Plan is an international humanitarian child centered community development organization, without religious, political or government affiliation. Plan started its operations in Kenya in 1982 and is committed to protecting and promoting child rights, and to improving the lives and futures of poor children, their families and communities through a child-centred community development approach. Plan Kenya has the following vacancies:
INTERNAL AUDITOR (Based in Nairobi)
The Internal Auditor will provide objective and independent audit of all Plan’s Kenya operations. The job holder will also assess and analyse compliance with statutory law and the effectiveness of internal controls, systems and procedures, towards the prevention of fraud and the misuse of Plan’s and its partners’ assets, and to minimize risk. This position reports to the Country Director.
Job Responsibilities
- Undertake audits covering finance, procurement, asset use and control including transport, all types of income (grants and sponsors) and related communications and systems, project implementation, human resources, and ICT to check compliance in all respects with policies, procedures, regulations etc and against the law
- Follow-up audits through monitoring, review and checking of implementation of actions against agreed plans; brief management of same; monitor occurrence and regularity of categories of audit findings, identifying associated risks and recommending to management mitigation and/or avoidance measures
- Ensure that management is notified as necessary of the organization’s exposure to risk from unresolved audit findings
- As required, undertake special and forensic audits including the intensive investigation of suspected fraud or theft
- Formulate and maintain audit planning
- Advise management on risk identification, prioritization and reduction
- Advise management in the design and improvement of control and other systems and procedures
Qualifications, experience and skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounts, business or related field
- CPA final certificate
- Professional internal control/ audit qualification
- Minimum 3 years experience in auditing preferably including in the non-profit sector for an international organization
- Demonstrated highest degree of honesty, ethical behavior and confidentiality
- Excellent investigation, organizational, analytical and reporting (writing) skills
- Highly computer literate
- Flexibility to travel around the country – about 70% travel
- Good interpersonal skills
PROGRAM ASSISTANT (Based in Bondo)
The job holder will report to the Area Manager, Bondo. He/she will be responsible for the coordination and provision of programme and administrative support in the Development Area.
Key responsibilities
- Communication and documentation including monthly HR people measures reports;
- Coordinating visits and logistical support for the DA;
- Participating in meetings, support to AM and frontline staff;
- Supervision of Drivers and Office Assistants;
- Custodian of Petty Cash and banking of liquidated advances/payments;
- Responsible for the maintenance and purchase of some furniture and fittings for the office;
- Ensuring general well being of the office and compound in terms of cleanliness and maintenance;
- Responding to deadlines and unplanned activities;
- Providing support to frontline staff when stuck with motorbikes/vehicles in the field;
- Participating in Development Area Management Team meetings and member of Issue Management Committee.
Qualifications, experience and skills
- Diploma in Business Administration or Degree in Business Administration
- At least 5 years experience in administration preferably in an NGO.
- Secretarial Training
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong organizational and coordination skills
- High sense of confidentiality
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize competing demands
- Ability to work and interact with people of diverse backgrounds
- Microsoft Office Suite use
PROJECT COORDINATORS – VAC (Based in Nairobi/Kwale)
The job holders will co-ordinate and facilitate a 3 year grant funded project on violence against children; the project is geared to addressing violence against children at home, at school and in the community in order to enable them to access their right to education.
Key responsibilities
- Facilitate training of children in the selected districts as agents of change to promote peace, to signal violence in an early stage, to mediate and to take action regarding violence against children
- Facilitate access of relevant and accurate information on prevention of violence against children and protection of children is improved at both community level (children, their families, in school and among local institutions) and national level (government authorities, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders working with children)
- Ensure Child Protection systems in Nairobi and Kwale have been improved at family, school and community level
- Work with GoK to encourage it to take responsibility to institutionalize well structured nation wide child protection systems and to prohibit all forms of violence against children.
- Create national and international lobby to exchange best practices in order to eradicate violence against children.
- Consolidate/write project reports
- Documentation and sharing of best practices
- Facilitating and coordinating the joint quarterly reflection meetings/reflection sessions
- Resource mobilization
Qualifications
- A Bachelors degree in Social Sciences or Development Studies.
- At least 5 years experience in project management/coordination
- Conversant with child rights issues
- Good report writing skills
- Experience in Grants management, proposal development and resource mobilization
- Community facilitation skills, partnership building, networking and collaboration with GOK and other actors including the private sector are a critical requirement
- Knowledge & experience in Youth and Governance, Children with disabilities and water and sanitation will be an added advantage
Project Coordinator (WASH) – (Based in Kilifi)
Plan Kenya is seeking to recruit for the position of Project Coordinator based at the Kilifi Development Area to implement a one and a half year Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH) project. Reporting to the Area Manager and working very closely with the WATSAN Technical Advisor and other key staff, the job holder will be expected to enhance community health through promotion of safe sanitation and hygiene practices and create demand for basic services amongst the target communities.
Key responsibilities
- Conduct a baseline survey in the selected project areas in Kilifi District to establish the current water and sanitation situation.
- Enhance children and community participation in planning, design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of water, sanitation and hygiene activities.
- Support and guide communities in the project area in their efforts to embrace education on basic hygiene and sanitation practices through CLTS approach.
- Enhance capacity of children, communities and partners to actively participate in all stages of water, sanitation and hygiene initiatives for project ownership and sustainability.
- Work with partners and other stakeholders to create and strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene services.
- Facilitate training of school management committees (SMCs), school children and communities in the management of WASH facilities.
- Provide support and guidance to children and communities to acquire skills to enable them lobby and advocate for WASH related policies at the local level.
- Facilitate action learning and documentation of experiences including, achievements, challenges and lessons emerging from the project.
- Facilitate a participatory community based monitoring and evaluation of the WASH services and train communities in basic M&E processes.
- Take a lead role in the overall project monitoring, structured documentation as well as project end term evaluation exercise.
Qualifications, skills and experience:
- A University Degree in public health, social sciences/ development studies (sociology, anthropology, economics, etc) in a related field from recognized institutions.
- At least 3 years hands on experience in community development, research, monitoring and evaluation.
- Experience in participatory approaches such as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
- Demonstrated computer skills and use of statistical packages including GIS, GPRS data gathering techniques, SPPSS, EPI Info, etc.
- Good analytical, facilitation and negotiation skills.
- Hands on experience of working with communities at grassroots level with proven ability and knowledge of organizational development and capacity building within the Civil Society sector.
- Fluency in English and Kiswahili languages (written or oral)
- Experience in partnership building, networking and collaboration.
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary and multicultural environment and communities at all levels.
- Innovative and independent thinker.
If you meet the requirements for any of the above positions and would like to be a part of it in our commitment to children, please send a detailed and updated curriculum vitae, current remuneration and contacts of three professional references, including you current/latest line manager to jobs.plankenya@plan–internatio
You are invited to read more about Plan in our website www.plan-international.org.
We regret that only short listed candidates will be contacted.
