Mercy Corps exists to alleviate
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.
We are presently looking for a
committed and dynamic individual to take up the following position.
Program Officer - Girls Improving Resilience with Livestock (GIRL)
Program
Lodwar, Turkana County
Program / Department Summary: Mercy
Corps implements high-quality, analytical development work in very difficult
places. We have been operating in Kenya since 2008 and are presently
implementing development programs across the Central, Rift Valley and Northern
regions of Kenya.
We are currently launching a 3-year
Nike Foundation funded program, focused on improving livelihoods in Turkana and
West Pokot (Kenya) and Karamoja (Uganda) regions.
The project, called Girls Improving
Resilience with Livestock (GIRL), aims to empower pastoralist girls in the
Turkana region to improve their livelihoods and personal agency, as well as
increase the food security and adaptive capacity of their households and the
resilience of their communities.
Mercy Corps is looking for a
qualified Kenyan to fill the position of Program Officer for the GIRL program.
General Position Summary: Reporting
to the Program Manager in the Lodwar Field Office, this position is focused on
community and adolescent girl engagement, including the identification,
recruitment and retention of training girl participants; the establishment of
partnerships with key community members (elders, religious leaders, government
officials) and the execution of livelihood development activities.
He/she will be based in the Lodwar
and will be responsible for day-to-day field work in implementation of
activities, mobilization, formation and monitoring of girls
livelihoods/education cohorts.
Essential Job Functions:
- To work closely with all the program staff in
implementation of the program.
- To engage community members (community
representatives, teachers, religious leaders, government officials and
gatekeepers) to form an Advisory Committee to support and inform program
activities
- To organize community events to sensitize
communities on the GIRL program
- To assist in the creation of technical
curricula, basic education (numeracy & literacy) and financial
literacy
- To recruit and train mentors to deliver
technical curricula to girls
- To identify and recruit girls in the community
to participate in livestock/producer groups
- To identify and engage local animal health
workers to provide training and technical assistance to livestock/producer
groups
- To monitor and track the success and failures
of livestock/producer groups
- To collect program data accurately and forward
the same to the office timely.
- To support community mapping activities,
market assessments and base-line/end-line evaluation activities
- To prepare accurate and timely monitoring and
field reports and other project documentation as required.
- Maintain proper project/program files.
- To represent the organization in meetings at
the grass root level.
- Conduct himself/herself both professionally
and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to
not jeopardize its humanitarian mission.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by
his/her supervisor or representatives
Accountability to Beneficiaries: 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.
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
- Reports Directly To: Program Manager, Turkana
- Works Directly With: All GIRL program staff in
Lodwar.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Minimum 1 year experience working with
NGOs/CBO’s in civic engagement, livelihoods and education
- Degree in Community Development, Economic
Development or related field or diploma with over 3 years’ experience;
- Commitment to working with youth and
vulnerable groups in need, regardless of race, tribe, religion or gender;
- Understanding of working with local partners;
- Good problem solving, written and oral
communication skills;
- Strong written and spoken English
- Local language skills required
- Ability to work without constant supervision
and as part of a mixed team;
- Good knowledge of MS Office software such as
Excel, Word, and Access;
Success Factors: The
ideal candidate will have the ability and curiosity to work comfortably and
effectively in the cultural, relatively poor infrastructure of Turkana
County.
S/he will be an excellent
communicator, have a strong sense of humor, multi-tasker, and able to work
difficult and often stressful environments.
Willingness to travel to and work
with adolescent girl in a sometimes insecure environments is needed.
Program Officer - Girls Improving Resilience with Livestock (GIRL)
Program
Kapenguria, West Pokot County
Program / Department Summary: Mercy
Corps implements high-quality, analytical development work in very difficult
places.
We have been operating in Kenya since
2008 and currently implement development programs across the Central, Rift
Valley and Northern regions of Kenya.
We were recently awarded a
livelihoods focused 3-year Nike Foundation program working in the West Pokot
and Turkana (Kenya) and Karamoja (Uganda) regions.
The project, called Girls Improving
Resilience with Livestock (GIRL) aims to empower pastoralist girls in the West
Pokot region to improve their livelihoods and personal agency, as well as
increase the food security and adaptive capacity of their households and the
resilience of their communities. Mercy Corps is looking for a qualified Kenyan
to fill the position of Program Officer for the GIRL program.
