science training.
Shape the content of AWARD’s science and gender courses and participate in the development of appropriate training material.
Ensure deployment of the AWARD science courses to both AWARD fellows and partner institutions.
Oversee fellow and mentor engagement in science conferences and professional associations.
Maintain relationships with partners currently providing Advanced Science Training placements for AWARD fellows while cultivating relationships with potential new partners.
Working with the M&E team, ensure timely and accurate reporting of all gender responsive agricultural science activities.
Overall management of the calendar of activities in the gender responsive agricultural science docket.

Gender

Provide intellectual and strategic leadership to guide AWARD’s work on gender responsive agricultural science.
Design and manage AWARD’s gender responsive agriculture strategy.
Design content for courses on gender-responsiveness in agricultural research for development.
Working with the Leadership and Training Unit, ensure deployment of courses on gender responsive agricultural sciences.
Support towards monitoring and evaluation and reporting of AWARD’s gender responsive agriculture activities.
Identifying gender training needs of NARs and other partners in line with AWARD’s mission and strategic objectives.
Assist in building partnerships with NARS, international, regional and national organizations to increase capacity and partnerships to conduct gender research.
Track and maintain a database of gender experts working in ARD in Africa.

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