Job Opportunities at Generation

Job purpose:

• The primary role of this position is to lead Generation Kenya’s efforts to generate revenue and secure funding from donors, foundations, corporations, and government entities in order to maximize the organization’s impact including developing and sustaining high-level funder and government relationships. He/she will be responsible for developing and implementing fundraising strategies and initiatives that align with the organization’s mission, vision, and values. The role holder will also be responsible for overseeing grant management. This includes but is not limited to timely high-quality report writing aligned with donor requirements and ensuring key grant management systems, processes and policies are in place / updated.
• Overall, the Head of Fundraising and Partnerships plays a critical role in ensuring the financial sustainability of GPK, and in supporting the organization’s mission to make a positive impact on society.

Reporting to: CEO

Location: Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to counties

Type of position: SMT

INTERESTED candidates please submit your applications to genkcareers@generation.org attaching your latest resume and application. The deadline for submissions is 12th May 2023. Kindly indicate in the Email subject: Head of Fundraising and Partnerships. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL YOU'LL NEED:
Knowledge, Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Marketing, Business Administration, social sciences, Non-profit Management, or Communications is preferred. A master’s degree in a relevant field would be an advantage.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in fundraising and stakeholder management.
• A strong understanding of partnerships, funding and grant compliance and requirements of various public and private donors (corporate donors, private foundations, foreign governments, multilateral and international non-governmental organizations).
• At least five years of fundraising experience in a non-profit organization or a similar environment is usually required.
• This experience should include managing major grants, creating and implementing successful fundraising strategies and writing successful grant proposals.
• In-depth knowledge of various fundraising strategies and techniques, such as major grant fundraising and grant writing.
• Have a deep understanding of partnerships and collaborations with organizations, individuals, and corporations.
• This includes identifying potential partners, developing partnerships, and building and maintaining relationships.
• Communication skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as strong writing skills.
• Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to motivate and manage a team, as well as to work collaboratively with other departments within the organization.
• Strong analytical skills to assess the effectiveness of fundraising strategies, analyzing donor data, and making informed decisions about fundraising initiatives.
• Proficiency in using fundraising and donor management software, social media platforms, and other online tools.

Skills And Abilities

• Excellent project management and organizational skills, and extensive experience strategizing and planning.
• Embody values and understand the future challenges and opportunities for youth empowerment and is passionate about creating an impact in Kenya’s employment ecosystem.
• Experience in youth development is desirable.
• Ability to explain complex ideas in easily accessible ways tailored to different audiences.
• Be adaptable/flexible in order to respond to a fast-changing environment.
• Strong project management skills.
• Proactive and able to make decisions based on business metrics and data.

Personal Qualities

• Self-starter with confidence and ability to drive things with minimal oversight.
• Strong leadership skills, executive disposition, and commitment to working as a team – ability to take a cooperative and problem-solving approach.
• Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholder, including civil society organizations, national and county governments bodies and officials and international funders.
• Commitment to respect and value equality and diversity and understanding of how this applies to own area of work.
• Commitment to own continuing personal and professional development.
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity and aligned with Generation vision, mission, and values.

Other requirements

• Ability to travel frequently within Kenya, and potential occasional travel in the region and internationally.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Fundraising

• Developing and implementing a comprehensive fundraising plan that incorporates diverse multi-year fundraising streams. This would include but not limited to bilateral and multilateral organizations as well as corporate partnerships.
• Leading the writing of proposals and key fundraising documentation.
• Identifying and cultivating relationships with potential donors and partners whose interest align with Generation Kenya. This includes maintaining ongoing communication and engagement with both current and high-potential funding partners.
• Leading and supervising the partnerships team by providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help them achieve Generation Kenya’s fundraising targets.
• Collaborating with other local and global Generation colleagues such as marketing, communications, partnerships, business development & innovation, finance and risk to ensure that fundraising efforts are aligned with organizational goals and messaging.
• Monitoring and analyzing fundraising data and performance metrics and using this information to make informed decisions about fundraising strategies and tactics.
• Developing and managing budgets for fundraising activities and ensuring that resources are allocated effectively to maximize return on investment.
• Stakeholder Management
• Identify stakeholders who are critical to Generation Kenya’s mission and goals. These include, but are not limited to, youth beneficiaries, government agencies, and other NGOs.
• Develop a stakeholder engagement strategy to engage with these stakeholders. This could include regular meetings, communication strategies, and other forms of engagement.
• Build relationships with stakeholders, which involves gaining their trust and confidence. This could involve building connections with key individuals, demonstrating your commitment to the organization’s mission, and providing regular updates on the organization’s activities.
• Monitor stakeholder sentiment to understand how they feel about the organization and its activities. This could involve gathering feedback through surveys, focus groups, or other methods, and using this information to make improvements or changes to the organization’s strategy.
• Manage conflicts between different stakeholders. This could involve identifying common ground, negotiating solutions, and communicating effectively to ensure all stakeholders feel heard and valued.
• Represent Generation Kenya at key convenings. It is important to represent the organization in a professional manner and to communicate effectively to build positive relationships with stakeholders.

Grant Management

• Oversee the design and execution of an institutional grant management system to manage and support the donor requirements.
• Oversee the reporting to ensure quality reports are submitted to funders and other key stakeholders in a timely manner.
• In liaison with the FM, analyse budget trends and make recommendations for cost control and reduction for various grants.
• Continuous Improvement and Team Management
• Problem-solving key fundraising and partnership management with relevant functions to ensure successful achievement of organizational goals.
• Support the professional growth of the fundraising and partnership team.
   

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Job purpose:

• The primary responsibility of this role is to support the organization in managing internal and external communications strategy, write and disseminate publicity material, respond to inquiries from the public and media, and coordinate promotional events.

Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Location: Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to counties
Type of position: Functional Lead
Contract Term: One year renewable
Role Overview:

• The Communications Manager role is a contractual full-time managerial role, which will report to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This is a critical position for leading Generation Programme Kenya’s (GPK or Generation Kenya) efforts in promoting the organization’s brand, mission, vision and values. H/she will be responsible for creating communications materials (that includes but not limited to marketing and advertising materials) through a variety of means, including press releases, websites, blogs, brochures and among other relevant promotional items. H/she will also produce materials to be used at relevant conferences such as PowerPoint presentations, hand out fliers and brochures. H/she could also be called upon to present at key events to help promote GPK’s brand awareness.
• As a key member of the organization’s management team, the position holder will be involved in working alongside other members of the management team to support the achievement of organizational strategic goals and contribute to the scale up of team efforts and results, including the successful launch of new programs, locations (i.e., counties) and relevant strategic partnerships (e.g., with government, learners, alumni and employers).
• The Communications Manager will also be instrumental in creating materials that would be used to attract funding from targeted donors. The job description below outlines a broad scope of responsibilities. These may be subject to change based internal and external factors that may impact GPK’s work.
• INTERESTED candidates please submit your applications to genkcareers@generation.org attaching your latest resume and application. The deadline for submissions is 12th May 2023. Kindly indicate in the Email subject: Communications Manager. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL YOU'LL NEED:
Knowledge, Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism or related field.
• A minimum of five (5) years’ relevant — hands-on — professional experience in a communications role.
• Embody values and understand the future challenges and opportunities for youth empowerment and is passionate about creating an impact in Kenya’s employment ecosystem.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven track record writing press releases, developing blog content and creating social media posts in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in developing and executing communication strategies across multiple channels.
• Comprehensive knowledge of content management systems, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), and social media platforms.

