Mercy Corps Market Systems Team Leader, PROGRESS Programme - Wajir

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. 

Driven by local needs, our programs provide communities in the world’s toughest places with the tools and support they need to turn the crises they confront into the opportunities they deserve. 

Mercy Corps is looking for a committed and dynamic individual to take up the following position:

Market Systems Team Leader, PROGRESS Programme - Wajir

Programme / Department Summary: The Governance Team Leader will work in collaboration with the PROGRESS Programme Director, Programme Managers and PROGRESS Consortium members in the implementation of a proposed multi-year project as part of DFID’s BRACED initiative (Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters). 

Mercy Corps anticipates a programme award under BRACED to implement the “Programme for Resilient Systems” (PROGRESS). 

If awarded, PROGRESS will be comprised of a multi-partner consortium poised to deliver a 36-month initiative designed to build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of more than 500,000 individual households in northern Kenya (Wajir and Garissa) and northern Uganda (Karamoja). 

The Wajir-based Market Systems Team Leader will play a key role in implementation.
 

General Position Summary: The Market Systems Team Leader is responsible for leading the implementation of facilitation projects that make market dynamics, actors, institutions and services accessible to households within the PROGRESS focus areas. 

These activities will work through public sector enabling strategies and private sector actors, seeking to crowd in provision rather than displace or replicate private actors with donor-funded services. 

Facilitation projects increasing access to technical services, improving access to locally appropriate products, developing agent input and aggregator networks, improving service offerings and profitable provision of community animal health services, commercializing access innovative energy products and methods, and expanding the role and relationship of line Ministries in strategic prioritization of investment for economic vitality that contributes to household and community resilience.

Essential Job Functions:
 

Program Implementation:

• With support from the PROGRESS Programme Manager and fellow sector-focused Team Leaders, carry out assessments in the target geographic areas to assess current situation, economic opportunities and resources, needs and potential programs as well as obstacles that could be mitigated through PROGRESS engagement with public and private sector actors;

Mercy Corps Natural Resources Management (NRM) Team Leader (PROGRESS Programme) in Wajir

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. 

Driven by local needs, our programs provide communities in the world’s toughest places with the tools and support they need to turn the crises they confront into the opportunities they deserve. 

Mercy Corps is looking for a committed and dynamic individual to take up the following position:

Natural Resources Management (NRM) Team Leader, PROGRESS Programme – Wajir
 

Programme / Department Summary: The Natural Resources Management (NRM) Team Leader will work in collaboration with the PROGRESS Programme Director, Programme Managers and PROGRESS Consortium members in the implementation of a proposed multi-year project as part of DFID’s BRACED initiative (Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters). 

Mercy Corps anticipates a programme award under BRACED to implement the “Programme for Resilient Systems” (PROGRESS). 

If awarded, PROGRESS will be comprised of a multi-partner consortium poised to deliver a 36-month initiative designed to build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of more than 500,000 individual households in northern Kenya (Wajir and Garissa) and northern Uganda (Karamoja). 

The Wajir-based NRM Team Leader will play a key role in implementation.
 

General Position Summary: The NRM Team Leader will be responsible for overseeing program activities aimed at strengthening the horizontal and vertical linkages that support good governance of community assets and resources derived from the natural environment, including the land and the naturally occurring elements above and below it. 

Mercy Corps Capacity Building Specialist (YYC Central Program) in Thika

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.

Driven by local needs, our programs provide communities in the world’s toughest places with the tools and support they need to turn the crises they confront into the opportunities they deserve.

Mercy Corps is looking for a committed and dynamic individual to take up the following position:

Capacity Building Specialist, YYC Central Program (Thika)
 

Program / Department Summary: Mercy Corps’ goal in Kenya is to strengthen and sustain capabilities of Kenyan society and stakeholders to be agents of positive change in their communities. 

It achieves this goal through three objectives:
 

1) Strengthened ability of local, district, and regional structures to manage conflict and become managers of democracy;
 

2) Empowered Kenyan youth to achieve a greater voice in national reform and create new livelihood opportunities and
 

3) More resilient drought affected populations in North Eastern Kenya.
 

The Yes Youth Can (YYC) program is a multi-year USAID-funded program that focuses on building youth-owned, youth-led and youth-managed institutional arrangements and capabilities at both national and county levels. 

Mercy Corps implements two of USAID’s regional YYC programs—one in the Rift Valley and one in Central region. 

In partnership with the County Bungee Forums and SACCOs, Mercy Corps works to achieve the following four objectives:
 

1) Mobilize youth and form youth representation structures at the village and county level;
 

2) Support youth to exercise a greater voice in local and national affairs;

Mercy Corps Gender Specialist (Progress Programme) Job in Wajir

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. 