General Position Summary: Reporting
to the Program Manager in the Kapenguria Field Office, this position is focused
on community and adolescent girl engagement, including the identification, recruitment
and retention of girl training participants; the establishment of partnerships
with key community members (elders, religious leaders, government officials)
and the execution of livelihood development activities.
He/she will be locally hired and based
in the Kapenguria area.
He/she will be responsible for
day-to-day field work in implementation of activities, mobilization, formation
and monitoring of girls livelihoods/education cohorts.
Essential Job Functions:
- To work closely with all the program staff in
implementation of the program.
- To engage community members (community
representatives, teachers, religious leaders, government officials and
gatekeepers) to form an Advisory Committee to support and inform program
activities
- To organize community events to sensitize
communities on the GIRL program
- To assist in the creation of technical
curricula, basic education (numeracy & literacy) and financial
literacy
- To recruit and train mentors to deliver
technical curricula to girls
- To identify and recruit girls in the community
to participate in livestock/producer groups
- To identify and engage local animal health
workers to provide training and technical assistance to livestock/producer
groups
- To monitor and track the success and failures
of livestock/producer groups
- To collect program data accurately and forward
to the office in a timely manner.
- To support community mapping activities,
market assessments and base-line/end-line evaluation activities
- To prepare accurate and timely monitoring and
field reports and other project documentation as required.
- Maintain proper project/program files.
- To represent the organization in meetings at
the grass root level.
- Conduct himself/herself both professionally
and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to
not jeopardize its humanitarian mission.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by
his/her supervisor or representatives
Accountability to Beneficiaries: 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.
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
- Reports Directly To: Program Manager, West
Pokot
- Works Directly With: All Program staff in
Kapenguria – West Pokot County
Knowledge and Experience:
- Minimum 1 year’s experience working with
NGOs/CBO’s in civic engagement, livelihoods and education
- Degree in Community Development, Economic
Development or related field or diploma with over 3 years’ experience;
- Commitment to working with adolescent girls
vulnerable groups in need, regardless of race, tribe, religion or gender;
- Understanding of working with local partners;
- Good problem solving, written and oral
communication skills;
- Strong written and spoken English
- Pokot language skills strongly recommended.
- Ability to work without constant supervision
and as part of a mixed team;
- Good knowledge of MS Office software such as
Excel, Word, and Access;
Success Factors: The
ideal candidate will have the ability and curiosity to work comfortably and
effectively in the cultural, relatively poor infrastructure of West Pokot
County. S/he will be an excellent communicator, have a strong sense of humor,
multi-tasker, and able to work difficult and often stressful environments
Program Manager - Peaceful Empowerment in Arid Lands (PEARL)
Program / Department Summary: USAID
has recently awarded Mercy Corps a Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM)
grant to implement a proposed PEACEFUL EMPOWERMENT IN ARID LANDS (PEARL)
program in Turkana and West Pokot Counties with offices in Eldoret and Lodwar.
Mercy Corps is looking for committed and dynamic individual to take up the
following position.
General Position Summary: The
PEARL Program Manager will have responsibility for the overall achievement of
objectives, and the day-to-day administration and implementation of the
program.
This will include strengthening the
capacity of local partners in the areas of peace building and conflict
management, training and curriculum development, reviewing the design and
implementation of peace building projects, facilitating clear communication
between diverse groups, and ensuring rigorous measurement of program impact and
timely reporting.
Essential Job Functions:
Program Management
- Manage and oversee PEARL program activities
(in West Pokot and Turkana) in cooperation with key project stakeholders,
including local non-governmental organizations, local government
officials, community-based organizations, other international agencies on
the ground, and key donors;
- Collaborate with program, finance and
administrative staff to ensure systems are in compliance with donor and
Mercy Corps policies and procedures.
- Ensure program implementation is on time,
target and budget, using effective M&E systems to reach desired
impacts.
- Create and maintain systems ensuring effective
and transparent use of financial resources for timely and informative
reporting in line with donor and Mercy Corps policies and procedures.
- Implement and model Mercy Corps’ philosophy of
social entrepreneurship and leverage Mercy Corps’ best practices.
- Increase staff and local partner capacity by
designing and leading technical training sessions on conflict management
for Mercy Corps staff and local partners and providing ongoing coaching
and mentoring.
- Promote learning and knowledge management
through documentation and knowledge sharing around best practices and lessons
learned;
Strategy and Vision
- Recognize opportunities for innovative action
and create an environment where alternative viewpoints are welcomed.
