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suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive
and just communities.
Driven by local needs, our programs
provide communities in the world’s toughest places with the tools and support
they need to turn the crises they confront into the opportunities they
deserve.
Gender Officer, PROGRESS Programme – Wajir
Programme / Department Summary: The PROGRESS Gender Officer will work in
collaboration with the PROGRESS Gender Team Leader, Programme Managers and
PROGRESS consortium members in the implementation of a proposed multi-year
project as part of DFID’s BRACED initiative (Building Resilience and Adaptation
to Climate Extremes and Disasters).
Mercy Corps anticipates a programme
award under BRACED to implement the “Programme for Resilient Systems”
(PROGRESS). PROGRESS is a multi-partner consortium poised to deliver a 36-month
initiative designed to build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity
of more than 200,000 individual households in northern Kenya (Wajir County) and
northern Uganda (Karamoja).
The Wajir-based Gender Officer will
play a key role in project implementation.
General Position Summary: The
PROGRESS Gender Officer will work directly with the Gender Team Leader in Wajir
and will be responsible for helping to design and implement the PROGRESS gender
strategy in Wajir.
The Gender Officer will help
operationalize gender integration throughout the life of PROGRESS and across
all technical sectors with the goal of enhancing absorptive, adaptive and
transformative capacity for resilience of girls and women and augmenting access
to assets, capital and decision-making processes.
The Gender Officer will support the
Gender Team Leader and Wajir Programme Manager to support to the Wajir
Programme Manager of PROGRESS to develop and implement work plans per
sector / practice area with clear targets and timeframes to ensure the greatest
possible gender integration into program planning, strategic prioritization and
sound implementation.
Programme emphasis will be on the
role of girls and women in collective decision making around community and
natural resources, and the individual capacity for entrepreneurship and active
market engagement including value chain activities around livestock products in
the pastoralist context..
In addition the Gender Officer will
work with the Gender Team Leader to ensure that PROGRESS team members and
consortium partners are actively programming and operating to a high-standard
for gender integration into projects for all sectors and practice areas
including governance, market systems, gender empowerment, and natural resource
management with a focus in water resources management, livestock and rangeland
management, climate smart agriculture, and urban issues.
Essential Job Functions:
Technical Capacity
·
Work with the Gender Team Leader to
promote gender integration in to the various sector-based activities of
PROGRESS.
·
When requested by the Gender Team
Leader, provide training in leadership and negotiation for girls and women,
including for the VSLA groups, and facilitating community-platform debates;
·
Promote female leadership skills
through VSLA component, engaging men in decision making tools etc.
·
Conduct regular community
consultations to ensure programming remains gender sensitive and on-track.
Activity Design and Implementation
·
Assist the Gender Team Leader in
implementation and ensuring results in PROGRESS Output 3: reduced inequality
and increased empowerment of women, men, boys, and girls.
·
Conduct field visits to ensure
PROGRESS is reaching marginalized groups. Make recommendations and advise field
staff in ways they can improve their targeting of key populations segments
outlined in the PROGRESS agreement.
·
Collect sex and age disaggregated
data while performing proactive and recurrent gender analysis. Analyze
information and advise which groups are being missed (by linking sex and age).
·
Work with the Gender Advisor to
develop curriculum for after school programs to address girls and boys and
men-focused group series to build these groups social capital. Help train group
facilitators to deliver and practice delivering the curriculum.
·
Seek community recommendations on how
to best overcome identified challenges in addressing gender norms and behaviors
and altering them.
·
Establish current awareness of the
importance of gender-sensitive programming among partners and target
participant groups including traditional leaders, government officials and
youth group participants.
Research & Learning Studies
·
Work with the PROGRESS consortium
partners focused on Monitoring and Evaluation and learning and advocacy
partners to support and conduct studies as well as learning events in
collaboration with the Gender Team Leader.
Gender Mainstreaming
·
Led by the Gender Team Leader,
support the development and dissemination of PROGRESS gender research and
findings.
·
Work with the Gender Team Leader to
adapt and deliver gender mainstreaming training for Mercy Corps Wajir Field
Office, partners and PROGRESS consortium members.
·
Work with the Gender Team Leader to
provide gender technical reviews to program proposals, program tools, internal
and external communications as needed
Organizational Learning: As part of Mercy Corps’ agency-wide
Organizational Learning Initiative, all team members are responsible for
spending 5% of their work time in formal and/or non-formal professional
learning activities.