Driven by local needs, our programs provide communities in the world’s toughest places with the tools and support they need to turn the crises they confront into the opportunities they deserve. 

Mercy Corps is looking for a committed and dynamic individual to take up the following position:

Gender Specialist, Progress Programme – Wajir
 

Programme / Department Summary: The PROGRESS Gender Specialist will work in collaboration with the PROGRESS Programme Director, Programme Managers and PROGRESS Consortium members in the implementation of a proposed multi-year project as part of DFID’s BRACED initiative (Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters). 

Mercy Corps anticipates a programme award under BRACED to implement the “Programme for Resilient Systems” (PROGRESS). 

If awarded, PROGRESS will be comprised of a multi-partner consortium poised to deliver a 36-month initiative designed to build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of more than 500,000 individual households in northern Kenya (Wajir and Garissa) and northern Uganda (Karamoja). 

The Wajir-based Gender Specialist will play a key role in implementation.
 

General Position Summary: The PROGRESS Gender Specialist will work directly with the Programme Manager in Wajir and is responsible for the PROGRESS gender strategy in the context of Wajir and Garissa.

The Gender Specialist will work toward providing a framework of activities to guide gender integration throughout the life of PROGRESS and across all technical sectors with the goal of enhancing absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity for resilience of women and augmenting access to assets, capital and decision-making processes.
 

The Gender Specialist will provide direct support to the Wajir Programme Manager of PROGRESS to develop work plans per sector/practice area with clear targets and timeframe to ensure a the greatest possible gender integration into program planning, strategic prioritization and sound implementation. 

Programme emphasis will be on the role of women in collective decision making around community and natural resources, and the individual capacity for entrepreneurship and active market engagement including value chain activities around livestock products in the pastoralist context. 

The Gender Specialist will also play a key role in advising around advocacy, policy formulation and gender sensitive budgeting with local and national government actors.
 

In addition the Gender Specialist will ensure that PROGRESS team members and consortium partners are actively programming and operating to a high-standard for gender integration into projects for all sectors and practice areas including governance, market systems, gender empowerment, and natural resource management with a focus in water resources management, livestock and rangeland management, climate smart agriculture, and urban issues.

Mercy Corps Programme Manager (PROGRESS Programme) Job in Wajir

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. 

Driven by local needs, our programs provide communities in the world’s toughest places with the tools and support they need to turn the crises they confront into the opportunities they deserve. 

Mercy Corps is looking for a committed and dynamic individual to take up the following position:

Programme Manager, PROGRESS Programme – Wajir
 

Programme / Department Summary: The PROGRESS Programme Manager will lead the implementation of a proposed multi-year project as part of DFID’s BRACED initiative (Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters). Mercy Corps anticipates a programme award under BRACED to implement the “Programme for Resilient Systems” (PROGRESS). 

If awarded, PROGRESS will be comprised of a multi-partner consortium poised to deliver a 36-month initiative designed to build absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of more than 500,000 individual households in northern Kenya (Wajir and Garissa) and northern Uganda (Karamoja). 

The Kenya-based Programme Manager will play a key role in implementation.
 

General Position Summary: The Programme manager will provide leadership, management and strategic vision to the implementation of the PROGRESS in northern Kenya, managing staff and resources, and consortium members, and to ensure that the program meets its targets and deliverables on-time and within budget. 

The Programme Manager will supervise program staff in Wajir and ensure accountability to Mercy Corps policies and donor rules and regulations. 

He/she will report to and work with the Programme Director to engage in program representation to donors, relevant government entities, partners, other implementers and external stakeholders. 

Managing the consortium-related aspects of this project will be key in ensuring the success of the project.

Essential Job Functions:
 

Program Implementation:

• Provide leadership and strategic vision of program implementation, development and management. 
• Ensure that program implementation is responsive to government counterparts, communities and partners, and aligned with Mercy Corps principles, values and strategic plan. 
• Monitor adherence to grant agreement, Mercy Corps policies and procedures and relevant external rules and regulations. 
• Oversee performance of consortium partners/sub-grantees. 
• Conduct frequent field visits to all project sites and maintain strong and productive relationships with various partners and stakeholders at national, local and community levels.

 Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and Reporting: 

• Facilitate the achievement of program targets and objectives and lead efforts to design effective M&E systems. 
• Oversee the scheduling and production of formal and informal reports on all aspects of the program in a timely and efficient manner. 
• Ensure that M&E staff focus on assisting programs to generate practical information that can be used for ongoing program decision-making while also capturing results at the impact level.