- Set direction by prioritizing and organizing
actions & resources to achieve objectives and contribute to country-wide
strategy development.
- Develop and organize activities to secure
resources for programs and convince stakeholders to provide support.
Representation
- Identify, build and manage collaborative
partnerships with consortium partners, sub-grantees, donors, local
governments and other stakeholders.
- Communicate effectively to ensure overall
project targets and donor obligations are met.
- Maintain good working relationships with the
donor, the host country government and local leaders, partner agencies,
and other key stakeholders;
Team Management
- Create and sustain a work environment of
mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
- Promote accountability, communicate
expectations and provide constructive feedback via performance reviews.
- Contribute to country team-building efforts,
help team members identify problem solving options and ensure the
integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.
- Provide team members with information, tools
and other resources to improve performance & reach objectives.
- Supervise and regularly coordinate with
project staff and partners, and support departments to ensure smooth
planning, preparation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of
program activities;
Accountability to Beneficiaries: 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.
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: Project team and local partner activities
Reports Directly To: The Deputy Country Director
Works Directly With: Mercy Corps administration, finance and logistics departments
in Eldoret, Lodwar and Nairobi. Also works directly with local national staff
and local partners and affiliated relevant Mercy Corps headquarters units as
necessary, including Mercy Corps’ Conflict Management Group and various
administrative/financial units.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Master’s degree in conflict mitigation, social
sciences, international relations or other relevant field preferred.
- Minimum 5 years’ relevant professional
experience implementing conflict management and reconciliation, youth, or
livelihoods programs, preferably in insecure or transitional environments.
- Strong facilitation and consensus-building
skills.
- Experience managing staff.
- Proven ability to work through, develop the
capacity of and mentor local partners.
- Familiarity and experience with USAID
regulations preferred.
- Must be able to work independently while being
a strong team player
- Proven oral and written English language
skills; demonstrated ability to develop and write quarterly reports
independently.
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly to
remote and insecure areas such as the border of West Pokot and Turkana.
Success Factors: The
successful Program Manager will have the ability to multi-task, set priorities,
and work under tight deadlines within a complex team. S/he will demonstrate
strong interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills and be committed
to the values and mission of Mercy Corps.
S/he will take initiative and
contribute to team efforts, as well as demonstrate an ability to communicate,
assume leadership, and make solid decisions while working remotely from country
leadership.
The successful Program Manager must
be motivated and energized about traveling in remote and insecure areas and
tackling large-scale, protracted conflict situations.
Program Manager - Girls Improving Resilience with Livestock (GIRL)
Program, Lodwar
Program / Department Summary: Mercy
Corps implements high-quality, analytical development work in very difficult
places.
We have been operating in Kenya since
2008 and are presently implementing development programs across the Central,
Rift Valley and Northern regions of Kenya.
We are currently launching a 3-year
Nike Foundation funded program, focused on improving livelihoods in Turkana and
West Pokot (Kenya) and Karamoja (Uganda) regions.
The project, called Girls Improving
Resilience with Livestock (GIRL), aims to empower pastoralist girls in the
Turkana region to improve their livelihoods and personal agency, as well as
increase the food security and adaptive capacity of their households and the
resilience of their communities.
Mercy Corps opened its Lodwar office
in January, 2015, in support of its cross-border conflict management
programming.
We are seeking a highly skilled,
creative problem solver with strong experience working in livelihoods with a
focus on engaging marginalized populations to lead the Turkana office as
Program Manager.
The Program Manager – Lodwar will
participate in strategy development and supervise the daily implementation of long-term
development programming under GIRL’s three objectives, focused on livelihood
development, girls empowerment and food security.
General Position Summary: The Program Manager is the senior management position for GIRL in Turkana, with supervisory and managerial responsibility over all aspects of program implementation and staff development in that locale.
The Program Manager works closely
with GIRL Program Coordinator to provide vision and leadership in project
administration and monitors overall project performance.
The Program Manager leads the
coordination, financial and administrative compliance and monitoring and
evaluation of the consortium in Turkana, engendering a collaborative team
spirit focused on achievement of program goals and objective.
The Program Manager is responsible
for the oversight of GIRL activities and travels frequently to the field.
He/She maximizes budget resources and personnel development and remains
flexible in a continually changing environment.
The Program Manager ensures that GIRL
is planned and executed with quality, accountability and measurable
impact.
