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Job Details: Country Director at Child Fund International

Vacancy Name

Country Director

Employment Type

Full Time (Fixed Term)

Childfund Work Location

Nairobi, Kenya

Childfund Division

Global Impact

ChildFund Department

Country Management

Job Details

Position title: Country Director

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

ChildFund office: Kenya

Manager/Supervisor title: Deputy Regional Director, Programs and Impact

Position type: Full-time fixed term

Work environment: On-site

 

About ChildFund

ChildFund is a dynamic child-and youth-focused organization committed to expanding its work with and for children in communities all over the world.  We are embarking on a bold growth strategy—building new capabilities and forging strategic partnerships to amplify our impact. Our goal is to ensure that children grow up healthy, educated, skilled, and safe wherever they are.

ChildFund’s Values
We aspire for every person in our organization—program participants, supporters, staff, and volunteers alike—to feel free, safe, and confident to be themselves. In our culture of connection, you will have ample opportunity to grow, learn, and lead while contributing your talents and innovations to our inspiring mission.

ChildFund’s Commitment
ChildFund International has a zero-tolerance policy regarding sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH) and all other forms of harm by its staff, partners, and other representatives in the delivery of its mission and services for children. ChildFund is committed to creating a safe environment in the workplace as well as in the communities where it delivers programs and services. ChildFund expects every staff member, partner, and representative to adhere to this commitment and to ensure all organizational policies and standards are followed. This position is subject to a range of vetting checks, including a criminal records check and/or disclosure to ensure program participants are safeguarded.

 

About This Role

The Country Director, Kenya is a visionary and strategic leader who serves as ChildFund’s principal representative in the country. This role demands a dynamic, entrepreneurial individual with a sharp instinct for opportunities—someone who can navigate complex landscapes to elevate ChildFund’s visibility, influence, and impact. As a skilled networker and alliance builder, the Country Director cultivates and sustains high-level relationships with donors, government agencies, private sector actors, and civil society organizations to unlock new funding streams and expand ChildFund’s reach.

With a strong focus on innovation, growth, and systems change, the Country Director leads efforts to secure larger, more strategic grants and ensures their timely and high-quality execution. They drive the diversification of revenue sources, including non-traditional funding, while scaling impactful programs that respond to the evolving needs of children and communities. The role provides strategic oversight across a broad portfolio, including advocacy and communications, partnership portfolio management, program delivery, sponsorship stewardship, administration and support, enterprise risk management, disaster risk reduction, and safety and security.

The Country Director strengthens internal systems to enhance operational efficiency, accountability, and organizational resilience, while also driving external systems change—working with partners and stakeholders to improve service delivery mechanisms, community structures, and coordination platforms. This dual focus ensures sustainable, scalable impact and more effective outcomes for children. Through bold and adaptive leadership, the Country Director fosters a culture of excellence, agility, and continuous learning, steering the Kenya Country Office toward greater self-sufficiency and competitiveness. Above all, they ensure that ChildFund’s values and safeguarding commitments are upheld across all operations, building a robust and adaptive organization capable of delivering lasting change.                                                                                                

 

Required Experience and Education
  • University degree in a relevant field is required; a master’s degree in a relevant field is strongly preferred.
  • At least 10 years of experience in management or senior management positions in the development sector.
  • Demonstrated experience in the management of institutional grants and individual donors.
  • Demonstrated success in securing funding from varied sources, with a strong emphasis on pre-positioning, strategic networking, and donor engagement. Expected level of effort in business development: 60% or higher.
  • Experience in emergency programs and/or community development programs.

 

