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Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme M & E Coordinator at Save the Children in Nairobi – Kenya Jobs, Careers and Vacancies
Save the Children is the world’s largest independent organization for children, making a difference to children’s lives in over 120 countries. We deliver immediate and lasting improvements to children’s lives worldwide. Save the Children listens to children, involves children and ensures their views are taken into account. Save the Children secures and protects children’s rights to food, shelter, healthcare, education and freedom from violence, abuse and exploitation.
Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Save the Children has been operational in Kenya for more than 20 years, working on four core thematic areas: right to health, right to freedom from hunger, right to education and right to protection. We provide support through both longer term development work and humanitarian relief.Currently faced with serious food crisis hitting the Horn of Africa and in particular North Eastern Province where we work, we are seeking qualified candidates to fill the following positions:
BLANKET SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING PROGRAMME M & E COORDINATOR
(6 months Contract based in Nairobi)
Job Purpose
The incumbent will coordinate with WFP/UNICEF/MoH and partners, to lead in the set up and day to day monitoring system and analysis of the blanket supplementary feeding programme in 6 districts in Northern Kenya.
Key Accountabilities
He/she will lead a team of 3 BSFP M&E Officers to set up a comprehensive process monitoring system across 6 intervention districts and partners, supervise BSFP M&E Officers implementing distributions to consistently and regularly monitor activities, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data, co-ordinate post distribution monitoring activities, undertake regular visits to the field to support monitoring and accountability processes, spot check data collection, data entry for quality, analysis, reporting on programme progress and at the end of the 4 distribution cycles.
The incumbent also work with programme teams to ensure that information relating to Save the Children and our activities is shared widely within communities in which we are working and provide for their participation and feedback in line with relevant guidelines and frameworks, facilitate M&E meetings, share M&E guidance and deliver training and capacity building in order to ensure that monitoring activities are conducted effectively and according to agreed guidelines and procedures and lead in information sharing within the Nutrition Technical Forum/WFP/
UNICEF/MoH
Person specification MSc degree in health/nutrition/social sciences/another relevant field with experience running blanket feeding programmes.Experience working in emergency nutritionExperience in conducting nutrition assessmentsSubstantial experience in programme monitoring and evaluationExcellent data collection, analysis, interpretation and report writing.Excellent diplomacy, facilitation, coordination and team leadership skillsStrong organisational and analytical skills, and ability to work under pressureExcellent computer skills, particularly with Excel and analysis softwareWilling and able to travel regularly within remote areas where basic services are limited.
Application process:
If you meet the above requirements, please send your cover letter indicating your expected salary and detailed CV with current contacts of three referees including immediate supervisor addressed to: Head of Human Resources & Administration, Save the Children UK, Kenya Programme: jobskenya@scuk.or.ke not later than 22nd July, 2011. Quote the job title on the subject line.
Due to the urgency to fill these positions, short listing will be done as applications are received. “Candidates from North Eastern Province are strongly encouraged to apply”
Save the Children (UK) recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to equal employment opportunities and the protection of children from abuse
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