Change Management Trainer Job in Nairobi Kenya

Position: Change Management Trainer

Location: Nairobi

Experience:

BSc Degree, MBA preferred

Excellent organizational and communication skills.

Five or more years of relevant experience in Change Management roles.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the people side change caused by projects and change efforts.
• Develop a change management strategy based on a situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups being impacted by the change.
• Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance, and develop specific plans to mitigate or address the concerns.
• Conduct readiness assessments, evaluate results and present findings in a logical and easy-to-understand manner.
• Support the execution of plans by employee-facing managers and business leaders.
• Be an active and visible coach to executives leaders who are change sponsors.
• Create and manage measurement systems to track adoption, utilization and proficiency of individual changes.
• Identify resistance and performance gaps, and work to develop and implement corrective actions
• Create and enable reinforcement mechanisms and celebrations of success.
• Work with project teams to integrate change management activities into the overall project plan.

Points of focus:

• Defining and developing the strategy to gathering, validating and ensuring effective deployment of customer requirements for changes in systems, policies and processes.
• Taking the lead in the creation or revision of existing training materials.
• The management and appropriate communication of Change Management planning.
• The building and deployment of appropriate internal capabilities, Change Management programs and on-going customer support
• The appropriate handling of customer concerns with complete documentation of resolutions

Skills and qualifications:

• A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process.
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles and methodologies (example: Prosci certification)
• Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Exceptional communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Problem solving and root cause identification skills.
• Strong analytic and decision making abilities.
• Must be a team player and able to work with and through others.
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
• Experience with large-scale organizational change effort.
• Previous change management experience is a plus.

If qualified, kindly mail your applications to africajobs@dhanushinfotech.com

For more information about us, kindly visit our website at www.dhanushinfotech.com

Finn Church Aid (FCA) Regional Donor Liaison and Program Coordinator (Southern Africa) Job in Nairobi Kenya

Finn Church Aid (FCA) is one of Finland’s largest non-governmental organizations working in Development Cooperation, Advocacy and Humanitarian Assistance. 

FCA is a member of the ACT Alliance (ACT), an alliance of faith-based development and humanitarian organizations forming one of the World’s largest aid organizations. 

FCA is looking for a Regional Donor Liaison and Program Coordinator for Southern Africa, based in the East and Southern Africa Regional Office in Nairobi, Kenya. 

Presently FCA has three Southern Africa Country Programs (in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe).

FCA is looking for a Regional Donor Liaison and Program Coordinator for Southern Africa

Primary purpose: To support donor relations and fundraising in the region and manage Finn Church Aid’s development, advocacy and humanitarian projects in Southern Africa.

Duties and responsibilities

• Be responsible for project management and overall PME of FCA’s development, advocacy and humanitarian projects in Southern Africa in accordance with FCA Policies and Guidelines, including planning, budgeting, monitoring, archiving, intra-agency and back-donor reporting, evaluation as well as preparing payments to partners; 
• Ensure that partners follow the reporting schedules, guidelines and other requirements as per contracts. 
• Monitor and ensure the technical and financial quality of the on-going projects and their compliance with FCA guidelines. 
• Support the effective and efficient management of the projects consistent with the project management cycle and compliant with FCA procedures, systems and guidelines. 
• Ensure that all projects adhere to FCA’s systems and procedures. 
• Ensure that project implementation meets back donor compliance requirements.
• Be responsible for the overall partner relations in FCA Southern Africa Country programs. 
• Participate in recruitment of consultants and in preparations of TOR’s of consultants for Southern Africa programs as advised by the supervisor; 
• Monitor the evolving humanitarian situation in Southern Africa and consider immediate and strategic responses together with other ESARO and Headquarter staff.
• Active responsibility for broadening FCA regional funding mix from international donors in close coordination with the Regional Representative, operational units and the Global Grants unit at FCA Headquarters. Tasks include proactively soliciting and cultivating donor relations, funding proposals, grants management, project monitoring, reporting and quality controlling. 
• Monitor international grant opportunities from institutional donors including Europe AID, ECHO, UN agencies, USG, Diplomatic Mission/embassies, private sector, trusts & foundations. 
• Identify and coordinate opportunities for funding in line with FCA’s strategic priorities and country programs in the region.
• Build the capacity of expatriate and local staff in the field office to meet various donor requirements.
• Build relationships with (I)NGOs, institutional donors, and other national or regional organizations and potential donors in Southern Africa, including ECHO, EU Commission, and UN Agencies,
• Fundraising and advocacy coordination with the sister organizations of FCA and ACT Alliance members and others,
• Represent FCA in coordination meetings relevant to FCA managed or supported projects in Southern Africa. 
• Ensure collaborative stakeholder management including involving the relevant authorities in the planning and implementation of FCA’s activities. 
• Participate in the planning of FCA’s development, advocacy and humanitarian projects/programs in the Southern Africa region, together with other ESARO staff, ensuring that the new projects/programs are in line with FCA policies and guidelines, national and cluster policies and guidelines.
• Provide inputs from the field perspective to ESARO Regional Office on relevant planning.
• Provide inputs for assessing new modes of partner collaboration, and for identifying new partners when relevant. 
• Participate in fund-raising for Southern Africa programs. 
• Provide capacity building support to FCA partner organizations in Southern Africa. 
• Any other duties assigned by his/her supervisor

