Program Officer (Mombasa), Current NGO Jobs In Kenya,

Mercy Corps is seeking a Program Officer for the three-year Sauti Yako, Amani Yako (Sauti) program, which seeks to strengthen the institutional capacity, skills, and networks of relevant stakeholders to detect and address the drivers of recruitment by violent extremist organizations. The program also seeks to integrate appropriate approaches into government services and promote improved access to information to build the resilience of individuals, communities, and systems to the risks of radicalization and recruitment.

General Position Summary

The Program Officer is a key member of the program team and will report to the Chief of Party. She/he will support the day-to-day program team in the identification of the needs and opportunities and provide relevant information to facilitate the program team’s ability to develop activity ideas.

 Essential Responsibilities

 Program Support

• Work with the Sauti Chief of Party and consortium partners to support all relevant aspects of Sauti implementation in pursuit of the program goals and outcomes.
• Provide updates and analysis of key developments in targeted thematic areas or geographies.
• Identify needs and opportunities and provide relevant information to facilitate the program team’s ability to develop activity ideas.
• Work with the grants team and downstream partners to develop organized, complete, and thorough budgets that are harmonized with grant applications.
• Under the direction of the Chief of the Party, develop and maintain relationships with organizations/ actors in key target sectors (e.g. faith organizations, youth groups, women’s organizations, CBOs/local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), local government officials, etc.).

 Monitoring & Evaluation

• Work with the monitoring and evaluation team and partners in program monitoring, evaluation, and learning with:
• Support with tracking partners’ activities – attending all events in the targeted counties, as relevant.
• Support partners on activity-level M&E efforts, ensuring quality, reliability, and consistency in data collection efforts using program M&E templates.
• Help identify lessons learned from project implementation and facilitate the incorporation of those lessons into the activity development cycle.
• Meet regularly with the program team to evaluate project progress, identify successes, challenges, and lessons-learned; and adjust practices as necessary to improve performance.
• Prepare and submit to the program team reports of specific events, field trips, and meetings attended.
• Support the team in effectively utilizing established monitoring and evaluation formats and provide feedback for their improvement.
• Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor.

Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in conflict/peace studies preferred, or appropriate social science discipline, community development, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience, including (preferably) in implementing peace, Prevention of Violent Extremism, and Conflict-related projects.
• Highly developed analytical skills, including the ability to support the design of targeted activities to positively affect desired PVE outcomes with at-risk individuals and communities.
• Ability to interact effectively with diverse project stakeholders, especially with the security sector and electoral bodies.
• Experience working in PVE programming, conflict or post-conflict settings, and conflict-sensitive programming.
• Experience working with stakeholders including the private sector, government, youth, and women groups.
• Experience in project monitoring and evaluation.
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills.
• Previous working experience in Mombasa and the Coast region is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge and skills with of MS Office applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access.

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