Technician Jobs at Save the Children and Dümmen Orange,

JOB DETAILS:
Role purpose
The Education Specialist will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for education in Kenya Country Office (including Madagascar). The role will lead strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high quality programmes that deliver change for children in both emergency and development programming. The role supports national and county advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for new business development. It supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners. The role will work closely operations colleagues and with partners in Kenya and Madagascar, building their capacity and building ownership and agency of local organisations. This role includes a focus on external representation on priority issues including: early childhood care and development: foundational learning and uninterrupted learning (education in emergencies) to ensure all children have access to education leading to learning and wellbeing outcomes.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

Key areas of accountability
Technical Leadership
• Provide technical leadership for education or the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy
• Build capacity of staff and partners in key technical approaches related to education.
• Engage programme managers and field teams in the process of developing or updating strategy and thematic plan, with the goal of needs based, responsive education programming
Programme Quality (Design & Implementation)
• Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities that allow for both integration intro broader programmes and standalone education programmes/projects; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
• Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality education programmes for children, building on global best practice. Ensure that gender, disability and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
• Work with Child Rights Governance colleagues to ensure that a rights based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation (in line with our ), with a strong focus on child participation
• Promote an Education Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework, that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and regional bodies, local partners and working towards impact, scale and sustainability.
Programme Quality (Evidence and Impact)
• Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
• Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of education programmes at the community level.
• Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender sensitive/transformative methodologies);.
• Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
• Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
• Contribute to organisational learning on education, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global education community in Save the Children including relevant technical working groups.
• Support the operations team (as needed) to develop emergency preparedness plans, and conduct sectoral assessments (including gender analysis and disability situation analysis, using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver emergency response and recovery programmes.
• Monitor trends in order to ensure early action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses
Networking & External Engagement
• In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in education.
• Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and working groups recognising Save the Children and UNICEF are global co-leads for the education cluster.
• Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes through working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls and boys are equitably heard and represented in our education work.
• Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.
• Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.
• Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.

Qualifications and experience
• Bachelor's degree in Education is required.
• Master's degree in education or other related fields highly preferable.
• At least 8 years of relevant professional experience in the education sector.
• At least 5 years' experience of leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes in education
• Understanding of the education sector in Kenya.
• Familiar with education systems (humanitarian/cluster systems as needed) for example the INEE Minimum Standards, the key issues related to Sustainable Development Goal 4 - to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
• Track record in successful business development/fundraising such as Global Partnership for Education, Education Cannot Wait , EU, FCDO , USAID, World Bank
• Demonstrated experience in research and evaluations that contribute to designing and scaling pathways to sustainable impact.
• Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children's rights.
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn't work for children
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one crosscutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery
• Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring
• Experience of effective teamwork and outstanding inter-personal communication skills.
• Commitment to Save the Children's aims, values and principles including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.

The organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated


JOB DETAILS:
Job objective
Our organization grows and flourishes. This results in a fast-changing and, therefore, challenging environment.
As Technical Manager you will be responsible for accomplishing objectives of the Technical department by planning, organizing, coordinating, directing and controlling all activities within the department. Fides Kenya Ltd, part of Dümmen Orange, is a leading company in growers and exporters of fresh cut flowers from Kenya to international markets. Fides Kenya operates under the trade name Dümmen Orange. At present Fides Kenya Limited operates on 22 hectares where the Chrysanthemums, Geranium, Perennials, Osteospermum, Asters and filler plants cuttings are grown. Our workforce has grown over the years to the current level of about 1000 employees. We are located 29 km south-east of Embu town and 169 km north-east of Nairobi, approximately 50 km south of Mount Kenya.

Your tasks and responsibilities
• Labour Management.
• Employee (Internal/external) relationship.
• Manages technical resources within budget and project schedule.
• Ensure the department has up to date SOPs and work instructions
• Plan and implementation of projects
• Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Undertake cost benefit analysis of each equipment and advise the company accordingly.

Performance Criteria
• Completed projects within the set time frames, schedules and in adherence to quality standards .
• Updated reports on the progress of projects within the company.
• Keep the expenditure 3% below the budget.
• Accountable for preventive and corrective maintenance schedules.
• Effective labour utilization.
• Efficiency.

Your profile
• Bachelors/diploma in mechanical engineering with additional knowledge in, maintenance, electrical and civil engineering.
• Management and business administration.
• 5 years managing a technical/maintenance team.
• Good Interpersonal/ people management skills.
• 10 years’ experience in general maintenance.
• Great analytical skills.
• Budget management.
• Ability To collaborate with other teams.
• Project management professional (PMP) certification will be an added advantage.

We offer
Dümmen Orange has great global ambitions. Innovation, technology and quality are high priorities. This results in a challenging working environment in which you can develop yourself. Dümmen Orange offers its employees plenty of room for personal growth and development. We have an informal and easy accessible working environment in which cooperation is very important.
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Dümmen Orange
Dümmen Orange is the world’s largest breeder and propagator of flowers and plants. Its annual turnover is about 350 million euro. The company employs over 7.300 employees worldwide. In addition to a large marketing and sales network, Dümmen Orange has a diversified network of specialized production sites. The key to Dümmen Orange’s success is a broad and deep product range, supported by a global supply chain. The company embraces its social responsibilities and invests in the health, safety and personal development of its staff.


JOB DETAILS:
Role Purpose
As part of Save the Children's global 2022-2024 strategic plan, the Kenya Country office has identified digital innovation/transformation as a priority for programming success and to achieve greater impact for children. Digital transformation in our programmes is one of ten priorities and the Kenya country office is becoming a centre of expertise within the organisation. Save the Children globally has digital programming task teams whose role is to transform programming and operations within the organization through the use of digital technology and innovation.

The T4D Specialist will work very closely with the digital team in country to promote and explore innovative approaches, introduce T4D elements to deliver greater quality programmes and impact for children in Save the Children Kenya Country Office; including but not limited to - ensuring that technology is always incorporated into proposal design, adopting and/or adapting existing innovation or technology products and services in programming; building partnerships and networks with innovation and technology partners, to build or enhance SCI Innovation and IT4D capacity, capability and knowledge to deliver programmes for children.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

Key Areas Of Accountability
Technical Leadership (30%)
• Support the development and implementation of the Kenya digital innovations strategy in relation to the country strategy.
• Develop a network of innovation and T4D collaborators within the country, including private sector, research institutions, innovation hubs and humanitarian & development partners for growth of digital initiatives in the country office
• Monitor digital innovation trends, policy and legal maturation , funding opportunities and share key insights
• Ensure that Save the Children Kenya's digital innovations programming work is visible on all relevant platforms and amongst the organization's stakeholders and that learnings are shared on a regular basis.

Programme Quality (design, implementation and scaling) (25%)
• Research opportunities and support in the development of proposals for funding to ensure that digital innovations in programme design and proposal / bid development.
• Take lead in providing technical support to all pilot and scale up programs with a digital component whilst documenting the successes and lessons learnt.
• Contribute to the design and roll out of all pilots and scale up programs collaborating closely with the PDQ (MEAL, Technical and BD teams), Operations and Awards teams.
• Contribute in the identification of technological and innovative solutions to identified programmatic and operational challenges
• Work closely with IT Department in the development of roll-out plans and smooth take-up of trouble-shooting support for T4D solutions introduced.
• Provide support for the development/updating of donor materials related to innovation fundraising efforts.
• Collaborate with technical experts and Programme Managers to develop and design solutions with high potential for impact and scale, in line with contextual needs and gaps.
• Collaborate with PDQ (MEAL, Technical and BD teams), Operations and Awards colleagues to improve organisational learning and engagement with partners and communities, which can be utilised to identify challenges, identify grass-roots ideas and drive innovations and learning.

Programme Quality (Evidence and Impact) (25%)
• Work with the Centre of Excellence and other innovation teams in the organization globally to share approaches, and learning on innovation and obtain support wherever necessary
• Work with Save the Children T4D Community of Practice (CoP) to facilitate sharing of knowledge and learning of how technology is being used in programs, and to identify new solutions;
• Support innovation knowledge sharing across the Save the Children movement by capturing and sharing best practices, success stories and lessons learned
• Support the documentation of the country office digital innovations and contribute to the global T4D catalogue/tracker ensuring that all Kenya country office's innovations are updated in the catalogue.
• Support the rollout of the digital library of best practices - to support in program design

Staff capacity building (20%)
• Develop a plan for staff capacity building on T4D and for any computer-based support that may be required.
• Coordinate capacity building initiatives, bringing in the right partner support to provide training, and ensuring the right people in the CO receive the training needed to better foster innovation;
• Organise and facilitate workshops in the CO as needed, in order to implement digital transformation.
• Provide support to staff in the CO as needed (targeted working sessions, coaching and problem-solving).
• Identify and manage interdependencies with other key operational and strategic initiatives across Save the Children with particular emphasis on PMM-PRIME, rolling out.
• Contract Duration: 2 years
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Work Location: Nairobi

Qualifications And Experience
• This position will demand a highly innovative, motivated, and energetic individual who will be able to solve challenges, communicate effectively and bring others along with them on Save the Children Kenya's Digital Innovations.
• Bachelors' degree in a technical field (e.g. IT, science or engineering) or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working in a humanitarian and/ or development contexts in issues relating to innovations, technology, telecommunications and digital services
• At least 5 years of experience in programme / project management in a global, cross-cultural environment
• Strong time management skills with an ability to plan ahead, anticipate requirements, problems and obstacles, and an ability to juggle competing priorities successfully.
• Excellent business partnering, communication and relationship building skills.
• Thorough - high attention to detail and takes pride in delivering accurate, high quality work. Proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Commitment to Save the Children values, including child safeguarding.
• Experience in designing and implementing complex projects in diverse thematic areas.
• Experience in working in international settings/contexts.
• Experience in designing business processes would be an advantage

The organization
• We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
• We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated