Project Development & Performance Manager at Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI)

We are looking for candidates who have:

• An understanding of what performance means on a program targeting the most vulnerable groups, and what drives it. You put the needs, goals and potential of service users at the heart of delivery and can look at the big picture.
• Flexibility – we are a young, small organization and staff will need to step into needs as they arise
• Strong analytical skills, including understanding the relationship between operating budgets and program performance and confidence in interrogating data- qualitative and quantitative.
• The ability to develop programs and lead change with sensitivity and humility. You are a wonderful relationship builder and can bring your stakeholders on the journey with you.
• Strong communication. You have the ability to write punchy, accessible prose, compelling story-tell and visualize data to get points across. 

Candidate profile

• HBGI is looking for the following background, experience, skills and personal culture:
• A strong academic background, including undergraduate degree.
• A strong, punchy writing style that can persuade readers and convey points succinctly.
• A solid working understanding ‘performance’ in the context of mental health or related services, from either voluntary or paid work, with experience in identifying and remedying areas of under-performance. Ideally experience at the community level in Kenya.
• Strong analytical skills. Can understand and interpret programmatic data, and relate that to continuous program improvement. Excellent in Excel.
• A flair for data visualization – telling stories through the numbers in ways that may not be immediately obvious and able to confidently communicate analysis to different audiences.
• Creative and flexible, not bureaucratic or limited to following processes, but able to develop innovations that will deliver higher performance.
• Strong organizational skills, able to project manage and manage a varying workload with limited supervision.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, able to build the necessary relationships, supporting and challenging as required.
• Experience of identifying funding opportunities and drafting bids.
• Experience in organizing team and external events.