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Christian Aid is a humanitarian and development organisation that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life with dignity, free from poverty. We work globally for profound change tackling the root causes of poverty, and creating enabling environments for communities to exercise their capacities. We strive to achieve equality, dignity and freedom for all, regardless of faith or nationality.

In Kenya, Christian Aid focuses on delivering interventions that shifts power relations and dynamics in favour of poor and marginalised communities and groups as a means to ending poverty cycles. We work across access to essential services, inclusive market systems development, and resilience building to such risks as climate change related disasters.

CASE-OVC Project

Comprehensive Assistance, Support and Empowerment of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CASE‐ OVC) project is a USAID-funded $38.8 million 5-year award to a consortium led by Christian Aid. The project aims to improve the welfare and protection of 170,000 children affected by HIV/AIDS in 18 target counties in Central, Eastern and Part of Rift Valley leading to resilient and thriving orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). It has three main sub-purposes. First, it will aim at improving the health and social status of OVC and their households; secondly at enhancing economic status, economic resilience, and care giving and protection capacities of OVC households and caregivers; and thirdly at strengthening and creating linkages of formal and informal protection systems making them responsive, inclusive and accountable to the needs of OVC. Activities in CASE-OVC will aim to meet short term needs of OVC and their households, as well as invest in building capacities of households, communities and wider systems to sustainably provide an enabling environment for OVC to thrive and be resilient to risks they face.

We are inviting applications for the following position of Chief of Party for the CASE-OVC Project

About Role

The Chief of Party will lead a team of 6 key staff and ensure the following key results are delivered: –

• Effective award management, leading the project team, in liaison with implementing partners ensuring effective implementation, monitoring of services to OVCs, quality controls, accountability, and compliance within the framework of the cooperative agreement, USAID’s rules and regulations, and Christian Aid policies and procedures.
• Effective risk management including proactively identifying any risks, issues, and capacity gaps and effectively managing them or seek support for solutions.
• Effective people management ensuring highly skilled staff are recruited, properly inducted, empowered and supported to provide leadership and decision-making within a team setting, and effectively managed to perform to a high standard and meeting their objectives.
• Successfully represent Christian Aid and the project’s best interests to government officials, USAID in Kenya, and other partners and stakeholders.

About you

With line management from the Kenya Country Manager, you will independently lead and facilitate leadership of your team to effectively deliver the project and deliver expected results. You will model and promote a culture of self-leadership, decisiveness and teamwork. You should be proactive and able to work with minimal supervision to deliver quality and excellence in your role’s expectations. This is about you leading effectively, individually and collaboratively in teams to deliver key outputs while exercising passion, autonomy and mutual accountability. You will challenge status quo, embrace and respect diversity of views, enable others to co-lead with you, and take action to make contributions toward achievement of the shared team goals.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

 

Competency questions:

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Building partnerships:

This supports our values of cooperation and partnership and our commitment to building partnerships. It is about working with others in a spirit of cooperation, recognising that change is brought about through partnership with others. It covers building internal and external relationships and networks – and means working collaboratively and overcoming obstacles to achieve mutual aims. Please tell us about a time when you sought out and created opportunities to establish new high-impact relationships, partnerships and collaborations to advance organisational/project goals. What was the key learning in building partnerships? Did you have the desired impact?

 

DELIVER RESULTS:

This is about being accountable for our actions and ensuring that they contribute to Christian Aid’s work to end poverty. It includes organising and planning work, goal-setting, applying judgement, taking responsibility and decision-making. Please tell us about a time when you respond quickly and decisively under pressure to problems that affected others, making decisions that are evidence-based, realistic and balanced short- and long-term impacts in a way that delivers expected results? What critical lessons did you learn?

 

STEWARD RESOURCES:

This competency supports our commitment to efficient management of resources, including finances, people, and our own time. It is about using the resources entrusted to us by our donors wisely. It involves ensuring value for money for our donors, supporters, partners and beneficiaries. Can you give an example of a complex situation where you demonstrated rigorous planning to deadlines and holding staff and partners accountable, along with the flexibility and ability to respond to problems even crises rapidly and effectively and deal with them proactively and well? What challenges did you have to overcome and how did you handle them?