GROOTS Kenya – Project Manager.

Location:

Nairobi & Tana River

• Lead the overall redesign, planning, implementation, quality control and monitoring of the REBULD project in the Tana River
• Provide technical leadership to community members in project activities such as land reclamation, livestock disease control, livelihood diversification, rangeland management, innovative pasture production, climate resilient agro-forestry practices, water harvesting and conservation, adoption of drought resistant and short maturing crop varieties and fruit species.
• Provide technical support in development of market systems and business enterprises for project participants
• Lead all policy and advocacy initiatives of the project in food Security and Disaster Risk Reduction, nutrition…….
• Deliberately enhance grassroots women agency throughout the project intervention and manage community dynamics as appropriate
• Facilitate training of project staff on Disaster Risk Reduction and nutrition sensitive programming
• Facilitate all technical capacity building project activities to external stakeholders and project participants
• Inbuilt participatory project monitoring initiatives, develop all project management and donor reports
• Represent GROOTS Kenya in all project steering and partners meeting and make high quality presentations.
• Act as the team leader for the project
• Take lead in the project mapping activities, baseline, mid-term, final evaluations and reporting

Qualifications:

• Educational level required: Degree in applied sciences (Rural Development, Disaster Response Management, Natural Resource Management, Environment, livelihoods, Agriculture)
• Technical Training qualifications required. Training on Disaster Risk Management and Livelihood
• Demonstrated Experience in similar assignments, value chain analysis, supporting women entrepreneurships and market systems, project management, EU or bilateral donor funded projects
• Past Experience working in ASAL region is mandatory
• Minimum of 5 years working experience

Other Attributes:

• Must be a committed to gender equality and women empowerment
• Ability to meet deadlines without failure
• Ability to manage multiple tasks
• Cooperation and Teamwork
• Self-driven Leader and a strategic and critical thinker
• Exceptional Time Management skills with a high sense of agency:
• Highly Innovative
• High Planning and Organization skills:
• Great Interpersonal Skills (Internal and External stakeholders):
• Conflict management skills; demonstrates tact and diplomacy when resolving conflicts,
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• High performing and result oriented person