Primary Responsibilities
  • Strategic Portfolio Growth: Lead the development and oversight of a   dynamic and impactful operational portfolio. Ensure a well-balanced mix of high-quality local partnerships, innovative programming, and diversified funding sources—including competitive grants, corporate partnerships, and local philanthropy. Ensure the portfolio prioritizes locally led development by strengthening the capacity and leadership of national and community-based organizations. Promote ownership and sustainability through equitable partnerships and inclusive decision-making. Drive strategic alignment and sustainability across all initiatives to maximize impact for children, youth and communities.
  • Program Excellence and Innovation. Lead the design and delivery of evidence-based programs that align with ChildFund’s core models and standards. Integrate youth-led approaches into program design and delivery, ensuring meaningful participation of young people in shaping solutions that affect their lives. Promote continuous learning and adaptive programming across key areas including child safeguarding, monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL), disaster risk reduction (DRR), gender and social inclusion, and safety and security to ensure relevance, effectiveness and lasting impact.
  • Grants and Project Management: Lead and oversee grants and project management processes with a particular focus on the strategic execution and management of larger, high-value grants. Ensuring timely and high-quality implementation of funded initiatives, maintaining rigorous compliance with donor requirements—including financial reporting, programmatic deliverables, and contractual obligations. Collaborate with internal teams and partners to strengthen pre- and post-award grant management, mitigate risks, and uphold accountability standards across all projects.
  • Talent Leadership and Culture Building: Lead strategic talent acquisition, onboarding, and continuous development to build a high-performing and mission-driven team. Foster a high-performing, inclusive, and values-driven organizational culture that promotes excellence, collaboration, and accountability.  Create pathways for youth leadership and development with the Country Office and among partners. Support mentorship, capacity building, and innovation hubs that empower young changemakers.  Champion effective management, coaching, leadership development to strengthen individual and team capacity in alignment with ChildFund’s goals and values.
  • Performance and Team Development: Lead, guide and mentor staff to achieve strategic outcomes and meet performance targets. Build and maintain a strong, cohesive senior leadership team that drives collaboration, innovation, and upholds a culture of accountability and excellence across the Country Office.
  • External Representation and Advocacy: Position ChildFund as a leading voice on children’s issues in Kenya through strategic advocacy and high-level engagement. Represent the organization with government authorities, donors, INGOs, media, and other stakeholders to enhance visibility, influence policy, and strengthen partnerships.  Advocate for youth leadership in national development and humanitarian agendas. Build strategic alliances that elevate youth voices and influence policy. Leverage external platforms/forums to advance ChildFund’s mission, shape national discourse, and drive systemic change for children and youth.
  • Resource Mobilization & Fundraising: Lead strategic resource mobilization efforts focused on expanding and managing a robust funding base. Actively pursue new funding opportunities through strategic networking, pre-positioning, and relationship-building with key influencers, donors, and private sector actors. Drive the growth of local fundraising and business development initiatives to support program sustainability and scale ChildFund’s impact.
  • Operational Stewardship: Ensure the effective allocation and strategic management of financial, human, and physical resources. Collaborate with Global Shared Services to deliver high-quality support in finance, HR, and IT functions strengthening operational efficiency and accountability.
  • Governance and Compliance: Maintain robust internal controls to safeguard assets and ensure compliance with donor requirements, national regulations and organizational policies.  Uphold principles of locally led development by ensuring governance structures and compliance mechanisms empower local actors and reflect community priorities. Promote culture of integrity, transparency and accountability across all operations, while proactively identifying and mitigating risks to protect the organization’s effectiveness and reputation.
  • Knowledge and Learning: Promote a learning culture by developing and leveraging knowledge products that enhance program effectiveness and inform strategic decision-making. Encourage cross-country and global learning exchanges to strengthen organizational capacity and amplify impact
  • Emergency Response: Ensure the development, maintenance, and regular updating of a comprehensive disaster preparedness and emergency response plan. Lead efforts to strengthen organizational readiness and resilience, enabling timely, coordinated, and effective responses to emergencies that impact children and communities.
  • Safety and Security: Implement and uphold organizational standards, policies, and procedures to protect personnel, programs, and assets. Lead a proactive culture of safety and security risk management within the Country Office, ensuring continuous monitoring of security trends and timely action. Allocate adequate resources to support safe program implementation and cost recovery. Uphold ChildFund’s duty of care by promoting measures that support both physical and mental well-being of staff. Work closely with the global security team to ensure alignment with organizational standards and a coordinated response to incidents.
  • Safeguarding: Remain alert and responsive to any safeguarding risks; acquire and apply relevant knowledge and skills to uphold ChildFund’s safeguarding policy and procedures. Promote strong safeguarding practices across all operations ensuring appropriate behavior, timely reporting of violations, and a culture of accountability. Lead the implementation of corrective actions—including disciplinary, legal, or other measures—in response to any breaches. Collaborate with relevant teams to follow up on findings, and regularly review policies, procedures, and protocols to identify and address gaps or weaknesses. Uphold the organization’s duty of care by fostering a safe and respectful environment for all staff, partners, and program participants.

