Stakeholders Engagement Manager Job in Kenya

Vacancy: Stakeholders Engagement Manager

The Organisation: Our

client is a highly reputable global firm that offers bespoke management

consulting support to leading organisations seeking to enhance business

performance.
 

The Project: The organisation seeks to

implement a donor funded 6 year programme, whose core objective is to

provide Sustainable Urban Economic Development (SUED) in Small and

Medium Towns (SMTs) in Kenya. 

The program is anchored on three key pillars:
 

 

a)

Improved urban economic planning at the County level: comprising

demand-led technical assistance to both County governments / Private

Sector actors to maximise sustainable, private sector-led urban growth;
 

b)

Improved sub-national business environment reforms to improve

County-level investment climate constraints for private-sector led urban

growth and develop pro-poor market development strategies;
 

c)

Establishment of an Urban Investment Advisory Facility (UIAF) to

support public-private investment in Infrastructure and high potential

value chains.
 

The Positions: To successfully deliver

on this programme, our client seeks to setup a high calibre Project

Management Unit, where team members are best fit by position, with the

right skills set and a balanced mix of local and international talent.
 

Stakeholders Engagement Manager (SEM)

Ref: FLSUED04
 

Role Purpose: Reporting to the Team Leader, the SEM coordinates and organises stakeholders’ engagement forums, and provides political analysis input into programme assessment and design. 

The SEM will ensure the SUED programme is locally-owned and has support from the National and County stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a holistic Stakeholder engagement plan and a stakeholder prioritisation matrix for the SUED programme


• Establish a stakeholders’ map by identifying all stakeholders, indicating their expectations and managing towards their expectations.


• Develop and manage strong relationships with the county government, private sector participants and CSOs from the inception stage of the project to ensure that the SUED programme has local ownership and support


• Establish an effective communication strategy to effectively implement the programme.


• Establish knowledge transfer communication processes, to document and share key findings and best practices.


• Create communities of practice to enable best practices across the programme.

Desired Competencies and Experience

• A relevant Bachelor’s degree


• Strong intellectual capacity and an impressive track-record in strategic stakeholder engagement spanning government, regulators, business and NGOs/CSOs groups


• Ability to distill complex issues into succinct messages and present confidently to a variety of internal and external stakeholders


• Demonstrated understanding of the devolution of functions of national vs county governments and working experience with county government


• Demonstrated experience leading a public initiative at either national or county level


• Understanding of the political economy within the country, be culturally well networked and energetic


• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Application Procedure:
 

Interested

candidates who meet the above requirements should submit their

applications to include, a cover letter; and an up-to-date CV via email

to: cvs@hpdafrica.com.

Please quote the job title and job code in the subject line.

The closing date for receiving applications is October 30th 2015.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.