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  • Livelihoods Policy and Advocacy Adviser

    Livelihoods Policy and Advocacy Adviser

    Role overview
    Working from home – In this role, you will provide remote support (e.g. from your home) to VSO projects or partners on a part/full time basis for a set period of time. It does not involve on-site work in the project location and/or VSO office.
    The purpose of this activity is ignite accountability and transparency mechanisms at the community, private sector and government level; and strengthened primary actor collectives’ advocacy efforts to better engage with system actors at the regional level. In addition, ensure primary actors voices start influencing socio-economic focused decisions made at district/regional/national spaces through enhanced and diversified advocacy.
    Skills, qualifications and experience
    Competencies and Behaviour
    At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:

    Ability to be open minded and respectful
    Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
    Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
    Ability to seek and share knowledge

    Apply via :

    al.org

  • Deaf Teaching Assistants Community Volunteer

    Deaf Teaching Assistants Community Volunteer

    Knowledge/qualifications/Experience
    Skills, qualifications and experience

    A diploma/degree in Special Needs Education and/or Inclusive Education
    Knowledge or experience in project cycle management is an added advantage
    Having a Working experience of at least 2 years with deaf children
    Basic Receptive and Expressive skills in Kenya Sign Language

    Skills/Abilities

    Ability to employ various techniques in facilitating trainings among deaf children and teachers
    Ability to travel to other counties for common project activities
    Ability to work as part of a team in an organized and flexible approach
    Good communication, ICT skills and ability to manage organization resources

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  • National Peace Building and DRR Advisor – NV Strategic Partnerships Manager Project Implementation Manager

    National Peace Building and DRR Advisor – NV Strategic Partnerships Manager Project Implementation Manager

    Role overview

    Working at project location – In this role, you will provide on-site support in the project location and/or VSO office, (full-time unless otherwise specified) for a set period of time.
    As the National Peace Building and DRR Advisor you will provide technical expertise, capacity building and accompaniment on conflict sensitivity, peacebuilding, social cohesion, disaster risk management and inclusion in the IPDHE project (Integrating Peacebuilding, Development, and Humanitarian Efforts) in Moyale, Kenya.

    Skills, qualifications and experience

    The ideal candidate should posses a Bachelor’s degree in Peace Studies/Disaster Management or International Relations and have at least one year relevant experience. The candidate should have knowledge and understanding of peacebuilding, social inclusion, social accountability, disaster risk management and/or resilience and conflict sensitive approaches and dynamics along the Kenya-Ethiopia border.

    For more information on the requirements for this national volunteer role, please check the job description.
    Competencies and Behaviour
    At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:

    Ability to be open minded and respectful
    Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
    Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
    Ability to seek and share knowledge

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  • Human Resource Adviser Sales and Marketing Adviser

    Human Resource Adviser Sales and Marketing Adviser

    Role Overview
    Working at project location – In this role, you will provide on-site support in the project location and/or VSO office, (full-time unless otherwise specified) for a set period of time. The aim of this role is to provide technical support to CFYE implementing partners (IPs) on strengthening HR systems, developing inclusive HR and recruitment strategy.
    Skills, qualifications and experience

    A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources/Business Management or a related field
    Minimum of two years experience in employee recruiting, training, or employee career coaching is required
    You have excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, and strong work ethic.
    Have extensive knowledge of HR gender inclusive procedures and policies.
    Experience in developing recruitment strategies
    Thorough knowledge of employment and labour related laws and regulations
    Knowledge on safeguarding
    Strong leadership and coaching skills
    Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
    Excellent planning and facilitation skills
    Strong analytical and presentation skills.
    Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

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  • Project Officer- SRH, GSI Advisor (DESIP)

    Project Officer- SRH, GSI Advisor (DESIP)

    Project Implementation and Management

    Provide technical support to partners in developing and utilizing inclusive social behaviour change communication strategies to address knowledge, attitudes, norms, and cultural practices towards the use of family planning (FP) among the youth, women, and persons with disabilities.
    Take lead in building the capacity of partners and health care workers on social and disability inclusion.
    Provide technical input on the improvement of disability reporting using the Washington Group of questions and disaggregation of populations to include disability.
    Work with partners to strengthen networks and advocacy coalitions in influencing policy decisions around inclusion of persons with disabilities accessing FP services.
    Organize and create platforms for developing and sharing best practices on inclusive FP service delivery for youth, women, and persons with disabilities.
    Developing learning resources on social and disability inclusion for partners and health care workers.
    Support partners to engage social and disability inclusion champions while implementation of activities.
    Responsible for developing a risk management plan for the project indicating potential risks and mitigation strategies for the project.

    Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting

    Monitoring progress of consortium members in applying inclusive strategies to enhance services for Family Planning.
    Lead in organizing monthly, quarterly as well annual project reviews and planning worksh
    Lead in the preparation of project work plans and continuously monitor progress against the approved work-plan.
    Develop quarterly case studies on inclusive FP practices

    Relationship management and partnership working

    Ensure that all consortium partners are kept regularly informed about the progress of activities.
    Participate in quarterly project working group meetings with partners
    Participate in county and national sector specific forums as will be appropriate.

    Budgeting and Financial Management

    Participate in financial planning and phasing, administer, and monitor expenditures against budgets and maintain budget tracking records for the project.
    Track, in liaison with Project Accountant, project expenditure and develop value for money evaluation reports.

    Logistical and Administrative support

    Coordinate project logistical and administrative support in liaison with Procurement and Logistics Officer.

    Desired Skills and Experience

    The ideal candidate should have qualifications in Public Health or Social Sciences .
    Have in-depth knowledge and experience in advocacy, Sexual and Reproductive Health, specifically for marginalized groups especially women and persons with disabilities.

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    al.org

  • Waste Management Specialist

    Waste Management Specialist

    Role Overview

    Working from home and at project location –  In this role, you will spend some time providing part-time remote support (e.g. from your home) to VSO projects or partners, and also a set period working full-time in the project location and/or VSO office.

    This role will work closely with our partners to help deliver our work on plastics, waste and circular economy strategies. This will include advisory and training on waste management strategies that include recycling and circular economy approaches to VSO staff and our local partners. The role will guide on policies in regards to waste management and development of guidelines in line with policy.

    Skills, Qualifications And Experience

    Competencies and Behaviour

    Whether You Want To Join Us As An Employee, Or As a Volunteer Working In Your Own Country, Overseas Or Online, Our Selection Process Includes An Assessment Based On These Core Competencies

    At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together.

    Ability to be open minded and respectful
    Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
    Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
    Ability to seek and share knowledge

    Apply via :

    al.org

  • Project Manager – IPDHE

    Project Manager – IPDHE

    About the job
    Technical Expertise: Joint responsibility with the other Project Manager – Peacebuilding for the technical design of the overall project; coordinate for the technical delivery in the respective country.
    Responsible for technical delivery of the project; provide technical expertise on peacebuilding, conflict sensitivity and resilience to ensure the project achieves the aim of enhanced resilience and peaceful coexistence.
    Through, national volunteers, local implementation partners and support from the VSO Global technical teams ensure other technical skills required are available and used in a timely way to meet the project objectives.
    Ensure, project interventions are participatory and primary actor led methodologies suitable for a community-based project; design and facilitate participatory workshops with partners and volunteers.
    People Management and duty of care: Effectively manage a blended team of volunteers and staff to maintain performance and accountability, ensuring they have the capacity and technical tools, competencies, and resources to deliver this project. Lead and motivate the volunteers, ensuring progress reviews and team meetings.
    Effectively manage the relationship with the implementing partner(s) and line manage a blended team of staff and volunteers to cocreate and deliver the project activities as a project team.
    Programme Development and Delivery: ensuring that project is implemented according to donor specifications (quality, time and budget/plan). Provide a key co-ordination and implementation role, ensuring project management standards are followed and deadlines met.
    Internal Reporting: Prepare and support management, reporting and communication products in liaison with the Proect Implementation Lead.
    Stakeholder Management and Communications: Build effective working relationships with project stakeholders, engaging them at each project stage, ensuring communications have appropriate content and tone. Manage information flows between the directing and delivering levels of the project. Ensure organisational communications about project benefits, progress and outcomes suit audience and are timely. Anticipate project risks and issues, communicating to Project Implementation Lead and Stakeholders and seeking solutions.
    Fulfil other appropriate level responsibilities as defined by the line manager from time to time
    Desired Skills and Experience

    Ideal candidates should have experience in providing practical technical support to build peace – (tool development, developing interventions and delivering them), in a community-based setting.
    Experience of development programming in peacebuilding, climate change, DRR or building resilience in a fragile or conflict affected context.
    Experience of facilitating participatory, inclusive activities using a range of methodologies and techniques as well as experience of capacity building and enabling young people and primary actors to be active citizens.

