Deadline of this Job: 06 November 2022
JOB DETAILS: Kenya PFP Lead Planner
The Kenya PFP Lead Planner oversees all aspects of Kenya PFP conservation plan and is ultimately responsible to deliver the PFP conservation blueprint which is acceptable to all parties. The Lead Planner will integrate science, community benefits and financial planning into an integrated plan to deliver on the Kenya PFP conservation goal. The Lead Planner constitutes and manages multiple technical teams simultaneously, taking responsibility for delivery and quality of content. Working with planning experts, they facilitate agreement on key deal components including PFP scope (geographic and thematic), high-level goals, major activities, and indicators.
The Lead Planner works closely with the Kenya PFP Project Director, the Kenya PFP Team and Committees, the TNC Durable Protection Strategy team and the Africa leadership team to advance progress across all elements of the PFP Conservation Plan to ensure that this initiative delivers strong outcomes during the implementation period for biodiversity, climate and people.
The Kenya PFP Lead Planner reports to the Kenya PFP Project Director, the position will be based at the TNC office in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Role Scope and Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for facilitating and delivering the major plans under the PFP: financial plan (including both costing and sustainable financial mechanisms), conservation plan, community benefit plan and climate plan.
• Convene technical teams and ensure collaboration and information sharing across the various planning workstreams.
• Synthesize data and content from the various planning workstreams and produce updates, reports, slide decks, and other materials that feed into the PFP deal negotiations and final closing conditions and agreements.
• Working with planning experts, facilitate agreement on key deal components including PFP scope (geographic and thematic), high-level goals, major activities, and indicators.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
• BA/BS degree in natural resources management, conservation, business, law, or another related field of study and at least 7 years’ experience in land conservation, real estate, law, business or related field.
• Additional qualification in MSc or MBA degree or Certified Accountant qualification and 10 years of experience in conservation practice or equivalent combination of education and experience will be an added advantage.
• Experience working with a wide range of people, such as landowners, corporate executives, and government officials.
• Experience negotiating complex agreements.
• Supervisory experience.
• Experience in developing and managing multiple projects and timelines.
• Experience working with computers, including database management.
• Experience of integrated conservation planning in highly complex contexts including protected areas and community lands
• Experience of designing and implementing sustainable finance mechanisms for conservation areas
Deadline of this Job: 06 November 2022
JOB DETAILS: Director, Community-Led Economies
The Director will support the development of community-led, sustainable livelihood opportunities that generate income for communities and contribute to TNC’s priority conservation outcomes. This includes leading the development of the Africa region’s community-led economies strategy, identifying and assessing sustainable enterprise opportunities, advancing early-stage enterprises, building partnership networks across private, NGO and government sectors, and developing pathways to create enabling conditions and remove barriers for community-led enterprises—including community capacity building, business technical assistance, market access and access to capital. The Director will also be responsible for building business acumen among TNC colleagues–including the use of entrepreneurial tools and processes, such as human-centred design and the business model canvas–to strengthen TNC’s ability to foster community-led economies among grassland, coastal and freshwater ecosystems in Africa. They will work closely with the Gender and Reproductive Health Advisor to advise on women-led businesses and gender equity.
Responsibilities & Scope
• Leads the Africa regional community-led economies strategy design and implementation in collaboration with the Africa Team, the Global IPLC Team, other TNC regional and global teams, and external partners and consultants.
• Responsible for feasibility and enabling conditions assessment, supply chain analysis, development of business models and financial projections, connection to markets, and access to financing opportunities.
• Identifies and manages key local and regional partnerships to execute the community-led economies strategy and improve the business viability of community-led, sustainable enterprises.
• Directs community leadership and decision-making throughout all steps of strategy creation and business design.
• Provides creative, critical thinking and problem solving to support new and existing sustainable enterprise opportunities.
• Develops recommendations to the Africa Team about how to advance community-led enterprises and other sustainable livelihood opportunities in the short, medium, and long term.
• Builds the business acumen of TNC colleagues to better position teams to partner effectively with sustainable, community-led enterprises.
• Collaborates with the Global IPLC Team to inform the organization’s global approach to sustainable livelihoods.
• Provides detailed primary and secondary research to support enterprise development.
• Works cross-functionally with TNC teams and external partners to engage conservation, business, financial, and legal expertise in the development and implementation of community-led, sustainable enterprises.
What You'll Bring
• Bachelor’s degree in business, entrepreneurship, sustainable development, or related field and at least 5 years related experience, or equivalent combination.
• Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) will be an added advantage.
• Fluency in English and written and oral communication skills experience.
• Critical thinking, research, and analysis skills experience to assess complex information to make strategic decisions.
• Experience building partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, including community or business leaders, government or legislative staff, program leadership and/or similar audiences.
