JOB TITLE: Project Officer

LOCATION: Kenya – Nairobi

JOB FAMILY: Programme

KCCWG PURPOSE: To work with others to find lasting solutions to climate change

JOB PURPOSE: To manage and coordinate the planning and successful implementation of the KCCWG climate change advocacy project supported by Act! CRM facility.

REPORTING LINES:

Line Manager – To the convener, KCCWG

Staff reporting to this post: Manage 7 part-time county liaison officers.

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: Budget planning, implementation and reporting as per the KCCWG policy.

BACKGROUND

KCCWG is a national climate change network composed of 270 agencies working on climate change and drawn from local, national and international CSOs, research institutes and universities, private sector, media and other stakeholders. The working group is composed of 9 thematic areas: urbanisation-, housing and infrastruc­ture; water; forestry; energy; tourism trade and industry; pastoralism and conflict over natural resources; health; agriculture, livestock and fisheries; and education. In collaboration with partners such as Oxfam, Trocaire, CordAid, NCA, HBF, GoK, Action Aid, Act!, Christian Aid, PACJA and others the network has conducted climate change research and advocacy locally and globally. This has helped identify climate change needs at the local, county and national level.

This position will be responsible for the managing an advocacy project focusing on Improving Climate Change Adaptive capacity and mitigation in Kenya through local and national level measures. The project is supported by Act!

The PO will also work closely with all members of the KCCWG secretariat and the national steering committee in executing the project activities.

Dimensions

§ Manage and monitor the project.

§ Monitor project progress and delivery to results.

§ Technical backstopping county liaison officers

• Diverse and complex problem solving, requiring professional knowledge, management, field experience and an understanding of development and climate change
• Knowledge required includes broad understanding of climate change issues, advocacy and networking.
• Short, medium and long term planning is required in the context of changing priorities.

§ Contacts are with wide spectrum of clients, often external.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Ensure the project is implemented in accordance with the KCCWG strategy and plans

- Develop and manage partnership relations with county non-state actors

- Liaise with county liaison officers to establish county networks

- With the direction of the NSC, implement county and national level project activities

- Ensure that the project is implemented in a consultative, participative manner

- Encourage unique, innovative and experimental solutions to complex problems using judgement to manage risks to the project success

- Ensure that gender is fully taken into account in all aspects of the project implementation.

- Manage project learning processes, produce relevant documentation

- Ensure that the project delivers to and meets the requirements on monitoring, reporting, accountability and other project quality standards

- Ensure that learning is captured and shared both internally and externally

Skills and Competencies:

- Understanding and experience of programming in climate change issues, advocacy and networking.

- A degree in social sciences preferably in the fields of environment, climate change adaptation, disaster management, agriculture or other development related field.

- At least 2 years relevant experience

- Familiarity national and regional level climate change processes and united Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) processes

- A proven capacity of designing, managing and reporting donor funded projects

- Ability to do technical reports with conformity to deadlines

- Ability to develop and manage complex relationships and teams across a wide variety of actors, technical areas and cultures towards meeting targets on time and within budget

- A proven ability to manage complex partner relationships respecting partners’ autonomy while ensuring project delivery

- Fluent written and spoken English

- Willingness to travel including medium/high risk areas

- Willingness to work for extended time to meet deadlines

- Experience with managing donor funded proposals (desirable)

- Understanding of research methodologies and monitoring, learning and evaluation (desirable)

- Experience of knowledge management and learning (desirable)

Contract period: One year with possibility of renewal

Application: If you possess the required qualifications, send your application letter together with your CV by email only to the convener, KCCWG, email address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to reach him by 12^th January 2012. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. Please quote CRM PO in your application email subject.