The Program Manager, along with the
GIRL Program Coordinator and Mercy Corps Country Director, will liaise with the
Nike Foundation and represent the program to other cooperating sponsors and
other stakeholders.
The Program Manager will work closely
with teams of officers in support of GIRL’s activities across objectives.
The ability of the Program Manager to
push forward systemically focused, dynamic approaches in all stages of
programming will be one of the position’s three success factors.
The second will be the degree to
which that person promotes and captures learning by her/his team,
institutionalizing activity reviews, identifying and evaluating preconceptions
and promoting a culture of inquisition.
The third success factor will be the
degree to which that person drives results, making critical decisions and
producing scheduled outputs at deadline and to expected quality.
Essential Job Functions:
Program Management:
- Lead the conceptualization, implementation and
continual improvement of dynamic, analysis-rooted development
interventions in Turkana County in collaboration with Lodwar based GIRL
team.
- Set an example as a thought leader in the
Lodwar office, continually encouraging staff to reevaluate their
strategies, gather and incorporate tacit information, and adapt
programming to new learning and environmental conditions.
- Recommend program priorities and explore,
evaluate and present new country opportunities that leverage impact and/
or complement core activities.
- Coordinate, manage and motivate the GIRL
Turkana program team, ensuring that they have clear objectives/individual
work plans as part of performance management) and receive meaningful feedback
on their performance.
- Ensure an integrated approach to program
implementation in order to maximize resource utilization and synergy
between the staff and different MC programs.
Office Management:
- Ensure proper logistics, administration, human
resources and transport needs of the program are conducted within Mercy
Corps policy and with the maximum benefit to the program.
- Manage the recruitment and training of program
staff to ensure staff are of the quality and capacity to successfully
implement activities.
- Monitor and advise on staffing needs
throughout the program.
- Ensure evaluations and disciplinary measures
are made, as necessary according to Mercy Corps policy.
- Exercise sound judgment to ensure project
expenses are reasonable, allocable and prudent.
- Ensure all project funds are spent in
accordance with donor rules and regulations.
- Work with the GIRL Program Coordinator to
forecast expenditure surpluses and deficits to enable adjustments to be
made to the program in a timely fashion.
- Oversee the program filing system and ensure
that information is organized according to the reporting and auditing
needs of the program. Ensure required levels of confidentiality.
- Provide direct and ongoing supervision and
managerial support to all staff on the program.
- Work closely with the country team’s security
focal point to develop and maintain systems that ensure the safety and
security of the team in all aspects of its work.
- Conduct himself/herself both professionally
and personally in such a manner as to bring positive recognition to Mercy
Corps and to not endanger mercy Corps’ humanitarian mission.
Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Support the development and continual revision
of a dynamic, programme-wide monitoring and evaluation system linked to
program strategies, indicators, and information management tools, which
supports programme management, accountability and learning.
- Coordinate data gathering and management with
all Lodwar-based program staff and take overall responsibility for GIRL
monitoring and evaluation in the Turkana office.
- Ensure that team leaders are paying sufficient
attention to the continual gathering and digestion of operating
environment data and activity reports, and that teams are holding frequent
activity review sessions to continually re-examine the relevance and
impact of their programming.
- Coordinate and share information with the GIRL
Program Coordinator to ensure overall project targets and donor
obligations are being achieved. Advise both on suggested improvements and
necessities, as required.
- Produce written reports on the program
activities capturing impacts related to all activities.
- Conceptualize and implement new mini-research
efforts as opportunities arise.
- Ensure close coordination and sharing of
information with other stakeholders such as other donors, other NGOs, and
local authorities.
External Representation and
Coordination:
- Ensure establishment and maintenance of
relationships with communities, village councils and local government in
Turkana target areas.
- Coordinate and share information and findings
with the GIRL Program Manager in Kapenguria and in Karamoja.
- Support and coordinate visits from regional
and HQ based staff and external visitors, such as donors and media, in
collaboration with Program Coordinator.
- Establish and maintain contact with all key
actors as relevant for program implementation – government ministries, UN,
NGOs, partners – and establish mechanisms for contacting local community
organizations and partners and other local NGOs/CBOs in line with key GIRL
areas of work
- Other duties as assigned by your supervisor.
Accountability to Beneficiaries: 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.
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: The
Program Manager is responsible for directly/indirectly supervising
approximately 2 national staff.
