Job Title: Program Manager-2 positions
Duty Station: Kenya-Busia & Tanzania-Musoma
Background
Our client is a Dutch international organization that promotes children’s rights in Africa and Asia. It aims to contribute to a world of confident children and youth who can enjoy their childhood and are able to further develop themselves.
We see our role as informing duty bearers about child rights and strengthening their capacity to design and implement programs that are in the best interest of the child.
Our client subscribes to a Civic Driven approach to development where citizens and civic organizations are owners of the development process. In this approach, individuals take control and address the problems in their own communities, and eventually become agents of their own development.
The role of the organization is to serve local communities by acting as a co-creator of processes that stimulate Civic Driven Change.
Our client’s Africa regional office works through its Regional Office in Nairobi and it’s Field Offices in Western Kenya and Northern Tanzania and through partner organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia.
The organization is transitioning from its current 4-year Change for Children Programme (with programmes in child protection, sustainable livelihood and Child Rights in School Improvement Plans) to its new 5-year Together 4 Change Programme (with programmes in child protection, Sociual Business Development and Civic Driven Change for Child Wellbeing).
Simultaneously, their Tanzania office is phasing out from Meatu District in Shinyanga, to Mara region (Musoma Rural, Roriya and District).
Job Summary
Under the overall guidance of the Regional Coordinator Child Protection, you will be responsible for the portfolio of child protection programmes in Tanzania.
You will provide technical advice and support to our client’s programmes in Civic Driven Change and Social Business Development and will manage our relation with partners in child protection.
As such, you are expected to travel extensively between our client programme areas and to those of our child protection partners, as you identify opportunities for and facilitate linking and learning between child protection partners. You will translate these experiences into lessons learned, and support the Regional Coordinator Child Protection in the development of effective child rights programmes.
Supported by the Regional PM&E Coordinator, the Programme Manager will be responsible for data collection, information management and reporting of all programme interventions in the Mara Region.
Field Office and coordinate related. In this capacity, the Programme Manager will train other staff in the area of Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, and coordinate all related data collection, analysis and reporting across the programmes.
Specific Task Areas
Policy and strategy development
Duty Station: Kenya-Busia & Tanzania-Musoma
Background
Our client is a Dutch international organization that promotes children’s rights in Africa and Asia. It aims to contribute to a world of confident children and youth who can enjoy their childhood and are able to further develop themselves.
We see our role as informing duty bearers about child rights and strengthening their capacity to design and implement programs that are in the best interest of the child.
Our client subscribes to a Civic Driven approach to development where citizens and civic organizations are owners of the development process. In this approach, individuals take control and address the problems in their own communities, and eventually become agents of their own development.
The role of the organization is to serve local communities by acting as a co-creator of processes that stimulate Civic Driven Change.
Our client’s Africa regional office works through its Regional Office in Nairobi and it’s Field Offices in Western Kenya and Northern Tanzania and through partner organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia.
The organization is transitioning from its current 4-year Change for Children Programme (with programmes in child protection, sustainable livelihood and Child Rights in School Improvement Plans) to its new 5-year Together 4 Change Programme (with programmes in child protection, Sociual Business Development and Civic Driven Change for Child Wellbeing).
Simultaneously, their Tanzania office is phasing out from Meatu District in Shinyanga, to Mara region (Musoma Rural, Roriya and District).
Job Summary
Under the overall guidance of the Regional Coordinator Child Protection, you will be responsible for the portfolio of child protection programmes in Tanzania.
You will provide technical advice and support to our client’s programmes in Civic Driven Change and Social Business Development and will manage our relation with partners in child protection.
As such, you are expected to travel extensively between our client programme areas and to those of our child protection partners, as you identify opportunities for and facilitate linking and learning between child protection partners. You will translate these experiences into lessons learned, and support the Regional Coordinator Child Protection in the development of effective child rights programmes.
Supported by the Regional PM&E Coordinator, the Programme Manager will be responsible for data collection, information management and reporting of all programme interventions in the Mara Region.
Field Office and coordinate related. In this capacity, the Programme Manager will train other staff in the area of Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, and coordinate all related data collection, analysis and reporting across the programmes.
Specific Task Areas
Policy and strategy development
- Participate in the development and implementation of our client’s child protection policies, strategies and programs through sharing child protection experiences from programme office and child protection partners
- Translate child protection strategies and policies for understanding and implementation by the project officers and child protection partners
- Critically analyze and consolidate information from different child protection programmes to sieve best and worst practices
- At national level, carry out policy analysis around child protection to identify gaps and opportunities for advocacy
- Conduct and /or facilitate evidence based research in child protection, rapid assessments and situational analysis to bridge information needs.
Information building and technical Support
- Advice on operational implementation of child protection projects in the CDC and child protection programme
- Organizing regular exposure visits for civic actors in the CDC programme and child protection partners to organizations with relevance experience
- Play a central role in developing implementation mechanisms/instruments ( curriculum’s, tools for data collection and M&E in relation to child protection)
- Establish partnerships with expert organizations and facilitate linkages with CDC programme actors and child protection partners
- Generate, document and disseminate the results of child protection policy and programme work, capturing new knowledge and learning
Partnership management
- Ensure that in all matters of programmatic and financial nature, that excellent and transparent documents are maintained and proper procedures followed to comply at all times with the requirements of the partnership policy, memorandums of understanding and contracts
- Analyze proposals, work plans and budgets of child protection partners and ensure that all planned projects represent priorities that have been endorsed by our client’s regional office in Africa.
- Create structured opportunities to encourage learning from partners and identify case study themes / issues from project experience for analysis, dialogue and possible formulation into emerging best practice and policy.
Advocacy and Networking
- Identify and develop systematic contacts with likeminded organizations, government ministries and nongovernmental organizations in Kenya for learning and sharing
- Represent the organization effectively in different forums at district, provincial and national levels
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Develop the overall PME framework for Tanzania which should include annual reviews, participatory impact assessments, process/operations monitoring and linking & learning forums
- Together with the programme officer CDC, take a lead in guiding project staff and partners in implementing the monitoring plan/framework and the use of the information in improving programme implementation as well as reporting progress against the annual work plans
- Take lead in guiding the CDC project officers and partners in the development of work plans and progress reports (Annual, quarterly, monthly). Together, analyse these reports in terms of problems and actions needed.
- Together with the programme officer CDC provide quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme; and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate technical and specialist standards
- Liaise closely with the Regional M&E Coordinator on the various PME components to strengthen feedback and information sharing mechanisms
- Chair and guide the M&E task force in Tanzania
Knowledge, Qualification Skills and Core competencies
- University degree in social development, public health, development studies or related fields
- Practical and theoretical knowledge of participatory approach in development work
- Five years of experience in managing child protection programmes with national and international agencies
- Proven experience in partner management
- Proven experience in working with Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation systems
- Proven experience in the facilitation of workshops and participatory transfer of knowledge and skills
- Ability to conceptualize, strategize and coordinate implementation of programmes
- Critical understanding of children protection issues from a child rights perspective
- System-thinker, capable of putting in place information management tools that can be applied by all levels in the organization
- Computer literate ( MS Office programmes, Internet )
- Flexibility to adjust work schedules and priorities to meet deadlines, juggle multiple assignments, and work in a dynamic environment
- Excellent verbal and written English; superior writing skills and ability to prepare reports and other documents
- Ability to motivate and guide staff particularly in non line-management relationships.
- Highly organized.
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees by close of business 24th June 2010.
Adept Systems
Management Consultants
P.O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
Web: www.adeptsys.biz
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