JOB SUMMARY
With funding from the Canadian government, CARE Kenya is implementing a women’s Voice and Leadership project. The three goals of the project are: to strengthen women’s rights organizations’ (WRO) internal governance, management and fundraising capacities; to strengthen WRO technical programming skills in areas such as women’s rights, gender based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s economic empowerment; and to strengthen networks and coalitions within the Kenyan women’s movement. The project uses feminist organizational development and movement building approaches and aims to be a support facility to the existing women’s rights movement in Kenya. As such, CARE acts as a convener, networker and liaise, providing space and technical assistance to WROs to grow their own strategies, resources and programming. By the end of the project, it is expected that selected WROs are stronger, more sustainable and provide a better quality of programming to their constituents.
Women's Voices & Leadership Project Manager of CARE in Kenya is responsible for the comprehensive management of the WVL project, including all aspects of Planning, Management, coordination, implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of the project and ensuring the quality of project, implementation, partnership management the donor reporting, and field level management is of the highest standards in accordance with CAREs values. The Project Manager provides line management support to all project staff including the Project Officers and a MEAL Coordinator and overall management of their performance. The Project Manager steers the project’s strategies for working on feminist organizational development in collaboration with WROs from multiple regions across Kenya. S/He forms and maintains strong collaborative and participatory relationships with women’s rights organizations, oversee project activities that support women’s rights organizations in their internal organizational development and will ensure that appropriate technical linkages are created to strengthen WRO programming. The Project manager is responsible for positioning CARE as a convener, collaborator, and relationship builder vis-à-vis women’s rights organizations, while supporting staff to link WROs to the technical skill they need to grow their organizations. The Project Manager in close collaboration with the Assistant Country Director Programs provides technical and program quality advice in areas of : resource mobilization and diversifying funding opportunities, financial and human resource management, organizational strategies and governance, women’s rights awareness raising, forming feminist alliances, and related policy and advocacy campaigning work. At the same time, the Project manager is responsible for the daily management of the WVL project, including staff supervision, financial tracking and reporting, results tracking and reporting, and decision-making regarding activity implementation. An especial focus will be required on tracking flow-through grants to WROs and on using innovative methods to report project impacts.
The Project manager coordinates the above activities with close technical support and guidance from Assistant Country Director Programs in Kenya as well as Senior Program Manager WVL in CARE Canada. It is expected that the Project manager will be able to demonstrate a track record of managing complex, participatory partnerships and programs related to women’s rights, civil society capacity building and related issues.
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