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  • Lead Advisor Gender Inclusion

    Lead Advisor Gender Inclusion

    Job Purpose: To provide strategic leadership to VSO’s gender inclusion approaches for the delivery of quality programmes
    Responsibilities:
    Leadership, effective evidence and learning in Gender

    Provide strategic leadership to VSO programming quality and learning in Gender and inclusion to foster learning in others.
    Lead a process to strengthen the integration of gender equality and inclusion across VSO’s programme work, especially through the rollout of the Gender Transformative programing. Develop recommendations and research on how address this under COVID-19 conditions.
    Lead in designing SEGA (and other participatory) tools, build the capacity of programmes and ensure implementation and give technical input for executing Social Exclusion and Gender Analysis (SEGA) in all VSO countries and ensure all countries use SEGA findings into their programmes
    Lead in the promotion of Gender good practices and generating learnings, quality internal and external evidences, and practices within VSO.
    Disseminate knowledge and insights on Gender emerging from programmes throughout VSO especially into programme and policy, evidence and learning, advocacy and business pursuit.

    Developing VSO’s capacity, knowledge and expertise on Gender
     

    Lead the articulation and review of VSOs approach to Gender, Gender Based Violence and transformational change of harmful gendered social norms programs and integration with the core approaches across the organizations.
    Technical lead in the development of high-level indicators for the organisation on Gender and GBV programs across global programmes

    Leadership, effective evidence and learning in Gender
     

    Provide strategic leadership to VSO programming quality and learning in Gender and inclusion to foster learning in others.
    Lead a process to strengthen the integration of gender equality and inclusion across VSO’s programme work, especially through the rollout of the Gender Transformative programing. Develop recommendations and research on how address this under COVID-19 conditions.
    Lead in designing SEGA (and other participatory) tools, build the capacity of programmes and ensure implementation and give technical input for executing Social Exclusion and Gender Analysis (SEGA) in all VSO countries and ensure all countries use SEGA findings into their programmes
    Lead in promoting knowledge, learning and innovation in Gender and GBV embedment in the core programme areas and programmes across VSO projects.

    Developing VSO’s capacity, knowledge and expertise on Gender
     

    Lead the articulation and review of VSOs approach to Gender, Gender Based Violence and transformational change of harmful gendered social norms programs and integration with the core approaches across the organizations.
    Technical lead in the development of high-level indicators for the organisation on Gender and GBV programs across global programmes
    Lead in the development of feminist thinking and position papers for VSO

    Advise countries and projects to improve programme quality in Gender
     

    Provide technical input and support and advice to programmes to improve programme design and the quality of our Gender interventions and GBV programs focusing on Social & Gender norms, and transformational evidence-based interventions.
    Identify common programme challenges and address through systems responses across the organisation
    Technical lead and input to countries on business pursuit proposals and concepts on Gender, GBV and Social/Gender norms programming.
    Take lead on capacity building initiatives for staff, volunteers and partners on Gender, GBV, SEGA tools and methods.

    External communication and influencing on Gender
     

    Promote VSO as a globally recognized thought and practice leader on gender and embracing intersectional feminist leadership.
    Identify opportunities for strategic partnerships (including coalitions and alliances) to support our Gender related programme work
    Develop effective networks and strategic partnerships in Gender and development globally.

    Leadership and Sustainable development approaches
     

    Ensure Gender and Social Inclusion is understood as an element of a sustainable development system and approaches across the organization.
    Take lead on developing gender strategy, gender policy and guidelines for VSO working with other function within the organization.
    Work with the lead social inclusion Advisor to achieve a coherent social and inclusion and gender strategy and embedding it across the organization

    Skills, Knowledge and Experience
     

    Experience of direct work in Gender and development in the South; supporting research, planning and implementation of programmes at all levels.
    Experience of working in a developing country and fragile context.
    Experience of project management i.e. planning, review, and evaluation of community based organizations
    Experience of supporting programmes & measuring impact
    Clear understanding of current issues and trends in Gender and development and feminist leadership principles
    Demonstrate skills and knowledge at equivalent level to a post-graduate qualification.
    Analytical thinking and ability to plan strategically from an organizational perspective. Confident and articulate in systems thinking and working with theories of change.

