Jobs at World Vision Kenya

We are looking for an inquisitive and well organised person with an acute sense of news and storytelling who will partner with our staff to manage and produce internal communications for them in 90+ offices across the world. The role includes working with others to communicate World Vision’s work and global business related news in ways that staff find appealing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enable and lead a multi-country internal communications approach to help staff be informed of and engaged with what is happening in the global organisation.
• Deliver effective internal communications channels and apply learning to future plans.
• Ensure that global communications reaching staff is audience-centric, respectful of their time and workload, engaging and purposeful.    
• Establish mechanisms to help staff make quick informed decisions as to which global news and stories are relevant or interesting to them.
• Produce, curate, and edit high quality content, and lead global internal editorial processes.
• Use data, facts, information, and personal accounts to create storytelling and news for a variety of global internal audiences, often repurposing, following up on, and editing content to show impact, and emotional or human connection.
• Develop new communications styles to enhance internal understanding of organisational strategic priorities. Interpret and translate complex organisational ideas into simple and engaging language to help staff understand and champion work that they may be less familiar with.
• Develop and grow relationships of influence and partnerships with communicators in all World Vision offices to ensure representation and include their voices in internal communications channels.
• Coach content providers, of all seniority levels, on audience-centric content creation and storytelling and uphold quality storytelling for the organisation.  
• Partner with other team members to communicate global organisational story projects to staff and promote engagement and participation.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Minimum of 7 years working in written communications and managing communications channels.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with a commitment to storytelling quality.
• Ability to write the same story in different ways, depending on channel, purpose, and audience.
• Ability to emotionally move and engage a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrates creative ways of storytelling.
• Diplomatic and assertive, able to influence staff at all levels.
• Translates technical and policy information into clear and concise content; Able to synthesise information.
• Audience oriented.
• Interviewing skills and ability to create safe spaces for dialogue.
• Appreciates multi-cultural environments, demonstrates cultural sensitivities, and shows a commitment to diversity.
• Committed to child and adult safeguarding and protection.
• Able to priortise according to strategic need.
• Accountable for on-time delivery and is deadline oriented.
• Self-starter and able to initiate and progress work without immediate supervision.
• Collaborative and a team player.
• Strategic and critical thinker, and moves easily between high-level concepts and detailed features.
• Advanced degree in Writing, Communications, Journalism, Change Management or Organisational Development.
• Ability to travel up to 5%
• Spanish or/ and French are desirable.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience working through or managing others.
• Facilitation skills.
• Not driven by pleasing people.
• Interpersonal skills, with an ability to understand nuances in people’s behaviour, communications, and actions.

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Job Responsibilities

Support World Vision in new or revised market assessments and building the capacity of the local MFI team to engage more effectively in these assessments. Join assessment teams

• Contribute to the analysis and bring an agricultural finance lens to the assessments

This role should lead the documentation, monitoring, technical support to the agricultural and product technical teams (or person) in the MFI. 

• Providing advice
• Mentor and coach
• Sharing best practice
• Linking with other potential agricultural partners
• Linking with other colleagues in our network
• Ensure credit risk is effectively understood

Technical support for agricultural finance products

• Support in market assessment work and building capacity to better understand the needs of farmers and off farm agricultural enterprises
• Support in the actual design and piloting (including the documentation of the product)
• Support the business processes (Staffing, credit policies, digital processes etc) to ensure the product can work for the farmer and the MFI
• Undertake deep dives into key MFI products (that are not working) or into strategy focuses for MFIs seeking to expand their agricultural footprint
• Advise and direction on how the impact of climate change can be mitigated

Support in Innovative agricultural finance products.  This is a subset of the above section, but intentionally focused on new and innovative products

• Supporting the local MFI teams in the piloting and testing of new products
• Providing timely advice on minor changes and improvements in the product during the pilot stage
• To actively pursue partnerships and opportunities particularly in the digital space
• To actively engage and understand trends in the industry.

Provide technical advice and support in the design and writing of new and existing agricultural grant applications

• Review grant applications for agricultural finance opportunities
• Write sections as needed
• Join grant calls and donor visits as needed
• Review and provide advice on grant implementation reports

Working with the Partnerships Director, key support offices and the fundraising team to support how VisionFund can better engage with World Vision both in its existing network, but also outside of its network in developing funding applications for agricultural finance programs

• Support in the design and assessment
• Support in the implementation as needed

This role should lead the learning and dissemination of VF work in agricultural finance

• Providing regular articles (blogs, reports etc) on our networks work in agricultural finance
• Internally within the network share best practices and better understanding of the risk and financial viability of agricultural lending based on data
• Provide regular engagement with key support offices and the GC livelihoods team on the role of agriculture
• Engage around opportunities for agricultural finance to complement climate responses

Role Requirements

• 10 years + working in agricultural finance field in Africa either for Banks, MFIs, Finance companies or NGOs
• Agricultural Economics or relevant agricultural degree
• Postgraduate level degree
• At least 5 years of this must be in providing financial services to farmers and not just in an advisory/ consulting manner
• Experience across a range of countries (not limited to one or two places)
• Experience of Value chain finance or finance to agricultural cooperatives
• Experience of working with International organisations on projects (E.g World Bank, IFAD, FAO)
• Demonstrated experience of working on and or designing programs with a climate change component (e. FMNR)

Preferred knowledge

• Experience of working with NGOs and agricultural partners
• Experience in delivery of training in value chain development
• Any formal training courses/ certificates in agricultural finance
• Digital experience
• Spanish or French spoken will be an added advantage