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05 December 2022  

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, November 07, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
22-103 USAID Project Management Specialist (Education) - Education and Youth (EDY) Deputy Office Director

Statement of Duties to be Performed
Technical and Programmatic Leadership 35%
• The Specialist provides strategic direction for the Mission’s education and youth investments. The incumbent oversees planning, activity design, and activity implementation.
• Support the Office Director in providing technical education expertise, guidance, and overall direction of the development and execution of education related activities and priorities in Kenya, with particular emphasis on activities related to early grade reading, higher education and training, youth and workforce development, distance learning, girls’ development, and systems strengthening. Ensure technical direction supports the achievement of results and contributes to sustainable outcomes that increase local ownership and leadership.
• Provide programmatic leadership for all EDY staff on the basic education, youth, and YALI portfolios while actively crafting the strategic vision for programming alongside the Office Director.
• Provide Mission critical advice and guidance on difficult, highly specialized, and sensitive technical education and youth development issues that impact essential Mission programming and East Africa regional dynamics. This includes expert technical input and leadership in the design, negotiation, and work planning for all EDY activities including regional coordination across 8 USAID missions in East Africa on basic education programming as well as 14 USG missions on YALI programming.
• Coordinate across multiple sectors and offices to identify and leverage opportunities for youth engagement and other cross-sector collaboration.
• Ensure the Agency’s local works priorities underpin all capacity building activities, leading to sustainability for a wide array of stakeholders, including the Government of Kenya, beyond USAID assistance.
• Oversee and lead multiple Chiefs of Party with the ability to convene them to discuss technical issues relevant to the education and youth portfolio. Provide critical financial, technical and general programmatic oversight to ensure awards achieve anticipated results and are linked to USG and USAID/KEA objectives. This will also involve serving as an AOR and/or COR for one or more activities focusing on early grade reading across Kenya or the East Africa region to support USAID’s country, regional, and education specific objectives.
• Lead EDY in the development of the yearly operational plan, annual performance plan and report, and other quarterly reviews and plans. Provide input on the budget, schedules for allocation, obligation, and expenditures; portfolio reviews; evaluation planning and implementation; audits; communication and outreach activities; and other EDY, USAID/KEA, or USG efforts to ensure effective, cost-effective, and responsible programming and reporting in compliance with USG and USAID regulations and ethics standards.
• Apply USAID policies, judgment, and mastery of technical knowledge to strategically guide the EDY portfolio to achieve impact in the education and youth sector.
• Provide oversight to EDY staff on monitoring and evaluation, site visits, and annual review of work plans and progress reports to ensure compliance with USAID guidelines; analyze and report on results; and practice adaptive management to make programmatic adjustments when necessary and make recommendations to AORs/CORs to increase project impact and enhance sustainability.

Management and Supervision 35%
• The Specialist mentors and provides Mission critical leadership, technical assistance, and managerial support to individuals (junior, mid-level, and senior-level staff) within EDY.
• Maintain close working relationships with the interagency, U.S. Ambassador, senior USAID/KEA leadership, the EDY Office Director, and other EDY personnel, especially FSN staff under the Specialist’s supervision.
• Serve an integral role in the Mission’s senior staff and Mission Leadership Committee to help guide EDY’s implementation of USAID/KEA’s vision and strategy.
• Lead and/or assist in setting clear individual and teamwork objectives to ensure that staff members meet approved Mission critical goals and objectives.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to EDY staff to enhance capacity building and ensure accountability, transparency, and efficiency across Mission critical workstreams.
• Champion collaborating, learning, and adapting approaches within the team; engage the team in regular pause and reflect sessions for continuous assessment of team performance.
• Lead EDY’s contribution to organizational development goals/objectives; provide tools/resources, including guidance/coaching, to support the team in developing work objectives that contribute to USAID/KEA priorities.
• Assist the EDY Office Director in creating a supportive work environment that values diversity and inclusivity and elicits the highest possible level of performance from the team.

Stakeholder Relations and Representation 30%
• The Specialist facilitates key stakeholder relationships and identifies avenues to further meet and align USG foreign policy objectives with GOK and county government education objectives.
• Establish, strengthen, and maintain relationships at the highest levels of the GOK, including the Ministry of Education on issues related to the joint priorities outlined in the Education and Youth Implementation Letter, programming sustainability, fidelity of implementation, donor coordination, and public-private partnerships. Advocate to the Ministry of Education at the highest level to advance USG foreign policy objectives.
• Support EDY’s local engagement with 47 county governments including collaboration with USAID/KEA’s County liaison teams, providing guidance to EDY on relationship management, and identifying joint priorities.
• Liaise with donor partners in Kenya and East Africa including education donors to support multiple national, regional, and continental priorities from bilateral and multilateral organizations. This includes leveraging an array of funding sources from the aforementioned public sector and the private sector (global and local) actors.
• Communicate effectively and diplomatically with broad audiences in the education sector including international donors, non-governmental organizations, private sector, and youth networks. Special importance will be placed on the coordination of and relationship management with GOK and local county officials.
• Provide vital technical input and coordination to the national and county government on education priorities including, but not limited to, budgetary strategies, plans, and policies.
• Serve as a key advisor on education-related donor coordination activities and policy forums. Represent USAID with a wide range of stakeholders from the GOK at the national and county levels, academia, development partners as well as across the USG Mission in Kenya including the U.S. Ambassador, the State Department, Department of Defense, Center for Disease Control, and other USG agencies.
• Identify potential non-USG partners and develop relationships with private businesses, corporations, foundations, NGOs, and other traditional and non-traditional development organizations for the purpose of leveraging existing resources to sustain successful education and youth activities beyond the life of USAID awards. Connect county governments with private sector partners for collaboration and investment opportunities in support of education and youth activities that further a range of the Mission’s critical objectives.
• Represent USAID at meetings with USG, national/county level GOK, IPs, donors, local partners/beneficiaries.
• Present and deliver remarks to senior level audiences on USG related issues about education and youth programs to local, regional, and international audiences.
• Liaise with USAID and other USG agencies on strategic planning, management, and policy issues.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION
Any application that does not meet the minimum requirements stated below will not be evaluated.
• Education: A Master’s degree from an accredited university in international development, international education, education, or a related discipline.
• Prior Work Experience: Minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible leadership work experience in education, that includes relevant and practical professional work education experience at senior levels such as designing, managing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on development programs; leading policy discussions with senior government officials; coordinating donor and other development partner activities; collaborating across teams; engaging communities; and managing, motivating, coaching, and mentoring education/youth focused staff.
• Language Proficiency: Level IV English and Kiswahli for speaking, reading, and writing skills required. Ability to produce publishable quality written documentation and provide oral presentations to senior officials within the USG and host government as well as to internal and external audiences.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Associate Degree

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