Interpeace Senior Programme Advisor Jobs in Kenya
Position within the Organization
The Senior Programme Advisor is a member of the Programme Management Unit which manages and implements Interpeace’s active and ongoing programmes around the world. The Senior Programme Advisor reports to the Kenya Country Representative and liaises at a strategic level with colleagues at global operations, programme development and innovation, strategic partners and communication and policy, IPAT and learning.
The Senior Programme Advisor has four main areas of responsibility:
Business Development: Building the Kenya Programme portfolio through production of funding proposals for the programme, for East/Horn of Africa cross-border programming, and leading fundraising actions for sustainability of programmes. In addition building relationships with donors, other peacebuilding organisations, and development, humanitarian and human rights organisations to explore programming around the HDP and conflict/human rights nexus.
Programme Innovation: helping the Kenya programme to innovate into new thematic areas, including, but not limited to peace responsiveness, climate change, mental health and psycho-social support (MHPSS). This includes conducting background research, providing and sourcing training and technical assistance for our programmes, assisting programme design, etc.
Research: Lead and coordinate Interpeace’s Kenya research products. In coordination with the Programme Manager and the programme team capacity build the field teams on doing research, participating in research processes, leading the procurement of research services, helping in the production of research outputs, and participating in the validation and dissemination of research.
Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning: helping the programme in project and strategy design, improving monitoring frameworks and ensuring that the programme collects strong evidence, and ensuring that the programme has a very strong learning element.
Duties and responsibilities
Business Development:
Lead inclusive design workshops for new programme development initiatives and ensure that there are strong processes of co-creation with all programme staff and partners.
Lead on the production of funding proposals, which includes close collaboration with the senior regional representative, country representative, the head of programme development, global DMEL manager, regional heads of comms and Operations team.
Build and maintain strong relationships with donors and ensure that Interpeace is considered as a key partner to the large development partners.
Build and maintain strong relationships with important peacebuilding, development, humanitarian and human rights actors, including multilaterals, INGOs, for profits, CSOs, think tanks, governmental and intergovernmental agencies.
Contribute to organisational processes to strengthen coherence and collaboration between programme management and programme development.
Programme Innovation
Support the integration of Peace Responsiveness with the Kenya and regional programmes, including through the provision of background research and information sharing of developments within the peace responsiveness field, technical advisory support, provision and sourcing of professional development for teams, coordination with relevant actors in this space, production of learning/position papers, etc.
Support the integration of resilience for climate change within our peacebuilding programmes through the provision of background research and information sharing of developments within the peace responsiveness field, technical advisory support, provision and sourcing of professional development for teams, coordination with relevant actors in this space, production of learning/position papers etc.
Support the integration of mental health and psycho-social support through the provision of background research and information sharing of developments within the peace responsiveness field, technical advisory support, provision and sourcing of professional development for teams, coordination with relevant actors in this space, production of learning/position papers etc.
Support the Kenya programme to better integrate cross-cutting priorities, including gender equality, youth inclusion, human rights.
Contribute to organisational processes to strengthen coherence and collaboration between programme management and policy.
Research
Support the team in the early development stages of new research projects, including decisions on the objectives, audience, delivery format, division of labour (who does what), setting time-lines, etc.
Support the teams and consultants with research design, including development of research questions and methodology.
Provision of training for field teams on research processes, including research ethics, facilitating KIIs and FDGs, development of topic guides / questionnaires, how to probe, data analysis.
Providing oversight and quality assurance for all the research products.
Liaising with comms teams on visibility, copy edit, research design, etc.
Assisting the team in research validation processes.
Provide research dissemination strategy, ensuring that we maximize the impact of research and that we consciously work towards achieving the primary research objectives.
Contribute to organisational processes to strengthen coherence and collaboration between programme management and the communication department.
Design, monitoring, evaluation and learning
In close collaboration with the country representative and programme manager, help to strengthen the M&E systems.
Assist the teams in the production of strong evidence that we can utilize in our programme design.
Assist the programme with the production of learning products, and ensuring that learning products are integrated with the professional development goals of staff and field teams.
Assist in the identification of learning needs and opportunity and explore these.
Lead the design and participate in the dissemination of Interpeace’s learning products to external audiences, including through the participation in conferences, in coordination meetings, donor meetings and other relevant platforms to disseminate our learning.
Contribute to organisational processes to strengthen coherence and collaboration between programme management and the DMEL department.
Qualifications:
Candidates with relevant qualifications, experience, a tertiary degree, and fluency in English are invited to apply.
Relevant experience and qualifications may include:
Education
Advanced or a Master’s Degree degree in international relations, political science, development, management, or relevant field
Experience
Fifteen years years of relevant experience in peacebuilding, political and/or developmental work with increasing management responsibility.
Five years of relevant field experience desired.
Experience working in Kenya and in the region is essential.
Ability to demonstrate record of business development history in the recent work is required. Demonstrated effectiveness and substantial experience with short and long-term planning; financial, personnel and program management in cross-cultural, international organizations
Demonstrated experience in conflict resolution/peacebuilding, advocacy, partnership management, proposal writing and programme management.
Very strong proven track-record in conflict analysis, proposal development – strong writing and analytical skills are quintessential.
Proven record of recent published research work.
Preferably proven experience in any of the following thematic areas: peace responsiveness, climate change, MHPSS, gender, WPS/YPS, human rights, security sector reform and rethinking stabilisation.
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