Lutheran World Federation M & E Officer (Kakuma) and Education Coordinator (Nairobi) Jobs in Kenya

Lutheran World Federation / Department for World Service Kenya Program is seeking to recruit a Kenyan national for the following positions:
 

1. M & E Officer 

Based in Kakuma
 

The M&E officer will work closely with all LWF sectors in Kakuma ie Education, Community Services, WASH and Livelihood assisting with collecting, collating, presenting and otherwise managing information for M&E related reports.
 

Duties and Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Conduct and support frequent surveys for monitoring and evaluation activities
• Assist in the preparation of project evaluation and/or review reports and draft regular M&E project’ M&E report
• Assist in the establishment and day to day management of a database and monitoring system
• Assist with documentation of the projects, including project inputs, outputs and outcomes (e.g. assessments, compiling beneficiary lists, recording construction progress, education activity attendance, change in behavior and situation, etc.)
• Assist in data analysis for compilation of quarterly, annual and ad hoc program data and reports
• Support collection and maintenance of geographic baseline and thematic data
• Research and retrieve data from internal and external sources; prepare the statistical charts, tables and reports as required
• Liaise with United Nations agencies and other humanitarian partners to ensure that the information needed to support humanitarian operations is generated and made easily available.

Qualifications

• University degree preferably in social sciences, international relations and/or development or other relevant discipline.
• At least 3 years’ relevant working experience in field of humanitarian/development M&E implementation.
• Exposure to a wide range of information management systems related to humanitarian/development and/or operational activities.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills (in English)
• Excellent one to one and group communication /information presentation skills
• Experience in training and capacity building in M&E mechanisms at various project levels
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Goal oriented with ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision.

2. Education Coordinator 

Based in Nairobi
 

Under the general guidance of the Program Coordinator, the Education Coordinator will be responsible for the development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Education programme within
the Kenya / Djibouti Country Programme.
 

Duties and Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Contributes to the preparation of a Common Country Assessment, Situation Analysis and their period updates with particular accountabilities for the timely preparation and submission of relevant education sector components within these.
• Leads in the formulation and development of education programme goals, strategies and approaches for the LWF country programme, ensuring coherence of the sectoral programme plans with national priorities and Dadaab education strategy or any other strategies developed with support of UNHCR and UNICEF. 
• Ensures that data integrity, communication for development and partnerships are emphasized within this.
• Participates with UNHCR, UNICEF, government and other partners in the identification of best practice and development of strategies and methodologies for improved education sector performance.
• Maintains close working relationships within the country education coordination groups.
• Provides technical support to the education sectors in Dadaab, Kakuma and Djibouti in the planning, development and implementation stages of the programme. To this end, responsible for the development of the results-based sectoral work-plans.
• Undertakes field visits and relevant research in order to monitor and evaluate progress against agreed results. Where problems are identified, propose remedial action to ensure programme delivery. 
• Participates in major evaluation exercises, programme mid-term review, annual sector review meetings with stakeholders. Provides technical guidance on appropriate capacity building mechanisms to achieve national education sector goals.
• Coordinates activities and exchanges information/ideas with other Sectors to contribute to achievement of overall country programme objectives. Participates in establishing effective monitoring, information and reporting systems, ensuring the availability and use of programme data.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree in Education or a related technical field.
• Eight years of relevant work experience at the national and international levels in programme planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation, in a related field. Experience in joint education sector programming within multi-agency partnerships is required.
• A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Competencies of Successful Candidate

• Highest-level communication skills, including engaging and informative formal public speaking.
• Creates and encourages a climate of team-working and collaboration in a multi-cultural environment.
• Consistently achieves high-level results, managing and delivering projects on-time and on-budget.
• High-level leadership & supervisory skills; provides others with a clear direction & motivates others
• Analyzes and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources.
• Actively nurtures good relationships with people across all organizational levels and boundaries, and with government leaders and stakeholders.
• Identifies urgent and potentially risky decisions and acts on them promptly; initiates and generates organization-wide activities.
• Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of possibilities.

Applications and detailed CV must include email address and telephone contacts of 3 referees, one of whom must be your supervisor in your current/former employment. 

They should reach the undersigned by close of business on 26th April, 2013:
 

HR Officer/Administrator
P.O Box 40870-00100, GPO, 

Nairobi
 

Or e-mail to: lwfhr.nairobi@gmail.com
 

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
 

For more details, visit: www.lwf-kenya.org