• Experience developing and implementing complex projects in an unstructured environment with limited guidance.
• Project management skills.
Desired Qualifications
• Experience assessing, designing, and launching new businesses.
• Experience in impact investment, blended finance, microfinance, or a related field, and a knowledge of key players in these fields.
• Experience in gender equity and women-led enterprises.
• Experience developing and sensitizing financial models.
• Familiarity with sustainable livelihoods and relevant stakeholders in Africa, including stakeholders, policies and market opportunities related to grasslands, coastal, and freshwater enterprises (e.g., fisheries enterprises, livestock enterprises, women-led enterprises, ecotourism, etc.).
• Ability to develop and drive new ideas and approaches.
• Ability to sensitively advise other staff on how to effectively engage with internal and external partners.
• Ability to work well in a highly matrixed, decentralized, and collaborative organization.
• Possess strong interpersonal skills and political savviness. Must be a team player.
• Outstanding analytical and project management capabilities, including an ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet time-sensitive deadlines.
• Multi-lingual skills (Kiswahili, French and/or Portuguese) and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated.
• NGO and/or corporate relations experience a strong plus.
Deadline of this Job: 06 November 2022
JOB DETAILS: Safeguarding Senior Advisor
Specific Responsibilities
The Safeguarding Senior Advisor will be responsible for supporting global, regional and country level safeguarding efforts on prevention and response in line with protection programming and building on protection networks. The Safeguarding Senior Advisor will work in close collaboration with colleagues across SGU, HR, Duty of Care, GEDI and VPRU. The Safeguarding Senior Advisors’ specific responsibilities are as follows:
• Risk Mitigation: Technical guidance and support for safeguarding best practice in program design/implementation across sectors
• Lead the development of best practices for mitigating safeguarding risks related to different types of programming. (In close collaboration with VPRU STAs for Child Protection and Women’s Protection and Empowerment, focal points from other sectors and SGU)
• Ensure basic understanding of general Safeguarding risk mitigation, reporting, and response principles and actions across Technical Units so that these principles can be used in program design and implementation across sectors
• Ensure basic understanding of general Safeguarding risk mitigation, reporting and response principles and actions across business process owners so that these principles can be incorporated into business processes related to programs, e.g. PCM, DDP 1:1s with TCs, or SAP design/revision
• With SGU, develop and make available audit tools to be used by CPs to assess alignment between policy/program design and practices at site level, to include both assessment of risk and risk mitigation as well as response, including service mapping and referral pathways.
Safeguarding Response: Technical guidance and support for safeguarding response to client and staff survivors
• In partnership with SGU, DOC, S&S, maintain and update on the IRC’s global minimum standards and SOPs for survivor-centered safeguarding response to clients and staff survivors.
• Provide training and coaching support for relevant stakeholders to understand and utilize the standards when leading a response to a safeguarding violation and when putting in place the SoPs.
• Support RVPs, Country Directors, and other relevant country office staff in establishing and maintaining site level response capacity
• Provide leadership in creating and supporting regional communities of practice for all locally identified staff safeguarding responders to build community and provide support. This includes supporting country programs and regions to identify country leads and support them to facilitate regional CoPs, maintaining a database of appointed site level responders and onboarding newly appointed responders.
• In collaboration with SGU and DOC, hold quarterly check in meetings for all those identified to lead a regional staff safeguarding response COP to facilitate training, coordination, discussion, support requests and data collection/analysis.
• Collaborate with SGU, ECU, and HR to define clear division of responsibility and accountability between actors and coordination
• Provide technical advisory support on client and staff safeguarding case response as terminal point of escalation for highly complex case
Job Requirements
Education: Master’s/post-graduate degree in public health , social work, humanities or other relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
Work Experience: A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in safeguarding (or another relevant sector) and response services for survivors, ideally within a humanitarian or international development organization. Experience in technical tools and materials development, monitoring and evaluation is highly desired. Experience in strategy development and working across sectors or disciplines is highly desired.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies: Demonstrated ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action, and experience leading on program design, monitoring and evaluation. Must have proven experience of working directly with survivors of violence. Must have strong and effective communications skills, and the ability to present a broad array of information to inform and influence diverse audiences in multi-cultural environments. Demonstrate commitment and capacity to renew and maintain standards with best practices in the field.
Language Skills: Fluency in English required; proficiency in another language (Spanish, French, Arabic or Swahili) is highly desired.
