Jobs Kenya

Job Field: Sector in NGO/Non-Profit

  • Fellowship Program Evaluation Consultant

    Fellowship Program Evaluation Consultant

    Akili Dada seeks the services of a qualified consultant or consultancy firm to carry out a 5- year evaluation of our fellowship program that targets young women in the social enterpriseand social change sectors. Akili Dada Fellows are spread across the following East African countries: Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
    About the Fellowship Program
    Akili Dada’s fellowship program grows out of our belief that African women, especially those from underserved communities, are best positioned to design solutions to thechallenges facing them. The overarching goal of the program is to build the capacity of some of the continent’s most innovative young women change makers to drive solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing African society.
    The program awards yearlong fellowships to young women leaders engaged in social change projects of their design. The program serves as an incubator providing financial, intellectual, mentoring, and networking resources to young women as they grow their projects to scale and sustainability.
    The program was created in direct response to the absence of African women among the ranks of those celebrated in existing social entrepreneurship incubators.
    Result Areas
    Program Goal: To equip underserved young women with leadership capabilities to challenge the status quo in the spaces that are critical to them

    Outcome 1: Young women from underserved backgrounds enhance their leadership skills and experience personal growth.
    Outcome 2: Increased number of successful Social Enterprises led by Young African Women driving change in the community.
    Outcome 3: Akili Dada recognized as a pipeline for young women social entrepreneurs.

    Purpose and Scope of the Evaluation
    The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the extent of achievement of results against the stated objectives and implementation approaches used as well as gain insights on the programs strengths and areas of improvement.
    Specific objectives of the evaluation

    To assess the progress made towards anticipated key project goals as per the project logical framework and any other unintended effects of the project and how the results may have been realized.
    To demonstrate how effective key project interventions approaches have been in achieving the fellowship program outcomes.
    To highlight lessons learned and provide specific, actionable and practical recommendations for future programming

    Scope and Criteria for the Evaluation
    The evaluation will focus on the 3 result areas of the project based on the project log-frame. The evaluation will put emphasis on the effectiveness of the intervention approaches in delivering anticipated results, impact realized and sustainability considerations.
    Evaluation Methodology and Timeframe
    The consultant shall provide guidance on appropriate methodologies to be employed. Akili Dada however proposes, an outcome harvesting approach incorporating both qualitative and quantitative methods. The assignment will take a maximum of 20 days with data collection anticipated to commence no later than August 2018.
    Deliverables of the Consultancy
    The consultant will work in conjunction with the Akili Dada Washa Program Lead with support from the Executive Director, Director of Branding, Communications and Impact, Director of Programs and other Akili Dada staff working on the project, to refine the conceptualization of the assignment, approve research tools, and validate re- search findings. The consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks:

    Review relevant project documents; including project proposal(s), log-frame, budget, reports and other relevant documents with the aim of developing a detailed methodology and tools. The methodology and data tools shall be reviewed and approved by Akili Dada and other stakeholders before data collection commences.
    Data collection, data cleaning, analysis and interpretation of the findings and drafting of the report.
    Develop and submit a 20-page limit first draft of the evaluation report following an agreed upon format.
    Discuss findings with Akili Dada staff and other relevant stakeholders at a validation workshop and incorporate feedback to generate the final report.
    Submit the final 20-page evaluation report to Akili Dada offices in Nairobi in 3 hard copies and a soft copy via email. Any tools/templates used and final consolidated raw data should also be submitted together with the report.

    Evaluation Report Format
    The final reports should not exceed 20 pages excluding annexes of tools, list of research team among others.
    Expected Profile of the Consultant
    The consultant is expected to hold the following qualifications in order to be eligible for this assignment:

    A Masters level degree in international development or related social science
    At least 5 years of consultancy experience conducting evaluations/research in
    Sound knowledge of major development issues, especially. Knowledge of the context in East Africa is an added advantage.
    Sound knowledge and experience in social surveys and project evaluation methodologies with evidence of publications and reports on similar assignments.

  • Programme Development and Partnership Manager

    Programme Development and Partnership Manager

    Ref: PDPM/IPD-AF/0718
    Contract: 12 months Fixed Term
    Salary: £32,756 per annum, separate benefits packages (expats only).
    Closing Date: 30th July 2018 11:59 PM
    Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) is currently recruiting for the position of Programme Development and Partnership Management. The candidate will manage the national finance function and effective control of all financial matters ensuring reporting and compliance with donors and Islamic Relief financial guidelines.
    The successful candidate must have or be:

    Minimum Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Humanities, Development Studies, International Relation/ or other relevant discipline
    Excellent English language skills (written and spoken)
    Proven experience with an NGO in a senior programme funding position(s) involving proposal development and donor liaison.
    Experience of working in a country team and providing support from a distance
    Strong computer skills (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point, MS Project, SPSS).
    Sympathetic with aims, values & objectives of Islamic Relief.

    Pre-employment Checks:
    Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:

    screening clearance
    receipt of satisfactory references

    Islamic Relief promotes equality and meritocracy, and seeks individuals who agree with the IR values together with our policy standards on Anti-Bribery, Child Protection and Code of Conduct.
    Please note, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
    Applicants should be sympathetic to the values of Islamic Relief
    (Sincerity, Excellence, Compassion, Social Justice and Custodianship)
    Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer
    Please note that CV’s will NOT be accepted.

  • Nutrition Specialist

    Nutrition Specialist

    For every child, an advocate:
    The 2018-2022 Country Programme for UNICEF Kenya is marked by the creation of an outcome supporting the reduction of mortality and stunting. Under this outcome, four programme sections – Health, Nutrition, WASH and HIV-AIDS – will contribute to “Increased proportions of vulnerable children, pregnant and lactating women, including adolescent girls, have equitable access to and use quality WASH, Nutrition, Health and HIV/AIDS services, to reduce their risk of mortality, preventable diseases, stunting and other forms of malnutrition,and improve their birth outcomes”. With regards to specific objectives in nutrition, UNICEF Kenya aims at ensuring that: 1) communities adopt healthy infant and young child feeding behaviors and practices as well as demand and utilize quality nutrition services; 2) communities are provided with quality integrated nutrition services; 3) the capacity of national and county governments, and other service providers is improved, and commitment strengthened, to deliver quality integrated services; and 4) government and non-government partners adopt risk-informed integrated approaches to emergency preparedness, planning, and response to humanitarian needs. This position will contribute to the achievement of these results with a focus on enhancing the contribution of nutrition sensitive actions and strategies thus leveraging on the investments and results achieved through nutrition specific actions for maternal and child nutrition.
    How can you make a difference?
    Under the supervision of the Chief of Nutrition section, the incumbent is responsible for overall coordination and management of the Nutrition programmes, including programme/project formulation, design, planning and management focused on achievement of UNICEF’s Organizational priorities.
    Programme Development and Management

    With a focus on nutrition sensitive lens, identify critical intervention points and measures by administering a consistent and transparent monitoring system; analyse country level socio-political-economic trends and their implications for ongoing programmes and projects.
    Draft changes to/or prepare programme work plans as required with a focus on nutrition sensitive lens. Prepare program recommendations for inclusion in formal programme documentation, and new approaches, methods and practices.
    Ensure programme workplans have a relevant nutrition sensitive component, monitors compliance and provides training, support and guidance to the programme team in order to meet objectives. Identifies human resources requirements and on-going staff development needs.
    Adopt rights-based programmes approach in the formulation of programme goals and objectives and development of strategies and implementation frameworks. Formulate consistent and effective planning, design, implementation, monitoring and/or evaluation of programmes and projects. Bring coherence, synergy and added value to the programming planning and design processes using a results-based management approach to programme planning and design.
    Reviews and evaluates the technical, institutional and financial feasibility and constraints of the section nutrition sensitive portfolio in collaboration with Government and other partners. Monitor the overall allocation and disbursement of nutrition sensitive programme funds, making sure that funds are properly coordinated, monitored and liquidated. Take appropriate actions to optimize use of programme funds.
    Prepares relevant nutrition sensitive programme reports required for management, the Executive Board, donors, budget reviews, programme analysis, annual reports, etc.

    Programme Monitoring and Evaluations

    Undertakes field visits to monitor and assess nutrition sensitive programme implementation and decides on required corrective action
    Carry out rigorous and transparent approach to evaluation and participate in nutrition sensitive programme evaluation exercises in consultation with the Nutrition Manager, Deputy Representative, the Operations Officer, the Evaluation Officer and others, to improve efficiency and quality of programme delivery. Participate in annual sector review meetings with government counterparts. Ensure the timely preparation of annual program status reports.

    Knowledge Management and Capacity Building/Sustainability

    Ensure that area/country programmes are supported by knowledge management with a focus on nutrition sensitive lens, through data collection and analysis, complete and accurate reporting as well as participation in the Programme Knowledge Network system of “lessons learned” and other corporate-level databases.
    Participate in information exchange through donor and media visits as well as in the development of training and orientation material.
    Provide government authorities with technical supports and guidance to plan and organize training programmes for the purpose of capacity building and programme sustainability.
    Ensure the building and reinforcing of the commitment and institutional capacities of the national and local partners starting with taking a strategic approach to the identification of these partners and partnerships.

    Partnership, Coordination and Collaboration

    Develop partnership and collaboration with internal and external counterparts, including those of the UN and national partners, in order to improve the ability to collect and disseminate development data and information, exchange information on programme/project status and implementation and movement/distribution of supplies. Linkage to the Regional Programme Knowledge Network to ensure the availability of current and accurate programme data.
    Collaborate with the Operations Section to establish and maintain sound internal controls supportive of programming endeavours and to coordinate financial and supply management requirements and accountability.
    Maintain close collaboration with Regional Advisers and HQ Officers for effective overall coordination on programmes.
    Plans, develops and implements sectoral programme(s) by collaborating with the government and other partners. Provide leadership in provision of technical advice, negotiation, advocacy and promotion of area/country level goals, leading to agreement on practicable and priority actions to be supported by UNICEF programme and country level cooperation.

    To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
     

    An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Nutrition, Public Health, Nutritional Epidemiology, Global/international health and nutrition, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Social Policy, Social Development, Community Development, or other relevant disciplines. Training in gender and in nutrition programmes that promote gender equality an asset.*A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
    A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience in development and management of nutrition related programmes or projects. Experience in monitoring gender inequalities and in programming interventions that reduce these inequalities an asset.
    Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is required.
    Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

     
    For every Child, you demonstrate…
    UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
    The technical competencies required for this post are:
     

    Leading and Supervising [ I ]
    Formulating Strategies and Concepts [ II ]
    Analyzing [ III]
    Relating and Networking [ II ]
    Deciding and Initiating Action [ II ]
    Applying Technical Expertise [ III]

     
    Remarks:
    Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
    Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

    Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

    Job Details
    Are you passionate about seeing purpose-driven businesses grow? Do you want to see economic development impact poverty in East Africa? Do you want to develop your skills as a researcher?
    If you are a high-potential, motivated individual who wants to use your analytic and research skills to make a difference then TBN is the place for you. We support businesses with training, coaching and mentoring and want to ensure a rigorous evidence-based approach to impact.
    Preferred start date: 1st August 2018
    Reporting to: Training and Coaching Manager
    Background

    Under the overall guidance of the Regional Director and direct supervision of the Training and Coaching Manager, the M&E Officer will be responsible for:
    measuring the impact and effectiveness of our work
    To ensure/monitor satisfaction by collecting feedback from participants and partners
    Analyzing and producing reports & proposals for funders and partners.
    Context analysis & assessment of needs to inform development and improvements in program design.
    Data Collection & Systems Management: 30%

    Responsible for design and implementation of M&E system of TBNs program
    Develop and maintain the Management Information System that captures all data from the projects.
    Preparation and revision of data collecting tools
    Responsible for the collection, analysis & presentation of different data in relation to the project activities to inform decision making.

    Donor engagement & Reporting: 40%
    Develop and prepare proposals for partnership and funding

    Prepare and maintain a project plan for funder requirements and timelines
    Ensure thorough familiarity with respective grant awards scope of work and M&E requirements
    Organize impact measurement and evaluation meetings with funders
    Prepare quarterly/annual reports on progress attained for annual audit

    Learning: 10%

    Present findings, progress, goals, problems and other relevant information to the Regional Director, Training and Coaching Manager and other staff meetings.
    Lead in review and dissemination of project reports, results, lessons learned and monitor implementation of changes in improvement areas

    Evaluation & Research: 20%

    In coordination with program leads, set a research agenda, determine methodology, design data collection, and oversee execution of research and evaluation.
    Assist in the conduct of high quality and timely evaluation/ impact assessment of key projects/ programmes to assess the achievement of desired outcomes.

    Corporate Competencies:

    Demonstrates integrity by modelling TBN’s values and ethical standards
    Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of TBN
    Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability

    Functional Competencies:

    Plans, coordinates and organizes workload while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines
    Establishes, builds and maintains effective working relationships with staff and clients to facilitate the provision of support
    Results Measurement and Learning
    In-depth knowledge on MIS, M&E and development issues
    Excellent knowledge of qualitative and quantitative monitoring and the application of methodology
    Good understanding of social impact measurement and capacity assessment methodologies
    Strong financial literacy, research and analytic capabilities
    Ability to identify significant capacity building opportunities;
    Excellent communication skills, especially report writing
    Sensitivity to and responsiveness to all partners
    Ability to lead implementation of new systems

    Required Skills and Experience
    Education:
    University Degree, preferably in Business Administration, Economics, Social Sciences or related field.
    Experience:

    At least 2 years of experience in the design and implementation of M&E/MIS in development projects implemented by national/international NGOs/UN bodies/ Government
    Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports
    Demonstrated research and proposal writing experience
    Proven ICT skills in SPSS, MS Excel, PowerPoint and in the development of MIS software using database software
    Expertise in analyzing data using statistical software
    Ideally experience working with small and medium businesses
    Ideally experience engaging with regional and international funding agencie

    Language Requirements:
    Fluency in written and spoken English

  • Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting & Learning (Mer&l) Officer

    Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting & Learning (Mer&l) Officer

    Job Description

    Reporting To: Programs Manager
    Work Station: Nairobi (with field visits)
    Start Date: Immediate
    Positions Key role
    To be responsible for supporting and managing Womankind Kenya’s evidence generation of outputs and impact of our work in projects and aggregately at organization level.
    The Role will ensure each project has a robust results frameworks and action plan to operationalize them. The role will provide quality assurance of routine data collection, data analysis, oversight over external evaluations and value for money studies to ensure they deliver the intended quality and excellence in evidencing our work. This will be done in collaboration with Programme leads and advisors. The role holder will use experience from doing this to contribute to the development of Womankind Kenya’s policy and strategy related to evidencing the results and impact of our work.
    Representation: This role will use evidence-based reporting and communication products for strategic representation of WOKIKE’s internally and externally and supporting the Executive Director and programme team in engagement with donors, governments and other stakeholder.
    Personal development to ensure up to date knowledge and practices around good practice in monitoring, evaluation and learning through reading, online courses, mentorship and coaching, conference attendance and presentations, publications
    Key outcomes

    High robust evidence of WOKIKE’s outputs and impact from interventions based on sound methodologies.
    Compliance with financial policies and procedures including reporting requirements and contribution made to other team members in the development and implementation of MEAL frameworks
    Strong MER&L planning and evaluation procedures
    Positive relationships developed with partners through effective communication.
    Decisions on programme work informed by data and WOKIKE’s strategic focus areas.
    Strong linkages between organization work and advocacy, communications and fundraising roles within the organization.

     Person Specifications and Qualifications:

    Holds a Bachelor Degree in areas of Development Studies, Communications, Law, Public Policy, Sociology and other related specialization with advanced training in research and quantitative and qualitative research methods, monitoring, and evaluation.
    Good knowledge of operational research methods with evidence of leading on impact evaluation of development projects.
    Knowledge of official donors such as European Union, DFID, USAID etc policies on evidencing results.
    Understanding of issues of governance, power, gender and rights
    Familiarity with programme cycle management approaches and tools – including participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation
    Familiarity with Emergency relief, preparedness and humanitarian aid and their link to development work
    Experience of facilitation, training and network building