Skills And Abilities

• Excellent oral/presentation skills.
• Strong teamwork orientation, with an ability to lead and work effectively with a range of media partners and colleagues.
• Strategic and innovative with an ability to identify ways to improve communication efforts and sell the vision of Generation.
• Ability to explain complex ideas in easily accessible way tailored to different audiences.
• Be adaptable/flexible in order to respond to a fast-changing environment.
• Strong project planning and management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Required Competencies and Mindsets

• Excited by the idea of working in a fast-moving environment, balancing the opportunity to engage in a wide range of work with the necessary adaptability and flexibility to do so.
• Passion for working in a mission-driven environment.
• Proactive collaborator, willing to propose solutions and ideas to challenges based on expertise, debate their merits, and make final recommendations.
• Self-reflective and open to receiving and giving frequent feedback.
• A positive, solutions-oriented attitude, drive for excellence, and ability to be a team player.
• A strong sense of ownership (takes personal responsibility for meeting objectives) and timeliness.
• Ability to comfortably navigate new technologies.
• High level of attention to detail and interactions.

Personal Qualities

• Resourceful Self-starter with confidence and ability to drive things with minimal oversight.
• Ability to think strategically and identify ways to improve communication efforts.
• Commitment to respect and value equality and diversity and understanding of how this applies to own area of work.
• Ability to develop and maintain positive relationship with a wide range of media stakeholder.
• Commitment to own continuing personal and professional development.
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity and aligned with Generation vision, mission, and values.

Other requirements

• Ability to travel frequently within Kenya, and potential occasional travel in the counties.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Ensuring Generation Kenya presents a consistent brand and engaging content to its targeted audiences, specifically young people aged 18 – 35 years, employers, government, development partners and other identified key partners. You will spotlight and amplify the great work being done by Generation Kenya to support unemployed and underemployed young people. Activities will include media relations, campaign management, social media, content creation (including writing, editing, design) and general marketing initiatives.

General responsibilities

• Developing and implementing communication strategies to promote the organization’s mission and vision.
• Delivering marketing activities and communications campaigns to engage key stakeholders (including donors, employers, students and government organizations) and monitoring their success.
• Conducting research and analyzing data to measure the effectiveness of communication strategies and make recommendations for improvement. ▪ Writing, editing and managing content for a range of communication channels, including newsletters, press releases, website copy, social media posts, and other marketing materials. This will include but not limited to developing and /or revisions of pitch documents (in MS Word, PPT, etc.,) to support fundraising efforts.
• Planning and executing events and campaigns to raise awareness of the organization’s work — internally and externally.
• Review, update and create awareness on GPK’s brand guidelines. This includes but is not limited to ensuring consistency in communications materials across all functions and programmes within Generation as per GPK’s brand guidelines.
• Proactively engage with the global communications team to contribute to global communications efforts.
• Responsible for building a stories and content repository (both written and visual) from the different stakeholders (ie, alumni, employers, funders to feed current and future external communications). This repository will need to be well organized and catalogued for easy access and use by colleagues.

External communications

• Proactively managing press relations and creating informative, creative and interesting press releases, press kits, newsletters & related marketing material. This could include reaching out to influencers, media and beyond in order to arrange story placement on a national and global level.
• Managing and writing of copy and content for a range of media including print and digital
• Developing an effective digital marketing strategy.
• Managing social media channels for Generation across a range of channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn), working with relevant functions like the Learner and Alumni Engagement, BD and Operations in developing and testing content to increase reach.
• Represent the organization at events and press conferences
• Supporting in external communication via taking queries and giving correct information, through the official Generation Programme Kenya phone line.

Internal communications

• Create internal communications protocols and initiatives that will foster employee morale.
• Plan, design and disseminate relevant communications trainings for staff. This includes but not limited to media training for staff who will participate in media events, etc.
• Managing the bulk messaging function in ensuring accurate and consistent messaging, where needed.
• Any other responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Key Working Relationships

• Media Relationships — collaborate with while maintaining strategic media partnerships and advocate for Education-to-Employment promoting support for Generation Kenya’s work.
• Kenya & Global Partnership Team — support and advice the CEO on global and local Communication strategy development and implementation.
• Generation Kenya Program Team — in liaison with the CEO, regularly engage, advice and support internal teams in Generation Programme Kenya as the communications advisor, on best practice in communications to ensure delivery of high quality and timely information dissemination and management.