Supervisory Responsibility: None
Accountability: Mercy Corps team members are expected to
support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries
and to international standards guiding international relief and development
work while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the
design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Reports Directly To: Wajir-based Gender Team Leader
Works Directly With: Gender Team Leader, Wajir-based task teams,
consortium partners and technical and support staff from Mercy Corps office in
Portland, Oregon and Edinburgh, Scotland.
Knowledge and Experience:
·
2 years of experience in design and
implementation of development programs, preferably with a gender focus
·
Strong background in gender
programming approaches
·
Bachelor’s degree in relevant subject
·
Experience conducting research and
analysis on gender issues, including involvement with focus groups or research
on sensitive issues
·
Experience working in the sectors of
sexual and gender based violence, harmful traditional practices, the role of
women in community-led processes, especially around natural resource management
and other sensitive gender issues
·
Experience in the ASALs and working
with pastoralist and Muslim-communities preferred
·
Experience adapting and implementing
programmatic tools to address gender issues or to promote positive gender outcomes
·
Experience working on project
monitoring and evaluation is preferred
·
Experience with training and capacity
building of team members and partners is preferred
·
Experience working in Kenya,
especially Northern Kenya
·
Somali language skills are strongly
preferred.
Success Factors:
The successful candidate will have
the following characteristics:
·
A strong team player, with good
communication and diplomatic skills.
·
Proven ability to work independently
as part of a regional team and with international professionals.
·
Proven information management skills.
·
Good organizational skills and
ability to work under stress and in austere contexts of remote locations.
·
Flexible and creative in planning and
problem solving.
·
Attention to detail, ability to
follow procedures and meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively
with team members.
·
Proven excellence maintaining
professional internal and external relationships.
·
Willingness and ability to work in
the Wajir context.
Somalis are encouraged to apply.
Programme Manager, PROGRESS Programme – Wajir
Programme / Department Summary: The PROGRESS Programme Manager will lead the
implementation of a proposed multi-year project as part of DFID’s BRACED
initiative (Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and
Disasters).
Mercy Corps
anticipates a programme award under BRACED to implement the “Programme for
Resilient Systems” (PROGRESS).
If awarded, PROGRESS will be
comprised of a multi-partner consortium poised to deliver a 36-month initiative
designed to build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of more than
500,000 individual households in northern Kenya (Wajir and Garissa) and
northern Uganda (Karamoja).
The Kenya-based Programme Manager
will play a key role in implementation.
General Position Summary: The Programme manager will provide
leadership, management and strategic vision to the implementation of the
PROGRESS in northern Kenya, managing staff and resources, and consortium
members, and to ensure that the program meets its targets and deliverables
on-time and within budget.
The Programme Manager will supervise
program staff in Wajir and ensure accountability to Mercy Corps policies and
donor rules and regulations.
He/she will report to and work with
the Programme Director to engage in program representation to donors, relevant
government entities, partners, other implementers and external
stakeholders.
Managing the consortium-related
aspects of this project will be key in ensuring the success of the project.
Essential Job Functions:
Program Implementation:
·
Provide leadership and strategic
vision of program implementation, development and management.
·
Ensure that program implementation is
responsive to government counterparts, communities and partners, and aligned
with Mercy Corps principles, values and strategic plan.
·
Monitor adherence to grant agreement,
Mercy Corps policies and procedures and relevant external rules and
regulations.
·
Oversee performance of consortium
partners/sub-grantees.
·
Conduct frequent field visits to all
project sites and maintain strong and productive relationships with various
partners and stakeholders at national, local and community levels.
Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
and Reporting:
·
Facilitate the achievement of program
targets and objectives and lead efforts to design effective M&E systems.
·
Oversee the scheduling and production
of formal and informal reports on all aspects of the program in a timely and
efficient manner.
·
Ensure that M&E staff focus on
assisting programs to generate practical information that can be used for ongoing
program decision-making while also capturing results at the impact level.
Coordination and Representation:
·
Represent Mercy Corps at government,
donor, NGO and other relevant events in the field, in close coordination with
the Country Director.
·
Coordinate activities with consortium
partners, sub grantees, local government and other implementers, as well as
with other Mercy Corps programs.
Staff Management, Professional
Development and Team building:
·
Create a work atmosphere conducive to
professional growth and development of personnel at all levels.
·
Implement, and ensure all staff are
effectively using, the performance planning and management system, establishing
performance expectations and regularly providing constructive feedback.
·
Promote accountability by conducting
staff annual performance reviews with direct supervisees, and ensuring that
supervisory staff do the same.
·
Contribute to country team-building
efforts, and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making
processes.
Program Support Operations:
·
Coordinate with program and finance
and administration staff to ensure operational systems are in place to support
field activities including logistics (transport, warehousing and asset
management), procurement, security, administration and human resources.
·
Propose design of new local policies
for greater efficiency and cost savings, as needed and in accordance with donor
and Mercy Corps regulations.
Security:
·
Work closely with the country teams’
security focal points to develop and maintain systems that ensure the safety
and security of the team in all aspects of its work.
·
Ensure that programs are designed and
implemented with a clear analysis and understanding of security management
priorities.
Organizational Learning: As part of Mercy Corps’ agency-wide
Organizational Learning Initiative, all team members are responsible for
spending 5% of their work time in formal and/or non-formal professional
learning activities.
Supervisory Responsibility:
Supervisory Responsibility:
·
Direct supervision of: Country-level
Project officers,
Accountability: Mercy Corps team members are expected to
support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries
and to international standards guiding international relief and development
work while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the
design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Reports Directly To: Programme Director based in Nairobi, Kenya
Works Directly With: Kenya Country Director, fellow Programme Managers in both countries (where multiple programs operate), and technical and support staff from Mercy Corps office in Portland, Oregon and Edinburgh, Scotland.
Knowledge and Experience:
Reports Directly To: Programme Director based in Nairobi, Kenya
Works Directly With: Kenya Country Director, fellow Programme Managers in both countries (where multiple programs operate), and technical and support staff from Mercy Corps office in Portland, Oregon and Edinburgh, Scotland.
Knowledge and Experience:
·
MA, MSc or equivalent in governance
and public policy, economic development or environmental policy or related
field.
·
At least five years of experience
including three years in a senior management position, including at a
regional/cross-country level.
·
Previous experience with and strong
understanding of DFID rules, regulations and compliance issues
·
Strong writing, communication,
organization, prioritization and negotiating skills.
·
Strong management skills, with good
understanding of relevant cross-cultural issues.
·
Experience contributing to
donor-funded proposal processes including assessment, design, and writing
·
Proven understanding of both urban
and rural livelihoods systems, climate change adaptation strategies, and
resilience programming;
·
Experience implementing activities in
Kenya, especially northern Kenya/ ASALs – with a strong understanding of the
current political, economic, cultural and historical context. Knowledge of and
experience working in Karamoja preferred.
·
Excellent quantitative skills required.
Financial accounting experience preferred.
·
Experience in building and
maintaining strong/productive relations with implementing and strategic partner
agencies is preferred. This includes coordinating with government authorities
and counterparts.
·
Demonstrated attention to detail,
ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and
cooperatively with team members.
·
Demonstrated success building,
managing and leading a team of professionals.
·
Experience working in conflict
environments is preferred.
·
Security management experience in
remote and insecure environments.
Success Factors:
The successful candidate will have the following characteristics:
The successful candidate will have the following characteristics:
·
A strong team player, with good
communication and diplomatic skills.
·
Proven ability to work independently
as part of a regional team and with international professionals.
·
Excellent analytical and information
management skills.
·
Good organizational skills and
ability to work under stress and in austere contexts of remote locations.
·
Flexible and creative in planning and
problem solving.
·
Attention to detail, ability to
follow procedures and meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively
with team members.
·
Proven excellence maintaining
professional internal and external relationships.
·
A focus on building staff capacity.
Candidates who had previously applied
for this position need not reapply
Somalis are encouraged to apply
Somalis are encouraged to apply
Gender Team Leader, PROGRESS Programme – Wajir
Programme / Department Summary: The PROGRESS Team Leader will work in
collaboration with the PROGRESS Programme Director, Programme Managers and
PROGRESS consortium members in the implementation of a proposed multi-year
project as part of DFID’s BRACED initiative (Building Resilience and Adaptation
to Climate Extremes and Disasters).
Mercy Corps
anticipates a programme award under BRACED to implement the “Programme for
Resilient Systems” (PROGRESS).
PROGRESS will be comprised of a
multi-partner consortium poised to deliver a 36-month initiative designed to
build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of more than 200,000
individual households in northern Kenya (Wajir County) and northern Uganda
(Karamoja). The Wajir-based Gender Team Leader will play a key role in
implementation.
