Feed the Children is an international, non-profit relief organization that was founded in 1979 with headquarters in Oklahoma City, United States of America. In Kenya, Feed the Children was registered in 1993 under the Non-Governmental Organization Coordination Board Act. Feed the Children Kenya office’s first program in the 1990s was the Dagoretti Children...

Responsibilities or duties

Global Programming Quality & Standards

• Establish, maintain, and enforce global programming quality standards across all programmatic pillars.
• Define minimum technical requirements for program design, implementation, and learning.
• Lead program quality reviews and oversee corrective action planning.
• Serve as final technical authority for new program models and major adaptations.
• Identify systemic program risks and implement mitigation strategies

Technical Leadership & Country Office Support

• Provide strategic and hands-on technical assistance during program start-up, scale-up, and recovery.
• Deploy technical expertise to fragile, complex or high-risk operating environments.
• Support country offices in transitioning from activity-based to outcome-driven programming.
• Guide program redesign when performance gaps or risks are identified
• Provide technical leadership during program transitions, restructuring, or scale expansion

Program Design, Innovation & Evidence

• Lead development of evidence-based program models aligned with global best practices.
• Strengthen program design methodologies and technical rigor across the organization
• Ensure alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and donor technical expectations.
• Drive innovation, adaptive programming approaches, and continuous improvement.
• Promote scalable program models that support organizational growth

Proposal Technical Leadership & Donor Readiness

• Serve as technical lead or senior reviewer for major funding proposals.
• Ensure technical rigor, feasibility and competitiveness in all major submissions.
• Support donor technical engagement and site visits.

MEAL Integration & Adaptive Learning

• Ensure technical alignment between program design and MEAL frameworks
• Promote strong program logic, indicators, and measurement systems
• Support adaptive management and learning-informed decision making
• Strengthen feedback loops between implementation and program improvement
• Collaborate closely with MEAL leadership to strengthen impact measurement

Capacity Building & Talent Development

• Strengthen technical capacity across countries and regional teams.
• Develop technical guidance, tools, and learning resources
• Identify technical skill gaps and recommend structural solutions.
• Support development of technical communities of practice
• Coach and mentor technical and program leadership across regions

Authority & Decision Rights:

The Vice President, Programming Quality and Technical Support has the authority to:

• Approve or reject program models based on technical quality.
• Require corrective actions when programming standards are not met.
• Establish and update global technical standards.
• Provide final technical sign-off on major proposals.
• Deploy technical support resources across country offices
• Escalate program quality risks directly to the President, International Programming and Operations.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Core Competencies:

• Technical Leadership & Program Quality
• Strategic Thinking & Systems Design
• Donor and Proposal Credibility
• Adaptive Management & Learning
• Cross-Cultural Leadership
• Coaching & Capacity Building
• Risk Identification & Mitigation
• Change Leadership & Organizational Influence

Experience needed

Qualifications & Experience:

Required:

• 12–15+ years of international development experience.
• Senior leadership experience in program quality, technical leadership or global program design.
• Strong background in food security and nutrition.
• Proven experience with U.S. Government funding and large institutional donors.
• Experience across multiple countries and complex operating environments.

• Establish, maintain, and enforce global programming quality standards across all programmatic pillars.
• Define minimum technical requirements for program design, implementation, and learning.
• Lead program quality reviews and oversee corrective action planning.
• Serve as final technical authority for new program models and major adaptations.
• Identify systemic program risks and implement mitigation strategies
• Provide strategic and hands-on technical assistance during program start-up, scale-up, and recovery.
• Deploy technical expertise to fragile, complex or high-risk operating environments.
• Support country offices in transitioning from activity-based to outcome-driven programming.
• Guide program redesign when performance gaps or risks are identified
• Provide technical leadership during program transitions, restructuring, or scale expansion
• Lead development of evidence-based program models aligned with global best practices.
• Strengthen program design methodologies and technical rigor across the organization
• Ensure alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and donor technical expectations.
• Drive innovation, adaptive programming approaches, and continuous improvement.
• Promote scalable program models that support organizational growth
• Serve as technical lead or senior reviewer for major funding proposals.
• Ensure technical rigor, feasibility and competitiveness in all major submissions.
• Support donor technical engagement and site visits.
• Ensure technical alignment between program design and MEAL frameworks
• Promote strong program logic, indicators, and measurement systems
• Support adaptive management and learning-informed decision making
• Strengthen feedback loops between implementation and program improvement
• Collaborate closely with MEAL leadership to strengthen impact measurement
• Strengthen technical capacity across countries and regional teams.
• Develop technical guidance, tools, and learning resources
• Identify technical skill gaps and recommend structural solutions.
• Support development of technical communities of practice
• Coach and mentor technical and program leadership across regions

• Technical Leadership & Program Quality
• Strategic Thinking & Systems Design
• Donor and Proposal Credibility
• Adaptive Management & Learning
• Cross-Cultural Leadership
• Coaching & Capacity Building
• Risk Identification & Mitigation
• Change Leadership & Organizational Influence

• 12–15+ years of international development experience.
• Senior leadership experience in program quality, technical leadership or global program design.
• Strong background in food security and nutrition.
• Proven experience with U.S. Government funding and large institutional donors.
• Experience across multiple countries and complex operating environments.