Responsibilities or duties

As Programme Manager Kenya – Digital Futures, you will:

• Provide overall leadership, planning, and coordination of the Digital Futures programme in Kenya
• Ensure high quality execution of digital, IT, and entrepreneurship training in collaboration with IT Bridge Academies and training providers
• Oversee community outreach, mobilisation, recruitment, and onboarding of young people with disabilities into the programm
• Manage relationships with all implementing partners, including OPDs, training institutions, digital academies, and private sector actors
• Provide technical backstopping and capacity building support on disability inclusion, safeguarding and inclusive employment
• Develop employer capacity building pathways on disability inclusion and inclusive HR practices
• Oversee linkage of programme participants to mentorship, internships, apprenticeships, and employment opportunities
• Lead budget preparation, oversight, ensuring alignment between expenditure and donor/organisational financial procedure
• Provide strategic oversight for data collection, validation, analysis, and reporting in line with MEAL frameworks

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

Skills and Experience

• Solid experience in programme management within INGOs, social impact programmes, youth employment, or digital skills development initiatives.
• Proven experience leading digital skills, employability, entrepreneurship, or labour market programmes.
• Strong experience in skills development, employer engagement, internships/placements, and disability inclusion.
• Experience in working with OPDs, persons with disabilities and other actors in the disability sector and on gender intersectionality.
• Experience engaging youth, TVET institutions, digital academies, employers, and OPDs.

Benefits

Sightsavers offers a reward package based on local pay, local contracts and local benefits and will not normally offer international contracts. Sightsavers is committed to investing in the training and development of its employees and offers a supportive work environment.

• Provide overall leadership, planning, and coordination of the Digital Futures programme in Kenya
• Ensure high quality execution of digital, IT, and entrepreneurship training in collaboration with IT Bridge Academies and training providers
• Oversee community outreach, mobilisation, recruitment, and onboarding of young people with disabilities into the programm
• Manage relationships with all implementing partners, including OPDs, training institutions, digital academies, and private sector actors
• Provide technical backstopping and capacity building support on disability inclusion, safeguarding and inclusive employment
• Develop employer capacity building pathways on disability inclusion and inclusive HR practices
• Oversee linkage of programme participants to mentorship, internships, apprenticeships, and employment opportunities
• Lead budget preparation, oversight, ensuring alignment between expenditure and donor/organisational financial procedure
• Provide strategic oversight for data collection, validation, analysis, and reporting in line with MEAL frameworks

• Solid experience in programme management within INGOs, social impact programmes, youth employment, or digital skills development initiatives.
• Proven experience leading digital skills, employability, entrepreneurship, or labour market programmes.
• Strong experience in skills development, employer engagement, internships/placements, and disability inclusion.
• Experience in working with OPDs, persons with disabilities and other actors in the disability sector and on gender intersectionality.
• Experience engaging youth, TVET institutions, digital academies, employers, and OPDs.

• BA/BSc/HND