  • Product Innovations Research Station Officer

    Product Innovations Research Station Officer

    Job Description

    Job Location: Sagana
    Reports To: Crop Research Station Supervisor
    Organization Description: Most of the world’s poor are farmers, representing the largest and most uniform group of poor people in the world. One Acre Fund is a growing NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. Instead of giving handouts, One Acre Fund invests in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income.
    We provide farmers with a “market bundle” that includes education, finance, farm inputs and solar lights, and market access. Our program is proven impactful-every year, we weigh thousands of harvests and measure 50-100% average gain in farm income per acre. We have laser-like focus on generating better lives for the people that we serve.
    We are growing quickly. In ten years, we have grown to serve 0ver 500,000 farm families with more than 5,000 full-time field staff. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from The MasterCard Foundation and Gates Foundation.
    Website: www.oneacrefund.org.
    Job Description: The mandate of the Product Innovations Team is to develop and test new products and product delivery systems. As a member of the Product Innovations team, you contribute to the research needed to move products from early stage trials to scale.
    Your Role

    Know Your Trials: Develop a thorough knowledge of the requirements for crop station trials including planting, top dressing, and harvesting
    Trial Supervision: Supervise anywhere from 5 – 10 crop station trials each season, including all trial replications
    Ensure Quality Execution: Fully understand the quality policy and meet quality standards by conducting regular follow ups to the trial plots to ensure quality standards are met
    Perform Hard Labor Duties: Carry out all labor related activities as required by your manager, including land preparation, planting, top dressing, harvesting and all intermediate tasks. In summary, your role will require you to physically maintain the trial plots assigned to you using the farm equipment provided to you.
    Carry out Technical Tasks: Carry out all technical activities as required by your manager, including spraying, creating planting tools (such as planting strings, planting sticks and row sticks), creating harvest boxes, etc.
    Quantitative Data Collection: Conduct quantitative data collection according to trial requirements, including at planting, top dressing and harvesting, and ensure data quality and accuracy
    Meet KPI Targets: Follow work plan set in the weekly meeting and track daily activities and KPI’s to report to your supervisor
    Participate in Trainings & Staff Activities: Attend and participate in weekly staff meetings and trainings

    Our Requirements

    A minimum of 2 years work experience in a related field
    National Identification Card (ID)
    Minimum Education; KCSE D+
    Strong numeric and data collections skills
    Knowledge of agricultural practices for smallholder farmers
    Excellent communication skills
    Exceptional personal organizational skills and attention to detail
    Time management skills and ability to work independently
    Positive attitude with a strong work ethic
    Demonstrated commitment to teamwork and collaboration
    Eager to learn, teach, enhance current processes and develop new operations
    Be willing to participate in hard physical labor, using the farm equipment provided
    Humility, we are looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills with patience and a humble approach to service to join our growing family of leaders
    Passionate about serving smallholder farmers
    Language: English, Kiswahili required

  • Global Fund Manager

    Global Fund Manager

    Job Description

    How can you make a difference?
    Under the guidance of the supervisor, the incumbent is required to manage and coordinate the implementation of the Global Fund grants generally, and HSS specifically.  This entails corresponding with the GFATM Secretariat and the Local Funding Agent (LFA), developing work plans and budgets, supervising programme implementation, ensuring that partners, especially the host agency UNICEF, and activities are well coordinated, and facilitating regular management and coordination meetings. It also involves liaising with local health authorities and the body that holds the CCM responsibilities, the Health Sector Committee and/or a committee charged directly with GF oversight of the Somali Support Secretariat.
    MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

