Jobs at World Vision Kenya

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide strategic leadership and oversight in the implementation of “Restoring Land and Livelihoods across East & Southern Africa’s Savannah” program that is supported by Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA) Program across Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania. World Vision Kenya serves as the Lead Implementation Organisation (LIO) and works in partnership with Just Digit, Africa Harvest, Greenbelt Movement, ICRAF, Self Help Africa, CoAKe, private sector institutions and respective County Governments to support communities living in the four ASAL counties of Elgeyo Marakwet, Narok, Kwale and Tana River Counties in Kenya.
• The job holder will manage the large and complex project
• Ensuring effective systems and processes are in place to support high-quality programming that will guarantee the achievement of project outcomes, management of risks and identification and sharing of best practices and learning from the Program.

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Key Responsibilities:

Project Planning and Implementation

• Ensure that business processes, standards and guidelines related to women economic empowerment initiatives are effectively applied on a timely manner in project implementation including integration of cross cutting themes,
• Participate in the preparation of overall and activity work plans and budgets (annual, quarterly, monthly & weekly) for the project specific activities,
• Collaborate with relevant ministries and other relevant partners at the County and community levels to ensure integration and high-level implementation of the planned activities
• Be able to systemically review DIP/budget and other key implementation tools as well as initiate innovative approaches that will open new opportunities for project success
• Conduct continuous activity and budget analysis to ensure adherence to the approved work, budget and procurement plans.
• Make technical input into the planning and design of project specific operational researches, including baseline and end line evaluation and other relevant project assessments

Technical support

• Take lead and provide technical support and timely implementation of the project activities
• Collaborate with the local administration to conduct community mobilization and awareness sessions on project initiatives including savings
• Work with the departments of social development and cooperative and local leaders to determine the groups to participate in the project
• Facilitate gender sensitive value chain analysis and support selected value chain development
• Support establishment/strengthening common interest groups, and coordinate economic empowerment activities within the groups.
• Support creation/strengthening of Savings for Transformation groups (S4T) for enhanced financial inclusion
• Collaborate with the county department of cooperative development to map out microfinance institutions and facilitate linkages with the saving groups
• Partner with formal/informal service providers to build the groups’ capacity on entrepreneurship, financial literacy, business planning and group governance & leadership
• Partner with target schools’ administration to facilitate establishment of enterprise clubs in primary school for savings & income generation and equip adolescents with entrepreneurial skills
• Support viable and sustainable IGAs identified by men, women and the youth in the target area
• Support entrepreneurs trained and mentored on financial literacy
• Facilitate adoption of best practice/approaches/models in the course of the implementation of the project.
• Identify other opportunities in an ongoing manner that will add value to the overarching goal of the project.
• Facilitate community mindset processes as a foundation to project sustainability
• Ensure child safeguarding and integration of Child Sponsorship Management and in Economic Empowerment interventions where relevant.

Quality Assurance - M &E, Reporting and Documentation

• Register, track and regularly update beneficiaries’ database
• Ensure monthly S4T groups monitoring and progress update on the MIS platform
• Development of Project Designs and Annual Operation Plans. (4D matrices, DIPs, Annual Budgets) and ensure budgetary utilization is within acceptable limits/range.
• Contextualize and use reporting guidelines to track and develop quality, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual and end of projects reports, key lessons and success stories in accordance with the guidelines and standardized tools.
• Develop monitoring plan with communities and partners agreeing on the required standards for monitoring, with support from the DMEAL specialist.
• Conduct regular group monitoring, data collection and analysis in coordination with the relevant stakeholders
• Facilitate regular review and peer to peer learning meetings with government, target communities and relevant stakeholders
• Facilitate documentation of lessons and project impact to facilitate adoption in the course of the project implementation
• Support project assessment and learning processes including baseline surveys, midterm reviews and end of project evaluation. 
• Supervise and monitor project interventions in strict adherence to WV Kenya, Kenya government regulations and other agreed standards.
• Ensure project data is captured, validated and updated on horizon and or any other approved World Vison Kenya (WVK) DM&E system.
• Ensure quality Monthly, Quarterly, Semi- Annual and Annual reports prepared and submitted on timely basis
• Identify and document best practices and successes of approaches & models as a result of economic empowerment interventions

Capacity building

• Mobilize and sensitize community for empowerment and sustainability
• Build capacity of community resource persons (Village agents) to spearhead S4T activities
• Ensure capacity building of women groups on S4T, entrepreneurial skills, market and financial services access, production and business planning.
• Work together with other stakeholders to ensure that key trainings meet the standard required to facilitate, provide knowledge and required skills set on economic empowerment initiatives and practices.