Deadline of this Job: 06 November 2022
JOB DETAILS: Nutrition MEAL Advisor
Job Overview/Summary:
The Nutrition MEAL Advisor will lead the Health Unit’s work to create tools, systems and processes that support country programs to have better access to quality data about their programs, and use that data to monitor and evaluate projects. The Nutrition MEAL Advisor will lead the development of a global nutrition data toolkit using CommCare and PowerBi and development of data collection tools and guidance for nutrition core indicators. The Advisor will also support the annual statistics process, collection and reporting on quarterly indicators to report on organizational Impact at Scale targets and provide support to country program surveys and assessments. The specific responsibilities include:
Global Support
• Lead the development of the Nutrition data toolkit in CommCare/ PowerBi to ensure alignment with core indicators and tools, and reporting through the Program Indicator Dashboard and reporting scale metrics.
• Lead the development of nutrition data collection tools and guidance for nutrition core indicators
• Lead the review of nutrition annual statistics data
• Lead the collection and reporting of Impact at Scale quarterly scale metrics from eleven countries
• Collaborate with members of the Health Unit and country programs to analyze M&E data, and to identify and document lessons learned related to nutrition programs
• Contribute towards development of MEAL plans for country and global proposals
• Provide capacity strengthening of Health Unit staff about nutrition MEAL
• Support data needs for nutrition focused advocacy and communication
Country support
Provide support to country program surveys and assessments:
• Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) population-based surveys
• Coverage surveys (scale countries will assess coverage of malnutrition treatment) Development of IMPACT tools and support to conduct assessments (e.g., nutrition-sensitive gender assessment)
• Other assessments as needed (e.g. cost of diet, participatory action research, TIPS, etc.)
• Provide capacity strengthening of country program staff about nutrition MEAL
Key Working Relationships:
• Position Reports to: Management in Partnership with the Senior Technical Advisor for Health MEAL (New York) and the Senior Technical Advisor for Nutrition (New York)
• Position directly supervises: Typically, has no direct supervision of staff.
• Internal: Regular relationships with the nutrition, health and country technical counterparts. Interacts with IRC internal departments across CRRD and other technical units
• External: May participate in outside meetings and academic forums with donors, other non-governmental organizations and inter-agency groups as needed.
Job Qualifications:
Education: University degree in related field plus Master’s degree in Public Health, Public Health Nutrition or Global Nutrition is required.
Skills: Ability to work optimally and respectfully on diverse teams and across diverse contexts. Good technical acuity, takes initiative and produces results, ability to accept feedback and integrate it, strong communication and presentation skills and a dedication to contribute to a positive work environment. Strong data analytical skills and understanding of Nutrition monitoring and evaluation in low resource contexts is required; Committed to upholding diversity, equality and inclusion principles. Good level interpersonal skills with a high level of English oral and written skills. Ability to proficiently communicate and write in French is highly desirable, but not required. Experience working with digital technology for health platforms (CommCare, PowerBi) is desirable.
Work Experience: A minimum of 6-8 professional experience with a min of 3 years of international experience is required leading nutrition responses in humanitarian settings and/ or leading M&E of nutrition programs. Expertise and experience working on the monitoring and evaluation of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and on prevention to undernutrition is required. Experience in M&E software and nutrition assessment methodologies (e.g. SQUEAC, IYCF, TIPS and cost-of diet) is required.
Deadline of this Job: 05 November 2022
JOB DETAILS: Global Technical Lead - Eye Health
Jobholder Requirements
Essential:
• A Postgraduate qualification (minimum Masters or equivalent experience) in a relevant field, e.g. Ophthalmology, optometry, public health; health service management, special needs education; disability; low vision/rehabilitation, international development.
• Experience of working with national government and international institutions such as WHO and other International Development Organisations (INGDOs).
• Knowledge of current issues and best practice in eye health and refractive error.
• Fluent written and spoken Swahili and English
Deadline of this Job: 05 November 2022
JOB DETAILS: Global Advocacy Manager
You will manage implementation of the Global Advocacy Strategy (GLAS) across the Plan International Federation, facilitating effective linkages across thematic agendas and offices, and support integrated local-to-global advocacy plans. You will support the piloting and implementation of a monitoring framework currently being developed to track progress against the GLAS Goals and will develop best practice for key approaches to guide implementation. You will also coordinate and lead new global policy agendas which underpin the successful implementation of the GLAS.
About you
• Experience of managing advocacy strategies across multiple countries to achieve impact in global processes, including coordination of advocacy and strategic communications, ideally within an INGO
• Understanding and experience of engaging with multiple external stakeholders to achieve influencing impact, including governments, multilateral agencies and INGOs
• Strong political awareness and understanding including understanding of intergovernmental political dynamics
• Sound understanding of children’s rights and gender equality, and rights-based approaches likely based on experience of working within an NGO, a UN agency, a government department, or other relevant institutions
• Experience of drafting and producing compelling policy and advocacy briefings and other resources
• Able to consult, gather and integrate feedback into concise and accurate products
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills, able to manage multiple demands, prioritise competing workloads, deliver high-standard work to tight deadlines and plan effectively