Save the Children Regional Program Partnership and Capacity Building Coordinator Job in Kenya

Regional Program Partnership and Capacity Building Coordinator
 

About us: For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children’s lives in more than 120 countries. 

We are the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. 

Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve
immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children is an organization for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives. 

We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive on our diversity. 

We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. 

Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behavior towards children both in their private and professional lives.
 

The East Africa Regional Program aims to strengthen the rights based approach, partner with civil society organisations (CSOs) and advocate and collaborate with regional bodies such as the African Union (AU), African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), East African Community (EAC) and East African Standby Force (EASF) and African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPRs) to ensure that child rights are realised and children are protected from abuse, neglect and exploitation.
 

Role Purpose: The Regional Program Partnership and Capacity Building Coordinator is responsible for strengthening the capacity of over 10 regional program partners. 

This is important since the centre of SCI’s Theory of Change is building partnerships. This role will ensure that there are clear and succinct partner and RP MEAL plans and reports which will feed into the donor reports.

A particular focus of this role is to strengthen the East Africa Child Rights Network and establish the East Africa Child Led Initiative (CLI).
 

Key Areas of Accountability
 

Partner Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL):

• Develop the partner MEAL plan in collaboration with the partner and the programme manager (PM) which is reviewed annually (for multi-year sub awards)
• Ensure that partners comply with donor requirements, reporting schedules and report contents are verified against program delivery and documentation
• Participate in quarterly monitoring and evaluation (M&E) visits for each partner and complete the narrative M&E report
• Present the partner MEAL plan during the sub award kick off meeting
• Ensure that the partner log frames have SMART impact, outcomes, outputs, indicators and time frames
• Ensure that partner members effectively ensure representation of beneficiaries, local authorities and local staff in programme planning and evaluation; using minimum standards where applicable
• Work with the PMs and MEAL team to develop a system for accountability towards partners where the RP regularly seeks feedback from partners on its strategies and plans.
• Participate in the SC partnership working group to facilitate the exchange of lessons learned and good practice with SCI global colleagues and for adoption of learnings beyond the RP.

Partner Organisation Capacity Development (OCD)

• Prepare and implement individual OCD plans and strategies for the partners
• Report to donors annually on the partner OCD achievements as per the donor conditions
• Organise biannual partnership meetings to assess the collaboration with SCI, opportunities and challenges
• Analyse results of on-going partnerships to produce lessons learned and inform strategic decision making and OCD

Capacity Building of the Regional East Africa Child Rights Network and National Coalitions

• Build the capacity of the members of the EA CRs Network
• Represent SCI in the core working group of the EA CRs Network
• Strengthen the national CRs coalitions with a particular focus on CRs coalitions in the SCI countries namely Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia/ Somaliland and Tanzania
• Ensure that the EA CRs Network is functional and impacts the lives of children in the region
• Support the Coordinator of the EA CRs Network on a monthly basis
• Establish a functional EA child led initiative

MEAL for the RP

• Support the RP in the development of narrative annual and quarterly reports and plans to donors in collaboration with PMs
• Develop a MEAL strategy for the RP in collaboration with the PMs and ensure its implementation
• Review all narrative donor reports in terms of MEAL compliance
• Support the CRG and CP reporting and planning processes for SCI Rwanda and Kenya in collaboration with the country offices and PMs
• Support the RP in developing and reviewing grant reports as per the donor requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree in social sciences, education, human rights or related field
• Over 6 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation as well as working with Civil Society Organisations
• Knowledge and experience in East Africa is an added value
• Experience in annual and quarterly project/ program planning and reporting to donors
• Proven track record in the CSO organization capacity development (OCD) or organization development (OD)
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills
• Knowledge of regional bodies such as the AU, EAC and EASF is an added value
• Highly organized and motivated
• Meticulous to details especially donor conditions and compliance

This should be send to EA.recruitment@savethechildren.org by COB 31st May 2014.

We work with children, communities and governments all over the world and we believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from and how you identify yourself. 

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered for these posts. 

All successful applicants will therefore be required to complete a Police Check and must sign onto our Child Safeguarding Policy and organizational Code of Conduct.