Job Summary

Reporting to the Manager of Operations, Caribbean and Anglophone Africa, the Senior Technical Advisor (STA) will be located in Nairobi, Kenya and will provide technical assistance to Canadian and Kenyan institutional partners working on the Kenya Education for Employment Program (KEFEP). She/he will work closely with the Ottawa-based STA to ensure the overall cohesion, coordination, and quality of contributions of Canadian partners and effective collaboration and coordination between the projects. The Kenya-based STA will be the designated KEFEP representative in Kenya and will represent KEFEP to key stakeholders in Kenya (government, employers, institutions, other projects, and donors). She/he will also play a lead role in supporting Kenyan partners, including the provision of technical and policy advice to MOE, TVET agencies and other partners.

The STA will also aim to ensure synergy and coordination between KEFEP and CICan’s Young Africa Works project (YAW-K-TVET) and with other projects working in the TVET ecosystem in Kenya to ensure maximum impact. She/he will also provide subject matter expertise on one or more of the following: Competency-based education and training (CBET), Industry Engagement, Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), and curriculum development.

This position requires the ability to perform a variety of highly complex tasks, including extensive collaboration with key stakeholders, government ministries, departments, and agencies, TVET institutions, donors, funders, and industry partners across a diverse range of work settings. The STA will be expected to perform effectively at both policy and operational levels. Travel in Kenya and to Canada will be required.

The STA will have the following specific responsibilities:

• Assist in the preparation of annual work plans, semi-annual, financial, and technical reports, and annual budgets in accordance with the overall budget allocated by Global Affairs Canada.
• Support the implementation of institutional/thematic partnerships between Canadian and Kenyan TVET institutions.
• Support Canadian and Kenyan partners in finalizing and launching newly developed curricula.
• Support the KEFEP procurement process and installation of equipment at Kenyan partner institutions.
• Contribute to the evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of institutional college/institute partnerships.
• Participate on KEFEP committees and sub-committees and meetings, as required, and manage relationships between Canadian and Kenyan partners.
• Ensure attention is paid to the cross-cutting themes of gender, the environment and governance.
• Represent the project on relevant working groups.
• Act as project’s main point of contact with Canada’s High Commission to Kenya.
• Act as the project’s public representative of the project in Kenya.
• Participate in KEFEP monitoring and evaluation and risk management assessments and propose measures for improvement to achieve and sustain results.
• Provide data as required by CICan and Global Affairs Canada.

Minimum Requirements

• Full fluency in English.
• Kenyan citizen or legally permitted to work in Kenya. Note: CICan will not provide a work permit or sponsor individuals.
• Graduate of a post-secondary institution or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience working in and/or with the Canadian college/institute system and network.
• Significant knowledge of and experience with the Kenyan TVET system and stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in skills training or TVET in the public and/or private sector with expertise in such areas as teacher training, planning, competency-based curriculum development and leadership and management training.
• Practical experience working in partnership with industry and TVET at a systems level to build effective training solutions to meet industry needs.
• Practical experience with monitoring, evaluation and learning in an international development context, including developing theories of change, developing and revising results-based management (RBM) tools, mobile data collection, working with M&E systems, and developing and using various reporting frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience applying gender equality concepts in an international development and/or education context.
• Strong experience working with budgets and with financial management.
• Demonstrated leadership and problem-solving capacity in cross-cultural settings and participatory management context.
• Practical experience in the implementation of educational development programs.
• Strong writing, reporting and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability using Microsoft Office Suite, Web and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools.