Pact is an International non-governmental organization, which
enables systematic solutions that allows those who are poor and marginalized to
earn a dignified living, be healthy and take part in the benefits that nature
provides.
Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective
governance systems and transforming markets into a force for development.Our three core values are:
Local Solutions – Our success comes from solutions created with the people we serve.
Partnerships – Partnerships deepen our impact and promote
empowerment.
Results – Our work must transform lives and make them measurably
better.
How that change occurs is as important as the change itself. Pact envisions a world where those who are poor and marginalized exercise their voice, build their own solutions, and take ownership over their future.
We are seeking qualified candidates to support Pact's institutional strengthening initiatives in Kenya in the following position:
FANIKISHA Institutional Strengthening Project
How that change occurs is as important as the change itself. Pact envisions a world where those who are poor and marginalized exercise their voice, build their own solutions, and take ownership over their future.
We are seeking qualified candidates to support Pact's institutional strengthening initiatives in Kenya in the following position:
FANIKISHA Institutional Strengthening Project
Title: Deputy Chief of Party/Technical Director for
Institutional Strengthening
Reports To: Chief of Party
Location: Nairobi, Kenya with occasional travel to
areas where program partners operate
Background
The FANIKISHA Institutional Strengthening Project is a 5-year
USAID-funded project. FANIKISHA is strengthening the institutional capacity of
national-level civil society organizations (CSOs) and their affiliates in Kenya
to enable them to be responsive to the health and well being of Kenyans.
This project also strengthens national-level Kenyan CSO networks
to provide national-level advocacy for inclusion of CSOs in policy making and
strategy development for increased health service delivery to the communities.
Overall Responsibilities
The Deputy Chief of Party/Technical Director for Institutional
Strengthening, as a key senior member of the staff, will oversee the
development and implementation of standards and strategies to strengthen the
institutional capacity of selected national Kenyan CSOs and their
affiliates.
S/he will ensure that institutional strengthening technical
assistance to the CSOs meets the established standards in order to result in
long-term sustainable impact on the institutional capacity of CSOs and their
community interventions to deliver quality services and manage resources
efficiently.
The DCOP/Technical Director for Institutional Strengthening will
support the project’s institutional strengthening technical advisors and
consultants as they provide technical assistance to the CSOs.
S/he will work directly with the senior advisor for
institutional strengthening technical assistance, the partnership coordinator,
the marketplace technical advisor and the advocacy technical advisor to ensure
the adoption of established institutional strengthening standards and
indicators in the course of technical assistance to CSOs.
Specific Responsibilities:
As the DCOP, s/he will have the following specific
responsibilities:
- Lead,
coordinate and manage the strategic relations, including leveraging
opportunities with institutional strengthening partners and stakeholders,
including the government of Kenya, the private sector and other partners
involved with CSO institutional strengthening in Kenya
- Lead
the project planning components, including annual work planning on each of
the technical areas of the institutional strengthening categories
- Work
with Director for Monitoring and Evaluation, Reporting and Learning (MERL)
and other relevant project staff to document and share successful
practices and lessons in the areas of institutional strengthening
- Provide
support to and supervise the senior technical advisor for technical
assistance and the partnership coordinator and provide technical oversight
of the advocacy and marketplace program components
- Arrange
and conduct relevant meetings for CSO grantees, institutional
strengthening vendors and partners involved with the implementation of the
project strategy
- Prepare
monthly and other project management reports to the COP, including
implementation highlights for discussions with USAID, the government and
other major stakeholders
- Represent
the COP in his absence
- As
the Technical Director for Institutional Strengthening, s/he will have the
following responsibilities:
- Lead,
guide and oversee the development and roll out of the institutional
strengthening strategy(ies) and related documents
- Oversee
and monitor the roll out of the project’s organizational and technical
delivery assistance strategies
- Lead
the development of institutional strengthening standards and indicators
and their adoption by various stakeholders including the CSOs
- Oversee
the development and supervise the operations of the institutional
strengthening marketplace, including the identification and enrolment of
consultants in the marketplace
- Identify
and coordinate with project partners (MSH, RATN, Pact and Danya) to
arrange and provide short-term technical assistance to institutional
strengthening components of the project within the framework of their
individual scopes of work
- Identify
opportunities for strengthening project staff and the CSOs capacity in
institutional strengthening
- Develop
tools, approaches, policies and advocacy initiatives to improve management
and technical capacity of CSOs
- Oversee
the strategic direction and program activities for governance, grant
management, resource leveraging to increase the government of Kenya and
donor support and resource allocations for the CSOs
- Collaborate
with the Chief of Party and other team members in fully integrating
activities into the project’s overall goals to ensure project deliverables
are achieved.
- Participate
in technical review meetings and serve as an advisor to CSOs on
institutional systems strengthening
- Review
technical institutional strengthening reports and provide guidance to
relevant project staff for finalization
- Conduct
assessments of national / local health policies and guidelines to inform
the delivery of institutional strengthening services that are relevant to
national priorities
- Actively
seek opportunities for FANIKISHA to partner with other institutional
strengthening actors in Kenya
- Document
lessons in institutional strengthening to share with key stakeholders in
Kenya and globally
Qualifications:
- Advanced
degree in public health or another technical area relevant to capacity
building or institutional strengthening. Relevant experience may be
considered in lieu of an advanced degree.
- At
least ten (10) years of experience designing, implementing and managing
health programs in Kenya with substantial knowledge and experience in
Kenya building capacity for NGOs and CSOs. Experience with USAID and
PEPFAR donor projects.
- At
least 7 years of experience providing consultancy services in
institutional strengthening or related field of work.
- Demonstrated
success and expertise in influencing and negotiation and advocacy work
among senior-level donors and government counterparts in the country.
- Significant
experience in local governance/public administration including capacity
development of civil society organizations, policy reform,
policy/legislative change, local community organizing, and advocacy.
- Proven,
effective leadership skills. Superior ability in developing effective
interpersonal relationships, negotiation and conflict management.
Self-motivation and a commitment to lead and work with a diverse team are
essential for this position.
- Excellent
written and oral communications and presentation skills in English.
Position: Senior Institutional Strengthening Advisor (re-advertisement)
Platform: Pact Programs
Supervised By: Country Director
Supervises: None initially, but
potentially a small team as portfolio expands
Location: Nairobi
Work Schedule: Fulltime: Pact (Kenya country
office) regular work hours
Benefits: In accordance with country office
policies
Job Purpose
Position Summary: The Senior Institutional Strengthening Advisor
will provide high-quality technical assistance to Pact’s institutional
strengthening initiatives in Kenya.
The Senior IS Advisor will also be responsible for developing,
implementing and documenting institutional strengthening methodologies and
approaches, and for training other staff in the same.
In addition, the Senior IS Advisor will be expected to remain
up-to-date with the state of the art in African capacity development and may be
asked to fulfill regional needs.
The CD Advisor will report to the Country Director, Pact, Inc.
Kenya with additional guidance and direction from the Global Director for
Capacity Development.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1) Technical Assistance to projects in Capacity Development
Activities
- Lead
technical assistance to the FANIKISHA Program in the areas of
institutional strengthening and advocacy capacity development.
- Support institutional
strengthening activities of KCSSP, PEACE II and other Pact, Inc. Kenya
projects as requested.
- Support in the design of new
projects focusing on institutional strengthening and capacity development
- Enable the implementation,
mentoring and monitoring of Pact’s global standards for capacity
development programming.
- Lead technical writing for new
business development related to institutional strengthening and capacity
development.
- Document capacity development
approaches and methodologies used by Pact, Inc. Kenya.
- Other duties as assigned by the
Country Director, Pact, Inc. Kenya.
- Collaborate with Pact’s technical
experts to design, deliver and document high-quality, demand driven
technical assistance to Pact programs.
- Develop and implement trainings,
workshops, participatory design processes and consultancies in
institutional strengthening for both public and private entities.
- Collaboratively develop and
maintain relationships on behalf of Pact’s Global Capacity Development
Team with a priority on partnerships important to Pact global, regions and
field offices.
Minimum Requirements:
- At
least 10 years’ experience with USAID funded programs focused on
strengthening the capacity of civil society or government institutions in
Kenya. Additional regional experience an advantage.
- Experience
with and deep understanding of USAID’s grant-making processes with local
organizations.
