Christian Aid is a humanitarian and development organisation that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We work globally for profound change tackling the root causes of poverty, empowering people to have a brighter future, and creating enabling environments for communities to exercise their capacities. We strive to achieve equality, dignity and freedom for all, regardless of faith or nationality.
In Kenya, Christian Aid focuses on delivering interventions that shift power relations and dynamics in favour of poor and marginalised communities and groups as a means to ending poverty cycles. We work across access to essential services, inclusive market systems and resilience to climate change related disasters.
CASE-OVC Project
Comprehensive Assistance, Support and Empowerment of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CASE‐ OVC) project is a USAID-funded $38.8 Million Cooperative Agreement awarded to a consortium led by Christian Aid. CASE-OVC is a five-year initiative that aims to improve the welfare and protection of children affected by HIV/AIDS in 18 target counties in Central, Eastern and Part of Rift Valley leading to resilient and thriving orphans and vulnerable children.
We are inviting applications for the position of Chief of Party for the CASE-OVC Project
About Role
The Chief of Party will lead a team of key staff and ensure the following key results are delivered: –
- Effective project management in liaison with implementing partners ensuring quality controls, accountability, and compliance within the framework of the cooperative agreement, USAID’s rules and regulations, and Christian Aid policy and procedure for all project tasks.
- Effective risk management including proactively identifying any risks, issues, and capacity gaps and effectively manage them or seek support for solutions.
- Successful representation of Christian Aid and the project’s best interests to government officials, other partners and USAID in Kenya.
- Effective people management ensuring highly skilled staff are recruited, properly inducted, empowered to provide leadership and decision-making within a team setting, and effectively managed to perform to a high standard and meeting their objectives.
About you
With line management from the Kenya Country Manager, you will independently lead and facilitate leadership of your team to effectively deliver the project and expected results. You will model and promote a culture of self-leadership, decisiveness and teamwork. You will be proactive and able to work with minimal supervision to deliver quality and excellence in your role’s expectations. This is about you leading effectively, individually and collaboratively to deliver key outputs while exercising passion, autonomy and mutual accountability. You will challenge status quo, embrace and respect diversity of views, enable others to co-lead with you, and take action to make contributions toward achievement of the shared team goals.
Further information
Please note the successful candidate will be required to undergo Counter Terrorist Check clearance before contracting.
We value diversity and aspire 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.
You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.
Competency questions
As part of your application please demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following three competency questions:
Deliver Results
Tell us about a time when you have planned for and reviewed progress on multiple and complex projects involving cross-functional and/or geographically dispersed work groups. What was the situation? What was the complexity of the task you had to carry out? In what ways did you provide the needed leadership? What actions did you take to check the quality and standards of results?
Communicate effectively
Tell us about a time you have communicated a range of complex issues credibly with a range of audiences and handled difficult on-the-spot questions or challenges. What was the situation? What was the information or message you had to communicate? How did you know you had effectively communicated to the other stakeholders?
Striving for Improvement
Tell us about a time you have taken a lead in promoting cutting-edge initiatives intended to enhance effectiveness and the sharing of knowledge within a complex setting of many stakeholders. What was the situation? How did you arrive at a conclusion that improvement was needed? What strategies did you employ to ensure the improvement was well adopted and sustained? What lessons did you learn in leading change?
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