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Duties and Responsibilities:
• Support the coordination, implementation, and monitoring of all assigned project activities as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with NYM’s program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
• Monitor and report any challenges and/or gaps identified to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules. Assist Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in their efforts to reflect on project experiences.
• Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities and assisting LIPs in their efforts to collect and analyze project data per specified mechanisms and tools. Collaborate with LIPs to prepare reports per established reporting schedule.
• Collect information on staff capacity needs and technical assistance needs of CBOs. Provide technical support and monitor capacity building and technical support activities to ensure effective impact.
• Complete project documentation for assigned activities. Assist with identifying information for case studies and reports on promising practices. Actively engage in dissemination and use of relevant knowledge in the field.
• Represent NYM in meetings at county, sub county and ward levels, working groups, and other events as requested, to support forging relations with the GOK, CBOs, other stakeholders, and the community.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting of all assigned project activities per donor and NYM standards and established schedules.
• Ensure community case workers (CCWs), Child Protection Volunteers (CPVs) and mentors complete required case management forms and ensure case filing system is developed and maintained
• Create community linkages for broader community engagement in case management.

Required Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, Gender, International Development, Development Economics, or a related field
• Experience in supporting Household Economic Strengthening to reedy households for graduation.
• Experience in OVC Case Management approach aimed at increasing resiliency of the child and the family.
• Demonstrated experience in collaborating with stakeholders e.g., DREAMS, Department of Children Services and Department of Health in identifying, enrolling and cross-referring OVC.
• Working knowledge of the Children Protection Information Management System (CPIMS).
• At least 4 years of work experience in OVC project.
• In-depth understanding of donor expectations for program results, outcomes, impact, and reporting.
• Ability to implement participatory action planning approaches and engage County, Sub- County and Ward-level stakeholders.
• Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data preferred.
• Excellent understanding of the Department of Children Services and County Department of Health’s structures and services.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Observation, active listening, and analysis skills with ability to make sound judgment.
• Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners and community members and inspire teamwork among diverse partners without direct supervisory responsibilities.
• Attention to details, accuracy, and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities.
• Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented

Job Responsibilities:
• Lead technical Service Delivery, budget management, monitoring and reporting activities throughout relevant project cycles – project design, start-up, implementation and close-out - in line with PATH program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices to ensure quality, timeliness and efficiency of all deliverables through the case management systems and referral networks component of the project. Ensure project team and partner staff use the appropriate systems and tools.
• Lead the development, dissemination, and implementation of strategies, approaches, guidance, standard operating procedures, tools, and various job-aids to facilitate service delivery through case management and referral and strengthen referral networks amongst social service providers.
• Take lead in providing technical assistance, guidance, and capacity strengthening for USAID NURU YA MTOTO project staff and LIPs in HIV, Education, PSS, child safeguarding and Care through case management and referral networks, ensuring learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, mentoring and coaching.
• Lead Project technical team to work with and create linkages with stakeholders involved in Adolescent service delivery with a specific focus on USAID NURU YA MTOTO Adolescent girls receiving top up and or service layering in line with DREAMS service delivery. Strengthen coordination and networking, facilitate linkages, communication, and learning exchanges between GOK entities, LIPs, and CSOs/CBOs to support strengthening of case management capacity. Apply appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.
• Effectively manage talent and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, contribute to the recruitment process of project staff, and complete performance management for direct reports.
• Champion learning with project staff and partner teams. Analyze and evaluate project performance data following MEAL policy. Proactively identify issues and concerns and use participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
• Coordinate and monitor financial and material resources relevant to achieve the assigned project outcome. Through planning and oversight ensure efficient use of project resources.
• Assist with preparation of trends analysis reports and disseminate results. Review project documentation to ensure project file is complete with all required documentation and is filed per agency and donor requirements.
• Maintain relationships and represent PATH with DCS, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in relevant forums and knowledge networks to collect and share promising practices in case management systems and referral networks, promote PATH’ work, and contribute to the PATH learning agenda.

