Project Manager Job in Kenya

Plan is an international humanitarian child centered community development

organization, without religious, political or government affiliation. 

Plan

is committed to protecting and promoting child rights and to improving the

lives and futures of vulnerable children, their families and communities

through a child-centered community development approach.
 

Plan

International Kenya is seeking to recruit for the position of Project

Manager ECCD to be

based in Kisumu on a 3 year contract and will report to the Program Manager

Education.
 

• Oversee
  
  and coordinate project implementation


• Manage
  
  project resources


• Build
  
  and maintain stakeholder relations


• Manage
  
  the ECCD project staff


• Design,
  
  Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning


• Reporting
  
  and Knowledge management

• Degree
  
  in education; community development and a post graduate course in project
  
  planning and management.


• 7
  
  years’ relevant experience in community development/ child
  
  protection/education/gender work, with minimum of 4 years at a
  
  supervisorial / managerial level.


• Thorough
  
  knowledge of programming processes, systems and principles, and the
  
  ability to provide leadership and support to staff working at community
  
  level.


• Sound
  
  understanding of integrated development issues and critical analysis of
  
  child poverty.


• A
  
  working knowledge on Gender Child Rights Analysis.


• Knowledge
  
  of development issues, trends, challenges, opportunities and implications
  
  to community development.


• Demonstrated
  
  knowledge of strategic planning processes.


• Knowledge
  
  and experience in development and execution of participatory training.


• Knowledge
  
  of local language is desirable.

Plan International is a development organization uniting people

to advance the rights of all children. 

Accordingly,

we are an equal opportunity employer and employment is subject to our child

protection standards including appropriate background checks and adherence to

our Child Protection Policy.

The

closing date of applications is 20th December, 2015.

These positions are open to Kenyan Nationals Only.

We regret that only short listed candidates will be contacted.