Essential Job Responsibilities

STRATEGY AND PROGRAMME LEADERSHIP

PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT

• Lead implementation of Mercy Corps’ BSP activities across Kenya in line with programme objectives and annual work plans.
• Ensure integration across programme outcomes at strategic border locations, including:
  • Evidence and analysis
  • Law enforcement strengthening
  • Community engagement in counter OIC actions
  • Victim protection and referral systems
• Work with the DTL and MRELA Manager to ensure that implementation is aligned to programme country workplans and budgets, ensuring delivery is on time, target and budget.
• Lead adaptive management processes, ensuring programme delivery responds to changing operational and political contexts, emerging risks and programmatic learning
• Ensure that programme implementation is responsive to emerging local needs and opportunities, and consistent with Mercy Corps’ programme guidelines, principles, values, quality standards.

GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATION AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

RISK MANAGEMENT

• Monitor contextual developments affecting programme delivery in partnership with the BSP Risk and Security Manager.
• Support implementation of programme risk management systems, ensuring compliance with BSP security protocols and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in incident management and crisis response where required.
• Promote safeguarding and Do No Harm approaches across programme implementation

TEAM MANAGEMENT

• Manage project officers operating at field sites, ensuring quality and performance in the delivery of community engagement and community-policing interventions.
• Oversee performance of Kenyan sub-grantees, and provide team members and implementing partners with information, tools and other resources to improve performance & reach objectives.
• Contribute to programme team-building efforts, help team members identify problem solving options and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.

MONITORING & EVALUATION (M&E) AND REPORTING

ACCOUNTABILITY TO BENEFICIARIES

Supervisory Responsibility

• Project Officers
• Accountability

Reports Directly To: Deputy Team Leader

Works Directly With: Consortium partners, MRELA Manager, Finance and Compliance Director, local and national government officials, local civil society organizations, implementing partners and communities.

Knowledge and Experience

• Master’s degree in security Sector/Police reform, Border/Security Management, or related discipline.
• At least 15 years’ experience working on security sector or police reform, community policing or crime prevention programming in the Horn of Africa
• In-depth understanding of the Kenya context, including border security, governance and policing frameworks, OIC and migration dynamics and key stakeholders working within the organised crime, irregular migration space.
• Excellent representational skills, with demonstrated experience working to influence national government and national police/security sectors’ ways of working and policies.
• Solutions-oriented individual, with strong strategic thinking capabilities.
• Demonstrated effectiveness managing a diverse team of staff, consortium partners and local implementing partners, building a cohesive and results-oriented team to deliver on complex programming result.
• Experience working with a diverse range of community members to discuss sensitive and delicate topics in a conflict-sensitive manner.
• Excellent writing and reporting skills.
• Excellent verbal and inter-personal communications skills.
• Demonstrated sensitivity, skill, and experience working within different cultural settings and navigating public affairs and communications on sensitive issues.