Fauna & Flora International Senior Programme Manager Jobs in Kenya

Fauna & Flora International Senior Programme Manager Jobs in Kenya; To ensure the Fauna & Flora programmes of work in the Eastern & Southern Africa (E&SA) region are effectively delivered, focusing on enabling leadership and implementation by in-country teams and partners through proactive oversight, capacity building, facilitating engagement of Fauna & Flora’s cross-cutting expertise, empowering line management, excellent risk management and mitigation, and ensuring an outstanding quality of grant management and proposal development.

The level of management, support and direct input will vary across each country programme in line with resources and current capacities, responsibilities and accountabilities in place.

Responsibilities:

Programme Accountability, Leadership and Management

Ensure the capacity is in place to enable in-country teams to deliver Fauna & Flora’s work, including providing direct capacity support, facilitating the input of Fauna & Flora -cross-cutting and other technical specialists, or where appropriate and agreed, seeking external resources
Provide directly, and ensure E&SA line managers provide excellent and motivational line management through objective setting, continuous performance management, annual appraisal, training provision and personal development planning to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the programme

Ensure the effective administrative and financial management of Fauna & Flora’s operations in the E&SA programmes, including:

-All country programmes are legally registered as national entities allowing the implementation of Fauna & Flora operations

-Remain up-to-date with statutory and regulatory frameworks relevant to operations in all country programmes and ensure Fauna & Flora operations comply with national laws, statutory regulations and have the requisite insurances necessary for the implementation of Fauna & Flora operations, including HR policies, labour and tax laws

-All in-country systems, policies and procedures comply, to the extent possible, with Fauna & Flora institutional systems, policies and procedures and Delegation of Authorities

-All contracts and grant agreements are appropriate to, and comply with, Fauna & Flora operating standards, the Fauna & Flora Delegation of Authority, and implementation conditions within the E&SA region

-Accurate financial management of the E&SA programme and its projects

-Maintenance of financial records to meet in-country, donor and any other auditing requirements

Deliver the annual budgeting and any reforecasting processes for E&SA Country Programmes, with effective delegation where appropriate, ensuring use of accurate and up to date information including pipeline, and ensuring all necessary programmatic costs are included

Proactively and regularly communicate to the RD on programmatic costs and budgets flagging future funding needs, priorities and any issues in a timely manner, including co-finance requirements

Oversee the effective recruitment of international and in-country staff and consultants required for the effective running of the E&SA programme in line with Fauna and Flora Recruitment Policy & Procedure and best practice,

Directly and through management of the E&SA team, contribute to and implement effective risk management and mitigation processes and solutions for Country Programme level operations, financial and health & safety, led by the Senior Programme Manager (Operations), Africa

Ensure E&SA team compliance with risk management and mitigation solutions, including inputting effectively into appropriate capacity development of individuals within the E&SA team
Security and Safeguards Accountability

Manage, minimise and mitigate security and safeguarding risks in the E&SA Programme:

Act as the main point of contact between Fauna & Flora HQ and in-country teams on active security situations, ensuring an effective flow of communication between appropriate stakeholders

Lead Fauna & Flora response in active security situations by bringing together appropriate internal roles in order to agree and implement immediate actions, and where appropriate feeding clear information, recommendations and scenario implications up the decision-making chain

Ensure that Fauna & Flora safeguarding and social safeguard policies and procedures are actively implemented in the E&SA region and that all staff have received appropriate training and are aware of their responsibilities

Where appropriate and in collaboration with safeguarding and social safeguard subject matter experts, oversee safeguarding and/or social safeguard cases in the E&SA region, ensuring clear communication to all relevant institutional levels and

departments, enabling Fauna & Flora to respond quickly and appropriately both internally and externally.

Remain informed of security issues within the E&SA region and communicate issues of concern swiftly to the RD, Africa and IHSS Manager, advising of potential impact on staff, operations, projects, finances and funders

Actively feed situational learning to the Senior Programme Manager (Operations), Africa, to enable the continuous development and implementation of strategies to manage and mitigate impacts caused by security issues, and enable the required staff training
Conservation Impact

In line with Fauna & Flora’s global strategy, and in consultation with regional and cross-cutting colleagues:

Ensure each E&SA project has an approved Theory of Change that articulates how that project aligns with and delivers the Fauna & Flora global strategy

Ensure each E&SA project goes through a full design process, including operational assessment and planning, also considering partner requirements

Ensure that resulting project level work plans are in place that derive from and remain aligned with the project Theory of Change, with consideration of multi-team and partner resourcing

Ensure that all new project ideas, concepts and proposals facilitate input from relevant regional, operational and cross-cutting team members, external partners / stakeholders as appropriate, and follow Fauna & Flora’s project cycle process and Delegation of Authorities

Facilitate the effective flow of best practice and learning between project managers and cross-cutting technical experts, including participation in Fauna & Flora’s global communities of practice and inputs into cross-cutting projects where appropriate

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

A relevant, higher degree or equivalent level qualification or equivalent experience in a conservation related subject

Experience managing teams in person and remotely to deliver complex projects including developing individuals in their leadership roles

Experience in institutional development and related capacity building

Experience in overseeing, with accountability for, a concurrent number of conservation projects, including financial and risk management, preferably in Africa

Experience managing a project cycle process from the design stage through fundraising to implementation, MEL and reporting

Experience in project management including large grant budget management and donor reporting, preferable statutory funds from a multilateral/bilateral donor

Experience of working in Africa, preferably the Eastern and southern region

Track record of engaging and working effectively with a range of stakeholders

Desirable

Experience of working alongside, or a good understanding of working with businesses such as extractive industries, preferably in Africa

Experience of developing and implementing sustainable finance mechanisms appropriate to conservation practice including Ministries and Wildlife Authorities,
other government institutions, donor agencies, the private sector, NGOs, and local communities, preferably in Africa

Experience of operating in conflict and post-conflict countries

Experience in Protected Area management

Experience of managing partnership projects, including those involving local community interests or collaborative PA management

Experience working in remote locations with limited resources and amenities

Experience leading social safeguard and safeguarding responses.

Skills

High standard of written and spoken English

Outstanding communicator and collaborator with ability to ensure effective communication flows within and between different teams and individuals, including ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders, and diplomacy to present, negotiate and persuade at all levels of government and civil society

Excellent ability to forward plan and act quickly in the moment to mitigate further issues down the line

Written and spoken Portuguese

How to Apply

Applications should be submitted electronically to africajobs@fauna-flora.org

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