    Desired Skills and Experience

    Experience of direct work in Gender and development in the South; supporting research, planning and implementation of programmes at all levels.
    Experience of working in a developing country and fragile context.
    Experience of project management i.e. planning, review, and evaluation of community based organizations
    Experience of supporting programmes & measuring impact
    Clear understanding of current issues and trends in Gender and development and feminist leadership principles
    Demonstrate skills and knowledge at equivalent level to a post-graduate qualification.
    Analytical thinking and ability to plan strategically from an organizational perspective. Confident and articulate in systems thinking and working with theories of change.

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    al.org

  • Microsoft 365 Administrator

    Microsoft 365 Administrator

    Job Purpose: Assist in the design and delivery of Microsoft solutions to meet business objectives and technical requirements, to create effective knowledge sharing, collaboration and workflow solutions to drive the effective delivery of VSO’s programmes.
    Responsibilities:

    Work with the Microsoft 365 Product owner to design and deploy new Microsoft 365 solutions such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Power Automate among others to improve ways of working in the organization.
    Assist with training and adoption of new Microsoft 365 solutions and processes including delivery & creation of training plans, materials and documentation.
    Provide technical user support for incidents escalated from the helpdesk and resolve system / application issues.
    Explore ways to scale Microsoft’s offering, such as with the Power Platform, within the organization based on business opportunities and other technical innovations.
    Work with the Microsoft 365 cluster team to develop, manage and implement the Microsoft 365 roadmap, leveraging new platform innovations as they are released.
    Assist with the migration of content from various sources (country office servers, google drive, drop box, personal computers, one drive, SharePoint etc.) to Microsoft 365 environment as designed.
    Offer technical support on Microsoft PowerBi platform to staff in the organization.

    Essential selection criteria
    Knowledge/qualifications:

    Up to date knowledge of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem
    Skilled at user training and support
    Ability to configure Microsoft 365 to manage processes and document storage

    Experience:

    Demonstrable experience in successfully supporting Microsoft 365 products
    Experience with and enthusiasm for coaching, mentoring and on the job training

    Skills/Abilities:

    Able to present complex technical information clearly to a non-technical audience, with the ability to provide the appropriate level of detail.
    Able to work in a team.
    Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
    Knowledge of the systems development life cycle.
    Knowledge of systems analysis and design methodologies.
    Excellent oral and written communication skills (in English) required
    Effective meeting facilitation skills
    Able to work effectively in a culturally diverse environment

    Technical Requirements

    Proficiency in Microsoft 365 administration.
    Microsoft PowerBi usage

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    al.org

  • Finance And Operations Officer

    Finance And Operations Officer

    Job Description
    Responsible for day-to-day finance operations and related controls. To manage in country finance statutory requirements, including tax and statutory reporting. Ensure production of accurate internal financial data and external financial statutory reports. Compliance with VSO’s accounting practices and tax requirements (both UK and Kenya; promote continued process improvement; and provide user-focused financial services and a strong control environment.
    Skills, qualifications and experience

    Bachelor of Commerce & Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CPA or CIMA, or international equivalent)
    Strong technical accounting skills, especially in relation to UK and Kenya statutory accounting
    Sound knowledge of Charity specific accounting, VAT, taxation and other compliance requirements
    Experience in preparing or managing local [country] payroll
    Strong analytical skills and highly numerate
    Strong IT skills, including accounting and reporting packages and especially Excel
    Experience of identifying and implementing process, system and control improvements
    Hands-on, pro-active approach to working; proven to be detail-oriented
    Experience of effectively managing and developing staff
    Experience of building relationships with and managing internal and external stakeholders
    Good written and verbal communication skills, in particular an ability to present and explain financial information clearly to staff at all levels, including non-financial staff, both internally and externally
    Effective influencing and networking skills
    Ability to work autonomously, using own initiative where needed, to deliver desired results in a timely fashion, with minimum supervision, prioritising and managing workload accordingly
    Commitment to VSO’s mission and values

    Desirable

    SUN systems / Q&A XL experience
    Experience in the not for profit and International Development sectors
    Able to undertake occasional international travel

    Competencies and Behaviour
    At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:

    Ability to be open minded and respectful
    Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
    Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
    Ability to seek and share knowledge

    Equal Opportunities
    VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

    Apply via :

    al.org