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Programme Manager - Governance & Accountability

Programme Manager - Governance & Accountability
Company:

Africa'S Voices Foundation


Details of the offer

Job Summary

The Programme Manager - Governance & Accountability leads AVF’s programme on Governance and Accountability.

Minimum Qualification:Bachelor
Experience Level:Senior level
Experience Length:5 years
Job Description

Position Title:Programme Manager - Governance & Accountability
Position Type:2 Year Contract (renewable)
Application deadline:25th September, 2020, Midnight GMT
Location:Nairobi, Kenya
Language:English
Salary Range:USD 38,000 - USD 49,000 gross per annum

About Africa’s Voices Foundation
Africa’s Voices Foundation (AVF) is a non-profit organization, spun
out of ongoing cutting-edge research at the University of Cambridge. We
conduct innovative research and produce powerful, insightful evidence
that helps to amplify the voices of Africans towards key policymakers
and service deliverers.
We use media forums to spark inclusive, interactive discussions, and
gather audience opinions through SMS, instant messaging, and social
media. We analyse these conversations - often in low-resource local
languages - using our own tested methods. We combine social science
frameworks with data science techniques to provide powerful insights
into the beliefs, ideas and priorities of hard-to reach populations and
social groups, and how these change over time. Our evidence helps
organisations to better understand, engage with, and respond to target
populations.
Our core business is organised around two program areas: Governance
& Accountability, and Citizen Evidence & Social Change. To date
we have worked in five countries across health, education, humanitarian,
governance, livelihoods, security and agriculture domains for a range
of partners including UNICEF, Oxfam, Mastercard Foundation, World
University Service Canada, Livity Africa, Well Told Story, REACH, Somali
Government and BBC Media Action.
AVF combines rigorous academic research and a commitment to
innovation with real-world impact. We provide our researchers with a
vibrant interface to world-leading university research. Team members
often work with faculty, advisors, external researchers, and student
interns to bring the latest ideas into our working practices. Our work
has been recognised internationally, including being awarded the Market
Research Society’s ‘President’s Medal’ in 2016 for our work with UNICEF
in Somalia. We have offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and a small but highly
qualified and motivated team that we are seeking to grow steadily in the
coming period. More at www.africasvoices.org.

Job Summary
The Programme Manager - Governance & Accountability leads AVF’s
programme on Governance and Accountability. The Programme Manager will
drive AVF’s agenda in this sector to seek meaningful inclusion of
citizen voice in decision-making across a diverse range of sectors,
focusing on accountability in statebuilding, humanitarian aid, and other
programming in East Africa (particularly Somalia but with opportunities
in Kenya and Ethiopia). The post-holder will be responsible for
securing new partnerships, and designing new interventions grounded in
AVF approaches to support greater social accountability, as well as
managing the delivery across AVF’s portfolio of projects in this sector.
The post reports to the Director of Innovation and Learning, who sits
on the Senior Management Team.

The Governance & Accountability Programme Manager tailors
solutions that deliver impact by drawing on AVF’s unique methods and
capabilities. These methods and capabilities are developed and supported
by our Data & Technology team and a range of expertise in Research,
Design & Analysis, and Media & Engagement. The post-holder will
be responsible for designing and delivering projects that generate
large-scale civic dialogue and impactful public opinion research, above
all through AVF’s unique interactive radio method. They will demonstrate
how audience-driven radio dialogue can be a powerful tool for
citizen-authority interaction as a well as a key modality for analysing
citizen perspectives on priority topics. With ultimate responsibility
for delivery of the programme, they will ensure high quality media
dialogue and citizen evidence outputs, with results and insights
communicated so as to ensure uptake, impact and recognition in the
sector.

Selection Criteria
Essential
Education and Work Experience
A completed postgraduate degree (Masters or above) in a
relevant discipline (such as political science, development studies,
international relations, or similar) with strong theoretical and
methodological training for public opinion research

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in designing, managing and
delivering civic engagement, accountability to affected populations,
public opinion research, media for development or similar interventions

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in project management, monitoring, or evaluation

Specialist knowledge
Familiar with key concepts, frameworks, and theories around
social accountability, accountability to affected populations, civic
engagement etc

Experience in delivering projects in fragile and conflict and
affected states, with a peacebuilding, stabilisation, humanitarian or
development lens, ideally across sectors

Experience working with media-based or technology-driven social accountability interventions (eg. radio, SMS platforms)

Experience in social research design, in both qualitative and
quantitative methods, eg survey design, questionnaire design, focus
group discussions

Demonstrable experience of producing analytical outputs (reports, briefs, blogs) for clear policy and social impact.

Experience leading complex participatory research design with a
wide range of partners, resulting in building consensus on, and
political buy-in to, programme design.

Programme development
Successful track record in securing project funding in areas
of peacebuilding, governance, humanitarian response, durable solutions,
resilience or similar, including developing relationships, drafting
proposals, concept notes and programme design documents

Demonstrable experience representing organisations at
coordination forums, donor meetings, learning events and academic
conferences, presenting different methods, learnings and results

Project Management Experience
Comfortable using standard set of project management tools to ensure effective delivery of multiple projects simultaneously

Strong client orientation and proven ability to work with a range
of stakeholders (governmental and non-governmental), ability to
identify problems, provide technical support, build collaboration and
arrive at solutions.

Experience managing large multidisciplinary teams, including recruitment, training and line management

Personal Attributes and Language Competencies
High levels of energy, initiative, and flexibility in quickly adjusting to changing work requirements.

Aptitude for and willingness to work in client-facing contexts, focused on delivering research value-add.

Clear and confident communicator of research design and findings to non-specialist and practitioner audiences.

Working knowledge of languages relevant to the East African context besides English desirable.

Desirable
Legal authorisation to work in Kenya. This position is open to international applicants.

Conditions
AVF offers a competitive salary using a single international salary
scheme that recognises experience, qualifications and demonstrated
excellence at the relevant salary level. AVF also offers medical
insurance to Kenya based staff, as well as USD 1,000 in learning credits
annually for approved professional development opportunities.
Travel Requirements
The location of the post will be Nairobi, Kenya. The post holder
should be prepared to travel for up to 30% percent of their time to
other African countries, the UK or elsewhere. This will include travel
to Somalia (including Mogadishu)

How to apply
To Apply
Please send your CV and Cover Letter explaining why you are
interested in AVF and this position, and how you fulfill the selection
criteria to **********. Please include “Programme Manager - Governance & Accountability” in the title of your email.

It is mandatory that you include salary expectation in your cover letter.

Mandatory: Submit only 1 PDF document. The CV, cover letter, and
any other attachments should be in PDF format and combined into one
document.

Not adhering to any mandatory requirements regarding this application will lead to automatic disqualification.

The application deadline is midnight (GMT) on 25th September,
2020. Applications may be considered after this date only if a suitable
candidate has not been found.
AVF is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce
diversity. All applications for vacant positions will be welcomed and
will be considered on the relative merits of the applicant against the
role profile for the position regardless of colour, race, nationality,
ethnic origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status,
disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion, or belief.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. **


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