Accountability:
- Reports Directly To: GIRL Program Coordinator
- Works Directly With: Finance and
Administration departments in Lodwar and Nairobi
Knowledge and Experience:
- Master’s Degree in business, economic
development or other relevant field is preferred.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience with
positions of progressively greater responsibilities.
- Management and demonstrated success building,
managing and leading a team of professionals.
- Strong writing, communication, organization, prioritization
and negotiating skills.
- Excellent (English) verbal and written
communication skills with proven financial management skills.
- Local language skills a plus
- 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.
- Experience working in conflict environments is
preferred.
- Security management experience in remote and
insecure environments.
- Strong computer literacy with a full knowledge
of office applications.
Success Factors: The
successful candidate will possess strong leadership skills, with the ability to
maintain a broad perspective.
He/she will undertake innovative
approaches, be agile in the conceptualization of new program ideas, and will be
well versed in strategic thinking and planning.
The ability and desire to grow
individually and professionally in a difficult environment is important.
The successful candidate will have
the ability to live and work successfully in remote, insecure, and challenging
setting with limited resources. An even temperament and good sense of humor is
a must.
Furthermore, appreciations of a
consultative, team approach to decision making and the ability to lead a team;
including an ability to work with limited supervision.
This position requires significant
travel in remote and possibly insecure environment. The successful candidate
will be energized by solving problems and working with adolescent girls.
Program Manager - Girls Improving Resilience with Livestock (GIRL)
Program
Eldoret / Kapenguria
Program / Department Summary: Mercy
Corps implements high-quality, analytical development work in very difficult
places.
We have been operating in Kenya since
2008 and currently implement development programs across the Central, Rift
Valley and Northern regions of Kenya.
We were recently awarded a
livelihoods focused 3-year Nike Foundation program working in the West Pokot
and Turkana (Kenya) and Karamoja (Uganda) regions and require a highly skilled,
creative problem solver with strong experience working in livelihoods with a
focus on engaging marginalized populations to lead program direction and
activities in West Pokot County.
The project, called Girls Improving
Resilience with Livestock (GIRL), aims to empower pastoralist girls (ages
12-18) in the West Pokot region to improve their livelihoods and personal
agency, as well as increase the food security and adaptive capacity of their
households and the resilience of their communities.
The Program Manager in either Eldoret
or Kapenguria will participate in strategy development and supervise the daily
implementation of long-term development programming under GIRL’s three
objectives, focused on livelihood development, girls empowerment and food
security in West Pokot County.
General Position Summary: The
Program Manager is the senior management position for GIRL in the Kapenguria
office, with supervisory and managerial responsibility over all aspects of
program implementation and staff development in that locale.
The Program Manager works closely
with GIRL Program Coordinator to provide vision and leadership in project
administration and monitors overall project performance.
The Program Manager leads the
coordination, financial and administrative compliance and monitoring and
evaluation of the consortium in Kapenguria, engendering a collaborative team
spirit focused on achievement of program goals and objective.
The Program Manager is responsible
for the oversight of GIRL activities and travels frequently to the field.
He/She maximizes budget resources and personnel development and remains
flexible in a continually changing environment.
The Program Manager ensures that GIRL is planned and executed with quality, accountability and measurable impact.
The Program Manager, along with the
GIRL Program Coordinator and Mercy Corps Country Director, will liaise with the
Nike Foundation and represent the program to other cooperating sponsors and
other stakeholders.
The Program Manager will work closely
with teams of officers in support of GIRL’s activities across objectives.
The ability of the Program Manager to
push forward systemically focused, dynamic approaches in all stages of
programming will be one of the position’s three success factors.
The second will be the degree to
which that person promotes and captures learning by her/his team,
institutionalizing activity reviews, identifying and evaluating preconceptions
and promoting a culture of inquisition.
The third success factor will be the
degree to which that person drives results, making critical decisions and
producing scheduled outputs at deadline and to expected quality.
Essential Job Functions:
Program Management:
- Lead the conceptualization, implementation and
continual improvement of dynamic, analysis-rooted development
interventions in West Pokot County in collaboration with Kapenguria-based
team.
- Set an example as a thought leader in the
Kapenguria office, continually encouraging staff to re-evaluate their
strategies, gather and incorporate tacit information, and adapt
programming to new learning and environmental conditions.
- Recommend program priorities and explore,
evaluate and present new country opportunities that leverage impact and/
or complement core activities.
- Coordinate, manage and motivate program teams
in Kapenguria, ensuring that they have clear objectives/individual work
plans as part of performance management) and receive meaningful feedback
on their performance.
