Christian Aid Project Officer Job in Kenya

Project Officer - FP2020

Gross Salary: Kes. 3,148,243 -3,871,034

Contract: Three Years Fixed Term Contract

Location: Nairobi Kenya

Closing Date: Friday 24th July 2015

About Christian Aid

More than half the world lives in poverty. We aim to put a stop to that. So we campaign against the structures and systems that keep people poor.
We work with local organizations to empower people to find their own solutions to the problems they face, irrespective of their creed and ethnicity.
Our Kenya Programme is a vibrant team, carrying out highly innovative work on Community Health.

For you that means a chance to build on your existing knowledge on Maternal and Child Health, HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health, other poverty-related health issues.
If you are as determined as we are to end poverty and injustice across the world, work with us to make change happen. Christian Aid is the Relief and Development agency of churches in UK and Ireland working in 40 countries around the world where the need is greatest.

About the Role

The Project Officer will provide overall support to the FP2020 program, which includes monitoring, reporting and technical support and ensure the logistical functioning of the platforms.
The role will also be M&E focal point in-country, with 30% of the role dedicated to results. This role may also support partner capacity and manage partner compliance function.
It provides programme and business systems support to enable the effective and efficient delivery of the FP2020 programme commitments in a devolved context.
The function will play a key role within a small dedicated support team and the post holder will work closely with programme and support staff across 10 countries under FP2020.

The role will be line managed by the Program Coordinator (FP2020) with linkages to the Programme Management Team in Nairobi and London.
The role will support programme goals and objectives through partner capacity building, support in country platform networks, best practice guidance and good working relationships.
The role will be responsible for efficient overall systems, logistics and communication support for FP2020 platforms, and monitoring and evaluation of the impact of FP2020.

Other responsibilities include sharing of project learning with key stakeholders through accurate and effective reporting, effective programme systems performance and management support for FP2020 and monitoring of institutional funded projects, effective grant management support and accurate expenditure and resource monitoring of FP2020 program within the business systems.
The post holder will ensure all receipts, reports and other documentation from FP2020 Partners accurately recorded and filed both manually and electronically.
The post holder will be the M&E focal point in-Kenya.

About You

You will have degree, preferably in statistics, or the social sciences. You will have NGO experience and knowledge of monitoring and evaluation and strong analytical skills and a good understanding of a range of methods for monitoring, evaluation and assessment to promote evidence-based learning.
You will have considerable experience in supporting development and programme staff, and detailed knowledge of office programmes including MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel and strong IT skills.
You will demonstrate familiarity with programme cycle management approaches and tools – including participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation.
You will be well organized and able to learn complex systems and procedures quickly, and be able to train others in business, financial and information management systems including developing training materials and delivering training to workgroups.
Experience in developing and working with technical spreadsheets for financial and information management, including use of web/intranet based systems, databases will be desirable etc.
You will demonstrate ability to work self-directed, to work to deadlines, under pressure and with multiple priorities.

You will have skills in budget monitoring and financial analysis, and excellent communication skills and ability to build cross cultural relationships remotely across geographic boundaries, and ability to maintain confidentiality and use discretion where appropriate.
You will be able to manage and organize information systems and establish and maintain filing systems and ability to support the implementation of qualitative and quantitative M&E systems (Syrex).
It is desired that the position holder will have experience of working with an international NGO or with an institutional donor, and experience of maintaining records including programme and human resource records.

Please note, this role includes up to 40 days travel per annum.

How to Apply

To apply for this post, please visit our website: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/aboutus/jobs for instructions on how to apply.

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in its workforce.
We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

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