About Christian Aid
More than half the world lives in
poverty. We aim to put a stop to that. So we campaign against the structures
and systems that keep people poor.
Our Kenya Programme is a vibrant
team, carrying out highly innovative work on Community Health.
For you that means a chance to build
on your existing knowledge on Maternal and Child Health, HIV and Sexual
Reproductive Health, other poverty-related health issues.
If you are as determined as we are to
end poverty and injustice across the world, work with us to make change happen.
Christian Aid is the Relief and Development agency of churches in UK and
Ireland working in 40 countries around the world where the need is greatest.
Project Officer - FP2020
Gross Salary: Kes. 3,148,243 -3,871,034
Contract: Three Years Fixed Term Contract
Location: Nairobi
Kenya
Closing Date: Friday 24th July 2015
About the Role
The Project Officer will provide
overall support to the FP2020 program, which includes monitoring, reporting and
technical support and ensure the logistical functioning of the platforms.
The role will also be M&E focal
point in-country, with 30% of the role dedicated to results. This role may also
support partner capacity and manage partner compliance function.
It provides programme and business
systems support to enable the effective and efficient delivery of the FP2020
programme commitments in a devolved context.
The function will play a key role
within a small dedicated support team and the post holder will work closely
with programme and support staff across 10 countries under FP2020.
The role will be line managed by the Program Coordinator (FP2020) with linkages to the Programme Management Team in Nairobi and London.
The role will support programme goals
and objectives through partner capacity building, support in country platform
networks, best practice guidance and good working relationships.
The role will be responsible for
efficient overall systems, logistics and communication support for FP2020
platforms, and monitoring and evaluation of the impact of FP2020.
Other responsibilities include
sharing of project learning with key stakeholders through accurate and
effective reporting, effective programme systems performance and management
support for FP2020 and monitoring of institutional funded projects, effective
grant management support and accurate expenditure and resource monitoring of
FP2020 program within the business systems.
The post holder will ensure all
receipts, reports and other documentation from FP2020 Partners accurately
recorded and filed both manually and electronically.
The post holder will be the M&E
focal point in-Kenya.
About You
You will have degree, preferably in
statistics, or the social sciences. You will have NGO experience and knowledge
of monitoring and evaluation and strong analytical skills and a good
understanding of a range of methods for monitoring, evaluation and assessment
to promote evidence-based learning.
You will have considerable experience
in supporting development and programme staff, and detailed knowledge of office
programmes including MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel and strong IT
skills.
You will demonstrate familiarity with
programme cycle management approaches and tools - including participatory planning,
monitoring and evaluation.
You will be well organized and able
to learn complex systems and procedures quickly, and be able to train others in
business, financial and information management systems including developing
training materials and delivering training to workgroups.
Experience in developing and working
with technical spreadsheets for financial and information management, including
use of web/intranet based systems, databases will be desirable etc.
You will demonstrate ability to work
self-directed, to work to deadlines, under pressure and with multiple
priorities.
You will have skills in budget
monitoring and financial analysis, and excellent communication skills and
ability to build cross cultural relationships remotely across geographic
boundaries, and ability to maintain confidentiality and use discretion where
appropriate.
You will be able to manage and
organize information systems and establish and maintain filing systems and
ability to support the implementation of qualitative and quantitative M&E
systems (Syrex).
It is desired that the position
holder will have experience of working with an international NGO or with an
institutional donor, and experience of maintaining records including programme
and human resource records.
Please note, this role includes up to 40 days travel per annum.
To apply for this post, please visit our website:http://www.christianaid.org.uk/aboutus/jobs for instructions on how to apply.
Senior Humanitarian Advisor - East and Horn of Africa
Re - Advertisement
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Type of Contract: Permanent
Salary Range: Kes.4,523,991 – 5,593,648 p.a
Closing Date: 10th August 2015
About the role
As the Senior Humanitarian Adviser
for east and horn of Africa, you will be based in either Addis Ababa or
Nairobi.
You will coordinate, provide advice,
support and surge capacity for emergency response to country offices and
partners in the region by supporting the development and monitoring emergency
programmes, building capacity of partners and developing funding proposals to
enable them to implement high quality, accountable and principled
responses.
The post holder will also support
work on accountability, preparedness, protection cash programming, DRR,
resilience and conflict displacement. He or she will also support the relevant
ACT forums in the region including working with country teams to develop ACT
appeals.
You will support the country programs
to expand the portfolio of humanitarian programs in the region.
Specifically, you will support
program staff in humanitarian program design, implementation, fundraising and
partnership development.
You will also provide surge capacity
for emergency response and the development of innovative humanitarian and
resilience programs.
Lastly, you will help CA country
offices to engage in the right networks, increasing the profile of CA
humanitarian and resilience work, and working closely with the other regional
humanitarian advisors and managers to ensure we are influenced by current good
practise and opening up opportunities for new productive humanitarian
collaborations in East and horn of Africa.
About you
You will have an excellent
understanding of and experience in humanitarian programmes in East and Horn of
Africa and a passion about accountability and putting affected populations at
the centre of our work.
You will have a good knowledge of emergency relief and rehabilitation and an understanding of development issues and the partnership approach to emergency work.
You will be an excellent communicator
with the ability to develop cross-organisational relationships and be confident
in engaging with external networks and actors.
You will have experience in
supporting learning and development, have experience of working with local
partners and understand linkages between humanitarian work and resilient
livelihoods.
Further information
This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.
Please note this role includes
approximately 75 days plus travel per annum.
For more information on application
procedures, visit Christian Aid website https://jobs.christianaid.org.uk and
follow the steps to apply online.
Christian Aid values diversity and
aspires to reflect this in its workforce.
We welcome application forms from
people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender,
age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
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