Humanitarian Disarmament & Peace Building Manager at Danish Refugee Council

Responsibilities: 
Strategy Development:

• Develop the HDBP country sector strategy and ensure it is updated at all times.
• Provide constant political and economic analysis of the national context as related to the HDBP sector
• In co-ordination with the DRC HoP and Regional HDBP technical coordinators on Peacebuilding, support the development of related HDBP cross border initiatives into neighbouring countries.
• Support the Country Director in drafting, promoting, and rolling out of all HDBP-relevant strategic planning documents in broad consultation with all staff. 
• As an E-SMT member, ensure regular and critical review of the country strategic and action plans. Follow-up on the action plan and report against its indicators.
• Align and integrate HDBP activities along other DRC Protection work.
• Support the Country Director by inputting into the Government Engagement Plan and supporting linkages with relevant government ministries/departments in line with the HDBP strategy
• Support the Head of Programs in harmonizing programme approaches and HDBP delivery across the country program workstreams and governance levels

Management, Coordination and monitoring:

• Management, operational oversight, coordination and implementation of HDBP projects within the DRC Kenya programme. 
• Ensure high quality project implementation for HDBP Sector and DRC joint projects in accordance with donor and DRC regulations as well as in line with agreed indicators, budgets, and work plans.
• Support and technical supervision of HDBP project staff. This includes coaching, ensuring co-ordination between Area  managers, recruiting and development of HDP staff.
• Provide appropriate and timely technical feedback to HDBP staff regarding their performance, including annual staff performance appraisals. 
• Identify with HDBP staff their needs and opportunities for professional development.
• Serve as a member of the country Extended Senior Management Team.
• Develop and monitor an annual HDBP workplan and budget implementation at country level
• Work together with the Head of Programs and other program Teams to produce an annual county level workplan to ensure vertical integration of all HDBP interventions and strategies in all implementation areas.
• Work together with the MERL Unit to develop and monitor log frame indicators, intervention logic and a theory of change for the  HDBP sector. 

Programme development:

• Develop and expand the HDBP components of the DRC Kenya programme. 
• Lead in proposal development for HDBP sector.
• Lead in fundraising efforts for HDBP components
• Support the Country Director in representation for HDBP related forums.
• Be a driving force in terms of developing HDBP projects within the DRC Kenya programme objectives.

Finance, administration and safety:

• Responsible for HDBP budget monitoring, financial management and expenses control including compliance with minimum DRC and donor requirements and ensuring that the necessary systems are in place.
• Responsible for ensuring that HDBP Country staff adherence to security procedures, monitoring the development in the security situation, developing contingency plans etc.

Reporting:

• Ensure all reports related to the HDBP sector are compiled, quality checked and submitted on time to the donors in close consultation with the area teams, MERL Unit and the grants team. 
• Contribute to the quarterly, annual and other project reports as required
• Review technical content of downstream partner reports to ensure high quality technical reporting 
• Contribute to programme deliverables as they relate to the relevant  HDBP workstreams. 

Representation/Liaison:

• Using delegated authority from the CD, and in close coordination with the DRC HoP, represent HDP’s work in Kenya towards local government authorities, donors, partners, UN agencies and international and local NGOs and selected local co-ordination forums. 
• Be the point of contact for collaborating with national partners under HDBP sector
• Provide overall technical management of the delivery of collaboration and national partner activities by providing technical assistance and attending activities to ensure set objectives are achieved

Fundraising & Accountability:

• Actively identify and respond to relevant funding opportunities. The funding environment in Kenya is challenging and will require significant focus and capacity.
• Lead proposal development to maintain and expand HDP’s portfolio in Kenya and on borderlands.
• Guided by the DRC Programme Handbook, continuously monitor and develop relevant accountability initiatives in the field as well as strengthening the effort to document the impact of HDP’s activities.

Experience and technical competencies:  

• Demonstrate an understanding of the ever-changing Kenyan landscape (including cross border dynamics) as relates to politic, conflict, peace and security.
• Demonstrate conceptual and practical knowledge on Conflict Sensitive Development, security governance and related fields in a management capacity.
• Minimum of five years working experience with International NGOs or operational UN agencies, including at least two years’ experience of community-level conflict sensitive programming.
• Proven experience in project management, including budget expenditure, donor relations, reporting, proposal writing, staff management, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Demonstrable leadership and management skills, including team building and management by example.
• Demonstrable ability to think strategically, prioritize, and meet deadlines in a complex and challenging environment.
• Demonstrated ability to mobilise resources and expand programmes
• Excellent writing and verbal skills in English for project proposals, reports, and communications; Swahili skills is an added advantage. 

Education: 

• University Degree, preferably Master’s, in Conflict Resolution, International Relations or another relevant field.