ActionAid Local Rights Programme Manager Vacancy

ActionAid International Kenya (AAIK) is a member of ActionAid Federation; ActionAid works in more than 40 countries all over the world, in the places where we can make the biggest impact.

We tackle poverty and denial of human rights at the local level, and we challenge the causes behind them locally, nationally and globally.

In Kenya AAIK works in solidarity with women and people living in poverty and exclusion; connecting their voices, sharing ideas, spreading inspiration, campaigning, advocating and formulating public policy to eradicate poverty and ensure social justice.

We are present in at least 16 counties across Kenya and link key international, national and local institutions in favour of the right holders.

We therefore seek to recruit dynamic and innovative person to fill the following vacancy at respective location.

Position: Manager ‐ Local Rights Programme

Functional Unit: Programme

Reporting to: Team Leader ‐ Region

Supervising: Programme Officer, programme assistant, Community development facilitator

Category: 6

Duty Station: Designated LRP - based in Nyarongi, Homa Bay County and Makima, Embu County.

Key relationships:

• Internally: Organizational Capacity Building Officer, M&E Officer, Sponsorship Officers
• Externally: Sponsorship Supporters, Partners, CBOs, community groups.

A. Main Purpose and Scope

The LRP Manager is responsible for designing programmes, day to day management and coordination of all development activities within the designated Local Rights Programme and County level, while ensuring that AAIK policies and values are adhered to.

B. Responsibilities

• To coordinate planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all programme activities in order to achieve the LRP objectives
• To coordinate all sponsorship activities to ensure compliance with the supporter’s communication guidelines.
• To ensure compliance with ActionAid budgetary and financial management guidelines so that value for money can be realized in all planned LRP programmes and activities.
• To oversee administration activities in order to realize smooth running of the LRP
• Building strong alliances in the area through empowering and building capacity of people living in poverty and their Community Based Organizations and other partners for sustainable development
• Promoting the highest standards of integrity, cost consciousness and accountability in line with ActionAid Learning and Planning Systems (ALPS) and ActionAid’s values
• Representing the organisation at meetings with government and other actors at the County and District level
• Promoting women’s rights and empowerment through gender mainstreaming in all programmes by addressing operational and strategic gender needs of the communities and partners in the Programme area
• Overseeing and working with community institutions to provide timely and efficient responses to Child sponsorship activities
• Directly participating and supporting rights holders and their institutions to participate in national policy formulation processes and ensuring that their interests are taken into the development process
• Undertaking regular assessments and reviews of progress and impact of development projects to ensure constant learning and improvement; and
• Ensuring that information sharing, learning and documentation takes place between and among the Local Rights Programme staff, partners and across the organisation.

General

• As part of the Regional team participate in pursuing the implementation of the CSP
• Prepare and share timely and accurate documentation of lessons learnt to promote best practise.
• Work towards increased levels of transparency and Accountability.

C. Critical Competencies

• Analytical skills, 
• Project management knowledge, 
• Grants management, 
• Monitoring & evaluation, 
• Capacity development, Performance management, Budgeting & budgetary control, Resource mobilization and monitoring, Documentation, information management and reporting, Networking , Stakeholder management,

• Negotiating; influencing; persuasiveness; planning and organizing; problem analysis; oral communication; written communication; results orientation; self‐development; team‐player; pro‐activeness; creativity; gender sensitive; group leadership; listening; judgement; coaching. Organisational learning and capacity development

D. Job Requirement (Knowledge / Skills Competencies)

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree in a development field with a minimum of three (3) years’ relevant work experience
• Promoting the highest standards of integrity, cost consciousness and accountability in line with ActionAid Learning and Planning Systems (ALPS) and ActionAid’s values
• Representing the organisation at meetings with government and other actors at the County and District level
• Promoting women’s rights and empowerment through gender mainstreaming in all programmes by addressing operational and strategic gender needs of the communities and partners in the Programme area
• Overseeing and working with community institutions to provide timely and efficient responses to Child sponsorship activities
• Directly participating and supporting rights holders and their institutions to participate in national policy formulation processes and ensuring that their interests are taken into the development process
• Undertaking regular assessments and reviews of progress and impact of development projects to ensure constant learning and improvement; and
• Ensuring that information sharing, learning and documentation takes place between and among the Local Rights Programme staff, partners and across the organisation.

General

1. As part of the Regional team participate in pursuing the implementation of the CSP

2. Prepare and share timely and accurate documentation of lessons learnt to promote best practise.

3. Work towards increased levels of transparency and Accountability.

C. Critical Competencies

• Analytical skills, 
• Project management knowledge, 
• Grants management, 
• Monitoring & evaluation, 
• Capacity development, 
• Performance management, 
• Budgeting & budgetary control, 
• Resource mobilization and monitoring, 
• Documentation, information management and reporting, 
• Networking , 
• Stakeholder management,
• Negotiating; influencing; persuasiveness; planning and organizing; problem analysis; oral communication; written communication; results orientation; self‐development; team‐player; pro‐activeness; creativity; gender sensitive; group leadership; listening; judgement; coaching. 
• Organisational learning and capacity development

D. Job Requirement (Knowledge / Skills Competencies)

A minimum of a Bachelors degree in a development field with a minimum of three (3) years’ relevant work experience

You must be willing to reside in the designated station.

How to apply:

Kindly send a detailed CV to the email address hresources.kenya@actionaid.org

Closing date: 25 May 2012

ActionAid is an equal opportunities employer.

Qualified women candidates are encouraged to apply.