    Lead and coordinate UNICEF’s programming and implementation of the GF grants, including HIV, Malaria and HSS, including management of a team of professionals, dealing with GF and the LFA and collaborating closely with partners (UN especially all levels of UNICEF, NGO, Government, and others) to formulate and develop strategies, methodologies and new approaches for improving programme delivery.
    Establish programme workplans, monitor compliance and provide training, support and guidance to the programme team in order to meet objectives. Guide and supervise professional and support staff. Ensure their training needs are met, and provide on-the-job training/coaching as required.
    Develop partnerships with local and international non-government organizations, community based institutions, religious groups, and health authorities.  Guide and build the capacities of partners in close collaboration with all levels of UNICEF so that the goals of the programme are met and donor rules respected.
    Represent UNICEF in external meetings and donor meetings related to UNICEF’s role as a PR for the Global Fund grants, ensuring that UNICEF’s core commitments to children are being addressed
    Prepare programmatic budgets in line with donor conditions ensuring proper utilization and accountability, and that activities are within established plans of action, and the programme budget allotments. Take appropriate actions to optimize use of programme funds in particular through joint programming with partners to optimize and maximize synergies and reduce duplication.
    Ensure integration of common approaches and strengthen synergies within health sector and across GFATM grants particularly in the area of health systems strengthening. Ensure that all levels of UNICEF (CO, RO and HQ) are briefed regarding ongoing activities, lessons learned, potential opportunities and synergies as well as potential bottlenecks
    Establish M&E plan for the programme and ensure that it is respected. Conduct field assessment visits and surveys to monitor and evaluate programme implementation and effectiveness, identify problems in institute timely remedial measures.  Identify alternative courses of action to accelerate/improve programme delivery.  In coordination and collaboration with other professional colleagues, establish and develop effective information and reporting systems to monitor and evaluate the impact of the programme and achievement of targeted goals.  

    To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

    Advanced university degree in medicine or public health, preferably with emphasis on HSS supplemented by a Programme Management degree or diploma.
    Eight years of progressively responsible professional experience in programme formulation, planning, management and evaluation of health programmes, preferably large scale HSS programmes.
    Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
    Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

    For every Child, you demonstrate…
    UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results
    UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
    Remarks:
    Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
    Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

  • Grants Management Associate

    Grants Management Associate

    Details:
    Position Overview:
    Educate!, a fast-growing nonprofit social enterprise, is looking for a Grants Management Associate to join its ambitious, high-performing team.
    To fuel Educate!’s rapid scale-up across East Africa, we are working diligently to grow our sources of revenue and build new, large-scale funding partnerships. With this growth comes increasingly complex grant reporting, compliance, and project management requirements to ensure we are meeting and exceeding our commitments to funders.
    We are looking for a self-starter and critical thinker with meticulous attention to detail, exceptional communication skills, and a flexible, can-do attitude. The Grants Management Associate will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between the External Relations team and the program implementing teams in Kenya, helping us to manage complex grants, source critical information, proactively identify gaps in our compliance and project management processes and propose solutions. You will also have the opportunity to engage directly with some of Educate!’s donors and partners by helping to design and execute site visits in Kenya.
    Past experience working in fundraising or grants management or fundraising is not necessary for this role. Rather, we are looking for someone who is excited to work in a fast-paced environment and eager for opportunities to learn and grow with the organization as it evolves. You’ll join a motivated, passionate, overachieving international team that is positioning Educate! to be the leader in skills-based secondary education in Africa and intensively impact one million youth each year by 2024.
    Performance Objectives:

    Grant Reports

    You’ll work with our fundraising team to ensure that Educate! meets and exceeds our obligations to donors by producing high-quality, timely grant reports that keep our stakeholders informed and connected to Educate!’s progress and mission.
    Write and project manage high-quality grant reports and other donor materials.
    Collaborate closely with in-country teams to gather information needed for reporting and donor materials.
    Support the team in streamlining systems and processes to make grant reporting and information sourcing more efficient, such as developing a tool to systematize and calendarize our story-gathering and info-sourcing needs for grant reports.

    Grant Compliance

    As Educate! grows, we have increasingly complex reporting and compliance obligations to funders to ensure we are achieving our key deliverables and following through on our commitments. In this role, you will:
    Maintain and update our internal Grant Compliance Dashboard that is used to track programmatic, financial and administrative deliverables that have been promised to funders.
    Work closely with the Grants & Compliance Specialist to coordinate and carry out grant compliance processes, including meeting with department heads to check in on compliance items and identify any gaps, and following up on any issues raised during meetings.
    Improve our compliance processes by collaborating with the Grants & Compliance Specialist to build out a strategy for addressing and following up on compliance gaps, and maintaining an annual list of milestones to be shared with funders.

