Plan International is an
independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s
rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and
potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence,
exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
And we enable children to
prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in
practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach,
experience and knowledge.
We have been building
powerful partnerships for children for over 75 years, and are now active in
more than 70 countries.
We are inviting applications
for the following positions:
1. Grants Manager
This role will work
collaboratively with National Offices (NOs) and other departments of the
Country Office programme to ensure smooth management of development and
humanitarian programme awards, sub grantees and contracts.
The person will manage a team
responsible for the portfolio of awards.
The position will be also
responsible for capacity building of staff and improving internal ways of
working and will lead start-up and closeout meetings/workshops.
2. Monitoring & Evaluation
Coordinator (Kisumu
Hub)
The M&E Coordinator
reports to the Program Unit Manager with dotted line to the Country Monitoring
and Evaluation Manager.
The ideal candidate for this
role need an academic background in Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation,
experience in development of organization strategy, designing and developing
gender responsive monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment systems in a
development context and an understanding of rights based programming and
accountability to beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Knowledge and experience of
using qualitative and quantitative sex age disaggregated data collection and
analysis methods, good facilitation skills, information management, team
working, communication skills as well as proven presentation skills are essential
to this role.
3. Data Systems Officer – (Kisumu Based)
The Data Systems Officer will
be responsible for supporting efforts to improve the capacity of county
government health teams in data management systems.
Reporting to the Senior Data
Systems Advisor, the officer will support activities to improve the capacity of
existing county-based national data management systems to generate complete,
accurate and timely data for analysis and use by county health management teams
and work to harmonize the use of existing systems at the county level.
4. Senior Data Systems Advisor – (Kisumu Based)
The Senior Data Systems
Advisor will be responsible for supporting efforts to improve the capacity of
county health government teams in data management systems.
Reporting to the Orphans
& Vulnerable Children (OVC) Manager, the Advisor will support activities to
improve the capacity of existing county-based national data management systems
to generate complete, accurate and timely data for analysis and use by county
health management teams and work to harmonize the use of existing systems at
the county level.
5. Capacity Building Officer – (Kisumu Based)
The Capacity Building (CB)
Officer will work together with the Senior Capacity Building Specialist to
support the development of the county capacity building strategies in
conjunction with the technical experts in governance, data use, analytics and
health systems.
The Officer will support the
capacity building plan and support monitoring, evaluation and learning from the
capacity building interventions.
This position will lead the
development and implementation of capacity building plans in project
6. Senior Monitoring &
Evaluation (M&E) Capacity Building Specialist – (Kisumu Based)
The Senior M&E Capacity
Building Specialist will lead the development of the county M&E capacity
building strategies in conjunction with the technical experts in governance,
data use, analytics and health systems.
The specialist, reporting to
the Orphans & Vulnerable Children (OVC) Manager will be responsible for
facilitating the capacity building plan and supporting the monitoring,
evaluation and learning from the capacity building interventions.
Plan International is a
development organization uniting people to advance the rights of all
children.
Accordingly, we are an equal
opportunity employer and employment is subject to our child protection
standards including appropriate background checks and adherence to our Child
Protection Policy.
Further, Qualified Kenya nationals,
including those living in the diaspora, are additionally highly encouraged to
apply.
If you meet the above
requirements and are interested, please visit
to access the full job
description and make an online application.
The closing date of
applications is 16th November 2016.
We regret that only short
listed candidates will be contacted.
Disclaimer: Plan International Kenya does not require applicants to pay any
fee at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process. We therefore
advise the general public to exercise due diligence when applying for
employment.
To read more about Plan International Kenya, visit our website www.plan-international-kenya.org
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