- Area Manager – Based in Nairobi
- Monitoring and Evaluation Facilitator – Based in Tharaka Development Area
Plan Kenya has the following vacancies:
1. Area Manager – Based in Nairobi
Plan’s urban program in Nairobi covers 4 divisions of Nairobi West and Nairobi East districts.
The program is undergoing transition to be an independent local NGO. The Area manager will be responsible for leading a small team in implementing and programs including major component of youth, governance, child protection and disability.
S/he will be responsible for fundraising, management and reporting of grants towards financial self-sustainability, and for other organizational changes leading to independence. S/he will be part of the Extended Country Management Team and will report to the Operations Program Support Manager. This is a 2 year contract with the possibility of renewal.
Key responsibilities
- Support the DA in developing and implementing a transitional operational plan with a clear indicators and timelines.
- Ensure managerial accountability for the Development Area performance and efficiency.
- Lead team in the design of programs, sourcing of funding including grants and program implementation, monitoring and reporting
- Lead , support and develop the team with coaching and mentoring in a time of critical change
- Establish , strengthen and maintain relationships and excellent collaboration with partners and other stakeholders;
- Manage budget preparations, utilization of investments,
- Represent Plan Kenya as required.
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Development studies or a related field. Masters degree in the same field will be an advantage
- At least 5 years experience in development work at a senior level, preferably with experience in rights based programming.
- Experience in partnership building, advocacy and networking
- Proven experience in organizational assessment and development
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including negotiation, facilitation, coaching and mentoring
- Excellent planning and reporting skills, including for finance
- Excellent communications and computer skills.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the Development Area (DA) in program/project planning, information gathering and synthesis, reflection and reporting processes.
The incumbent will report to the Area Manager.
Key responsibilities
- Facilitate development of DA’s participatory monitoring and evaluation systems.
- Train staff and partners in basic M&E processes (gathering data analyse and decision making) to develop programs
- Institutionalisation of corporate monitoring and evaluation tools at DA level.
- Provide measurement and assessment of performance in order to effectively manage outcomes and outputs of results
- Maintenance/administration of the corporate projects monitoring system.
- Consolidation/sharing of successes (best practices) and failures on a regular basis.
- Facilitate community based information sharing and dissemination of evaluations and other special studies
- Facilitate CBO capacity assessment
- Enhance children participation in planning, program design, monitoring and evaluation
- At least a Bachelor’s degree in social sciences (sociology, anthropology, economics)
- 3- 5 years hands on experience in community based monitoring & evaluation.
- Experience in participatory approaches such as PLA, PRA
- Demonstrated skills and experience in use of statistical packages(SPSS, EPI info)
- Analytical, negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary and multicultural environment and communities at all levels
- Innovative and independent thinker
- Knowledge and experience in Most Significant Change (MSC) approach will be an added advantage
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–international.org to be received by latest 23rd May 2010.
Your email (OR ENVELOPE) should bear the title “AREA MANAGER – NAIROBI” and “MONITORING AND EVALUATION FACILITATOR – THARAKA” as the subject.
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.
