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  • Posted: Jan 27, 2017
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    Founded in 1969 as the Inner City Fund, ICF got its start as a venture capital firm with a mission to finance inner-city businesses in the Washington, D.C area of the United States. C.D. Lester, a former Tuskegee Airman, was our first president and was joined in the firm by three U.S. Department of Defense analysts. Our consulting business proved more succes...
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    Chief of Party

    Job Description:

    ICF seeks to recruit a number of key positions for an upcoming USAID-funded Strategic Information Technical Support activity in Kenya. The activity will support ongoing efforts by the national and county governments and other development partners to strengthen outcome measurements, learning, and accountability (MLA) systems in order to provide quality data and synthesized information for planning, implementation, policy development, and decision making. This activity will focus its support in yet to be defined counties with the project office based in one of the focal counties.

    It is envisioned that the project will address two sub-purposes:

    1) Increased leadership and management capacity of county governments for effective outcome MLA systems;

    2) Increased availability, analysis, and use of quality data.

    Qualifications

    Key Responsibilities:

    • The COP will be the primary liaison with the USAID project contracting officer and his or her representatives, responding to client needs within the limits of the agreement. Lead and manage the project team – providing the vision, coordination, resource management, and supervision required to accomplish project objectives and to deliver superior quality products.
    • S/he will ensure quality control and the overall responsiveness of technical assistance provided under the contract, including necessary adjustments to operations to fit the requirements of USAID.

    Basic Qualifications:

    • The COP must have at least a master’s degree preferably in Public Health, Business Management, Project Management, and Public Policy and Management and demonstrated experience in the field of health informatics, monitoring and evaluation.
    • The COP is expected to have the strategic vision, leadership qualities, depth and breadth of technical expertise and experience, professional reputation, extensive project management experience especially in public sector project management, interpersonal skills and written and oral presentation skills to fulfill the diverse technical and managerial requirements of the program description.
    • S/he will also have at least 10 – 15 years of experience in developing countries (preferably in Africa), at least 5 of which involve experience interacting with other donor government agencies, host country governments and international donor agencies. S/he must have prior experience managing similar public sector projects preferably in Kenya as manager. This position will be based in Nairobi.

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    Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor

    Job Description:

    ICF seeks to recruit a number of key positions for an upcoming USAID-funded Strategic Information Technical Support activity in Kenya. The activity will support ongoing efforts by the national and county governments and other development partners to strengthen outcome measurements, learning, and accountability (MLA) systems in order to provide quality data and synthesized information for planning, implementation, policy development, and decision making. This activity will focus its support in yet to be defined counties with the project office based in one of the focal counties.

    It is envisioned that the project will address two sub-purposes: 1) Increased leadership and management capacity of county governments for effective outcome MLA systems; 2) Increased availability, analysis, and use of quality data.

    Qualifications

    Key Responsibilities:

    • The M&E Advisor will support the development and strengthening of Monitoring and Evaluation System;
    • Support partnership and utilization of data to inform policy and strategies, facilitate and support the preparation, collation and dissemination of Health data;
    • Develop monitoring, evaluation and learning tools for the project as needed;
    • Develop an evaluation plan for  the program and maintain a program monitoring database;
    • Lead efforts to design and implement training to foster learning and informed decision making; manage all M&E activities related to reporting on all required indicators.
    • This includes measuring and tracking progress made toward achieving targets.
    • The M&E Advisor will also support the documentation of best practices and facilitate the use of such data to foster learning;
    • Contribute to the design and assist in managing program assessments and evaluations and promote a culture of evidence-based decision making.

    Basic Qualifications:

    • The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor must have an advanced degree in a relevant discipline, and applied skills in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluating activities, strong data analysis background especially in analyzing large and complex datasets.
    • S/he must have a firm command of M&E issues related to health systems strengthening that includes health informatics, and human and institutional capacity strengthening.
    • The M&E Advisor must have demonstrable analytical skills and experiences to identify and evaluate best practices and state-of-the-art approaches to be utilized by Activity.
    • Additionally, s/he must have strong writing and organizational skills for reporting on health systems strengthening outcomes.

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    Finance and Administration Manager

    Job Description:

    ICF seeks to recruit a number of key positions for an upcoming USAID-funded Strategic Information Technical Support activity in Kenya. The activity will support ongoing efforts by the national and county governments and other development partners to strengthen outcome measurements, learning, and accountability (MLA) systems in order to provide quality data and synthesized information for planning, implementation, policy development, and decision making. This activity will focus its support in yet to be defined counties with the project office based in one of the focal counties.

    It is envisioned that the project will address two sub-purposes:

    1) Increased leadership and management capacity of county governments for effective outcome MLA systems;

    2) Increased availability, analysis, and use of quality data.

    Qualifications

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Will be responsible for project finance, administration, and implementing the project in compliance with USAID and ICF company policies.
    • This includes management of staff on the operations team, project level and activity budgeting, oversight of local procurement and finance systems, project compliance and record maintenance.
    • It will require identifying of issues and risks related to program implementation in a timely manner, and suggest appropriate program adjustments.

    Basic Qualifications:

    • The Finance and Administration Manager must have an advanced degree in accounting, finance or business administration and applied skills indeveloping and managing large budgets.
    • S/he must have at least 7-10 years of experience in professional accounting or auditing, including at least 4 years’ experience working with international donor reporting, preferably USAID reporting requirements.
    • S/he must be proficient in relevantcomputer applications and databases, and must be organized, responsible, and concise to meet reporting requirements and deadlines.
    • The FAM should have demonstrable analytical, organizational, and written communication skills in English. This position should be based in Nairobi.

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    Deputy Chief of Party/Technical Director

    Job Description:

    ICF seeks to recruit a number of key positions for an upcoming USAID-funded Strategic Information Technical Support activity in Kenya. The activity will support ongoing efforts by the national and county governments and other development partners to strengthen outcome measurements, learning, and accountability (MLA) systems in order to provide quality data and synthesized information for planning, implementation, policy development, and decision making. This activity will focus its support in yet to be defined counties with the project office based in one of the focal counties.

    It is envisioned that the project will address two sub-purposes:

    1) Increased leadership and management capacity of county governments for effective outcome MLA systems;

    2) Increased availability, analysis, and use of quality data

    Qualifications

    Key Responsibilities:

    • The DCOP will also be the Project Technical Director with responsibilities for day-to-day project management and a secondary liaison with USAID.
    • S/he will support quality control and the overall responsiveness of technical assistance provided under the contract, including necessary adjustments to operations to fit the requirements of USAID. Support the design, quality, development and completion of assessments, analytical reports and evaluations.

    Basic Qualifications:

    • The DCOP/Technical Director must have at least a master’s degree in health informatics, public health, monitoring and evaluation or other social sciences related master’s degree relevant to the field health informatics, monitoring and evaluation.
    • S/he is expected to have strong leadership qualities, good depth and breadth of technical expertise and experience, strong management experience and excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
    • S/he must have at least 7 – 10 years’ experience in developing countries, and have experience working in the area of monitoring and evaluation at the national level.
    • S/he must have prior experience managing similar project or program. This position will be based in Nairobi.

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