Vacancies at World Vision Kenya

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership and management

• Responsible for the overall planning, implementation and management of the grants and Non-sponsorship (PNS) project as well as the achievement of the goals and objectives in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Ensure strong communication and coordinating with technical leads and other support functions for effective delivery
• Champion implementation and set high quality performance targets ensuring adherence to technical standards, WV regulations, best practices and donor guidelines.
• Design strategies, partnerships and interventions to guarantee the project is gender, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) sensitive
• Ensure WVK is accountable to beneficiaries, donors, government and other stakeholders.
• Primary point of contact and collaboration for the grant implementation team.
• Direct and oversee grant and PNS implementation; ensuring contribution to WVK strategy and donor commitments /promises through proper capacity building, proper staffing and quality assurance.

Donor Relations

• Represent the grants and PNS to respective donor meetings related to implementation.
• Ensure effective liaison with local government officials, local communities, donor representatives and other stakeholders as appropriate
• Constantly look for more effective and efficient implementation and opportunities to increase impact.
• Ensure timely communication with donors to ensure effective grant support

Resource mobilization and Engagement 

• Coordinate current donor engagement to attract repeat and extended funding
• Ensure effective implementation products including documentations, success stories to position for additional resources
• Liaise with resource acquisition team to contribute to potential growth areas for grants and PNSs

Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Lead an effective monitoring and reporting system for the grants and PNS
• Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems including schedules
• Coordinate timely, accurate and quality reports submission that meet donor requirements
• Document and disseminate project best practices, lessons learnt and success stories
• Establish a strong knowledge management function for the grants and PNS
• Coordinate regular data audits and quality assurance to enhance accountability and implementation fidelity

Budget Management

• Manage grant and PNS budgets within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors and World Vision.
• Ensure grant and PNS expenses are reasonable, allocated as per assigned budget, prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure low risk audits
• Ensure effective budget monitoring across grants for delivery on time and on budget

Risk and compliance

• Ensure risk management across the grants including risk assessments and process improvement plans
• Coordinate audit response and management plans for grants and PNS
• Ensure due diligence processes as per WV and donor requirements
• Ensure all compliance expectations across the grants and PNS are delivered
• Any other duties as assigned by supervisor or designee from time to time

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• Master’s degree in social sciences, management, business administration, or a related field
• 7 years of experience in a senior role leading a complex technical service delivery program of similar scope and dollar value.
• 5 years of demonstrated experience in partnership building, especially with government representatives, donors, the private sector, and local community organizations.
• Proven ability to manage diverse teams across different sectors
• Familiarity with multiple donor regulations including UN, foundations, Bilateral governments among others.
• Demonstrated accomplishment in working with professionals, ministries and with donor colleagues in country
• Past experience of working in multiple grant supported projects and knowledge of financial rules and regulations at a senior level.
• Experience in developing program work-plans, budgets, managing implementation, staff and short-term technical assistance.
• Excellent performance track record
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results and meet all donor deliverables.
• Excellent Oral and written communication skills,
• Excellent Relational skills
• Keen understanding of the unique political dynamics of the country and ability to work carefully and collaboratively to support the various political entities in Kenya

go to method of application »

Key Responsibilities:

Programmatic and technical Implementation for nutrition projects 

• Ensure all malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women are identified, admitted and discharged from IMAM programs as per national Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) guidelines
• Support the communities to identify Nutrition challenges and develop community lead solutions during implementation of REACTS-IN project
• Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health staff to be able to implement Nurturing care group and Men care models at both County and Sub County level.
• Work closely with community Health volunteers to mobilize communities to participate in nutrition project interventions
• Strengthening of community structures to ensure they receive appropriate health and nutrition services.
• Support Community health volunteers to conduct household nutrition counselling for project beneficiaries at community level.
• Ensure effective integration of gender, child protection, disability, Christian commitment and advocacy into nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions.
• Integration of nutrition into livelihood interventions to ensure food security at household level.
• In liaison with project accountant ensure monthly tracking of project expenditure and manage work plans and budgets.

Quality assurance for programmatic Designs, Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation processes

• Develop quality reports: weekly situation reports, monthly reports and quarterly reports as per WV and/donor(s) reporting guidelines
• In liaison with other project partners and MoH develop monitoring plan, analyze nutrition information from health information system and other sources to understand trends for timely decision making
• Document success stories, and best practices to demonstrate the impact created by WVK from the project implementation
• Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact and best practices.
• Work with M&E officer to develop ToRs for various activities that require external support and identify specific data requirements.
• Support MOH monitoring to ensure strengthened health systems and accurate reporting in the KHIS.
• Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Support the implementation of processes to ensure quality of existing project data, and information collection.
• Ensure the project is compliant to the Humanitarian accountability requirements.
• Ensure Project alignment to the donor requirements and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools.

Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships & Resource Acquisition 

• Represent WVK in nutrition stakeholder meetings county and/or sub-county levels.
• Participate in advocacy activities to ensure resource allocation to nutrition by county governments.
• Engaging with MoH at County & Sub-County level to influence resource allocation nutrition
• Identify potential areas for fundraising   and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels
• Identify potential areas for fundraising   and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels

Enhanced Empowerment, Documentation & Capacity Development  

• Ensure capacity Building of government officers, community members and CBOs to enable them effectively manage and sustain Health and Nutrition interventions.
• Conduct training and sensitization of health facility staff and Community Health Volunteers on Nurturing care, Men care, MIYCN, IMAM, PD Hearth and micronutrients supplementation.
• Support the Sub-County and County nutrition officers to conduct community Training and follow ups for community units.
• 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 offices 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.
• In collaboration with M&E officer document lessons learnt and reports (printed, visual) and published for sharing with the donor and other partners and proactively share information and learning with internal and external stakeholders.

Others 

• Attend and participate/ lead in daily devotions and weekly Chapel services.
• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• Must have a minimum of a Minimum of Bachelor degree in Nutrition, or the equivalent from a recognized University
• At least three years working experience of which two should be in maternal infant and young child nutrition and Nutrition Sensitive interventions.
• Good understanding of Ministry of health systems, Nutrition programming models, standards and guidelines, Ministries of Health structures at county and national levels
• Familiarity of national Health and Nutrition policy and advocacy instruments and structures
• First-hand experience in Health and Nutrition community resilience programming
• Significant experience working with an NGO environment, community and people’s groups, state institutions etc.
• Familiarity with gender inclusion in community interventions. Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills.
• High professional ethics and integrity
• Good Empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice;
• Computer literacy in MS office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Excellent team player with ability to work under minimum supervision
• Experience working in multicultural, multi-location, values driven teams;
• Experience in working on donor funded programs 
• Good understanding of Nutrition programming in emergency and developmental contexts