 

Required Competencies
  • Fluency in English with excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of the child protection and child-focused programming landscape and cultural context in Kenya.
  • Demonstrated high level of proficiency in ChildFund’s Core competency areas including Teamwork, Communication, Results orientation, Decision making, resilience, and digital literacy.
  • Demonstrated high level of proficiency in ChildFund’s Leadership Competency areas including strategic leadership, people leadership, partnership, change management, and design thinking.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead with operational integrity and a keen focus on compliance, accountability, and risk management.
  • Proven ability to cultivate and sustain high-level relationships with diverse donors, including government agencies, UN bodies (e.g., UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP), and other key stakeholders.
  • Deep understanding of and sensitivity to cultural dynamics within the country context with the ability to leverage historical context for strategic planning and external engagement.
  • Skilled in articulating ChildFund’s value-add and evidence of impact, while promoting a collaborative, credit-sharing approach to partnership development.
  • Strong record of team-building and mentoring capabilities, with a focus on knowing and developing staff, upholding accountability, cultivating a high-performance culture, and fostering inclusive and respectful workplace practices.
  • Business-oriented approach to leadership, with the ability to identify opportunities, drive innovation, and scale impact sustainably.
  • Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills to effectively communicate program outcomes, organizational impact, and strategic vision to varied audiences.
  • Demonstrates assertiveness, confidence, and responsiveness, with the ability to set boundaries, and uphold core values.
  • Skilled in opening doors, connecting influencers, and mobilizing advocates to advance ChildFund’s mission and visibility.

Assistant II, Administration and Finance at ChildFund International

About this Role

Reporting to the Project Coordinator, the Assistant II, Administration and Finance will provide comprehensive financial management, compliance oversight, and administrative support for the 12-month planning grant, “Strengthening Responsive Caregiving for Children and Families,” funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. This strategic initiative aims to consolidate learning, synthesize evidence, and lay the groundwork for the next phase of ChildFund’s Nurturing Care Program in Kenya and Mozambique. The Assistant position will be responsible for ensuring sound financial stewardship of grant resources, maintaining robust internal controls, and supporting seamless administrative operations for all project activities within the project. The Assistant will work in close collaboration with the program teams, research partners, WCCP team, and local implementing partners to ensure accurate financial tracking, timely reporting, and full compliance with both ChildFund policies and Hilton Foundation donor requirements

Required Experience and Education

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in commerce (Finance or Accounting option), Business Administration, or related field from a recognized university or equivalent combination of experience and education.
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Part II is preferred.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 3 years of progressive professional experience in finance and administration, preferably within the NGO sector and with donor-funded projects.
  • Proven experience in financial management, reporting, and compliance for international donors (experience with USAID, Hilton Foundation, or other institutional donors is a strong advantage).
  • Experience supporting internal and external audit processes, including documentation retrieval and reconciliation.
  • Experience in bank and cash reconciliation, petty cash management, and advance tracking.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Financial Management and Accounting
  • Daily Financial Operations: Process all project-related financial transactions, including preparation of cash and bank payment vouchers, ensuring completeness of documentation and adherence to authorized budget lines.
  • Accounting Records: Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records in the accounting system (QuickBooks/ERP), ensuring data integrity and proper coding of all transactions to the specific grant cost centers.
  • Cash Management: Conduct daily and monthly cash counts, perform petty cash reconciliations, and prepare timely bank reconciliations for all project bank accounts.
  • Advance Management: Maintain the uncleared cash advance file, track staff and partner advances, and prepare monthly overdue advance reports to ensure timely accountability and liquidation.
  • Budget Monitoring and Donor Compliance
  • Budget Tracking: Monitor project expenditure against approved budgets, prepare regular variance analysis reports, and alert the Project Coordinator and Senior Finance Analyst to any potential overspends or underspends.
  • Donor Compliance: Ensure all financial transactions and documentation strictly adhere to the terms and conditions of the Hilton Foundation grant agreement, as well as ChildFund’s internal policies and procedures.
  • Support for Costing Exercise: Collaborate with the Project Coordinator and program team to prepare and provide all required financial data to the Brookings Institute for the costing and cost-effectiveness study using the Childhood Cost Calculator, including extracting and organizing historical and current expenditure data by program component.
  • Partner Financial Monitoring: Support the review of financial reports and liquidation documents from local implementing partners (CBOs) involved in capacity strengthening activities and ensuring sub-grant compliance.
  • Administrative and Operational Support
  • Activity Coordination Support: Provide logistical and administrative support for the planning and execution of all project activities including booking of workshop and meeting venues, participant travel and per diem processing, procurement of workshop materials, vendor payments, and participant reimbursements.
  • Procurement Support: Assist in procurement processes for goods and services required for project implementation, ensuring compliance with ChildFund’s procurement policy and donor value-for-money principles.
  • Asset Management: Maintain an up-to-date inventory of all project assets and equipment, ensuring proper tagging, safeguarding, and tracking.

