Finn Church Aid (FCA) is Finland’s biggest development co-operation organisation and the second biggest organisation in Finland working in humanitarian aid. Finn Church Aid is a member of the ACT Alliance (ACT), an alliance of faith-based development and humanitarian aid organisations forming one of the world’s largest aid organisations.
FCA Kenya is looking for a Program Officer
- Primary purpose of the position: Responsible for developing and supporting planning, learning, documentation, reporting and research within Kenya Country Programme and its projects
Duties and responsibilities:
- Assist program staff to develop data collection systems especially for new projects, assuring consistency with the FCA guidelines and tools, and in accordance with specific donor requirements
- Together with program staff write project logframes for new project documents to support the continual improvement of program design
- Ensure that projects’ documents and reporting deadlines clearly reflect FCA’s contributions to the rights holders (especially the most vulnerable) and duty-bearers
- Ensure that complaints handling and feedback mechanisms are synchronised and continuously documented
- Act as the Focal Point for FCA AKF forum
- Ensure a project baseline is planned, coordinated and implemented within the first 3 months of a project start-up
- Ensure that project documents considers aspects such as output, outcome, process and country context levels and that appropriate data collection and reporting tools are developed and used
- Carry out field visits to document stories of change emerging from project participants, conducting data verification, quality assessments and reporting the findings
- Develop tools to gather relevant data according to project logframes, assuring the feed into FCA Country Programme Results Framework
- Train FCA and partners’ staff on data collection, including mobile data collection
- Synthesize and analyze quantitative and qualitative data received on a monthly/quarterly basis
- Develop and update project level databases when needed
- Prepare mid-term and end of project FCA/donor reports
- Organize and facilitate trainings on documentation of best practices for capacity development of FCA and partners’ staff
- Orient and support new staff on data requirements of their projects
- Together with programme staff facilitate periodic reviews with partners for dialogue, learning and reflection from assessments, program progress monitoring etc
Competence and Personal Requirements:
- Minimum Bachelor degree or higher in Social Sciences field
- 3 years field experience in Program Design and Development and Capacity Building
- Understanding of the concept of accountability and its implications to donors
- Demonstrated ability to analyse quantitative and qualitative data, and use it for high quality reporting and learning
- Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge through informal and formal training
- Previous experience in developing, planning, and reporting on project documents and data collection tools
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
- Computer proficiency in word processing, Power Point, database, spreadsheet and graphics presentations and other applications
- Experience of working with development, humanitarian and/or advocacy programs in Kenya
- Integrity, objectivity and professional competence
- Demonstrated sensitivity to (cultural) diversity and gender issues
How to apply:
Interested candidates should submit their motivation letter and CV to
[email protected] by 28th February 2019.This is a fixed term position to 31st December, 2019.
More Information
- Job City Nairobi
