Program Manager – Private Public
Partnership
Location: Nairobi
Work Type: Full time
Background: Solidaridad
Eastern & Central Africa Expertise Centre (SECAEC) is a member of
Solidaridad Network of Organizations.
It aims at production and
supply chain development approach for market transformation in agricultural
commodities such as coffee, sugarcane, livestock, cotton, textiles, tea, fruits
and vegetables and gold mining.
Soidaridad’s inclusive sector
transformation strategy is based on lessons learnt and pegged on theory of
change in four key areas:-
- Result 1: Good
Practices; Producers implement good agricultural, mining and industrial
practices that optimize their social, environmental and economic
performance.
- Result 2:
Robust infrastructure; Producers have improved access to land and natural
resources, labour, inputs capital, knowledge and markets.
- Result 3:
Enabling policy environment; Public and corporate policies that create
incentives for sustainable investments are in place and enforced.
- Result 4:
Landscape management; Sustainable landscape management practices and
mechanisms are in place and operational.
Job Overall Purpose: Coordinates, monitors and evaluates activities under Public
Private Partnership.
Food security and nutrition
Food security and nutrition
- To plan,
implement and monitor food security and nutrition project (FOSEK),
- To co-ordinate
with partner organisations on food security and nutrition project and link
these to other initiatives so as to facilitate the exchange of
information/ideas with other programmes,
- To ensure
overall coordination of all financial and technical reporting in close
liaison with all partners is carried out at specified intervals,
- To provide
technical support in the implementation of food security and nutrition
project,
- To plan,
organize and conduct training and orientation for food security and
nutrition projects, for the purpose of capacity building,
- To undertake
field visits and surveys in order to monitor and evaluate programme
implementation,
- To identify
problems and propose remedial action while identifying alternative courses
of action to accelerate/improve programme delivery,
- To ensure
cross-cutting issues of HIV/Aids, Youth, Gender and Climate Change are
incorporated within the programme,
- To coordinate
and establish effective monitoring, information and reporting systems, and
in the development of communication materials and strategies in order to
maintain an updated database of documentation on findings and lessons
learned.
Communications
- Develop
company literature and other forms of communication including the planning
and delivering of educational materials.
- Recommend,
implement and maintain website design and operation.
- Liaise with
management in the design of communication and launch of campaigns,
organization functions, events and exhibitions,
- In liaison
with management create press releases, news, briefs, stories, media
relations content, case studies, in-house newsletter content, social media
content, and speaking proposals.
- Identify,
develop and execute communications strategy for key media contacts and
customer references.
Proposal Writing
- To study
requests for proposals (RFPs), request for concept notes (RfCNs) and
expressions of interest (EoIs) and aligning these to the overall strategy
through identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs,
- To gather
proposal information by identifying sources of information; coordinating
submissions and collections; identifying and communicating risks
associated with proposals,
- To develop
proposals by assembling information including project nature,
objectives/outcomes/deliverables, implementation, methods, timetable,
staffing, budget, standards of performance, and evaluation; writing,
revising, and editing drafts including executive summaries, conclusions,
and organization credentials,
- To meet
proposal deadline by establishing priorities and target dates for
information gathering, writing, review, and approval; entering and
monitoring tracking data; coordinating requirements with contributors;
contributing proposal status information to review meetings; transmitting
proposals,
- To maintain
quality results by using templates; following proposal-writing standards
including readability, consistency, and tone; and improve proposal-writing
results by evaluating and re-designing processes,
- To obtain
approvals by reviewing proposals with key providers and project managers, maintain
work networks that aid in knowledge on proposals and manage proposal
support databases.
Person Specifications:
Academic / Professional
Academic / Professional
- At least a
Masters qualification in Business Administration or any other relevant
qualification for this position,
- A First degree
in Agriculture/Agribusiness/Agricultural Economics or any other relevant
course,
- Not less than
5 years relevant experience and which should include programme planning,
management, monitoring, and evaluation.
Skills
- Excellent
verbal and written communication skills
- Good
interpersonal skills
- Good
presentation skills
- High problem
solving skills
- High level of
accuracy
- High Integrity
How to Apply:
Forward your application to consult@syn-solutions.com with the recruitment reference: “Program Manager – PPP” clearly
marked in the subject line of your application.
Applications must be received
by 3rd January 2017 but will be reviewed as they are received due to the
urgency of this recruitment.
Your C.V. and application
must be no more than 4 pages in length together with the covering letter.
Consolidate these as one word document.
Your application must
demonstrate that all of the essential qualifications are met.