Overall
Job Purpose
The National Humanitarian Programme Coordinator is responsible for the coordination and management of all Caritas Kenya emergency programmes in Kenya, ensuring best practice in all programme areas and a commitment of Caritas Internationalis’ principles and values and an understanding of the role of the Catholic Church in emergency and development activities.
The National Humanitarian Programme Coordinator is responsible for the coordination and management of all Caritas Kenya emergency programmes in Kenya, ensuring best practice in all programme areas and a commitment of Caritas Internationalis’ principles and values and an understanding of the role of the Catholic Church in emergency and development activities.
Reporting to: Caritas Kenya Director
Specific objectives:
Programme management
- Manage
the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the relief and rehabilitation
programmes
- Responsible
for financial administration and budget control of the Caritas field
office ;
- Responsible
for financial and narrative reports of programmes under implementation;
- Advise
Caritas programme officers on the policy of the programme under his/her
responsibility;
- Ensure
that the programme is implemented in a gender sensitive and participative
way
- Ensure
that the protection needs of the beneficiaries are taken into account in
all programme interventions
- Responsible
for identification and formulation of new projects.
- Responsible
for acquisition of external funding;
- Ensure
the programme is implemented in accordance with Caritas’ Guiding Values
and Principles
- Perform
any other tasks related to programme management, planning and
implementation;
Representation
- Establish
and maintain contacts with donors, local and international NGO’s and
relevant UN agencies
- Liaise
and co-ordinate with Caritas partner organisations
Human
resources management:
- Manage
expatriate and local personnel in the project
- Responsible
for evaluation of the expatriate and local staff
- Responsible
for formulation, implementation and adaptation of a local security plan
and local evacuation plan
- Act
as Caritas security coordinator in the area.
Profile
- Academic
degree in disaster management, social science, livelihoods,
business/public administration, or other subject related to international
cooperation
- Excellent
in English,
- Proven
experience in project cycle management in an NGO setting
- Proven
experience in complex emergency/rehabilitation settings.
- Proven
experience with financial analysis and management
- Proven
experience with management of expatriates and local staff
- Proven
experience in implementing security policy in insecure, unstable areas
- Proven
experience in representation with (national) authorities, UN and (I)NGO’s
- Excellent
communication skills
- Analytical
ability
- Creative
and pro-active personality
- Commitment
to the Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct; Sphere Minimum Standards, People in
Aid Code and other humanitarian codes and principles
- Commitment
of Caritas Internationalis Guiding Principles and values
Applications
must be received at the KEC-CS by close of business on 19th Oct, 2012
Kenya Episcopal Conference
Catholic Secretariat
P.O. Box 13475 - 00800, Nairobi