- Ensure an integrated approach to program
implementation in order to maximize resource utilization and synergy
between the staff and different MC programs.
Office Management:
- Ensure proper logistics, administration, human
resources and transport needs of the program are conducted within Mercy
Corps policy and with the maximum benefit to the program.
- Manage the recruitment and training of program
staff to ensure staff are of the quality and capacity to successfully
implement activities.
- Monitor and advise on staffing needs
throughout the program.
- Ensure evaluations and disciplinary measures
are made, as necessary according to Mercy Corps policy.
- Exercise sound judgment to ensure project
expenses are reasonable, allocable and prudent.
- Ensure all project funds are spent in
accordance with donor rules and regulations.
- Work with the GIRL Program Coordinator to
forecast expenditure surpluses and deficits to enable adjustments to be
made to the program in a timely fashion.
- Oversee the program filing system and ensure
that information is organized according to the reporting and auditing
needs of the program. Ensure required levels of confidentiality.
- Provide direct and ongoing supervision and
managerial support to all staff on the program.
- Work closely with the country team’s security
focal point to develop and maintain systems that ensure the safety and
security of the team in all aspects of its work.
- Conduct himself/herself both professionally
and personally in such a manner as to bring positive recognition to Mercy
Corps and to not endanger mercy Corps’ humanitarian mission.
Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Support the development and continual revision
of a dynamic, programme-wide monitoring and evaluation system linked to
program strategies, indicators, and information management tools, which
supports programme management, accountability and learning.
- Coordinate data gathering and management with
all Kapenguria-based program staff and take overall responsibility for
monitoring and evaluation in the Kapenguria office.
- Ensure that project staff are paying
sufficient attention to the continual gathering and digestion of operating
environment data and activity reports, and that teams are holding frequent
activity review sessions to continually re-examine the relevance and
impact of their programming.
- Coordinate and share information with the GIRL
Coordinator to ensure overall project targets and donor obligations are
being achieved.
- Advise both on suggested improvements and
necessities, as required.
- Produce written reports on the program
activities capturing impacts related to all activities.
- Conceptualize and implement new mini-research
efforts as opportunities arise.
- Ensure close coordination and sharing of
information with other stakeholders such as other donors, other NGOs, and
local authorities.
External Representation and
Coordination:
- Ensure establishment and maintenance of
relationships with communities, village councils and local government in
West Pokot County.
- Coordinate and share information and findings
with the GIRL Program Manager in Lodwar and in Karamoja.
- Support and coordinate visits from regional
and HQ based staff and external visitors, such as donors and media, in
collaboration with Program Coordinator.
- Establish and maintain contact with all key
actors as relevant for program implementation – government ministries, UN,
NGOs, partners – and establish mechanisms for contacting local community
organizations and partners and other local NGOs/CBOs in line with key GIRL
areas of work
- Other duties as assigned by your supervisor.
Accountability to Beneficiaries: 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.
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: The
Program Manager is responsible for directly/indirectly supervising
approximately 2 national staff.
Accountability:
- Reports Directly To: Girl Program Coordinator
- Works Directly With: Finance and
Administration in Eldoret and Nairobi
Knowledge and Experience:
- Master’s Degree in business, economic
development or other relevant field is preferred.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience with
positions of progressively greater responsibilities.
- Management and demonstrated success building,
managing and leading a team of professionals.
- Strong writing, communication, organization,
prioritization and negotiating skills.
- Excellent (English) verbal and written
communication skills with proven financial management skills.
- Pokot language skilled are 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.
- Experience working in conflict environments is
preferred.
- Security management experience in remote and
insecure environments.
- Strong computer literacy with a full knowledge
of office applications.
Success Factors: The
successful candidate will possess strong leadership skills, with the ability to
maintain a broad perspective.
He/she will undertake innovative
approaches, be agile in the conceptualization of new program ideas, and will be
well versed in strategic thinking and planning.
The ability and desire to grow
individually and professionally in a difficult environment is important.
The successful candidate will have
the ability to live and work successfully in remote, insecure, and challenging
setting with limited resources.
An even temperament and good sense of
humor is a must.
Furthermore, appreciations of a consultative, team approach to decision making and the ability to lead a team; including an ability to work with limited supervision.
This position requires spending the
majority of the time in West Pokot County so regular travel to and within West
Pokot is required.
