Job Opportunities at Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI)

Key Responsibilities

• Ongoing and actively technical oversight of all BRICS supported projects, to identify any challenges, delays, opportunities for collaboration and/or technical support, as well as to ensure the timely and qualitative delivery of contract deliverables
• Recruitment, training and management of all BRICS field monitors engaged on the day-to-day support and oversight of BRICS implementation activities and environmental scanning
• Active contribution to, leadership and mentoring role in new project designs, including the development of project theories of change, evidence-gathering plans, scopes of work and contract deliverables
• Maintaining BRICS team members abreast of technical project developments, verbally and through brief communication briefs and project highlights
• Generation of concise, analytical and reader friendly learning outputs
• Promotion of a culture of open and collaborative relations among all BRICS partners, and close-collaboration with IU Senior Network Learning Manager

Requirements

• Substantial experience with grants management and technical oversight
• Experience with grant design and development
• Experience with results monitoring and compliance
• Experience with community-based programming
• Very strong English writing skills, including experience writing success stories
• Fluent Swahili speaker
• University degree
• Kenyan citizenship

Strongly Desirable

• Fluent Somali speaker
• Substantial experience with Milestone/deliverable based grants
• Experience with data-base management (especially OTI, TAMIS)
• Team management and team-capacity building experience
• Experience with evidence-based programming
• Experience working in other East African countries (especially Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia)
• Master’s degree in social sciences

Desirable

• Experience working in PVE/CVE
• Experience with youth-focused projects
• Experience working in Kenyan coastal and North Eastern regions and/or Somalia

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You will have excellent communication and facilitation skills and be committed to creating an enabling environment for learning and experience sharing between different organisations and leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Acting as the BRICS Implementation Unit point person, working throughout in close collaboration with the Regional Research Unit Learning Manager
• Actively contributing to the BRICS-wide learning strategy and its ongoing integration into the design of future projects
• Building the capacity of BRICS partners to reflect and act in response to CVE-related evidence generated either through their own projects or others
• Leading the design of BRICS partner learning events, in close-collaboration with the RRU Learning Manager
• Actively promoting a culture of open and collaborative relations among BRICS partners
• Generating concise, analytical and reader friendly learning outputs

Requirements

• Direct experience with CSO capacity-building specifically focused on learning (as opposed to institutional capacity building)
• Extensive experience in CSO training and design experience specifically focused on learning (not M&E)
• Exceptional English writing skills (writing samples will be required and possibly writing tests)
• Experience generating concise learning outputs (such as success stories)
• Fluent Swahili speaker
• University degree
• Kenyan citizenship

Strongly Desirable

• Current Learning Manager with demonstrated experience in all areas of responsibility described above
• Experience working in other East African countries with civil society and/or government partners (especially Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia)
• Experience with evidence-based programming
• Master’s degree in social sciences

Desirable

• Experience working in PVE/CVE
• Experience with youth-focused projects
• Experience with proposal development
• Experience with Monitoring and Evaluation
• Somali speaker