Programme Officer at Sightsavers

About the role

• Sightsavers Kenya office is currently recruiting for a Programme Officer to support the Global Labour Programme and manage activities and relationships with key stakeholders. The Programme Officer will ensure the planning, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the programme is held to the highest standards.

Responsibilities

A major part of this role will be delivering the programme, working with our coalition partners, preparing budgets and forecasts, and providing quality information on case studies relating to the programme.

As the Programme Officer you will:

• Work with the Chief of Party and all members of the Programme Management Unit to coordinate quality implementation of activities and timely sharing of lessons learned by consortium partners.
• Manage all aspects of the programme cycle with the partners including effective planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial and asset management, reporting and documentation.
• Liaise and work with the Sightsavers Global Technical Leads (Disability Inclusion, Gender Inclusion, Economic Empowerment and Social & Behavioural Change), MEL and other internal experts as required.
• Participate implementation of the programmes monitoring and evaluation framework.
• Build effective relationships with consortium partners and support longer-term relationships that go beyond the duration of the Global Labor Program by disseminating information and advocating for the programme’s goals and the consortium’s work in general.
• Monitor expenditure of project financial resources in liaison with the Finance Officer and the Programme Manager.
• Ensure that the GLP Project Management Unit receives appropriate materials and information to support donor-reporting requirements.
• Participate in all PR activities related to disability inclusive employment and employment in general, education and social inclusion, for example Labour Day, UN Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Skills and Experience

As the successful candidate you will have experience implementing programmes, including experience of the disability sector and gender mainstreaming. You will also have a background in agribusiness-based interventions working with relevant government departments/ministries, and experience in working with devolved County Government departments.

Further requirements include:

Essential

• Experience in providing technical assistance to partner organizations.
• Experience in designing and implementing data collection strategies and analysing data in MS Excel.
• Ability to travel to programme implementation sites in Nairobi, Kisumu, Migori and Homa Bay as required.
• Written and spoken English skills.

Desirable

• Previous experience of working for a USAID funded programme.
• Familiarity with national legislation and policies in the field of disability, human rights, and employment.
• Experience of designing, managing, and carrying out advocacy work for social inclusion/disability programmes.
• Knowledge of current issues and best practices in disability, UNCRPD, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).