- Significant
experience applying mainstream institutional strengthening approaches such
as Organizational Capacity Assessment, Institutional Strengthening
Planning, Strategic Planning, Training of Trainers, etc.
- Strong facilitation and mentoring
skills, and evidence of their application.
- Ability and willingness to travel
and work, up to 50% of the time, in any of the regions in which Pact is
operational.
- Fluency in English. Fluency in
Kiswahili an advantage.
Position: Communications Officer (Full time - consultancy)
Division: KCSSP Program
Supervised By: Deputy Chief of
Party
Supervises: None
Duty Station: Nairobi, with frequent
travel within Kenya
I. Purpose of the function
The Communications officer will be responsible for managing all
communication related work for KCSSP.
She/he will be responsible for managing the day-to-day
communication needs/demands for the programs and partners within the Kenya
office as well as be responsible of developing concepts of all communication
materials and ensuring that they adhere to the set standards and
regulations.
The communications officer shall support program staff in
documenting and dissemination of published work in all possible formats that
will ensure a wider coverage of all the targeted audiences.
In addition the communications officer shall be expected to be
innovative and creative in dispensation if his/her duties while keeping abreast
with the latest communication technologies, methodologies and approaches.
Specific Duties and responsibilities
- Manage
the production of all communication materials both print and electronic
including set up of required templates and systems, and work with program
staff to implement the same
- Ensure
all communications and project materials are branded in accordance with
the donor and Pact regulation and guidelines;
- Monitor
and evaluate program partner branding of projects and activities to ensure
that it is done in accordance to the donor and Pact guidelines
- Refine
content for quarterly reports, technical briefs, and other documents prior
to dissemination;
- Work
closely with other program team members to develop communications products
such as technical papers, training manuals, program research papers etc.
that support the implementation of their components;
- Package
information and success stories in a professional high quality standards
for dissemination to all key stakeholders (Donors, CSO partners, general
public, government);
- Work
closely with the program officers to establish systems to disseminate
regular project successes and information through Pact and USAID’s
website, intranet and other publications;
- Handle
media inquiries and preparing press briefing kit
- Regularly
act as program photographer at program events and during site visits
- Work
closely with the Outreach coordinator in monitoring domestic media for
coverage of program partners and share with project team;
- Monitor
effectiveness of communications materials and information shared among
partners and other CSOs;
- Train
field team and other staff regarding the importance of communications and
how to integrate communications into their work
- Mentor
the program partners on matters relating to communication
- Integrate
communications activities into program annual work plans; and create
communication synergy across programs within the country office and Pact
globally
- Work
closely with the procurement department in coordinating procurement of
communication services such as publishing, video documentary etc. and
ensure the deliverables are of high standard as per the set guidelines.
- Coordinate
all media placement activities and advertisements
- Lead
in preparation of materials for in-house use, workshops and other
networking activities
- Manage
and maintain a photo library and program archives. This will include
classifying all incoming photos captioning and filing them appropriately
- Participate
in capacity building trainings conducted by the programs for the
implementing partners
- Manage
the implementation of the SAFE Coast media strategy
- Work
closely with the KCSSP Deputy chief of party (DCOP) to implement a
strategy for communications and action plan to be updated annually
- Other
duties as assigned by the DCOP.
Location: Based in Nairobi and
serve/support all partners on a need basis.
Level of Effort and Allocation:
The position is full time for a period of 3 to 8 months. 100% of
the incumbent's time will be used to provide support on the above-mentioned
programs.
Prioritization of work will be done based on urgency.
Qualifications:
- At
least a degree in Communications and Media related field, or equivalent
work experience in communications and media related field, with a diploma
in graphics and communications.
- Minimum
of 5 years of relevant professional experience working for Non-governmental
organizations in a similar position
- Understanding
and knowledge of desktop publishing software (Adobe CS5), as well video
documentary production and processes highly desired
- Ability
to work minimal supervision, take initiative and manage a variety of
activities concurrently. Proven ability to multi-task is essential.
- A
strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to
work in a high profile, fast-paced environment.
- Ability
to communicate effectively and persuasively.
- Fluency
in English and Kiswahili for day-to-day communications and excellent
English writing and presentation skills. Knowledge of additional languages
useful.
