Job Vacancy: RLA County Support Officer
Location: Samburu
/ Turkana
Background: The
Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) is a five-year, USAID-funded initiative
(2019-2024) that supports regional, national, and local organizations and
institutions in Northern Kenya, Somalia, and the Horn of Africa to undertake
analysis while strengthening their capacities for analytics.
Facilitating
learning for adaptive management; and improving knowledge management and
communication to align with USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance and the Horn of
Africa.
Resilience
Framework
· In
Kenya, RLA provides backbone support as Partnership for Resilience and Economic
Growth (PREG) Learning to the Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth
(PREG) 2.0 to build on progress made within the partnership at the county and
national level.
· PREG
2.0 brings together 38 USAID implementing partners in the region, including
Kenya’s National Drought Management Authority (NDMA), nine county governments,
and local partners to coordinate resilience and economic growth activities, and
streamline USAID’s investments.
· To
achieve this, PREG Learning takes on the role of lead learning partner to guide
and facilitate PREG 2.0 partners, ensuring evidence-based learning, analytics,
and adaptive management to partners and county governments alike.
· PREG Learning seeks to recruit three (3) PREG County Support Officers to provide technical and logistical support to PREG Learning and the respective PREG County Leads in coordinating USAID investments at the county level.
Objective
The
overall objective of this position is to provide technical support to RLA
program at the county level, in liaison with technical leads offering support
to the implementation of RLA activities and being a link between local
organizations, PREG partners, County governments and USAID mission at the
county level.
The
position will be based in the counties and reporting to RLA’s DCOP with dotted
lines to technical leads.
Essential
Duties and Responsibilities
Project
operations, communications, and logistics
· Support
PREG County Leads and PREG Learning in implementation of activities at the
county level, including but not limited to administrative, coordination, and
logistical support for workshops, meetings, webinars, capacity building
initiatives, learning activities, and other events.
· Support
PREG 2.0 activities in collaboration with PREG Learning’s Communications team
and the PREG County Teams that are focused on improving knowledge management
and strategic communications, including information sharing, knowledge capture,
and reporting on county activities, updates, successes, collaboration, and
learning.
· Work
with PREG County Teams and PREG Learning and other RLA partners (e.g., National
Drought Management Agency, local service providers / grants) to capture
relevant information and updates on shocks and stresses in the counties that
contribute to learning
and support evidence-based decision making at the county and national level.
· Engage
in regular travel between counties based on activity needs.
Monitoring
and Reporting
· Collaborate
with PREG Learning and the PREG County Teams to support PREG 2.0 activities
that strengthen M&E and data analytics, including data collection,
monitoring activities of local organizations and institutions receiving RLA
funding, and 3rd party monitoring for learning.
· Support
RLA Learning to monitor the implementation of USAID Workplan and RLA indicators
through data collection forms. This includes identification of capacity
building for local organizations, county offices and institutions to develop
and maintain an excellent internal CLA system and evidence-based learning
questions. These initiatives should inform evidence-based learning and all
these entities to also apply other USAID CLA, including regular reflection and
analysis of program monitoring data.
· Support
PREG Learning with systematizing feedback loop processes for PREG County
activities, including pause and reflect sessions, after action reviews,
strategic reviews, phone and online surveys, interviews, and other methods.
Collaboration
and partnerships coordination
· Engage
with county PREG Partners, county government officials, local organizations and
communities and provide support as needed.
· Support
PREG 2.0 activities in collaboration with PREG Learning and the PREG County
Teams focused on strengthening learning and adaptive management of the
partnership and local organizations and institutions.
Perform
other work-related duties as assigned by PREG Learning.
Qualifications
and Competencies
· Bachelor’s
degree, or its equivalent in development, research methods, economics, social
sciences, project management or relevant field experience.
· Minimum
two years of experience in organizing meetings, supporting learning and
adaptive management activities, and experience in emergency and development
programming is preferred.
· Knowledge
of program resilience framework and approaches in the fragile context is an
asset.
· Good
interpersonal and networking skills
· Excellent
report writing and strong computer skills especially with MS Word and Excel and
other related packages.
· Excellent
written and verbal communication skills in English and Kiswahili.
· Ability
to travel and work within the ASAL counties.
· Previous
work experience with PREG partners desired.
How to
Apply:
Please
submit a resume to HRKenya@acdivoca.org no later than March 06, 2023.
In
the subject line, please include the position title.
Applications
will be reviewed promptly upon receipt, only finalist will be contacted.
ACDI/VOCA
is an equal opportunity employer.
Women,
minorities and people from diverse groups are encouraged to apply.
EOE
