Team Leader to be based in Kakuma at CAP Youth Empowerment Institute Kenya

Tasks of the team leader

1. Overall responsibility for the advisory package of the contractor
2. Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the services of the contractor with other services delivered by the project in Turkana West, close coordination with the donor.
3. Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners.
4. Personnel management
5. Planning and steering assignments and supporting local and international short-term experts
6. Staff management, identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and international experts
7. Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out
8. Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines
9. Responsibility for controlling the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with officers responsible for the commission
10. Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating/ adapting the project strategy, and in evaluations
11. Responsible for the implementation
12. Consideration of cross-cutting themes (e.g., Do-no-harm) and close coordination of activities (safe-guards)
13. Responsibility for implementation of all work-packages

Qualifications of the team leader

1. Education/ training: University qualification (equivalent of Master) in social sciences or economics or business administration or similar, relevant field of studies 
2.  Language: Good business language skills in English and German based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
3.  General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in the Sustainable Economic Development sector
4.   Specific professional experience: 7 years in technical and vocational education and training (TVET)
5.   Leadership/management experience: 5 years of management/ leadership experience as project team leader or manager in a company
6.  Regional experience: 5 years of experience in projects in Sub Saharan Africa (region), of which 2 years in projects in East Africa
7.  Development Cooperation (DC) experience: 5 years of experience in DC pro-jects
8.   Other: 4 years of work experience in fragile contexts (6 out of 10 points); 4 years of experience in financial management of substantial local subsidies.

Our commitment to safeguarding

CAPYEI is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of young persons. CAPYEI expects all and volunteers (m/w) to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.