Vacancy: Programme Manager
Salary: Competitive
Salary: Competitive
Hours: Full Time
Location: Nairobi
We are best known as the UK’s leading fair trade organisation and are engaged
in a wide range of trade and development activities.
Established as a Christian response
to poverty, we help people in developing countries to transform their lives.
We are seeking to recruit an experienced and dynamic development professional to be based in Nairobi with regular travel to project sites in the East Africa Region.
Key areas of responsibility:
We are seeking to recruit an experienced and dynamic development professional to be based in Nairobi with regular travel to project sites in the East Africa Region.
Key areas of responsibility:
- Oversee the overall programme development and
management efforts of Traidcraft East Africa and manage effective delivery
of specific projects assigned; ensuring the project is implemented to a
high standard in line with the expectations of key stakeholders
(Traidcraft, the project partner, donors and beneficiaries).
- Take part in fundraising efforts in the region
and overseas.
- Manage project budgets in collaboration with
other East Africa staff.
Essential Qualifications and
Experience
You’ll have an advanced university
degree in the relevant field and experience of successfully managing complex
donor funded projects, including the management of action plans, budgets,
reporting, monitoring and evaluation and trouble shooting.
You’ll have experience in working
with programmes supporting small- enterprise development, farmer’s linkages to
markets and capacity building.
Essential Skills and Aptitudes
Essential Skills and Aptitudes
You’ll have strong language and
numeracy skills, including excellent written report writing and proven
understanding of financial management.
You’ll have Project management
skills, with strong training and facilitation skills and will have excellent
communication skills both oral and written, and fluent in English and
Swahili.
You’ll be proficient in the use of
computers, including Microsoft office.
Interested? Further details including a full job description and application form can be found on our website atwww.traidcraft.co.uk/careers
Closing date for applications: 21st November 2014
Interested? Further details including a full job description and application form can be found on our website atwww.traidcraft.co.uk/careers
Closing date for applications: 21st November 2014
Provisional date for interviews: 4th week of November 2014