Competence and Personal Requirements

• Degree in Development studies, Social sciences, Project Management or related field; 
• Good understanding of development cooperation, advocacy and humanitarian aid and their standards; 
• Strong project management skills and knowledge of appropriate project management tools (Logical Framework analysis, project cycle management, budget management etc.);
• Demonstrable experience in fundraising for international development NGOs with specific expertise in institutional funding instruments. 
• Experience in managing development projects: 
• Experience in establishing and maintaining strong working relationships with partners;
• Availability to travel extensively in target countries (Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe and possible new countries); 
• Fluency in Portuguese language is a strong asset; 
• Experience in managing advocacy and humanitarian projects is an asset;
• Experience in ACT Alliance emergency response mechanisms is an asset; 
• Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines;
• Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues; 
• Ability to work on own initiative;
• An understanding of and commitment to FCA’s mission and values.

How to apply:

For more information please contact Mr David Korpela, Regional Representative for East and Southern Africa, tel. +254 786 205 470 or david.korpela@kua.fi

This is a national position based in Kenya, with travel to Southern Africa. 

Interested candidates should submit their motivation letter and CV to recruitment.esaro@kua.fi by Friday 10th May 2013.

APHRC Web and Graphic Designer Job in Nairobi Kenya

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that carries out high quality, policy relevant research on population, health and education issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. 

The Center seeks to recruit a Web and Graphic Designer with modern web development skills but who really has a passion for online graphic design.

APHRC is looking for a creative tech savvy graphic designer with web development skills to lead our online communications work and strategy. 

The designer brings exciting new ideas on how to reenergize the Center’s online face using contemporary online communications tools and graphic designs including info-graphics and interactive data visualizations to increase our website traffic and create more engaged users. 

If you have a good sense of humor and love doing graphic design work, are active online on social media and enjoy using data to create dynamic visual effects then this is the job for you.
 

You will get to manage a new state of the art website(currently under construction).

Responsibilities 

• Managing and building onto the APHRC website and other APHRC web based platforms 
• Design and develop new website info-graphics and data visualizations including taking research data and turning it into designed finished web ready content. 
• Assist with design of APHRC products for on and offline use, but with a focus on online ready products.
• Upgrade website by assisting with updating content and graphics; monitoring analytics; identifying new creative ways to showcase data online and increasing website traffic and engaged users; introducing new technology; maintaining links.
• Revitalizing the information architecture of various online platforms as needed and linking external resources to the Center’s website. 
• Update and refresh new website (currently being designed by an external team) as needed by updating and installing new modules; ensuring cross-platform compatibility; establishing links.
• Develop new ways to visualize and showcase our data focusing on new innovations in online communication (such as info-graphics, interactive web tools, blogging, and social media) to improve content presentation, access, use and feedback. 
• Code graphic design projects into e-newsletter and new web blast templates.
• Provide weekly website analytics by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends and then optimize and generate ideas to increase traffic through the site. 
• Manage links that enable users to share documents with friends and colleagues. 
• Manage and ensure an easy-to-use content management system for the website, be able to adjust CMS framework as needed by the team. 
• Develop online web-friendly fundraising tools and work with the fundraising team to develop new ways to improve this functionality.
• Develop apps for smart phone and tablet technologies. 
• Implement and maintain website enhancements, security/privacy policies, user accounts, access rights, passwords, etc. 
• Recommend and apply user experience approaches based upon the latest interactive trends and best practices in the industry. 

Qualifications 

• Degree in graphic design, IT or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years relevant post-qualification experience. 
• Programming language aptitude 
• Proven excellent graphic design and copy-writing skills 
• Demonstrated experience in creating info-graphics and or interactive web data visualizations.
• Multimedia skills such as podcast or webcast editing, video editing are An added advantage. 