Required Experience
• Master’s Degree in Social Science, Public Health, Gender, International Development, Development Economics or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of work experience in project management with at least 3 years in an advisory role in relation to HIV care and treatment and/or OVC programming, ideally with an international NGO.
• Strong knowledge of the health and social service sector in Kenya.
• Demonstrated ability to develop user-friendly guidance, tools and standard operating procedures for use at health facilities, CSO/CBO and community levels.
• Relevant grant management experience, especially for USG or other public donors, a plus.
• Experience working with stakeholders at various levels including but not limited to State and government actors, LIPs, civil society, healthcare providers and social service providers.
• Experience analyzing data and contributing to evaluation reports.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Personal Skills
• Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment.
• Strong communication, relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively with local stakeholders. Representation abilities.
• Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented

Required/Desired Foreign Language
• Good technical writing skills in English

The Role
The role of an Integrated Projects Officer (IPO) is to manage projects and sponsorship delivery at the Program Unit (PU), while ensuring a seamless integration and quality of both deliverables in line with the Country Strategy. The role will design, implement monitor and report on progress of project activities and sponsorship production in line with detailed implementation plan and sponsorship annual schedules. The role is intended to manage partnerships (county government, national NGOs, corporate agencies etc.) and sustain a working relationship with sponsored families and local partners to deliver quality and timely sponsorship communications accompanied with a demonstrated participation of sponsored families and benefitting from the diverse projects supported in the PUs.

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES
Planning, strategy and policy (10%)
• Ensure sponsorship and program work directly contributes to the outcomes for girls and young women are realised and that girls take lead in advocating for their rights
• Design and implement projects that are gender transformative and aligned to the Country and Global strategies.
• Promote children rights in sponsorship and ensure Plan’s policy on safeguarding the rights of children and young people is adhered to by all associates.
• Build relationship with relevant staff to ensure all logistics and procurement processes are in conformity with Plan policies, procedures and standards
• Oversee sponsor visits as per Plan International policies.
• Facilitate consultation, participation and feedback to the community in relation to Plan programs and policies.
Programme and project design, implementation, reporting and influencing (30%)
• Promote participation of children, girls and communities in project cycle to explore and challenge gender norms.
• Ensure sponsored families and community participation in the project design, planning and implementation.
• Contribute to resilient responsive interventions through needs assessment analysis and stakeholder engagement.
• Influence stakeholders to address the varied and complex root causes of the issues that impact girls' lives.
• Facilitate access to relevant and accurate information on the projects to sponsored families, government officers and other community stakeholders
• Contribute to gender sensitive responses/intervention through continuous data collection during project implementation.
• Consolidate/write project periodic reports in line with the laid down donor requirements and Plan standard
Working in Partnership and resource mobilisation (10%)
• Continued participation on flagged business development calls by providing necessary information to qualify proposals.
• Management of partners to effectively support sponsorship processes and program delivery. Track and monitor contractual obligations of all partners. This includes ensuring compliance to child sponsorship commitments and achievement of KPIs.
• Facilitate authentic community led beneficiary targeting processes and reporting on interventions being undertaken.
• Uphold the principles of Building Better Partnerships
• Enhance effective data storage of child sponsorship documents at field level.
• Facilitate consultation, participation and feedback to sponsored families in relation to Plan programs and policies.
• Engage and maintain cordial stakeholder relationships throughout the project cycle for effective project delivery and achievement of sponsorship commitments.
• Maintain a high level of external communication and contact at the community and county levels. This is to facilitate the implementation of the project and sponsorship activities effectively.
• Build and strengthen working relations with local structures (local administration, schools among others) and ensure their participation and support to child sponsorship and other program activities.
• Engage and influence different technical working groups at sub-county level
Quality improvement and standards (15%)
• Deliver timely and quality child sponsorship communications/products as per monthly and quarterly production schedules.
• Operationalise procedures of data quality assurance during collection and submission of child sponsorship communications.
• Ensure each sponsored child is tracked on yearly basis (to check on their wellbeing, education and health) and submit reports on quarterly basis.
• Monitor and evaluate performance of child sponsorship partners as per signed agreements.
• Work with the Program team and the M&E team in documenting project achievements and lessons learnt.
• Facilitate and coordinate joint reflection sessions with sponsored families, communities and other stakeholders to inform programming/improve on quality of interventions.
Financial Responsibility (10%)
• Develop monthly activities and budget plans as per approved work plan and ensure all activities are on track with appropriate scheduling, quality and timelines.
• Monitor expenditures by interventions and ensure compliance with approved budget.
• Review expenditure reports on a monthly basis.
Risk Management (5%)
• Develop risk assessments for all projects & sponsorship and put in place mechanisms to mitigate/manage the risks during the implementation phase.
• Continually manage all safeguarding risks in both program and sponsorship.
Capability building and People Management (10%)
• Assess local partners’ capacity gaps in delivery of program and sponsorship work and develop capacity building plans for mutual development.
• Internally resources and establish external linkages/referral for capacity development of the local partners
• Build the capacity of local partners, sponsored families and community volunteers on child sponsorship policies and guidelines.
• Work closely with the sponsorship partners to ensure adequately skilled volunteers are recruited and performance managed as per monthly set targets.
• Contribute to documentation and sharing of best practices with all stakeholders
Other duties (5%)
• As assigned by the supervisor
Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) (5%)
• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
• Leads the orientation of programme staff to ensure that they are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in project design, during implementation and as principles applied in day-to-day work of Programme team;
• Ensures that Plan Kenya contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge
Qualifications/ experience essential:
• A Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or Development Studies.
• At least 3 years’ experience in project management in various thematic areas/child sponsorship programming and disaster risk management.
• Demonstrable experience designing and managing gender transformative projects
• At least 2 years’ experience managing partners
• Hold personal values, ethics and attitudes which are in alignment with the principles of the Plan’s
• Motorcycle riding skills and experience