    Donor & Partner Visits

    We’re building the reputation and support base to position Educate! as the leader in skills-based education in Africa, and that includes being able to effectively show our partners what our work looks like on the ground. In this role, you will work with the External Relations Manager to:
    Design, coordinate, and prepare for donor and partner visits in Kenya to ensure that programmed activities run smoothly
    Represent Educate! in person and over email to international donors and partners
    Lead engaging and informative site and field visits for international donors and partners visiting the program

    Team Support

    Educate! is growing, but we still embrace our start-up culture! As part of the Team, you’ll support colleagues in the U.S. and in Africa on fundraising and other external relations projects as needed. Example projects include:
    Supporting the fundraising team in testing new innovations to our grants management systems and processes, such as automating our grant pipeline.
    Supporting the Kenya and other in-country teams with external-facing projects, such as conferences, student business club competitions, or key stakeholder meetings.
    Providing trainings to in-country teams on Educate!’s key messaging, relationship management, donor visits, and more.

    Who we are looking for:
    This is an early-career role, well-suited to those with 2-3 years of work experience.
    The ideal candidate will be:

    Highly organized and detail-oriented.
    Comfortable with the idea of managing complex projects with many moving pieces.
    A self-starter, able to prioritize and manage multiple assignments, take initiative, and work independently, with a manager based in Kampala.
    A collaborative and flexible team player, excited to learn and pitch in where needed.
    An exceptional communicator in diverse settings, from a classroom to a conference room.
    Strong relationship-builder and able to hold his or her own with key external stakeholders, from donors to government partners.
    Past experience working in fundraising or grants management is not necessary for this role. We are looking for candidates who have experience applying the skill-sets identified above in any industry and who are strongly aligned with our five cultural tenets.

    And we’re also requiring for this position:

    Bachelor’s degree (related area not necessary)
    Kenyan nationality
    Minimum committment of one (1) year, with a preference for those willing to stay longer.
    A good fit with our Five Cultural Tenets (see “What is Educate! About?” Below; learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here.)

    Terms:
    Located in Nairobi, Kenya working alongside our rockstar Kenya and regional teams.
    Benefits & perks include a generous vacation policy, health insurance, and breakfast in the office!
    Why You Will Brag About Working At Educate!
    We’ve got the impact.
    Educate! is designed for scale. We have grown more than 10x since 2014 from 54 to over 700 schools served. We carefully measure our outcomes, and—here’s the best part—we are maintaining quality at four times the size.
    We believe in local leadership — 99% of our on-the-ground staff is African.
    Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda: we are now implementing the Educate! Experience in all five regions of the country, intensively impacting more than 28,000 youth and reaching hundreds of thousands more broadly through Educate!-trained teachers and our national reform efforts.
    Educate is a well-oiled learning machine. We built our model by methodically testing hundreds of assumptions and we are constantly experimenting, evaluating, and improving.
    We’re honored to have been recognized by key global thought leaders and publications, including Bill Gates, the Brookings Institution, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

  • Senior Coordinator, Sexual and Reproductive Health

    Senior Coordinator, Sexual and Reproductive Health

    Job Overview/Summary: WISH2ACTION is a comprehensive, integrated approach to ensure equitable access to family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), prioritising the most underserved women and girls, particularly youth under 20, the very poor, and marginalized populations (including people with disabilities, people displaced or affected by humanitarian crisis, and people living in hard-to-reach areas). IRC is an implementing partner in the WISH2ACTION project and will be responsible for delivering contraceptive services as part of a package of sexual and reproductive health, to women and girls in Somalia, South Sudan, and in refugee settings in Ethiopia and Kenya. Based in IRC’s International Hub (I-Hub) office in Nairobi, the Senior Coordinator, Sexual and Reproductive Health will be responsible for ensuring effective coordination of internal and external stakeholders and monitoring of WISH2ACTION project performance. The Senior Coordinator will ensure that IRC’s component of WISH2ACTION is implemented in accordance with DFID regulations, IRC policies and international standards of delivering integrated sexual and reproductive health programs. To achieve these goals, the Senior Coordinator will manage and monitor work plans and deliverables, track spending, identify technical support needs and deploy relevant advisors and specialists to the country programs. The Senior Coordinator will serve as the main focal point for IRC for the project for internal and external representation and manage staff members providing measurement and grants related aspects of project delivery. The position is contingent on the IRC being awarded funding and is anticipated to begin in August 2018.
    Major Responsibilities:
    Project Management and Monitoring

