Food for the Hungry Program Director Jobs in Kenya

Food for the Hungry Program Director Jobs in Kenya

FH Heartbeat

At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of guiding principles we call “The Heartbeat.” This includes our Values, Vision and Purpose, which serve as the explanation of who we are and
how we work as an organization. Together we follow God’s call responding to human suffering
and graduating communities from extreme poverty.

Job Summary

The Program Director (PD) will support the Country Director (CD) in providing strategic leadership and management of all FH Kenya programs/project activities as well as increasing funding portfolio through proposal development, networking, fund raising and managing donor relations. In close collaboration with the Country Director, the PD will lead the programs teams in aligning the FH Kenya programs with FH’s Re-imagination journey while also ensuring program quality across the country. This position supervises between 5-8 direct reports.

Principal responsibilities

Key result # 1 – Strategy Development and Program Design

In close collaboration with the CD, provide strategic direction of FH Kenya programs implementation and foster program integration in line with existing FY23/24 strategic priorities as well as FH’s programming model.

Identify new donors and maintain donor relations to secure appropriate resources for national programs in accordance with budget targets and maintaining a diversity of future funding options for the office.

In close collaboration with the CD, program managers/coordinators and business development manager, support the development and maintenance of an up-to-date country funding strategy to optimize income and plan to prioritize approaches to donors.

Provide support in resource development efforts and lead in needs assessments and design of concept notes and proposals for FH Kenya.

Promote coordination and consultation between stakeholders and FH Kenya projects to ensure that there is synergy, scalability and positive project outcome.

Provide leadership and management of relief and development programming in FH Kenya from preparedness to relief response.

Ensure FH programing incorporates design elements relating to reducing impact of climate change/climate change adaptation among participants in areas of operation.

Key result # 2 – Provide Leadership and management of FH Kenya Programs

Coordinate and direct program planning processes to ensure engagement and buy in from stakeholders, integration of programs, proper understanding of program objectives and results framework.

Provide program and budget oversight to ensure that all planned activities, outputs and impacts are achieved over the life of each program.

Ensure complete, timely and accurate program documentation for all FH Kenya programs, including approved proposals and budgets, annual fiscal and narrative reports, communication requests and capacity statements.

In coordination with the Monitoring & Evaluation Manager/Coordinator/Officer, support active monitoring and evaluation of all programs and incorporating learning from project/program evaluations into future design of programs

Support the CD in drafting agreements and MoUs as needed with potential partners such as, but not limited to, government line ministries, consortium partners, local
partners and so on.

Line manage the Area Program Managers, Technical Advisors and Coordinators to ensure successful implementation of projects. This will involve ensuring adequate monitoring, reviewing progress, reviewing beneficiary feedback, identifying corrective actions required and project/program learning activities.

Facilitate the timely submission of quality program reports in accordance with required reporting formats.

Provide support in undertaking partner capacity assessments and development of local partners.

Key result # 3 – Representation and External Relations

Support the CD with representation at different government levels, helping to ensure constructive working relationships are maintained to allow expansion and growth of FH’s transformation development in Kenya.

In conjunction with the CD and other staff, represent FH Kenya at relevant interagency technical networks and working groups as necessary.

Support the CD in policy influencing (advocacy related to development initiatives) activities at the country and county level.

Ensure effective communication and feedback between FH Kenya, key stakeholders and donors.

Key result # 4 - Staff and financial management

Lead and manage staff: ensuring clarity on FH strategy, plans and priorities. This includes guiding, coaching, mentoring and promoting effective teamwork and inclusivity.

Provide

management support and spiritual leadership to direct reports and other
staff as required.

Contribute to developing and modeling FH’s culture, mindsets and behaviors; characterized by a shared vision, commitment and mutual accountability to FH’s Heartbeat.

Create structured opportunities to encourage learning from all staff, ensuring internal and external evaluations and reviews are undertaken as appropriate. Ensure recommendations are implemented and learning is shared across the wider FH Kenya team.

Support and participate in staff recruitment, induction and training as required.

Qualifications

• Ability to represent the organization in high-level meetings with donors, local and national government and technical forums

• Strong people-management and leadership skills

• Experience in climate adaptation and resilience programing

• Commitment to accountability to program participants and transparency, showing dignity and respect, and demonstrating listening and understanding

• Possess analytical and problem-solving skills, risk management skills as well as decision- making skills

• Have a vibrant personal relationship with Jesus Christ

• Strong aptitude for organizational change, participatory learning and servant leadership, spurring innovation, and team building

• Experience in supporting and leading organizational change processes

• Willingness to live and work in a stressful environment with security challenges

• Ability to interact with tact and diplomacy

• Strong presentation, speaking and writing skills

• Effective Inter- and Intra- personal communication

Competencies:

• Ability to represent the organization in high-level meetings with donors, local and national government and technical forums

• Strong people-management and leadership skills

• Experience in climate adaptation and resilience programing

• Commitment to accountability to program participants and transparency, showing dignity and respect, and demonstrating listening and understanding

• Possess analytical and problem-solving skills, risk management skills as well as decision- making skills

• Have a vibrant personal relationship with Jesus Christ

• Strong aptitude for organizational change, participatory learning and servant leadership, spurring innovation, and team building

• Experience in supporting and leading organizational change processes

• Willingness to live and work in a stressful environment with security challenges

• Ability to interact with tact and diplomacy

• Strong presentation, speaking and writing skills

• Effective Inter- and Intra- personal communication

Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree in development studies or related field with at least 10 years of experience in managing and implementing programs in the development sector, 5 of which should be in senior management position within an NGO set up.

• A Masters degree is necessary

• Successful experience in grant proposal preparation and writing, especially for USAID and other government/institutional donors

• Knowledge of US government financial and commodity regulations including program management and reporting

• Knowledge of budget development and management for US government resources

• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills including USAID related technical writing

• Proven strategic planning and program and project management experience in a humanitarian /development environment

• Proven budget management experience coupled with experience in implementing and working in accordance with corporate structures, policies and practices

• Extensive knowledge of project design and implementation,

• Experience in proposal-writing, budgeting and financial management

• Demonstrated experience with participatory approaches to development, including capacity building of local institutions

• Knowledge and experience working with other cultures and sensitive to the cross cultural issues

Language Skills

Proficiency in spoken and written English and Kiswahili

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications (clearly indicating their
current or expected salary), updated CV with three referees, day telephone contacts to:
Human Resource Manager Email address: hr-fhkenya@fh.org latest by 21st April 2023

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