BRCiS Project Manager Kenya Jobs

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs


Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS) is a Consortium of national and international organizations whose objective is to support and guide vulnerable communities in Somalia in building their resilience capacities, in their own ways.

The Consortium was created in 2013 and is now implementing projects funded by three different donors, in more than ten regions of Somalia.

NRC, the lead agency of the Consortium, is looking for a Project Manager to join the team as a member of the Consortium Management Unit (CMU). The position will be based in Nairobi, with 40% travel to Somalia.

Job description

  • Work with the Consortium Programme Manager and the Programme Management Group (PMG) in coordinating project implementation
  • Take the lead in developing and scaling a framework for the early warning action system and crisis modifier components of the project
  • Support the BRCiS Programme Manager in development of strategic Consortium partnerships, and specific learning partnerships
  • Line manage of BRCiS Project Coordinator and Health & Nutrition Manager
  • Ensure capacity building of staff and transfer key skills
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders such as donors, consortium members, local civil society organisations, private sector, etc
  • Ensure narrative reports, regular programme updates, and ad-hoc requests for information adhere to donor requirements, are high quality, and are produced on time.
  • Work closely with the communications and advocacy manager on providing programme content for all media publications and to develop and disseminate technical-advocacy pieces to donors and external stakeholders
  • Support the BRCiS Programme Manager and the M&E Manager in defining and supporting the Consortium learning agenda
  • Facilitate learning through reviews of progress against bench marks, collecting lessons learnt and best practices and facilitating dissemination of the same across the region
  • Work closely with the Consortium Members to ensuring successful integration and implementation of health and nutrition activities in the resilience interventions, as well as mainstreaming nutrition sensitivity throughout the project.
  • Take the lead in identifying and documenting best practices, lessons learnt and relevant human interest stories for publication and dissemination
  • Represent BRCiS at coordination meetings, relevant cluster meetings and other emerging response working groups.
  • Monitor and ensure programme quality; and contribute to the development of a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework to track progress and results
  • Work closely with the M&E Manager and M&E team to build programme capacity to roll-out a shock-based measurement framework that measures changes in resilience capacities linked to well-being indicators

    Qualifications

  • Minimum first level university/bachelors degree in international relations, business, economics or related field.
  • 5 years’ experience in humanitarian/development aid in complex and/or insecure environments, preferably in East/Horn of Africa.
  • Excellent report and proposal writing skills in English language.
  • Experience in interpreting data and writing reports to a rigorous technical standard.
  • Excellent English language communication skills – negotiation, networking, influencing, public speaking and facilitating workshops at different levels.
  • Ability to work closely with field based national staff and experience in various staff training and development approaches
  • Strong planning, monitoring and organizational skills with good knowledge of the use of logical and result-based monitoring and evaluation frameworks;
  • Ability to write high quality concept notes and technical sections for donor proposals
  • Knowledge of the context of Somalia, highly desirable
  • Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, multi-country disaster preparedness, response and recovery programming.
  • Experience with project development
  • Experience with Consortium coordination
  • Experience in resource mobilisation and working with various donors and conversant with their technical frameworks and strategies
  • Experience in advocacy work, highly desirable

    Personal qualities

  • Able to initiate action, culturally sensitive and cope with change
  • Ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision
  • Able to present and represent an organisation
  • Flexible and creative, confident in taking initiatives and exploring new opportunities
  • Commitment to continuous learning and willingness to keep abreast of new developments in the disaster management field
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

    How to apply

    Interested candidates should apply online by 20th June, 2018

    For more information and job application details, see; BRCiS Project Manager Kenya Jobs

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