    Work with IRC country program staff to develop and actively track project work plans
    Closely monitor overall program quality and performance in terms of data measurement, spend rate on budgets, staffing at country level, on-time delivery of reports and other products.
    Coordinate deployment of technical and measurement to provide remote and in-country support to country programs in achieving project deliverables country programs to staff
    Act as the singular focal point for regular updates to relevant IRC internal stakeholders, including regional leadership, international programs department (IPD) leadership, and program quality unit (PQU) leadership

    Partner Coordination and Representation

    Serve as the focal point with WISH2ACTION consortium partners to develop joint work plans and share IRC-specific progress and lessons learned

    Represent the IRC at consortium-level meetings and in presenting project results to external actors Reporting
    Coordinate the production of all narrative reports from IRC country teams team and provide feedback to improve product quality, accuracy, and style
    Ensure high quality, timely and coherent reporting, both financial and narrative to the consortium lead

    Key Working Relationships:
    Position Reports to: Senior Technical Advisor, Reproductive Health Position directly supervises: TBD, a grants manager and/or M&E manager Other Internal and/or external contacts: Internal: Country program Technical Coordinators, Deputy Directors for Programs, and Grants Coordinators/

  • Case Investigations Associate

    Case Investigations Associate

    Job Location: Western / Rift-Valley
    Reports To: Case Investigations Team Lead
    Job Description: The Case Investigations Associate will mostly be based in the field, carrying out field visits to interview farmers and field staff, and collect statements. The information collected will be used to resolve farmer complaints around inputs, repayment and the quality of One Acre Fund services.
    The agents will be responsible for resolving all cases raised by farmers in the shortest time frame to the highest levels of satisfaction. This is very visible and important position that cuts across many departments at One Acre Fund and supports senior field directors in their execution duties as well as informing and guiding senior departmental heads on programmatic issues.
    Your Role
    Case Management

    Familiarize with all cases of farmer complaints through phone calls to One Acre Fund, through working with the Customer Service Call team
    Meet with the Customer Service Call Team each week to review open cases and ensure the investigation database is up to date
    Prioritize weekly cases to follow up and prepare a travel schedule
    Investigate and acquire relevant documentation including budgets and records for farmer refund payments, UAP insurance payments and inputs delivery documents to detect any anomalies and errors and launch investigations based on the following:
    UAP Insurance: work closely with expense auditor in charge of UAP payments to investigate complaints on this
    wrongly dropped farmers at qualifiers deadline
    refunds for dropped clients and refunds for overpayments
    customer care issues and staff harassment to farmers
    cases on Incentive Fraud, Input fraud and stolen inputs by field staff
    ghost farmer issues
    mobile repayment fraud related issues
    Group Leader level training as follow ups from investigations
    core package issues
    HR related issues
    warehouse staff input balances
    Forward all investigation reports to the relevant parties to ensure resolution and case closure
    Provide recommendations for documentation and process improvement on an ongoing basis
    Any other duty assigned by supervisor

    Field Visit Activities

    Schedule visits to investigate cases with Field Directors, Field Leaders and Group Leaders as appropriate
    Meet with impacted and affected parties and obtain written statements and evidence such as default acknowledgement forms and reports from relevant parties for recovery of cash lost by One Acre Fund staff
    Arrange any follow up appointments to help with the investigation

    Departmental Liaison Activities

    Work closely with the regional teams on any requirements for the cases and advise on appropriate resolution and recommendations
    Liaise closely with HR and District Office Administrators on all pending disciplinary actions from cases investigated
    Work with the Investigation Management to examine processes and policies to prevent future occurrences

    Our Requirements

    Must be able to speak either Kalenjin or Luhya
    Must be willing to travel frequently to the field using motorbike taxis in all weather
    Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
    Proactive in identifying and solving problems
    Should possess strong conflict resolution skills
    Should demonstrate high levels of integrity and a positive attitude
    Should demonstrate strong attention to detail and possess strong organization skills
    Deep understanding of the One Acre Fund core program model, preferred
    Demonstrated computer skills in email, internet usage, Microsoft Office Suite
    Ability to work with minimum supervision to meet strict deadlines
    Able to stay calm in all situations