Vacancy: Project Manager – Kilifi
A multinational NGO dealing with
education and child protection projects is looking for a Project Manager to
oversee the implementation of solar power project in Kilifi.
Key responsibilities
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Provide leadership role in
implementation of proposed project in Kilifi;
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Ensure that project contributes to
improved livelihood and entrepreneurship opportunities for young women;
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Increasing access and use of clean
renewable energy solutions for vulnerable girls and boys and their families in
the poorest households;
·
Promoting female entrepreneurship and
expansion of market structures into rural villages to provide opportunities for
economic self-sufficiency and business education for women;
·
Promotion of solar power energy technologies
to improve education, safety and protection of vulnerable girls and boys and
help build the resilience of their families.
·
Responsible for cross-cutting
corporate quality management,
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Supporting in designing operational
monitoring/compliance mechanisms to improve systems and procedures
·
Sound design of and overseeing
monitoring and evaluation, periodic analysis of the business units
·
Ensuring that information collected
is reflected upon, used to improve ongoing projects and is incorporated into
high quality grant proposals and reports.
Required
·
Master’s degree or equivalent in a
relevant subject (Business Administration, Gender and Development,
International Development, Project Management).
·
Minimum of 6 years of project
management experience, with proven success in managing partnership projects to
achieve results.
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Experience working with solar
industry especially on home solar kits, working on interventions focusing on
women’s economic empowerment specifically and on gender equality and young
women’s economic empowerment.
·
Managed project budgets over USD 2
million preferably across various implementation sites.
·
Specific expertise in gender
responsive business skills capacity building.
·
Exposure to Gender Responsive
Budgeting initiatives.
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Experience in results-based and
rights-based programming.
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Proven analytical and writing skills.
·
Strong facilitation and training
skills and interpersonal skills.
·
Proven experience in capacity
development, coaching and mentoring.
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Strong expertise in Monitoring and
evaluating of programmes.
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Experience providing coaching,
mentoring and leadership to team members.
·
Experience with engagement at a
strategic level, Governments and INGOs.
Applications
Apply
by attaching and sending your current CV indicating on the subject line the job
title as
advertised to execsearch254@gmail.com.
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Applications to be received latest by
3rd February 2017.
Only qualified candidates will be
acknowledged.