- Demonstrated
skills in working with multinational groups and fostering collaborative
relationships across multiple organizations
- Desired;
highly creative, innovative and self driven individual
- Ability
to work under pressure of work and yet deliver effectively
- Desired;
ability to develop advocacy campaign messages and translation of the same
(English/Kiswahili)
- Understanding
of the current political context and advocacy efforts by CSOs in Kenya
particularly in the regions where Pact works is highly desired
- Desired;
knowledge of the various outputs/requirements by print and broadcast media
houses
Contractual Period: The contract term
will be for a period of 8 months, starting November 2012.
Position: Project Assistant
Supervised By: Project Manager and
working closely with the P &MERL Officer
Division: SAFE Coast - KCSSP Programs
Location: Mombasa with frequent travel within
coastal region
Duration: 6 months with possible
extension depending on availability of funds
Supervises: None
Job Purpose
The Project Assistant will assist in tracking, collecting and
analyzing relevant data and information for SAFE Coast Project.
She /he will keep abreast with the changing environment and
assist in developing appropriate strategies to respond to the changing
environment.
She/he will also support monitoring and evaluation activities
for SAFE coast partners.
This position is based in Mombasa, Kenya and reports to the PM
and works closely with the P&MERL officer
Program Planning and Management
- Participate
in, and facilitate workshops, trainings and meetings and also responsible
for report writing, minutes taking and communicating to SAFE Coast project
team(s);
- Undertaking
all Target of Opportunity processes including scoping and development of
Target of Opportunity proposals in liaison with the Project / MERL
Officer;
- Support
in designing a project filing system (soft and hard copies with back up)
and participate in documentation to ensure documents and reports are
accurately filed and kept up-to-date;
- Assist
in ongoing design and implementation including collaborating with partners
to adjust work plans and monitoring and evaluation plans as well as
project closeout;
- Participate
in developing program tracking tools including conceptual as well as
results frameworks in line with SAFE Coast design and changing operating
context;
- Assist
Project Manager and Project / MERL Officer to prepare responses to
requests from networks, collaborators and stakeholders and donors,
governmental organizations, the media, and the public regarding program
information;
Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
- Assist
in the verification of data from quarterly/monthly reporting tools
(partners and direct implementation) and support its collation and
analysis;
- Jointly with SAFE Coast team plan
project supported activities;
- Raise program activity briefs for
MERL related support to the SAFE Coast Team and partners based on approved
work plans;
- Monitor implementation of SAFE
Coast related activities both by partners and relevant agencies such as
IEBC, Provincial Administration and security agencies among others;
- Track monthly reporting rates of
activities by implementing partners and community participation and give
feedback to SAFE Coast team;
- Assist the partners to conduct
data tracking tools inventory and reporting tools and share report of the
status to SAFE Coast team;
- Assist in SAFE Coast supported
assessments, surveys and evaluations.
- Perform any other responsibilities
as may be assigned as from time to time
Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Skills
- Bachelor’s
degree in peacebuilding, international relations, political science, or
related social sciences.
- Minimum
2 years of experience in providing technical assistance to democracy and
governance/peace building and conflict management programs, mainly
implementing community and civic mobilization and outreach campaigns;
- Strong
ability to communicate effectively (proven public speaking and
communication skills) in English and Kiswahili, both verbally and in
writing;
- Knowledge
of MS Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and
any statistical packages such as SPSS, Epi-Info and Stata and internet
use;
- Prior
work experience in the coastal region and familiarity with community
strategies, structures and processes;
- Strong
interpersonal skills and the ability to interact successfully with a
diverse group of individuals and champion a team spirit;
- Demonstrable
ability to write proposals, reports, and procedures as necessary and
design a filing system for storing documents;
- Demonstrable
ability to write daily correspondence, maintain documentation, as well as
complete required forms and familiarity with dissemination procedures; and
- Ability
to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality regarding all aspects of
work at all times especially in relation to partner activities
How to apply
Qualified
and interested candidates are requested to forward their cover letter and
curriculum vitae with three work related and traceable references to the Human
Resources Manager, kenyahr@pactworld.org.
Please state Project Assistant in the subject field.
Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.
Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews
Please state Project Assistant in the subject field.
Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.
Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews