Team Leader-Reducing Insecurity In Kenya at Pact World

Programme Overview

“RE-INVENT is a £20m 5-year programme that aims to enhance Kenyan capacity and capability to address inter-communal conflict, weak community- police relations, violence against women and girls (VAWG), violent extremism and election related violence. It will support the continued advancement of police reforms to improve the management, oversight and accountability of the police force.

The programme will aim to deliver a reduction in conflict and violence through improvements in responses to violent incidents and crime, including VAWG. The geographical focus will be in priority northern/coastal counties. It will also support DFID’s portfolio in northern/coastal regions with conflict analysis to inform the targeting of wider development programmes to better address long term conflict drivers.”

The programme will build Kenyan capacity and capability at national, county and local levels for a more integrated approach to tackling five types of inter-related violence: inter- communal conflict, criminal violence, violence against women and girls, violent extremism and election violence.

The programme will provide strategic support to police reform as a core intervention in order to improve police engagement with citizens and police effectiveness in tackling insecurity, conflict, violence against women and girls and countering violent extremism. Towards 2022 it will aim to contributing to a peaceful general election.

The programme will therefore support a number of inter-related work streams:

• Police reform
• Tackling violence against women and girls
• Peacebuilding to address inter-communal conflict
• Countering violent extremism (CVE)
• Conflict sensitive development in the north/coastal regions
• Enhancing elections security for a peaceful general election in 2022 Position Purpose

The jobholder will lead the above programme, managing the RE-INVENT team, liaising with our client, DFID, and reporting in to Pact Nairobi office and contract support in DC.

We are seeking a Team Leader to deliver the new DFID Kenya RE- INVENT programme, as part of the upcoming tender process.

Key Responsibilities

• Consortium management: partnership relations and programmatic cohesion.
• Programmatic performance management, including extensive grant management
• Financial and budgetary management
• Overall program strategic direction and technical leadership
• Relationship management with the donor, the government, and other partners
• Oversee the development of MERL systems, and programme learning agendas.

Basic Requirements

• At least 10 years relevant professional experience
• Master degree in a relevant field (see above)
• Expertise in police reform and demonstrable impact of previous activities.
• Demonstrable experience of managing multinational teams, including consortia.
• Previous DFID Team Leader position, or other relevant position, DFID implementation experience.
• Experience of designing/delivering conflict mitigation, peacebuilding and/or Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programmes
• Experience tacking Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) within the current policy agenda
• Experience of working in Kenya
• Strong networks with the Government of Kenya, and non-government organizations working on police reform and/or peacebuilding.
• Demonstrable ability to identify, manage and mitigate risk – political, reputational, physical, fiduciary – and to operate in politically complex contexts.

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.