Skills: 

• Web and traditional Graphic Design, Web Savvy, Planning, Web User Interface Design, Web Programming Skills, Teamwork, Illustration Tools, Multimedia Content Development, Understanding Browser Capabilities, Internet Presence and Excellent Verbal Communication

Interested candidates are invited to send applications via email no later than May 10, 2013, enclosing a detailed CV, quoting current and expected salary and providing contact details of three referees to jobs@aphrc.org or to the address below. 

Please indicate Web and Graphics Designer on the subject line of email or on the envelope. 

Include in your application a portfolio of not more than 3 web and graphic design examples you have personally worked on.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
 

How to apply:

The Human Resources Officer 

African Population and Health Research Center 

P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO, 

Nairobi

Website: www.aphrc.org

VSF Belgium East Africa Regional Director Job in Nairobi Kenya

Position: Regional Director East-Africa

Based in: Nairobi, Kenya

Contract: 1 year, renewable

Availability: August 2013

Organisation

In Africa, millions of people survive by their livestock. 

Yet veterinary care is often insufficiently available. When farmers lose their herds to disease, drought or conflict, they lose everything: their pride, their culture, their savings and their livelihood. 

By helping to care for livestock and improve production, the NGO Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium supports local populations in their struggle against hunger and poverty. 

In East Africa, our programs focus on livestock dependent communities in Kenya, Uganda and South-Sudan.

Role

The role of the Regional Director for East-Africa is to develop and implement the strategy for East-Africa in line with the mission, vision, values and global strategy of VSF-BELGIUM.

He/she reports to the General Director. 

He/she is a member of the Management Team of VSF-BELGIUM.

Responsibilities

• Develop the regional strategy and program within the VSF-BELGIUM framework and contribute to the development of the overall strategy of VSF-BELGIUM, incl. identification and development of strategic partnerships 
• To implement the 3 year regional strategy and defining subsequent annual plans (plans should include budget, HR components, and SMART indicators allowing appropriate monitoring), ensuring that RON activities are within VSFB strategic plan; 
• To monitor the quality of regional program in the region 
• To develop a professional technical Regional support unit, so that county offices receive the monitoring and guidance that is needed
• To develop effectiveness of RON and field staff through coaching, monitoring, staff performance management, M&E of field activities 
• To ensure that VSFB complies with donor’s requirements 
• To ensure that the agreed amount of co-financing funds for the programs in the region is secured, taking into account global needs of VSF-BELGIUM for co-financing 
• To represent and promote VSF-BELGIUM in the region, incl. advocate the interests of VSF-BELGIUM and its stakeholders with decision makers in the region 
• To ensure knowledge/expertise is capitalized within the region and shared with teams across VSF-BELGIUM To oversee the regional office in Nairobi

Profile

Education 

• Relevant advanced university degree 
• Knowledge and experience 
• At least 3 years of experience in a senior management position 
• Experience in strategic planning and organisational change management 
• At least 8 years of experience in the development and humanitarian aid in Africa and in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas 
• Experience in managing multidisciplinary teams 
• Fluent in English 
• Basic knowledge of French is a plus 
• Existing network within NGO-donor community in East-Africa would be an added advantage Experience in Project Cycle Management and Result Based Approach 
• Experience in proposal writing with major donors

Skills 

• Is able to think strategically and develop a long term plan for a region 
• Is able to analyse complex situations and to identify priorities quickly 
• Is able to take decisions and implement them 
• Is able to establish and maintain good relations with local and international partners, donors and governmental institutions 
• Is an excellent manager and coach 
• Is solution- and result-oriented 
• Is able to manage change 
• Strives for continuous improvement of quality and incites others to do so too 
• Is able to instill a good communication climate in a team 
• Stimulates information sharing and teamwork 
• Is flexible

Attitudes 

• Identifies him/herself with the mission, vision and values of VSF-Belgium 
• Is of impeccable integrity and sets high standards of integrity to others 
• Displays intercultural sensitivity, displays respect in dealing with others
• Is willing to travel regularly

How to apply:

Please send your application letter, curriculum vitae and the names as well as contact data of three reference persons by email to rdeastafrica@vsf-belgium.org.

Application deadline: 18 May 2013
 

This vacancy is open to male and female candidates. 

Applications from Kenyan nationals are encouraged. 

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

For more information: www.vsf-belgium.org, www.veterinairessansfrontieres.be or www.dierenartsenzondergrenzen.be