Job Opportunities at Christian Aid

About the role

This role is responsible for providing in-country driving support to the country programme in liaison with other colleagues in the Finance & Operations functions. You will be expected to ensure vehicles and associated equipment safety and maintenance, and security management for the teams while in the field. Fleet management and supporting with administrative responsibilities while in the office.

Key Outcomes:

Fleet Management

• Travel plan management for all staff and visitors and driving staff, visitors, goods or service providers on strategic trips, to high-risk contexts or on long distances.
• Fleet management ensuring that all vehicles are well maintained, insured, sufficiently fueled, clean and stocked with safety equipment.
• Ensure that staff assigned any vehicle hand them back in good condition, with vehicle logs filled appropriately filled and a checklist of car condition and safety equipment done.
• Ensure vehicles logs, maintenance logs are appropriately kept within agreed frameworks.
• Ensure efficient use of vehicles, avoiding single person journeys and unnecessary movements through careful planning and facilitation of effective communication amongst staff needing transport support services.
• Positive communication and successful negotiation (in line with Christian Aid’s policies and procedures) with officials and security or police forces, particularly at check points and border crossings.
• Communication devices properly used and maintained.
• All paperwork for vehicle, deliveries or other documentation correctly completed and recorded.

About you

• Candidates should be educated to at least secondary school general certificate level with training in driving and must have valid driving license and any other documentation required to drive a vehicle and passengers.  
• You should have extensive experience in driving within the country and understanding of the various terrains in country and possess skills and expertise in dealing with security and other officials in ensuring adherence to traffic rules.

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About the role

This role is responsible for developing and implementing emergency preparedness and response plans, and for the overall coordination, planning, provision of technical direction and oversight to local partners implementing humanitarian interventions in Christian Aid.

The role is expected to contribute to the development of Christian Aid policy, strategy, thought leadership and communication in Humanitarian Emergency Response and ensure the implementation of rapid, effective and principled response to emergencies in line with the Christian Aid strategy. To support in disaster preparedness and early warning and support capacity building of partners and communities towards strengthening Humanitarian response.

Key outcomes

• Ensuring through efficient planning and project & budget management that projects are delivered on time, within budget and deliver high quality outputs and impact.
• Compliance with financial policies and procedures including budget-variance analysis, reporting requirements and contribution made to other team members in the development and implementation of partner capacity building and training.
• Ensuring through efficient planning and project & budget management that projects are delivered on time, within budget and deliver high quality outputs and impact.
• Compliance with financial policies and procedures including budget-variance analysis, reporting requirements and contribution made to other team members in the development and implementation of partner capacity building and training.
• Thought leadership through operational research, evidence-based communication products, conferences, thematic meeting attendance, presentations at thematic conferences, and side events at development conferences among others.
• Efficient partner sub granting based on robust project designs, planning and evaluation procedures using Christian Aid’s systems.
• Compliance with Christian Aid’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policies
• Strong in proposal writing, networking, and flexible working.
• Decisions on programme work in the country informed by Christian Aid’s strategic focus areas.
• Strong linkages between partner work and advocacy, communications, and fundraising roles within the UK. This role will include fund raising.
• Modelling key behaviours of self-leadership, teamwork, integrity, and decisiveness in realizing the Christian Aid Kenya business model and strategy

About you

• Candidates should have Undergraduate qualification in the Social Science or equivalent from a recognized university. Specialized qualification in emergency and/or development work is highly preferred.
• They are expected to have at least three years of humanitarian response experience with an international organization and possess excellent knowledge of humanitarian issues, policies, principles and standards, major global actors, and humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
• The role also requires fluency in English knowledge and proven experience of Project Cycle Management and monitoring, evaluation and learning methodologies.