Operations Support Manager at Practical Action Kenya

About you

• You will have professional experience in the field of international development, preferably with a good portion of that gained in overseas contexts.
• You will have a strong understanding and experience of new business development, including facilitation of consortia and partnerships, opportunity identification, quality proposal development and donor rules.
• You will need experience of project and award management, including planning, budgeting, resource management, controls, problem solving, monitoring, and delivering on time, to quality and within budget.
• You will have experience of building capability, through coaching and mentoring methods, and some experience in safety & security management and wider risk management.
• We are looking for someone with positive persuasion skills, who works in a way that builds trust and respect, who is able to work in different cultural contexts.

About us

• We are an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.
• We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality.
• We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.
• We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK-registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service.
• We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.