Project description

The project aims to promote women’s employment and economic empowerment in Kenya’s waste management and circular economy sectors. Co-funded by the IKEA Foundation under the WE4D programme, it focuses on strengthening micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), especially those led by women, through capacity building, gender-responsive training, improved access to markets and equipment, and the adoption of circular business models. By enhancing business capacity and integrating MSMEs into sustainable waste value chains, the project seeks to create decent, inclusive green jobs while advancing gender equality and environmental sustainability.

Job description

• Overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor
• Oversee the overall implementation and coordination of all activities across the interventions.
• Lead project design and contracting process with the lead companies ensuring compliance with GIZ’s iDPP project approaches.
• Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level
• Lead the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity support measures for local partners in the following areas:
- Technical support in waste management
- Regulatory framework for waste management
- Business development support in waste management including access to financing and markets
- Gender equality in the waste sector
• Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration. These themes will include inclusion of people with disability community, behaviour change, working conditions.
• Manage and supervise staff, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and international experts
• Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out within set guidelines and timelines.
• Responsible for regular reporting in accordance with deadlines
• Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ
• Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project strategy and in evaluations

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in environmental management, Economics or Business Administration
• Knowledge of English – C1 level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
• 5 years of professional experience in business development support services and 10 years experience in cooperation with private sector companies
• 6 years of professional experience in projects related to private sector development, 2 years’ experience in women’s economic empowerment and 2 years’ experience in capacity building in the waste management, circular economy or environmental sustainability sector
• 10 years of management experience in projects, companies or other organisations with disciplinary leadership responsibility for 8 people and annual budget responsibility of EUR 800,000
• 4 years of professional experience implementing projects outside Eastern Africa
• 6 years of professional experience implementing projects in Eastern Africa, of which 2 years in Kenya
• 10 years of experience in development cooperation projects
• Experience in the following areas:
• 7 years of professional experience with tools of cooperating with the private sector
• 5 years of professional experience in financial management, procurement, and contract management
• 3 years of professional experience in gender-responsive project implementation
  
  

Application

Please apply by 13th July online using the apply button below. 

Contact person

  Ursula von den Driesch ursula.vondendriesch@gfa-group.de