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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international non-governmental organization supporting relief and development work in over 99 countries around the world. CRS programs assist persons on the basis of need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality and works through local church and non-church partners to implement its programs. CRS has been helping po...
Job Responsibilities:
- Support the development and contribute to the implementation of CRS Kenya youth projects utilizing standards, tools and best practices in youth programming that effectively engage stakeholders in the youth sector. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and innovation.
- Closely work with Social Behavioral Change team and develop comprehensive behavioral change strategies and plans.
- Provide technical solutions to multi-sector teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards , best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
- Support Kenya MEAL team to include youth perspective in research, mid-term and end line evaluations and mainstream sex and age disaggregated and youth-sensitive indicators into the overall MEAL framework. Contribute to developing indicators, milestones and plans, and lead reporting on all indicators for youth integration, and program progress.
- Provide dynamic leadership, technical support, and team coordination, including ongoing technical guidance and support in youth integration and empowerment and build their knowledge and technical capacity to implement and monitor youth skills programming.
- Support capacity strengthening initiatives in youth programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching.
- Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to the Youth learning agenda .
- Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research, and other institutions, participate in forums in the area of Youth programming collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
- Actively support and participate in the business development initiatives to grow the youth portfolio.
Personal Skills
- Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings
- Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
- Good technical writing skills
- Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
- Proactive, resourceful, and results-oriented
- Demonstrated commitment to respect, equity, diversity and inclusion including gender equality.
Required Languages – English Fluency, Knowledge of a main national language.
Travel – Must be willing and able to travel up to 30%.
Scope: Supervise 2 staff (Youth SPO/PO)
Key Working Relationships:
Internal: Chief of Party, Country Representative, Head of Programming, Programming staff, Finance Manager, Deputy Regional Director for Program Quality, Regional Technical Advisors, HQ based Public Donor Liaison.
External: Donor, government agencies, partner INGOs and local NGOs, peer agencies, community representatives, private sector actors, including financial institutions.
Qualifications
Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:
Education and Experience
- Masters-level education in Development Studies, Social sciences, Business Administration, or related field relevant to youth programming.
- Minimum of five years of relevant work experience in youth-focused or youth-sensitive programming in Kenya with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO.
- Familiarity with any of the youth frameworks is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of youth capacity strengthening best practices.
- Demonstrated capacity and experience with institutional strengthening of local implementing partners.
- Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.
- Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners.
- Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.
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