General Position Summary: The PROGRESS Gender Team Leader will work directly with the Programme Manager in Wajir and is responsible for developing and implementing the PROGRESS gender strategy in Wajir.
General Position Summary: The PROGRESS Gender Team Leader will work directly with the Programme Manager in Wajir and is responsible for developing and implementing the PROGRESS gender strategy in Wajir.
The Gender Team Leader will provide a
framework of activities to guide gender integration throughout the life of
PROGRESS and across all technical sectors with the goal of enhancing
absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity for resilience of girls and
women and augmenting access to assets, capital and decision-making processes.
The Gender Team Leader will provide direct support to the Wajir Programme Manager of PROGRESS to develop work plans per sector/practice area with clear targets and timeframes to ensure the greatest possible gender integration into program planning, strategic prioritization and sound implementation. Programme emphasis will be on the role of girls and women in collective decision making around community and natural resources, and the individual capacity for entrepreneurship and active market engagement including value chain activities around livestock products in the pastoralist context.
The Gender Team Leader will also play
a key role in advising around advocacy, policy formulation and gender sensitive
budgeting with local and national government actors.
In addition the Gender Team Leader will ensure that PROGRESS team members and consortium partners are actively programming and operating to a high-standard for gender integration into projects for all sectors and practice areas including governance, market systems, gender empowerment, and natural resource management with a focus in water resources management, livestock and rangeland management, climate smart agriculture, and urban issues.
In addition the Gender Team Leader will ensure that PROGRESS team members and consortium partners are actively programming and operating to a high-standard for gender integration into projects for all sectors and practice areas including governance, market systems, gender empowerment, and natural resource management with a focus in water resources management, livestock and rangeland management, climate smart agriculture, and urban issues.
Essential Job Functions:
Technical Capacity
·
Coordinate closely, work with and the
Wajir Programme Manager, Wajir-based Practice-Area Team Leaders and partners to
promote gender integration in to the various sector-based activities of
PROGRESS.
·
Develop training series on leadership
and negotiation for girls and women, including for the VSLA groups, and
facilitating community-platform debates;
·
Develop tools as needed for
cross-cutting, cross-cutting integration of women in decision making around
household governance, community change, management of natural and community
resources, and advocacy for policy and budget formulation that is geared
towards innovative gendered approaches.
·
Promote women leadership skills
through VSLA component, engaging men in decision making tools etc.
·
Work with practice area Team Leaders
and partners to ensure they have the female staff needed to interact with girls
and women in the community.
·
In collaboration with the Mercy Corps
technical support units, set up gender-focused elements of the PROGRESS monitoring
system and work closely with M&E team to ensure sex and age disaggregated
data is collected and that gender analysis is applied.
·
Conduct regular community
consultations to ensure programming remains gender sensitive and on-track.
·
Provide technical support on gender
integration in various market facilitation activities in Wajir geared towards
the augmentation of value-addition for livestock products, small business
development, and general capacity building for females in pastoralist settings,
females in urbanizing contexts, and females who are transitioning between the
two.
Activity Design and Implementation
·
Take the lead in implementation and
ensuring results in PROGRESS Output 3: reduced inequality and increased
empowerment of women, men, boys, and girls.
·
Maximize program participation and
increase empowerment opportunities for currently marginalized groups
·
Collect sex and age disaggregated
data while performing proactive and recurrent gender analysis.
·
Develop curriculum for after school
programs to address girls and boys and men-focused group series to build these
groups social capital and ensure maximum participant engagement from the
beginning of the program while mitigating risk of exposure to gender based
violence.
·
Seek community recommendations on how
to best overcome identified challenges in addressing gender norms and behaviors
and altering them.
·
Establish current awareness of the
importance of gender-sensitive programming among partners and target
participant groups including traditional leaders, government officials and
youth group participants.
·
Participate actively in the design of
the value-chain and small business development activities in rural Wajir County
and Wajir Town to ensure adequate gender integration.
Research & Learning Studies
·
Design qualitative gender research
that address key questions Mercy Corps trying to understand
·
Work with the PROGRESS consortium
partners focused on Monitoring and Evaluation and learning and advocacy
partners to support and conduct studies as well as learning events.
Gender Mainstreaming
·
Support the development and
dissemination of PROGRESS gender research and findings.
·
Develop/adapt gender mainstreaming
training for Mercy Corps Wajir Field Office, partners and PROGRESS consortium
members
·
Provide gender technical reviews to
program proposals, program tools, internal and external communications as
needed
·
Provide direct support for gender
advocacy in policy formulation at the county level, along with gender-sensitive
budgeting that considers opportunities and mitigates risks to females engaged
in pastoralism and those who are transitioning out of pastoralism.
Organizational Learning: As part of Mercy Corps’ agency-wide
Organizational Learning Initiative, all team members are responsible for spending
5% of their work time in formal and/or non-formal professional learning
activities.
Supervisory Responsibility: Gender Officer
Accountability: Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Reports Directly To: Wajir- based Programme Manager
Works Directly With: Wajir Programme Manager and Team Leaders,
consortium partners and technical and support staff from Mercy Corps office in
Portland, Oregon and Edinburgh, Scotland.
Knowledge and Experience:
·
5 years of experience in design and
implementation of development programs, preferably with a gender focus
·
Strong background in gender
programming approaches
·
Bachelor’s degree in relevant
subject, Master’s Degree preferred
·
Experience conducting research and
analysis on gender issues, including leading focus groups or research on
sensitive issues
·
Experience working in the sectors of
sexual and gender based violence, harmful traditional practices, the role of
women in community-led processes, especially around natural resource management
and other sensitive gender issues
·
Experience in the ASALs and working
with pastoralist and Muslim-communities preferred
·
Experience designing and adapting
programmatic tools to address gender issues or to promote positive gender
outcomes
·
Experience working on project
monitoring and evaluation
·
Experience with training and capacity
building of team members and partners
·
Experience with the impact on women
and girls of inter-community conflict a plus
·
Experience working in Kenya,
especially Northern Kenya
·
Somali language skills are strongly
preferred.
Success Factors:
The successful candidate will have
the following characteristics:
·
A strong team player, with good
communication and diplomatic skills.
·
Proven ability to work independently
as part of a regional team and with international professionals.
·
Excellent analytical and information
management skills.
·
Good organizational skills and
ability to work under stress and in austere contexts of remote locations.
·
Flexible and creative in planning and
problem solving.
·
Attention to detail, ability to
follow procedures and meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively
with team members.
·
Proven excellence maintaining
professional internal and external relationships.
·
A focus on building staff capacity.
·
Willingness and ability to work in
the Wajir context.
Somalis are encouraged to apply.
Programme Coordinator & Learning
Manager, PROGRESS Programme –
Nairobi
Programme / Department Summary: The PROGRESS Programme Coordinator and
Learning Manager will work in collaboration with the PROGRESS Programme
Director, Programme Managers and PROGRESS Consortium members in the
implementation of a proposed multi-year project as part of DFID’s BRACED
initiative (Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and
Disasters).
Mercy Corps anticipates a programme award under BRACED to implement the “Programme for Resilient Systems” (PROGRESS).
PROGRESS will be comprised of a
multi-partner consortium poised to deliver a 36-month initiative designed to
build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of more than 200,000
individual households in northern Kenya (Wajir) and northern Uganda
(Karamoja).
The Kenya-based Programme Coordinator
and Learning Manager will play a key role in programme implementation, help to
generate and synthesize learnings from both Kenya and Uganda teams, and support
the Project Director in the efficient management of PROGRESS. General Position
Summary:
The Programme Coordinator and
Learning Manager will work directly with Programme Director and Programme
Managers to support oversight of accountability and adherence to Mercy Corps
policies and donor rules and regulations, and program milestones and
deliverables.
He/she will report to and work with
the Programme Director and engage in program representation to donors, relevant
government entities, partners, other implementers and external stakeholders and
convert program information into actionable management recommendations and
guidance.
Essential Job Functions:
Program Implementation: The Programme Coordinator and Learning
Manager will assist in the overall program management of PROGRESS program
activities in both Kenya and Uganda, as well as facilitation of communication
and program documentation and learning within the PROGRESS Consortium through
support to programme planning, strategy development and communications between
consortium members, program management staff and external partners.
This role will also entail oversight
of the multi-country activities of PROGRESS to support the Programme Director
to ensure cross-country cohesion in resilience messaging, planning, monitoring,
evaluation, implementation, and learnings.
The Programme Coordinator and
Learning Manager will also support operations around the PROGRESS learning agenda
within each of the programme locations (Kenya and Uganda), and strategies for
cross-country learning.
As deputy to the Programme Director,
the Programme Coordinator and Learning Manager will also be tasked with a
shared representational role at resilience events and fora in the region and
information management as it relates to resilience within Kenya and
Uganda.
