Project Coordinator at Comitato di Collaborazione Medica

Location: Nairobi with frequent planning and monitoring missions to the project site

Contract duration: 1 year, renewable

Start date of contract: April 2018

Closing date for applications: 21th February 2018

Duties and Responsibilities

Aims and general characteristics

(S)he works with the Country Representative/Desk Officer (based at the HQ Office) on the implementation of the below tasks:

(S)he is:

• Responsible for the proper implementation – outcomes and output, timeline, finance, and quality – of the project and recommend solutions to both the technical and administrative supervisors where required
• The budget holder, ensuring the correct utilization of the project budget, the allocation of expenses to the proper budget lines consistently with the official documents and donor rules. Besides, s(he) is in charge of applying for fund requests to the HQ Administration, in collaboration with the Country Administrator
• In charge of collecting all the financial documents for the reports requested
• In charge of reporting also on project’s activities as requested by the donors and the CCM HQ Office. Promptly informing the Country Representative/the Desk Officer of any issue regarding the project, that can compromise the relationship between staff members, stakeholders or the name of the Organization
• Responsible for managing local staff members’ team and for recruiting new staff members in line with CCM policies, supported by the HQ Office (ensuring that they have the necessary induction, training and support as requested)
• (S)he coordinates the project partners ensuring a smooth planning and running of project activities and a good synergy with complementary actions in the area of intervention
• (S)he represents CCM to project’s partners and donors
• (S)he establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with the stakeholders and institutional counterparts in the area of intervention
• (S)he works on identifying and writing new project’s proposal

Job profile

Requirements

• Relevant Academic Degree
• Postgraduate studies (master, PhD, etc.) in health and/or development, cooperation and/or humanities/social sciences are assets.
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in projects’ management, with good proven understanding of administrative and financial project issues
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Italian Development Cooperation (MAE/AICS/DGCS)procedures and projects’ management
• Excellent capabilities in project financial planning and monitoring
• Excellent knowledge of Italian (written and spoken) and fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Good abilities in producing quality project reports, including good skills in understanding and using data collection and analysis
• Outstanding capacity to work with several and different stakeholders
• Outstanding and positive HR managerial ability to coordinate a multi-disciplinary and international team– even in remote control mode
• Proven experience in identifying and elaborating new project proposals
• Strong ability to networking and build effective partnership
• Strong leadership, high flexibility, team- player and high motivation
• Strong ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent problem- solving and analytical skills

Desirable Requirements

• Good knowledge of Kenyan contest and/or Kiswahili
• Proven experience in Public Health Sector or in the same sector of the project