Advocacy, Engagement, Partnership and Networking

• Ensure representation of WV Kenya in key stakeholder forum/meetings at the County level.
• Actively participate in County level technical working groups and relevant to policy forums.
• Ensure communities are mobilized and participate in the project interventions
• Facilitate strategic partnership with Vision Fund Kenya (VFK) to ensure women receive financial literacy training/embedded education training and business loans
• Forge strategic collaborations with financial service providers including VFK, other MFIs, banks, government funds to ensure Savings groups members access financial services including business capital. insurance, asset financing and other selected products
• Partner with formal financial service providers to facilitate financial literacy, business planning and group governance & leadership trainings for S4T groups
• Together with partners, conduct regular reflection and learning sessions
• Work with community groups to utilize advocacy approaches such as Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) to enable service users and local partners to engage directly with local government service providers to improve the quality of government services for children and to generate information and evidence for use in national level advocacy work.

Other duties

• Perform any other duty as may be assigned by supervisor or designee from time to time.
• Participate and contribute in committees and task forces which you may be appointed to
• Participate and lead devotions as appropriate

Knowledge, Skills & Qualification

• Minimum two years of work experience in economic empowerment, entrepreneurship and related sectors including gender mainstreaming in Livelihood and economic development projects. Experience in implementing multi-sectoral projects will be an added advantage. 
• Experience in Project Management including program design, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and reporting
• Knowledge of and experience working with the Government and community structures  
• Experience in implementation of integrated development programs with a focus on economic empowerment
• Ability to conduct community economic empowerment needs assessment, program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic empowerment and entrepreneurial interventions
• Must have ability to develop good working relationships/partnership developed with all stakeholders (GoK, INGOs)
• Excellent communication, Networking and advocacy skills
• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree in Agriculture/Agri-business/Agricultural Economics/Entrepreneurship/business studies or Any other related discipline from a recognized university/institution. 
• Experience in women empowerment projects, GALs and SAA methodology is an added advantage
• Excellent English communication skills (both oral and written).
• A team player, capable of building staff and community capacity in entrepreneurship sector through training.
• Ability to take initiative, a team leader able to work with minimum supervision
• Cross-cultural sensitivity and emotional maturity
• Must be a committed Christian who is able to stand above denominational diversity challenges
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts
• Good analytical and interpersonal skills
• Computer literacy particularly in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge on Gender and Social Inclusion with additional training or skills in gender mainstreaming/integration is desirable.

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Key Responsibilities:

Technical Support in Project Planning and Design

• Take lead in the design and implementation of a monitoring framework to track delivery against project objectives.
• Developing internal reporting schedules & templates, clarifying what level of information is needed and where, with key responsibilities assigned, and reviewing proposals, with a particular focus on checking log frames and ensuring indicators are SMART
• Review and update log frames, M&E Plans, Project indicators and periodic targets and detailed implementation plans.
• Support develop clear and implementable work break down structure for respective activities.
• Identify and document the project geographical coverage and produce a RS/GIS activity /Project map.
• Participating in the development of tools and guidelines for data collection, collation and reporting, with a focus on establishing Output and outcome Tracking, systemically checking data for quality, accuracy, and consistency, and providing feedback as necessary;
• Contribute to the design of MEAL methodology and child-focused indicators by the project team, and to the promotion of child participation in M&E planning and accountability.
• Provide support and participate in project design (assessments baseline surveys)

