Resilience Innovation Country Lab Manager at World Vision Kenya

Here’s where you come in:

As Resilience Innovation Country Lab Manager, you will drive and prioritize the development of diverse income streams to ensure the sustainability of the Response Innovation Lab. You will oversee and support innovation in the country Lab through the Resilience Innovation Lab partners and by building the country wide humanitarian innovation ecosystem. You will ensure innovation impact from projects in the lab, create a focus on learning, pivoting and flexibility. You will find country wide humanitarian challenges, capacity, new ideas to move into projects to improve humanitarian operations in the country and share with the global Response Innovation Lab network.

Requirements include:

• A Bachelor’s degree in International development, business administration, social policy, communications or related stud.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in humanitarian practice, with at least 2 years in management positions.
• A team player with leadership qualities, excellent flexible project management skills, a partnership guru with a positive attitude, organization and dependability.
• Strong leadership skills; must demonstrate ability to lead a consortium.
• Capacity to prioritize and manage a diverse range of staff members, projects and activities.
• Confident communication and documentation skills; ability to represent the lab to a variety of stakeholders in a range of forums.
• Able to work on a cross-cultural environment with a multi-national staff.
• Demonstrates a commitment to RIL principles and values.
• Experience in an incubator, a start-up advisory, social enterprise, innovation space, project management or entrepreneurial experience.

Is this the job for you?

World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.