Programs Director at Youth Initiatives-Kenya (YIKE)

Duties and responsibilities

• Managing the day to day activities of the organization that includes mentoring employees, fostering the use of the organizations systems, building a strong team and ensuring adherence to organizational policies.
• Fundraising and resource mobilization: Specific responsibilities include attainment of new donors and maintaining contacts with current donors.
• Designing and implementing programmes: YIKE is a dynamic organization that keeps redesigning programs to suit current trends in youth development. The role of this position is to ensure that the organization is kept abreast with programs relevant to youth locally, nationally and internationally.
• Establishing and maintaining networks and partnerships for the organization at the community, national, regional and global levels.
• Facilitating Monitoring of organizational projects: It is the responsibility of the position holder to ensure that organizational programs are monitored on a timely monitored and reports well kept.
• Report writing: This position ensures that organizational reports are written in a clear and concise language.
• Public relations and communication: The successful candidate is responsible for all organizational public relations and communication within and outside the organization.
• Financial and resource management: This position is responsible for all financial and other organizational resources.
• Mentoring youth and other Beneficiaries: The Program’s Director will be in charge of fostering cordial relations and mentoring youth, women and children who are the organizations main partners.
• Other duties and responsibilities includes, sitting in YIKE’s Board of directors meetings and carrying out any other duties as assigned by the Board of Directors.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a Master’s Degree in Project Management, Development Studies or any other Social sciences
• Over 5 years’ experience in managing donor funded projects and NGOs
• Experience with USAID and UN compliance Systems is added advantage
• Demonstrated success in achieving results under challenging implementation circumstances.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of operational organizational procedures and leadership.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Office, Power point and Excel
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Well-developed interpersonal and negotiation skills,
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Ability to develop fundraising proposals