Job particulars
- Job title
- Reference Number: GIZ/FDM/06/10/2026
- Hiring organisation
- Employer not disclosed
- Vacancy source
- Fuzu Kenya
- Location
- Nairobi
- Posted
- 27 Oct 2026
Key responsibilities
- Regional Programme Coordination and Implementation: ( Anglophone Africa (Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia) - (60%)
- Regional and cross-organizational coordination: Facilitate coordination and information sharing across country teams, consortium partners, and regional and global leadership.
- Programme planning and implementation: Support the development and use of programme planning and reporting tools, monitor implementation progress, and flag delays or activities requiring intervention.
- Country team coordination: Work closely with country teams to understand implementation plans, convene monthly review meetings, track action points, and ensure timely follow-up on outstanding issues.
- Programme delivery and quality assurance: Support country teams in producing high-quality operational deliverables and coordinate reviews with relevant technical and monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) teams before sign-off.
- Monitoring, evaluation and learning: Coordinate country inputs for monitoring and evaluation activities, monthly M&E updates, knowledge management outputs, programme reports, and other ad hoc materials.
- Knowledge management: Consolidate programme insights, document lessons learned, and synthesize implementation updates to inform regional and global leadership decisions.
- Donor reporting and engagement: Coordinate the collation of country-level inputs for donor reports and support the preparation of materials for donor, church, and area-lead meetings.
- Issue escalation and support: Identify implementation challenges and route requests for technical or operational support to the appropriate programme leadership teams.
- Coordination, Governance and Performance Tracking (40%)
- Governance coordination: Coordinate schedules, agendas, and follow-up actions for the organization's participation in leadership team meetings, programme leadership team meetings, and steering committee engagements.
- Commitment tracking: Maintain a tracker of organizational commitments arising from governance and leadership meetings and follow up with responsible teams to ensure timely completion.
- Risk and bottleneck management: Maintain a live risk and bottleneck log, identify emerging delivery challenges, and support timely escalation and resolution.
- Meeting management: Prepare agendas, document meeting discussions, and circulate minutes and action points for internal weekly meetings and relevant leadership engagements.
- Performance dashboards: Develop and maintain a consolidated tracking dashboard to provide visibility into programme progress, outstanding actions, risks, and key deliverables.
- Accountability and follow-through: Work with team leads and relevant stakeholders to ensure decisions are translated into clear actions, assigned responsibilities, and measurable progress.
- Required Qualifications and Experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Public Health, Development Studies, International Relations, Social Sciences, or a related field.
- A postgraduate qualification or professional certification in project or programme management is an added advantage.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in project management, programme coordination, implementation oversight, or a similar role.
- Experience coordinating multi-country programmes, regional initiatives, or projects involving multiple implementing partners.
- Demonstrated experience in programme planning, monitoring, reporting, risk management, and tracking deliverables.
- Experience coordinating donor reporting and consolidating inputs from multiple teams or country offices.
- Strong meeting coordination, documentation, action tracking, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks and knowledge management processes.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and experience maintaining project trackers and dashboards.
- Well-documented innovation pilots with clear implementation plans and learning objectives.
- Regular monitoring and documentation of pilot performance, including lessons learned and recommendations for improvement.
- Contribution to at least two innovation pilots per year, including testing, documentation, and learning outputs.
- Knowledge products such as learning briefs, case studies, presentations, or tools to support internal learning and program improvement.
Candidate requirements
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- Fitness, well-being and lifestyle.
- Governmental
- Health care, medical.
- Human resources, talent development, recruiting.
- Legal, accounting
- Manufacturing
- Marketing, advertising.
- Non-profit, social work.
- Outsourcing, leasing.
- Raw materials, oil, chemicals.
- Real estate
- Restaurant, hospitality, travel.
- Retail, wholesale, FMCG.
- Security
- Telecommunications.
- Textile, fashion
- Transportation, logistics, storage.
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Required skills
Project and programme management: Ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, manage competing priorities, and maintain progress against timelinesStakeholder engagement: Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively across countries, teams, and partner organizationsPlanning and organization: Excellent coordination, documentation, and follow-through, with strong attention to detailAnalytical and problem-solving skills: Ability to identify delivery risks, synthesize information, and escalate issues appropriatelyCommunication and reporting: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to consolidate inputs into clear reports and leadership updatesAccountability and execution: A proactive approach to tracking commitments, following up on action points, and ensuring deliverables are completedCollaboration and adaptability: Ability to work across different country contexts, organizational structures, and stakeholder groupsMeasures of SuccessEffective coordination and alignment across country teams and consortium partnersTimely completion of programme deliverables, reports, and governance commitmentsConsistent monitoring of implementation progress, risks, and bottlenecksHigh-quality reporting and synthesis of programme performance and learningImproved visibility of programme status through accurate trackers and dashboardsStrong follow-through on decisions, action points, and identified support needsA leading global health and nutrition organizationCombined Project Manager - PSM SOWNairobi • KenyaOnly on Fuzu7 days left to applyPosted: 27 Oct 2026BackgroundProgramme backgroundCountries in the Horn of Africa region are origin, transit and destination countries for people who have left their homes. According to United Nations figures, there are some 5.4 million migrants in the region. The number of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people has risen to around 20 millionA large proportion remains in the region. Many travel irregularly, without a visa or valid papers – often out of necessity – and turn to people smugglers or risk becoming victims of human traffickingProgramme goalMigration in the Horn of Africa is safer and more orderly, relevant actors are better able to take action against human trafficking, and migrants and victims of human trafficking benefit from improved protection services and economic prospectsHow we workThe project has two componentsPromoting institutions: It organizes training courses for state and civil actors such as police authorities and human rights officers. The project trains them to better identify and prosecute human trafficking and smuggling and to refer victims to social servicesProtecting migrants and victims of human trafficking: It strengthens civil society organizations that provide protection and support services such as accommodation, health care and legal advice and promotes future prospects for human trafficking victims and migrants
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