Program Manager - Peace Building & Conflict Management
Job Ref: PK/PBCM/2011
Department: Peace and Development
Location: Nairobi, Dagorreti Corner
Job Purpose
Reporting to the head of Peace and DG, the Program Manager for Peace building and Conflict management will assist the Head of Programs and the KCSSP Chief of party in all programmatic and technical efforts for Kenya Civil Society Strengthening Program under the Peace Building component.
S/He will be responsible for overseeing design and implementation of the peace work across a range of areas, including policy advocacy, community peacebuilding, national coordination, conflict early warning and response, as well as management of a peace and development project in Mt Elgon.
S/He will provide strategic direction to the Peace building component, working closely with the other two components in Democracy and Governance and Natural Resource Management.
Responsibilities
Program Management
Job Ref: PK/PBCM/2011
Department: Peace and Development
Location: Nairobi, Dagorreti Corner
Job Purpose
Reporting to the head of Peace and DG, the Program Manager for Peace building and Conflict management will assist the Head of Programs and the KCSSP Chief of party in all programmatic and technical efforts for Kenya Civil Society Strengthening Program under the Peace Building component.
S/He will be responsible for overseeing design and implementation of the peace work across a range of areas, including policy advocacy, community peacebuilding, national coordination, conflict early warning and response, as well as management of a peace and development project in Mt Elgon.
S/He will provide strategic direction to the Peace building component, working closely with the other two components in Democracy and Governance and Natural Resource Management.
Responsibilities
Program Management
- Providing the overall supervision of the Peacebuilding component of KCSSP.
- Ensure that projects are designed in a timely manner and in response to the peacebuilding context in Kenya
- Coordinate conflict analysis and scoping efforts to inform project design
- Ensure that all Requests for Applications meet the agreed criteria as established by the KCSSP project description and that they are issued and assessed in a timely manner
- Enhance performance of KCSSPs early warning and response efforts under the targets of opportunity mechanism
- Provide oversight to the KCSSP supported peacebuilding advocacy efforts
- Supervision of staff working in the peacebuilding component
- Supervise KCSSPs peace and development project in Mt Elgon
Financial management
- Provide oversight in budget preparation and tracking
- Monitor partners project implementation as contained in grant agreements
- Work closely with the grants manager in providing up to date reports on partners performance to the project team
Advocacy
- Provide overall supervision to the National Peace policy advocacy process
- Provide specialist support to the monitoring of on national reforms in as far as they affect national healing and cohesion building
- Coordinate with the Program Manager democracy and governance in the monitoring of the national accord
Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge sharing
- Participate in setting program targets in line with overall strategic goal of the program
- Provide up to date reporting to the donor, USAID on all aspects of the program as described in the program description. Ensure that the peacebuilding components meet the generally agreed standards for Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning principles of KCSSP
- Participate actively in contributing to documentation of “success stories” and other anecdotal information to enhance the overall quality of performance reports to the donors
- Share information and lessons learnt with other program staff