County Cordinator at Plan International

Job Responsibilities

• Organize monthly and quarterly review meetings at the county level to promote joint-reviews and planning, shared learning, and linkages for cost-effective and efficient programming.
• Review monthly reports from the SDPs to validate information, and track progress against targets and activities in their approved work plan using systems developed by the Nilinde technical leadership team.
• Develop program performance reports and portfolio performance reviews in collaboration with Technical Leads, M&E and Grants units.
• Collaborate with the Learning and Knowledge Management Officer, in documenting and sharing of best practices, lessons learnt and success stories.
• Support and ensure timely submission of monthly narrative reports from SDPs and coordinate delivery of feedback from all technical leads and M&E.
• Coordinate the development, review of SDP costed work plans.
• Collaborate with grants unit & other relevant departments to ensure timely response to Service delivery partners on costed work plan & budget queries raised by management, finance counterparts and program teams.
• Undertake any other relevant duties as assigned by supervisor or management that enhance Nilinde’s core output areas.
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

Qualifications

• Minimum degree qualifications in social science, education, community development or equivalent.
• Master’s degree is an added advantage.
• 3 – 5 years’ experience managing community development programs with emphasis on OVC programming or HIV and health programming.
• Two years’ experience in working with USAID-funded programmes.
• Demonstrated experience managing work plans and budgets.
• Good community mobilization skills
• Ability to prioritize work according to importance and deadline while meeting conflicting work demands.
• Possesses initiative, patience, tact, and able to work with minimum supervision and under pressure
• Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility in all aspects of working
• Strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
• Understanding of rights based approaches and participatory concepts and practical experience in similar context.
• Sensitive to issues affecting children and committed to Plan Kenya’s Child Protection Policy
• Strong documentation and report writing skills
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability