Gender and Peacebuilding Advisor Full Time

Job Title: Gender and Peacebuilding Advisor

Location: Nairobi, with some international travel

Contract: Two-year fixed term

Salary: Kes 6,803,160.00 gross per annum, including 9% employer pension contribution and staff medical insurance cover

Reporting to: Head of Gender and Peacebuilding

Responsible for: Occasional volunteers or consultants

Deadline: 2 June 2025, 09:00 am UK time

Conciliation Resources

For 30 years, Conciliation Resources (CR) has worked with people affected by violent conflict to achieve lasting peace. We draw on our shared experiences to strengthen peacebuilding policies and practice worldwide, working with local and international partners in conflict-affected contexts.

Gender at Conciliation Resources

We believe that gender equality and justice will support the kind of peacebuilding we pursue. We also believe that all people affected by violent conflict – irrespective of gender and other identities – have the right to shape ensuing peace. We have set a commitment to ensuring our peacebuilding practice is gender responsive, and in some cases a gender transformative, as outlined in our Gender Strategy: Towards an Inclusive and Transformative Peace (2023 – 2028).

We strive to take an intersectional approach to our gender work, recognising how gender interacts with other systems of inequality to shape different people’s experiences in conflict. We also carry out global research and programming on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).

Job Purpose

The role of the Gender and Peacebuilding Advisor is to help deliver CR’s Gender Strategy, support Programme teams and partners to develop and deliver on gender responsive and gender transformative objectives, and bring contextual advice and guidance on integrating gender into conflict analysis, programme design, funding proposals and project implementation. They are also responsible for identifying specific funding opportunities and developing concepts for gender related peacebuilding initiatives.

Scope and Accountability

The Gender and Peacebuilding Advisor sits within the Research, Advisory and Policy (RAP) department, which is responsible for cross-organisational research, learning, advocacy and technical support to Programme teams and partners.

They will be line-managed by the Head of Gender and Peacebuilding, based in the UK, and work closely with CR’s Africa Department Director, based in Nairobi.

They will support teams in all geographic Programme departments, including our Cross-regional Programme Department, but will have a particular focus on Programme teams working in the Horn of Africa, Central Africa and West Africa, where CR is implementing several strategic projects with either gender responsive or gender transformative deliverables for donors including Global Affairs Canada, the French Embassy and the EU Foreign Policy Instrument.

Person specification

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

● Strong understanding of peacebuilding and gender and inclusion

● At least five years’ experience in providing tailored practical advice and guidance to teams and partners in conflict-affected contexts on integrating gender and inclusion into peacebuilding programmes

● Strong facilitation and training skills and ability to present complex information to non-specialist audiences

● Experience in facilitating and carrying out gender-sensitive conflict analysis

● Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage a varied workload and respond to on-demand requests

● Ability to think creatively and adapt to obstacles and resistance to, and opportunities for, gender-transformative peacebuilding

● Proven track record in programme design, donor engagement and fundraising

● Ability to listen actively to, engage with, and foster collaboration with people from varying backgrounds and with a range of political, cultural, and value orientations

● Experience working with international, national and local partner organisations

● Experience presenting to external audiences, including senior officials

● Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently

● Strong verbal and written English

● Readiness to undertake overseas travel and hostile environment training

● Right to live and work in Kenya

Desirable

● Strong verbal and written French language skills

● Awareness and understanding of Women, Peace and Security policy frameworks and current debates generally. Specific awareness and understanding of WPS frameworks and debates in Africa is an added advantage

● Experience in formulating policy recommendations and conducting successful advocacy in the areas of gender and WPS

● Practical knowledge or experience of peacebuilding in one or more of the conflicts in which CR is working in the Horn of Africa, Central Africa or West Africa

● Experience in undertaking practice-based research on gender and peacebuilding.

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