The Programme Coordinator and
Learning Manager will also assist with oversight of the PROGRESS communications
strategy and lead in development of materials, presentations and other media in
accordance with programme needs and the DFID/BRACED requirements.
Learning and Reporting: Support
Programme Managers in the achievement of program targets and objectives and
support efforts towards the design effective M&E systems and operations.
Facilitate the coordination, scheduling and production of formal and informal
reports and documentation and communication of reports and learning materials.
Coordination and Representation: Represent
Mercy Corps at government, donor, NGO and other relevant events in the field,
in close coordination with the Programme Director. Attend key events, committee
meetings, fora, seminars, etc. as they relate to East Africa resilience.
Coordinate activities with consortium partners, sub grantees, local government
and other implementers, as well as with other Mercy Corps programs.
Staff Management, Professional
Development and Team building: Contribute to country team-building efforts, and
ensure the integration of all team and consortium members into relevant
decision-making processes. Oversee the PROGRESS Programme Assistant.
Program Support Operations: Ensure
close communication across cross-country field teams and consortium members
regarding program activities and plans, challenges and obstacles to timely and
quality implementation and programme learning. Coordinate with program,
finance, and administration staff for troubleshooting and problem solving.
Organizational Learning: As
part of Mercy Corps’ agency-wide Organizational Learning Initiative, all team
members are responsible for spending 5% of their work time in formal and/or
non-formal professional learning activities.
Supervisory Responsibility: Progress Programme Assistant
Accountability: Mercy Corps team members are expected to
support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries
and to international standards guiding international relief and development
work while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the
design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Reports Directly To: Programme Director based in Nairobi, Kenya
Works Directly With: PROGRESS Programme Director, Kenya and Uganda
Country Directors, PROGRESS Programme Managers in both countries, consortium
partners, and technical and support staff from Mercy Corps office in Portland,
Oregon and Edinburgh, Scotland.
Knowledge and Experience:
·
MA, MSc or equivalent in governance,
public administration, environmental policy or related field.
·
At least five years of experience
including three years in a management position, preferably at a
regional/cross-country level.
·
Previous experience with and strong
understanding of DFID rules, regulations and compliance issues
·
Strong writing, communication,
organization, prioritization and negotiating skills.
·
Strong management skills, with good
understanding of relevant cross-cultural issues.
·
Experience contributing to
donor-funded proposal processes including assessment, design, and writing
·
Proven understanding of both urban
and rural livelihoods systems, climate change adaptation strategies, public
administration and resilience programming;
·
Experience implementing activities in
Kenya, especially northern Kenya/ ASALs – with a strong understanding of the
current political, economic, cultural and historical context. Knowledge of and
experience working in Karamoja preferred.
·
Excellent quantitative skills
required. Financial accounting experience preferred.
·
Experience in building and
maintaining strong/productive relations with implementing and strategic partner
agencies is preferred. This includes coordinating with government authorities
and counterparts.
·
Demonstrated attention to detail,
ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and
cooperatively with team members.
·
Demonstrated success building,
managing and leading a team of professionals.
·
Experience working in conflict
environments is preferred.
·
Security management experience in
remote and insecure environments.
Success Factors:
The successful candidate will have
the following characteristics:
·
A strong team player, with good
communication and diplomatic skills.
·
Demonstrated writing abilities and
ability to present information and trends pictorially
·
Proven ability to work independently
as part of a regional team and with international professionals.
·
Excellent analytical, presentation
and information management skills.
·
Good organizational skills and
ability to work under stress and in austere contexts of remote locations.
·
Flexible and creative in planning and
problem solving.
·
Attention to detail, ability to
follow procedures and meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively
with team members.
·
Proven excellence maintaining
professional internal and external relationships.
·
A focus on building staff capacity
·
Willingness and ability to travel to
Wajir County and Karamoja frequently for work purposes.
Interested candidates who meet the
above required qualifications and experience should submit applications on or
before 5th January 2015, by 4.00pm, containing a cover letter, detailed
Curriculum Vitae (CV) listing three professional references (including a recent
supervisor) to hrkenya@ke.mercycorps.org
The email subject line must clearly quote the job title and location being applied for.
Applications without the right
subject heading will be automatically disqualified.
Please do not attach any certificates.
(ONLY qualified candidates who meet all the essential required qualifications will be contacted for interviews)
NB: Mercy Corps does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
