Humanitarian Disarmament & Peacebuilding Manager
Overall purpose of the role:
The Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding Manager will provide overall
technical leadership to the Humanitarian Disarmament and peace building (HDP)
sector, and provide leadership in the design of HDP projects in the country
operation. He/She will also lead on HDP sector level fundraising, donor
engagement, technical program support to area teams and represent DRC Kenya and
HDP related forums. He will be HDP government focal point and a key
interlocutor with HDP partners and other key stakeholders. He will provide
leadership to current HDBP projects, with project oversight responsibilities.
Duties &
Responsibilities:
Strategy Development
- Develop the HDP country sector
strategy and ensure it is updated at all times.
- Provide constant political and
economic analysis of the national context as related to the HDBP sector
- In co-ordination with the DRC HoP
and Regional HDP technical coordinators on Peacebuilding, support the
development of related HDP cross border initiatives into neighboring
countries.
- Support the Country Director in
drafting, promoting, and rolling out of all HDP-relevant strategic
planning documents in broad consultation with all staff.
- As an E-SMT member, ensure
regular and critical review of the country strategic and action plans. Follow-up
on the action plan and report against its indicators.
- Align and integrate HDP
activities along other DRC Protection work.
- Support the Country Director by
inputting into the Government Engagement Plan and supporting linkages with
relevant government ministries/departments in line with the HDBP strategy
- Support the Head of Programs in
harmonizing programme approaches and HDP delivery across the country
program workstreams and governance levels
Management, Coordination and monitoring
- Management, operational
oversight, coordination and implementation of HDP projects within the DRC
Kenya programme.
- Ensure high quality project
implementation for HDBP Sector and DRC joint projects in accordance with
donor and DRC regulations as well as in line with agreed indicators,
budgets, and work plans.
- Support and technical supervision
of HDBP project staff. This includes coaching, ensuring co-ordination
between Area managers, recruiting and development of HDP staff.
- Provide appropriate and timely
technical feedback to HDBP staff regarding their performance, including
annual staff performance appraisals.
- Identify with HDBP staff their
needs and opportunities for professional development.
- Serve as a member of the country
Extended Senior Management Team.
- Develop and monitor an annual HDP
workplan and budget implementation at country level
- Work together with the Head of
Programs and other program Teams to produce an annual county level
workplan to ensure vertical integration of all HDP interventions and strategies
- Work together with the MERL Unit
to develop and monitor log frame indicators, intervention logic and a
theory of change for the HDP sector.
Programme development
- Develop and expand the HDP
components of the DRC Kenya programme.
- Lead in proposal development for
HDP sector.
- Lead in fundraising efforts for
HDP components
- Support the Country Director in
representation for HDP related forums.
- Be a driving force in terms of
developing HDB projects within the DRC Kenya programme objectives.
Finance, administration and safety
- Responsible for HDP budget
monitoring, financial management and expenses control including compliance
with minimum DRC and donor requirements and ensuring that the necessary
systems are in place.
- Responsible for ensuring that
HDBP Country staff adherence to security procedures, monitoring the
development in the security situation, developing contingency plans etc.
- Reporting
- Ensure all reports related to the
HDP sector are compiled, quality checked and submitted on time to the
donors in close consultation with the area teams, MERL Unit and the grants
team.
- Contribute to the quarterly,
annual and other project reports as required
- Review technical content of
downstream partner reports to ensure high quality technical reporting
- Contribute to programme
deliverables as they relate to the relevant HDBP workstreams.
Representation/Liaison
- Represent HDP’s work in Kenya
towards local government authorities, donors, partners, UN agencies and
international and local NGOs and selected local co-ordination
forums.
- Be the point of contact for
collaborating with national partners under HDBP sector
- Provide overall technical
management of the delivery of collaboration and national partner
activities by providing technical assistance and attending activities to
ensure set objectives are achieved
Fundraising & Accountability
- Actively identify and respond to
relevant funding opportunities. The funding environment in Kenya is
challenging and will require significant focus and capacity.
- Lead proposal development to
maintain and expand HDP’s portfolio in Kenya and on borderlands.
- Guided by the DRC Programme
Handbook, continuously monitor and develop relevant accountability
initiatives in the field as well as strengthening the effort to document
the impact of HDP’s activities.
Experience and technical
competencies:
- Demonstrate an understanding of
the ever-changing Kenyan landscape (including cross border dynamics) as
relates to politic, conflict, peace and security.
- Demonstrate conceptual and
practical knowledge on Conflict Sensitive Development, security governance
and related fields in a management capacity.
- Minimum of five years working
experience with International NGOs or operational UN agencies, including
at least two years’ experience of community-level conflict sensitive
programming.
- Proven experience in project
management, including budget expenditure, donor relations, reporting,
proposal writing, staff management, and monitoring and evaluation.
- Demonstrable leadership and
management skills, including team building and management by example.
- Demonstrable ability to think
strategically, prioritize, and meet deadlines in a complex and challenging
environment.
- Demonstrated ability to mobilize
resources and expand programmes
- Excellent writing and verbal
skills in English for project proposals, reports, and communications;
Swahili skills is an added advantage.
About you:
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:
- Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results
while ensuring an efficient process.
- Collaborating: You involve relevant parties
and encourage feedback.
- Taking the lead: You take ownership and
initiative while aiming for innovation.
- Communicating: You listen and speak
effectively and honestly.
- Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision
and values.
How to Apply