Job Description
The Role
This role is responsible for the coordination, planning, implementation, development of Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) frameworks and reporting on the Transformation Impact Fund (TIF). Additionally, to support countries understand, apply, and utilize the TIF guidelines to access funds and accelerate programme impact.

What we are looking for:
• Proven experience of using Human Rights Based Approach- (HRBA) in designing and implementing development programmes in the global South, with clear hands-on experience of implementing or directly supporting the whole programme/project cycle from end to end.
• Experience in supporting teams to develop and review concept notes with strong attention to detail when handling information and able to review a high volume of information quickly
• Experience of providing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) support to HRBA programmes/ projects, tracking change, evaluating shifts in power and structural changes.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative MEL skills and familiarity with current approaches.
• Ability to document programme/project experiences and generate knowledge and learning to inform future of the programme/project
• Participatory leadership style with negotiating and influencing skills - without the power of direct line management.
• Able to work closely with others (often from a distance) to meet tight deadlines and multiple priorities; able to work collaboratively across multiple teams and levels
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills
• Excellent written communication skills, able to convey projects in a clear, engaging way, excellent verbal communication skills, able to engage and promote dialogue between a range of stakeholders

Role Overview

Working at project location – In this role, you will provide on-site support in the project location and/or VSO office, (full-time unless otherwise specified) for a set period of time.

VSO’s VFD Accountability Pillar conceptualizes accountability through two inter-related processes viz., forward accountability (FA) and social accountability (SA). Whereas FA, conceptualized in VSO as the Measuring Impact for Learning and Empowerment (MILE) methodology is primarily aimed at increasing programmatic accountability towards primary actors and other stakeholders, SA on the other hand involves VSO supporting primary actors to hold to account duty bearers either in public or private entities. Both approaches to accountability promote a culture of accountability which promote VSO’s mission and increase the impact of development interventions. Located within a project or grant, both approaches share a common pathway towards greater accountability. Whereas MILE focuses on the internal accountability of VSO in its programmatic and operational designs, SA focuses on the accountability of external duty bearer entities, within both the public and private spheres. Whereas MILE centres on VSO’s moral obligation towards primary actors and the need to cultivate credibility and legitimacy with them, SA is, on the other hand, predicated on the social contract in which duty bearers are duty-bound to provide services to citizens/primary actors in a way that is responsive, effective and accountable. The main purpose for this role is to facilitate the deepening of the accountability pillar within our Resilient Livelihoods programmatic interventions. Specifically, the role holder will be expected to support our Livelihoods programme staff, partners, volunteers and primary actors to implement programmatic activities in ways which will promote greater accountability to primary actors and other stakeholders.


Knowledge/qualifications

Skills, qualifications and experience
• Degree or equivalent in a related field, with significant experience of using various accountability tools.
• Knowledge of social, programmatic and organisational accountability.

Experience
• Experience in applying accountability to practical service delivery challenges faced by communities.
• Experience in resilient livelihoods would be an added advantage.