Essential Job Functions of the position

• Abide by Mary’s Meals Kenya (MMK) child Safeguarding Code of Conduct and sensitize schools, pupils, families, and communities supported by MMK about safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and the need to protect children rights in their activities.
• Collaborate with line managers, schools, and stakeholders to implement and adhere to MMK child safeguarding policy.
• Conduct weekly and impromptu monitoring visits to all assigned schools as per the checklist guidelines while documenting, communicating, and resolving deviations.
• Facilitate the delivery of school feeding programme supplies and equipment to supported schools and ensure maintenance and care of assets donated to these schools.
• Furnish the finance, logistics and procurement departments with records of food delivered to schools and provide a report on the quality of food delivered.
• Raise awareness and understanding of Mary’s Meals school feeding model amongst relevant host county and national government officers in a bid to promote support for the programme.
• Conduct trainings and continuous refresher courses, coaching and mentorship activities to program volunteers on the importance of data accuracy in a bid to have credible information.
• Apply available data management systems to collect, compile and report MEL data including stock balances, consumption rates and daily attendance records, Enrolment data, monitoring checklists, stakeholder information, demographic data among others.
• Collect, collate, compile and share food consumption rates and stock balances in a timely manner to ensure that proper food ratios are used and are aligned to Mary’s Meals feeding model and expectations.
• Work with supported schools and communities to ensure strict adherence to Mary’s Meals control on consumption and stock taking while instituting troubleshooting mechanisms on dealing with variances.
• Hold community engagement sessions in collaboration with the School Feeding Committees, community members and other stakeholders to ensure support and ownership of the School
  Feeding Programme.
• Any other assigned duties by immediate supervisor.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• A Diploma in Community development / Social work, Education, Programme Management, Sociology or related social science.
• Fluency in spoken and written English and Kiswahili
• Knowledge with Microsoft Word and Excel.
• A valid motorbike riding license and the ability to ride a motorbike
• At least 2 years’ experience in community development or related field preferably with communities in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas.

Desirable

• First degree in all the above and/or relevant field is desirable
• Experience in working in child centered organizations, preferably in school feeding programs.
• Ability to communicate in Turkana language.
• Familiarity with Salesforce and RESCO phone applications in reporting

Key duties & responsibilities for the role include:

Programmatic Excellence

• Support the Programme Delivery Lead in the implementation and adherence to the SFDM, policies, procedures and tools, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
• Plan and manage the end-to-end school feeding delivery and school feeding expansions activities
• Supervise School Feeding Managers (SFMs) to ensure effective running of the school feeding programme
• Support and develop community capacity building, sensitization, and engagement
• Ensure efficient and safe utilization of motorbikes, vehicles, and fuel
• Enhance wholesome collaboration with the School Feeding Managers to ensure effective high data quality management from data collection, review and drawing trends/conclusions to inform programme delivery and development decisions.
• Manage programme data collection and delivery monitoring
• With guidance from the Programme Delivery lead, proactively contribute to annual/periodic programmatic planning, risk management and reporting.
• Proactively identify issues, concerns, and trends arising from data and feedback from SFOs, SFMs and pass these to the relevant Programmes team member (Programme Quality Assurance Manager and/or Delivery Lead).

Leadership and Team

• Actively attract, develop, and nurture talent among all school feeding managers in the programmes department to ensure high performing teams by enhancement of their capacity, attitudes, and competencies in all engagements.
• Build a robust personal development review process through interactive one on one sessions with active identification of growth opportunities and succession planning.
• Enhance team confidence, cohesiveness, and motivation through clear communication of operational structures and defining key functions and areas of responsibilities in each role.
• Support the human resource, learning and development teams to actively identify capacity building gaps, opportunities and develop training methodologies

Communication

• Manage communication by ensuring that all staff, stakeholders (relevant government sectors), partners and other functions within MMK are adequately supplied with all communication regarding MMK’s programme delivery information in a timely fashion.
• Ensure tasks, work plans and schedules set by the Programme Delivery Lead and other programme team member are completed and updates communicated.
• Clearly communicate the Mary’s Meals Model and guiding principles to all stakeholders and ensure all issues / feedback are properly communicated to and from the school feeding manager, schools, communities, and other stakeholders.
• Build strong relations with the wider school feeding communities right from initial community entry at expansions and sustain continuous meaningful engagements to ensure the community are adequately mobilized and supportive of the programme as part of the eyes and ears open approach

Working with others

• Ensure strong, ongoing training and coaching for all stakeholders of Programme Delivery, in close
  collaboration with Programme Delivery Lead
• Facilitate information sharing across the country team I.e., with direct reports, colleagues and other
  supportive functions
• Work closely with the Programme Delivery Lead to develop meaningful weekly, monthly, and annual plans, and measure performance against agreed plans.

Additional information:

• To represent Mary’s Meals externally as required, and appropriate, with communities, schools, and
  other stakeholders
• This role undertakes regulated work with children and is required to register with the Protected
  Vulnerable Group Scheme or local equivalent.
• The role will require to travel to locations in which Mary’s Meals programmes operate.

Other

• Manage actions from ex-ternal audits conducted by MMI Risk & Assurance
• Develop a high-performing, resilient, and sustainable delivery team through constant coaching and mentoring.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Degree qualification (e.g., social sciences, business administration, logistics) or demonstrable significant experience in a similar role, with 5 years relevant post qualification experience.
• Strong commitment to Mary’s Meals vision, mission, and values
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to focus on and prioritize key tasks and effectively drive forward and implement agreed actions
• Very good computer literacy with high proficiency in Excel and relevant data processing computer applications.
• Well-developed, interpersonal skills, with the ability to network widely, persuade and influence others
• Highly resilient, self-reliant, and motivated, with the ability to organize own work and prioritize tasks
• Cultural sensitivity and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of people in different countries and settings.
• Has a warm, engaging, and inspiring personality, with good networking and interpersonal skills
• Team management experience, including engaging and motivating a team of staff
• Experience of monitoring and reporting against agreed strategy