Project Assessment, Monitoring, Reporting & Evaluation

• Provide technical support in implementing/mainstreaming the project M&E system to the existing M&E system in WVK.
• Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance in carrying out baseline assessments, mid and end of project evaluations across the project location.
• Support development of ToR in collaboration with other project teams and identify specific data requirements
• Use process, output level quality benchmarks as reference to undertake field monitoring visits, focusing on programme quality aspects, discuss with relevant staff and share reports with relevant colleagues.
• Take charge of collating and analyzing data and synthesizing information, updating the monitoring matrix and other monitoring tools in place.
• Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Follow up with project teams on programme quality improvement action plans. Ensure action points are followed up and relevant measures taken and incorporated into programming.
• Designing situation analysis, needs and baseline/end line assessments, external reviews, evaluations and documentation, and identifying resources, including technical resources, both within WVI and externally.
• Support the implementation of processes to review the quality of existing project data, information collection methods and the suitability of the existing data for the provision of sound baseline information.
• Always ensure to store collected data securely as per policies relating to data protection for the project
• Disseminate all project information related to M&E to staff and partners
• Ensure Project alignment to the donors and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools
• Prepare and share high quality and timely routine project management reports (Monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually) as per donor requirements.
• Facilitate monthly Data Quality Assessments to ensure reliability of the data by verifying on source data documents and quality of the same.
• Manage beneficiary data base.

Learning, Documentation & Capacity Development 

• Ensure continuous learning and documentation of lessons learnt and best practices for program design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks related to emergency response.
• Coordinate the sharing of learning related to MEAL practices across projects and provide support when internal/external reviews, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises should be employed.
• Support the development of project case studies, human interest stories, documentaries and other related materials
• Organize/ project reflection & learning events to document lessons learnt, good practices and areas of improvement.
• Ensure that lessons learnt and reports are documented (printed, visual) and published for sharing with the donor and other partners and proactively share information and learning with internal and external stakeholders
• Develop capacity building plans and support WV and partners in building their capacity in M&E and in the management of information systems, development of required formats, key indicators, needs assessments, frameworks for evaluation, qualitative documentation of outcomes and impact of projects.

Database Management

• Provide MIS content/requirements and feedback to project team and document progress on indicators/achievement of targets using Indicator Tracking Tables (ITT)
• Support the development of systems and processes for the implementation of M&E policy and procedure based on WV best practice, developing frameworks to integrate impact assessment and learning and knowledge management into the programme and project cycle; 
• Plan tracking for Project indicators of strategic relevance from secondary and primary data, with partners and communities
• Maintain a tracking spreadsheet for M&E activities and events – baselines, assessments, reviews, evaluations – tracking trends and recommendations, progressing their implementation where appropriate.
• Compile, consolidate and analyze quantitative and qualitative project data and contribute into subsequent reporting through monthly MEAL reports, updates, successes and issues from the MEAL tracking tools. 
• Take lead in the analysis of data collected under the monitoring framework for assessment of progress and areas for improvement.
• Support remote sensing and GIS Mapping of Program activities, Outputs and Beneficiaries in all the Counties
• Ensure the appropriate use of information management systems in compliance with WV Kenya, GoK, and in line with partnership and donor agreements.

Engagement, Networking and Partnerships

• Maintain links with relevant stakeholders for collaboration, networking, resource sharing, material development and learning activities.
• Ensure WVK visibility and participation in M&E Technical working groups in the County

Others

• Perform any other duty assigned to you by the supervisor

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Must have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Social sciences, Monitoring and Evaluation or Project management, Statistics or related discipline from a recognized University.
• Minimum three years practical experience in M&E system coordination/ implementation in international non-governmental organization or other international relief/development body;
• Experience in working on donor funded programs is an added advantage.
• Excellent communication skills
• Networking and influencing skills
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Background of implementing effective M&E systems and/or accountability mechanisms
• Proven technical ability around M&E (i.e. experience in Data collection on the Open data kit plat form and other mobile based applications, ability to conduct data analysis and interpretation)
• Demonstrable track-record in data tracking and evaluation, with the ability to support staff and partners on M&E methodology and analyze and disseminate information to a range of stakeholder audiences internally and externally;
• Well-developed research, analytical (qualitative and quantitative), documentation, report-writing and strategic planning skills.
• Computer literacy, particularly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Working knowledge of data/statistical programmes e.g. SPSS, Stata etc
• Demonstrates personal integrity and trustworthiness
• Ability to conceptualize and put into practice well researched initiatives
• Demonstrated understanding of quality assurance systems, and continuous improvement, with particular emphasis on integration of accountability measures into all aspects of the project cycle;
• Empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice;
• Good team player, self-starter, has ability to work under minimum supervision and maintain good relationships;
• Commitment to WV Values, Mission and Vision
• Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to detail
• Facilitates appropriate information flow amongst staff
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in English, with experience working in multicultural, multi-location, values driven teams;
• Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills.