Catholic Relief Family Strengthening and Early Childhood Development Advisor Jobs in Kenya
Catholic Relief Family Strengthening and Early Childhood Development Advisor Jobs in Kenya;We are seeking a Family Strengthening and Early Childhood Development Advisor to provide technical advice, guidance, and support for family strengthening through protective factors, alternative family‑based care, and the Nurturing Care Framework. The role contributes to improving policies, practices, service quality, and sustainable system change through collaboration with government, civil society, faith‑based, and community stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Provide technical guidance on family‑based case management, family strengthening, prevention of child‑family separation, reintegration, alternative care, and family‑based care pathways
Apply a protective factors model that strengthens parental resilience, social connections, caregiver knowledge, children’s social and emotional competence, and nurturing caregiver‑child relationships
Ensure approaches reflect safeguarding principles, disability inclusion, trauma‑informed practice, country context, and residential care transition guidance
Support assessment, case planning, referral, follow‑up, documentation, and case closure practices for families at risk of separation, reintegrating families, kinship care, foster care, and other alternative care arrangements
Provide technical guidance on iECD approaches grounded in the Nurturing Care Framework, including health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, early learning, safety and security, and caregiver well‑being
Provide expertise on iECD systems, policies, standards, service packages, curricula, implementation guidance, and quality assurance mechanisms
Provide expertise on childcare facilities and ECDE centers quality improvement, including safe environments, child‑centered learning, caregiver capacity, safeguarding, supervision, and continuous quality improvement
Provide expertise on community‑based ECD and caregiver support approaches that strengthen responsive caregiving, early learning, child protection, violence prevention, and family capacity to provide nurturing care
Provide expertise on early identification and referral for children with developmental delays, disabilities, nutrition concerns, protection risks, caregiver stress, or other vulnerabilities
Coordinate with global technical counterparts, resource partners, and consultants to ensure ECD activities draw on specialized expertise
Build capacity to apply residential care transition guidance, alternative care standards, reintegration practice, and family‑based care pathways
Align family strengthening with child protection, alternative care, ECD, health, nutrition, social protection, disability inclusion, violence prevention, parenting, and referrals to HES/SILC
Work closely with parenting resource partners to ensure parenting content and delivery approaches are context appropriate
Tailor parenting and caregiver support for caregivers of children with disabilities, families at risk of separation, reintegrating families, kinship care, foster care, and other alternative care families
Develop, adapt, or update ECD competencies, training curricula, job aids, coaching tools, supervision tools, and practical guidance for health, social service, education, community, daycare/ECDE, faith‑based, and project actors
Document lessons from relevant ECD workstreams, such as policy operationalization, childcare facilities quality improvement, care group delivery, family strengthening models, workforce strengthening, specialized reintegration pathways, parenting adaptations, referral linkages,
and approaches that help children remain safely in family care
Provide inputs to milestone reports, donor updates, briefs, learning products, and project communications on family strengthening, protective factors, parenting adaptations, case management, reintegration, and family‑based care
Participate in relevant working groups, networks, and fora related to family strengthening, case management, parenting, alternative care, reintegration, and residential care transition
Support partner staff, government counterparts, caregivers, and community stakeholders to share learning and practical implementation experience in relevant fora
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field required
Minimum of eight years of work experience in departmental‑specific area of specialization
Previous experience managing multiple projects in a single department
Previous experience in managing departmental projects
Experience working with government, civil society, faith‑based, or community actors
Experience applying technical knowledge in the relevant area of specialization including via standards, evidence, and guidance to program implementation
Experience with facilitation, coaching, training, and capacity strengthening skills
Experience collaborating across technical areas and contributing to integrated project implementation
Experience using program data and learning to identify gaps, manage risks, improve quality, and inform adaptation
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with partners, participatory action planning, and community engagement
Staff supervision experience
Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data
Experience with child protection, family strengthening, family‑based care, social service systems, and/or early childhood development programs
Experience with government‑led monitoring and information systems and strengthening system functionality, institutional capacity, data quality, and data use in low‑resource settings
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Analysis and problem‑solving skills with ability to make sound judgments
Good relationship management skills and ability to work closely with local partners
Proactive, results‑oriented and service‑oriented mindset
Attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness in executing responsibilities
Strong understanding of child protection, family strengthening, family‑based care, social service systems, and/or early childhood development programs
Demonstrated understanding of government‑led monitoring and information systems and practical approaches to strengthen system functionality
Ability to effectively use MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
How to apply
For more information and job application details, see; Catholic Relief Family Strengthening and Early Childhood Development Advisor Jobs in Kenya
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