Career Opportunities at Tear Fund International

The successful applicant will take on responsibility to provide technical support in CTP, including working alongside partner organisations and Tearfund operational teams in needs assessments, strategic planning, the drafting of proposals, donor reporting, training, rolling out procedures and guidelines, and strengthening monitoring, evaluation and accountability. To be considered for the role, you will be able to demonstrate significant experience in CTP, preferably within the region or at least in a similar context.

In addition to this this role will support each country programme to develop their contingency planning, including training and close accompaniment, and to feed this planning into their own country strategies and the broader response strategy appropriately.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and interested individual who has good understanding of and experience in the Humanitarian sector, who can effectively influence and negotiate and who can work well in a diverse team.

The successful post holder will also contribute more broadly to provide strategic guidance to the organisation by building evidence, embedding learning, engaging in regional innovation in sectoral thinking and applying this to different contexts in the region. The role will facilitate good practice to ensure Tearfund’s work builds the resilience of the most marginalised and vulnerable in line with Tearfund’s own Quality Standards .

Applicants require strong English language skills (written and spoken).

All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.

This is a fixed term position for 2 years.

Location: The position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya with significant travel within the East African region (South Sudan, Somaliland, Kenya and Ethiopia). Applicants must be able to provide proof of the right to live and work in Kenya.

Salary: Tearfund offer a nationally market matched salary and benefits package at 3,174,744 KES per annum. There are no expatriate benefits offered with this position.

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Building effective humanitarian response capacity

Your major focus will be working closely with our country teams to improve the humanitarian response capacity of our Tearfund staff and partners. This will involve capacity assessments, and providing training and accompaniment to partners on good practice and Quality Standards, including CHS.

Deployment to support responses

The role will involve supporting partner-led to the crisis, to undertake assessments, guide and advise partners, help develop project design, and support monitoring and reporting, developing preparedness and contingency plans. You will work closely with UK and country based teams to assist with developing compelling funding proposals, and provide information to assist supporter communications and media releases.

Contributing to learning

You will make a valuable contribution to Tearfund’s learning culture, participating in evaluations, coordinating and facilitating learning reviews, ensuring learning on humanitarian good practice is disseminated and applied.

Regional representation

Your role will also include some representation to external networks and humanitarian funding sources, INGO/NGO coordination groups and providing support in developing partner consortiums.

You will be educated to degree-level or equivalent and have proven and substantive field-based experience in a disaster management, with a thorough understanding of relevant good practice codes and standards and relevant sectoral experience (primarily WASH and Food Security and Livelihoods). You will have strong creative capacity building and training skills, and have a proven track record in project cycle management, effective support management (Finance, Logistics), capacity building staff and partner organisations, and successful proposal development.

You will be a strong team player, able to influence and bring others along with you in critical settings. You will be accustomed to working unsupervised and responding to tight deadlines.

Applicants require strong English language skills (written and spoken). All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.

This is a fixed term contract for 2 years.

Location: The position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya with significant travel (at least 60%) within the East African region (mainly Somaliland, Kenya and Ethiopia). Applicants must be able to provide proof of the right to live and work in Kenya.

Salary: Tearfund offers a nationally market matched salary and benefits package at 3,174,744 KES per annum. There are no expatriate benefits offered with this position.