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer - Girls Improving Resilience With Livestock (GIRL)
Program
Lodwar – Turkana County
Program / Department Summary: Mercy
Corps implements high-quality, analytical development work in very difficult
places.
We have been operating in Kenya since
2008 and are presently implementing development programs across the Central,
Rift Valley and Northern regions of Kenya.
We are currently launching a 3-year
Nike Foundation funded program, focused on improving livelihoods in Turkana and
West Pokot (Kenya) and Karamoja (Uganda) regions.
The project, called Girls Improving
Resilience with Livestock (GIRL), aims to empower pastoralist girls in the
Turkana region to improve their livelihoods and personal agency, as well as
increase the food security and adaptive capacity of their households and the
resilience of their communities.
Mercy Corps is looking for a
qualified professional to fill the position of Monitoring & Evaluation
Officer for the GIRL program.
General Position Summary: Reporting
to the Program Manager in Kapenguria Field Office, this position is a key part
of Mercy Corps’ Program quality assurance, accountability, documentation and
learning team.
The position holder will support
program in planning and execution of monitoring and evaluation activities,
ensuring quality in accordance with accepted standards, providing essential
feedback for learning, accountability and decision making.
S/he will be responsible for providing
internal capacity building for program staff on monitoring and evaluation
activities as well as review and development of necessary tools that feed into
needs of Mercy Corps and donor reporting requirements.
Essential Job Functions:
- Generate and implement monitoring and
evaluation tools.
- Play key role in the development of
intervention designs, sector strategies and M&E frameworks.
- Coordinate assessments, evaluations and
monitoring surveys in area of operation. This will entail development of
Scopes of Work, development of survey tools, trainings and management of
data collectors, report write and facilitating results discussion.
- Regularly document and share all learnings
from program implementation.
- Maintain an up to date database that reflects
progress and donor indicators.
- Build the capacity of all relevant team
members to develop and maintain an excellent M&E system, and
facilitate periodic reflection and analysis of program monitoring
information that feeds into programming and learning.
- Participate in on-going M&E training and
support for all Mercy Corps programs.
- Visit sites and partners to collect
supplementary data, stories and conduct qualitative research both
independently and in teams.
- Maintain professional relationships with local
government officials, private sector partners, NGOs, other development
organizations, and civil society organizations.
- Maintain an active advisory role with the
program team to help guide them towards robust and relevant data
collection.
- Actively participate in all implementation,
providing advice and feedback for quality results at any point.
- Work with Program Coordinator, Program
Manager, Program Officer and other staffs to ensure that activities are
implemented on plan and progress towards targets is not compromised.
- Establish and maintain strong working
relationships with partners and government departments
- Conduct himself/herself both professionally
and personally in such a manner as to credit Mercy Corps and to not
jeopardize its mission.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by
his/her supervisor or representatives
Accountability to Beneficiaries: 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.
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.
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.
all team members are responsible for spending 5% of their work time in formal and/or non-formal
professional learning activities.
Accountability
- Reports Directly To: Program Manager
- Works Directly With: All Program staff in
Lodwar – Turkana County
Knowledge and Experience:
- Must hold at least a bachelor’s degree in
Economics, Agriculture, Demography, Statistics, Business administration or
relevant field
- At least 3 years of program monitoring and
evaluation experience
- Should understand concepts and demonstrate
skills in monitoring and evaluation, project cycle, results chain and
frameworks, participatory monitoring
- Should be able to design and implement
surveys, have knowledge of commonly used probability and purposive
sampling techniques
- Must have good writing and analytical skills
- Should have knowledge of quantitative and
qualitative data collection, reporting techniques.
- S/he should understand and be able to apply
basic measures of central tendency and spread
- In addition to Microsoft Excel, the incumbent
should demonstrate fluency in use of at least one data management software
including Ms Access, SPSS, STATA.
- Must be fluent both spoken and written
English.
- Pokot language skills a plus.
Success Factors: The
ideal candidate will have the ability and curiosity to work comfortably and
effectively in the cultural, relatively poor infrastructure of Turkana
County.
S/he will be an excellent
communicator, have a strong sense of humor, multi-tasker, and able to work
difficult and often stressful environments.
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer - Girls Improving Resilience With Livestock (GIRL)
Program
Kapenguria – West Pokot County
Program / Department Summary: Mercy
Corps implements high-quality, analytical development work in very difficult
places.
We have been operating in Kenya since
2008 and currently implement development programs across the Central, Rift
Valley and Northern regions of Kenya.
We are currently launching a 3-year
Nike Foundation funded program, focused on improving livelihoods in the West
Pokot and Turkana (Kenya) and Karamoja (Uganda) regions.
The project, called Girls Improving
Resilience with Livestock (GIRL) aims to empower pastoralist girls in the West
Pokot region to improve their livelihoods and personal agency, as well as increase
the food security and adaptive capacity of their households and the resilience
of their communities.
Mercy Corps is looking for a
qualified Kenyan to fill the position of Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
for the GIRL program.
General Position Summary: Reporting
to the Program Manager in Kapenguria Field Office, this position is a key part
of Mercy Corps’ Program quality assurance, accountability, documentation and
learning team.
The position holder will support
program in planning and execution of monitoring and evaluation activities,
ensuring quality in accordance with accepted standards, providing essential
feedback for learning, accountability and decision making.
S/he will be responsible for
providing internal capacity building for program staff on monitoring and
evaluation activities as well as review and development of necessary tools that
feed into needs of Mercy Corps and donor reporting requirements.
Essential Job Functions:
- Generate and implement monitoring and
evaluation tools.
- Play a key role in the development of
intervention designs, sector strategies and M&E frameworks.
- Coordinate assessments, evaluations and
monitoring surveys in area of operation. This will entail development of
Scopes of Work, development of survey tools, trainings and management of
data collectors, report write and facilitating results discussion.
- Regularly document and share all learnings
from program implements.
- Maintain an up to date database that reflects
progress (including disaggregated beneficiary counts) and donor
indicators.
- Build the capacity of all relevant team
members to develop and maintain an excellent M&E system, and
facilitate periodic reflection and analysis of program monitoring
information that feeds into programming and learning.
- Participate in on-going M&E training and
support for all Mercy Corps programs.
- Visit sites and partners to collect
supplementary data, stories and conduct qualitative research both
independently and in teams.
- Maintain professional relationships with local
government officials, private sector partners, NGOs, other development
organizations, and civil society organizations.
- Maintain an active advisory role with each
program team to help guide them towards robust and relevant data
collection.
- Actively participate in all implementation,
providing advice and feedback for quality results at any point
- Work with Program Coordinator, Program
Manager, Program Officer and other staffs to ensure that activities are
implemented on plan and progress towards targets is not compromised.
- Establish and maintain strong working
relationships with partners and government departments
- Conduct himself/herself both professionally
and personally in such a manner as to credit Mercy Corps and to not
jeopardize its mission.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by
his/her supervisor or representatives
Accountability to Beneficiaries: 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.
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: The
Program Manager is responsible for directly/indirectly supervising
approximately 2 national staff.
Supervisory Responsibility: None
Accountability:
- Reports Directly To: Program Manager
- Works Directly With: All Program staff in
Kapenguria – West Pokot County
Knowledge and Experience:
- Must hold at least a bachelor’s degree in
Economics, Agriculture, Demography, Statistics, Business administration or
relevant field
- At least 3 years of program monitoring and
evaluation experience
- Should understand concepts and demonstrate
skills in monitoring and evaluation, project cycle, results chain and frameworks,
participatory monitoring
- Should be able to design and implement
surveys, have knowledge of commonly used probability and purposive
sampling techniques
- Must have good writing and analytical skills
- Should have knowledge of quantitative and
qualitative data collection, reporting techniques.
- S/he should understand and be able to apply
basic measures of central tendency and spread
- In addition to Microsoft Excel, the incumbent
should demonstrate fluency in use of at least one data management software
including Ms Access, SPSS, STATA.
- Must be fluent both spoken and written
English.
- Pokot language skills a plus
Success Factors: The
ideal candidate will have the ability and curiosity to work comfortably and
effectively in the cultural, relatively poor infrastructure of West Pokot
County.
S/he will be an excellent
communicator, have a strong sense of humor, multi-tasker, and able to work
difficult and often stressful environments.
Interested candidates who meet the
above required qualifications and experience should submit a cover letter,
detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) listing three professional references (including
a recent supervisor) to hrkenya@ke.mercysorps.org on or before Thursday 25th
June by 4.00pm.
The email subject line must clearly
show the job title and location they are applying for.
Applications without the right
subject heading will be automatically disqualified.
Please do not attach any
certificates.
(Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We will only get in touch with shortlisted candidates.)
NB: Mercy Corps does not charge any
fee at any stage of the recruitment process.