Care NGO Kenya Women’s Voices & leadership Program Manager Jobs
Care NGO Kenya Women’s Voices & leadership Program Manager Jobs
Job Title: Women's Voices & Leadership Program Manager
Department/Project:
Gender Equality and Women Voices
Supervisor:
Director- Women Empowerment & Transformational Change
Location/Duty Station:
Nairobi
Job Summary & Purpose:
With funding from the Canadian government, CARE Kenya will implement a Women’s Voice and Leadership project.
The three goals of the project are: to strengthen women’s rights organizations’ (WRO) internal governance, management and
fundraising capacities; to strengthen WRO technical programming skills in areas such as women’s rights, gender based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s economic empowerment; and to strengthen networks and coalitions within the Kenyan women’s movement.
The project uses feminist organizational development and movement building approaches and aims to be a support facility to the existing women’s rights movement in Kenya.
As such, CARE acts as a convener, networker and liaise, providing space and technical assistance to WROs to grow their own strategies, resources and programming.
By the end of the project, it is expected that selected WROs are stronger, more
sustainable and provide a better quality of programming to their constituents.
Women's Voices & Leadership Program Manager of CARE in Kenya is responsible for the comprehensive management of the WVL project, including all aspects of human resource management, activity coordination, results reporting, budget oversight and program quality.
The Program Manager/Advisor steers the project’s strategies for working on feminist organizational development in
collaboration with WROs from multiple regions across Kenya.
S/He will form and maintain strong collaborative and participatory relationships with women’s rights organizations, will oversee project activities that support women’s rights
organizations in their internal organizational development and will ensure that appropriate technical linkages are created to strengthen WRO programming.
The Program Manager/Advisor is responsible for positioning CARE as a convener,collaborator and relationship builder vis-à-vis women’s rights organizations, while supporting staff to link WROs to the technical skill they need to grow their organizations.
The Program Manager/Advisor may also be called upon to provide some limited technical or program quality advice in areas such as: diversifying funding relationships, financial and human resource management, organizational strategies and governance, women’s rights awareness raising, forming feminist
alliances, and related policy and advocacy campaigning.
At the same time, the Program Manager/Advisor is responsible for the daily management of the WVL project, including
staff supervision, financial tracking and reporting, results tracking and reporting, and decision making regarding activity
implementation.
An especial focus will be required on tracking flow-through grants to WROs and on using innovative methods to report project impacts.
The Program Manager/Advisor coordinates these activities with the Director of Women’s Empowerment and Transformational Change in Kenya as well as program managers at CARE Canada.
It is expected that the Program Manager/Advisor will be able to demonstrate a track record of managing complex,
participatory partnerships and programs related to women’s rights, civil society capacity building and related issues.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Technical leadership Coordination for all successful project innovations, learning and generation of evidence for outcomes and impact (50%)
Provide management oversight to the program, which includes and not limited to; supporting the steering committee, Technical working groups and advisory committee to develop an operational strategy and consolidate
the design of the various interventions into the program.
Effectively distribute work among staff by ensuring that the staffing plan takes on board considerations for effective duty allocations and that team work is maintained at all times.
Lead in the preparation of the Project Monitoring Folder (PMF) (Approved proposal, approved work plan, signed contract, approved budget, staffing plan, procurement plan and update program and financial expense reports)
detailed implementation plans, procurement plans, prepare budget tracking and expenditure tools and review them at least monthly and jointly quarterly in liaison with the partners
Organize
in consultation with the project steering committee, partner inception and planning forums, to facilitate coordination, collaboration and effective delivery of all components of the program.
Ensure communication flow is known by all partners and that timely communication for project concerns are shared with project steering team, supervisor and other levels of management while ensuring that all official processes for external communication are adhered to.
Establish good working relationship and coordinate with Program stakeholders to facilitate smooth project implementation, nurture support for key program components and successful growth of this program.
Supporting in the identification of partnerships with women’s rights movements to better collaborate towards shared goals and elevate the voice of marginalized people
Oversee and facilitate the networking, liaising and collaboration activities necessary to provide technical support to WRO team and partners in feminist organizational capacity building. This includes managing the processes of mapping WRO presence, assessing WRO capacity, forming organizational development work plans, linking WROs with each other or with organizations that have requisite technical skills, and providing an enabling environment for feminist advocacy and feminist monitoring and evaluation.
Contract and Budget management and Compliance (20%)
Task
Oversee the grants and partnership management implementation, enforcement and compliance to all contractual requirements of the program.
Ensure full awareness of donor contractual clauses and develop checklist for clauses that are transferable and ensure these are implemented as conditions in the partners grant agreement.
Ensure time bound conditions are reflected by date and a tracking list generated for tracking compliance to conditions and timelines, working with partners as appropriate to ensure conditions are met.
Ensuring partners’ capacity assessments are done and where need be, improvement plans are inbuilt into partner contracts.
Ensuring that partners are fully aware of the interpretations of the contract clauses as per the contracts signed with CARE to enhance compliance and minimization of risk.
Qualifications
Education:
Degree in Social Sciences, Gender and development studies or other relevant discipline coupled
Experience:
Minimum of 5 years experience in results-based program management, preferrably using funding from bilateral donors such as USAID, GAC, DFAT or the EU.
Demonstrated track record managing programming related to a combination of women’s rights, civil society capacity building, women’s empowerment, civil society coalition building, rights advocacy and civil society strengthening. Experience in feminist movement building or feminist organizational development is an asset.
Demonstrable experience in initiating and managing effective partnerships with government, WROs, CSOs, private sector and other stakeholders.
Proven track record managing budgets, flow through funds, grants, and sub-contracts. Proven track record using results-based management to record and report on project impact.
Strong skills coaching teams to facilitate, collaborate, network and train trainers. Demonstrated abilty to create an enabling environment in which groups are able to identify and work towards their own strategic
goals.
Demonstrated ability to strengthen the operations and strategic direction of civil society organizations.
Ability to coach staff and partners to develop and implement monitoring and evaluation plans
Competencies:
Strong staff and program management skills
Demonstrated ability to foster transparent, accountable relationships with donors and partners.
Ability to foster and strengthen egalitairan partnerships amongst civil society actors
Demonstrated ability to come to “win-win” resolutions when faced with program quality and operations issues. Ability to troubleshoot and to negotiate positive outcomes from competing interests. .
Capacity to troubleshoot and successfully resolve issues related to budget and grant management, staff
management and competing partnership agendas. Excellent inter-personal, facilitation skills and communication skills
Ability to build and maintain trust amongst teams and amongst diverse partners.
Person of professional integrity
Strong value for gender equality and women’s rights.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 2nd November, 2018
For more information and job application details, see; Care NGO Kenya Women’s Voices & leadership Program Manager Jobs
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