Devex Job Vacancy : Country Director, Kenya - 2015

Devex is currently assisting a leading faith-based NGO focused exclusively on global health care for the world’s poor, in its search for a Country Director for Kenya.

 

Job Summary

The organization has been working in Kenya for 12 years and it works to ensure that the most vulnerable receive  health care, health promotion and illness prevention.

The  Country Director Kenya  is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Kenya country portfolio. The organization’s current portfolio in Kenya includes: maternal and child health, CHAMPS programs, VMMC, and a variety of HIV/AIDS focused programs.

The Country Director must be an innovative thinker, ready to empower staff to achieve corporate strategic goals, and lead change initiatives which ensure that the organization maximizes its mission and vision. The Country Director must be well-versed in office re-structuring and able to oversee changes to program operations, finance, and human resources.

This position reports directly to the Senior Vice President, Country Programs, based in New York City, and receives technical and other support from additional U.S.-based. As the organization’s representative in-country, the Country Director has overall responsibility and accountability for all of finances, assets and legal standing in Kenya.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Lead the implementation of strategic initiatives and mentor staff and partners through organizational change.


• Foster the development of a country-level organizational culture, focusing on strategy execution, impact and accountability as well as innovation, permanent learning and improvement.


• Cultivate and motivate staff who are innovative, who seek permanent learning and growth, and who strive for their own and overall institutional improvement.


• Lead and model the central tenents of the organization’s mission in all aspects of institutional operation, from staff interactions to program implementation, and from partner collaborations to the treatment of beneficiaries.

Programmatic and Technical Management

• Work closely with the USA office  in identifying  and develop CHAMPS (CHildren And Mother PartnershipS) opportunities in Kenya, supporting their development with detailed proposals with an eye on ensuring high-quality program logic that can be feasibly delivered within proposed  in the local context, including integration with governmental, multilateral, and bilateral grant portfolios as possible


• Ensure that health programs have the appropriate technical staff to lead programmatic activities, overseeing program staff and providing technical and program management input, as appropriate.


• In coordination with partners, ensure programs meet their project goals, objectives and targets.


• Ensure consistent program monitoring and evaluation activities, including necessary site visits, to measure and report on outcomes. Share success stories with the organization globally for communications purposes.


• Manage in-country global initiatives, involving pharmaceutical donations, volunteer placements and programmatic grants.


• Lead the overall CHAMPS implementation, project management, and monitoring and evaluation processes in Kenya.


• Serve as Principal Investigator (PI) in projects where is requested.

 

Human Resources Management

• Support, encourage and help build up the capacity of the on-site program coordinators and managers.


• Serve as Chief for all country operations, establishing a management team and reporting roles for needed levels of program and staff management.


• Ensure the organization’s Kenya office operates within local labor requirements.

 

Financial Management

• Ensure the prudent use of donor resources, ensuring all expenditures comply with rules and regulations.


• With the assistance of the Finance Team, ensure all budgets are tracked consistently and financial reports are accurate and timely.


• Identify cost-savings, where feasible, and plan strategically for financial resource use.

 

Resource Generation

• Develop new program and funding opportunities  at the country level and/or regionally in conjunction with SVP Programs and the Director of Grants Acquisition and Management.


• Ensure programmatic successes are documented for individual and institutional donor fundraising purposes as well as linkage to the organization global strategy.


• Help develop the organization’s Kenya business development plans and implement the plan with the assistance of local and international staff.

 

Cross Functional Teaming Responsibilities

Strategy and Measurement (Member)

• Define strategy and monitor implementation of strategy.


• Define and implement end to end measurement model.

 

Volunteer Program (Member)

• Define Volunteer Program Strategy aligned to new strategy.


• Design Volunteer products.


• Fulfill volunteer program supply and demand.

 

Individual Donor Fulfillment (Member)

• Define the fulfillment approach and coordinate the successful implementation of donor requirements in our CHAMPS and other programs.

Grants Acquisition (Member)

• Identify and develop opportunities for grants acquisition.