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Coordinator, Project at Child Fund International

About this Role

The Project Coordinator will manage the implementation of the Kenyan component of a 12‑month Strengthening Responsive Caregiving for Children and Families Planning Project funded by Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in Kenya and Mozambique. The role oversees daily project activities, ensuring effective coordination between research, implementation, and stakeholder engagement in Kenya. Key responsibilities include coordinating the project’s research activities evidence synthesis and process evaluation activities, organizing multi‑country learning visits, and supporting a participatory project program costing exercise using the  Brookings Institute Childhood Cost Calculator. The coordinator will also support the design and facilitation of co‑creation workshops with government and community stakeholders to refine ChildFund’s Responsive Caregiving model Theory of Change

Required Experience and Education

Academic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Studies, Development Studies,  health sciences (Public Health, Health Education, Health Promotion), Psychology, Sociology, or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Additional training in project management and research and evaluation methods is desirable.

Professional Experience

  • Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in community development programming, ideally with at least one year focused on Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Nurturing Care initiatives.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing or coordinating complex grants valued at over 500K USD, including budget oversight, work plan development, and results‑based reporting.
  • Proven capacity to work with county governments in Kenya, especially within the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB), across health, education, and social protection sectors.
  • Experience collaborating with international donors, external consultants, and multidisciplinary research teams is preferred.
  • Work experience/contextual knowledge of Busia, Home Bay, Kisumu, Siaya, and Nyamira Counties is an added advantage.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Strategic Project Leadership and Coordination
  • Lead the overall coordination of the Strengthening Responsive Caregiving for Children and Families planning project in Kenya, ensuring full alignment with the approved project description, budget, and donor (Conrad Hilton Foundation) requirements.
  • Manage the projects Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP), procurement plan, and activity budget, and ensure their timely and high-quality execution.
  • Coordinate all partners and stakeholders involved in the project implementation and ensure smooth and timely execution of both their individual and joint project activities.  
  • Regularly engage with the Mozambique project counterpart and share lessons, experiences and best practices.
  • Actively participate in external workshops and relevant technical working groups that foster the objectives of the project.
  • Evidence Synthesis, Evaluation and Research Management
  • Coordinate the synthesis of past program evaluation results including findings from previous Nurturing Care Program projects, “Come Play with Me”, “Responsive and Protective Parenting,” and other comparative models like Tanzania’s “Familia Bora.”
  • Coordinate the process evaluation activities in collaboration with Emory University including facilitating necessary fieldwork, data collection, and stakeholder interviews.
  • Support the facilitation of the bottleneck analysis workshops addressing critical program delivery issues (birth registration, male caregiver engagement, mental health referrals) and consultation and partnership with the County health and children’s services teams.
  • Organize a multi‑country learning visit to Tanzania’s Familia Bora program, including coordinating the plans, designing the agenda, participants selection and management of logistics.
  • Support the costing study that will use the Brookings Institution Childhood Cost Calculator by coordinating the collection and provision of all programmatic and financial data.
  • Coordinate the convening of co‑creation workshops with government and community partners to refine ChildFund’s Responsive Caregiving model Theory of Change.
  • Participatory Research and Partner Capacity Strengthening.
  • Coordinate the Learning and Reflection Workshops with local implementing partners and government stakeholders in Bunyala, Ndhiwa, and other target areas to generate insights on program delivery.
  • Theory of Change Refinement
  • Coordinate and manage the organization and facilitation of high-stakes co-creation workshops with county government partners (Health, Education, Children’s Services) and the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB) secretariat to refine ChildFund’s Responsive Caregiving model Theory of Change.
  • Support the conduct of a high-profile learning dissemination event bringing together government ministries, local authorities, and implementing partners to share findings, affirm commitments, and advocate for the institutionalization of the updated Responsive Caregiving model.
  • Support the documentation of insights, human-interest stories, and best practices from the planning phase for internal learning and external visibility.

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Manager II, Education at ChildFund

About This Role
The Education Manager provides technical leadership for the strategic design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of ChildFund Kenya’s education programs. This role ensures alignment with ChildFund’s global education strategy and Kenya’s education sector priorities. The portfolio includes Early Childhood Development (ECD), nurturing care frameworks, foundational learning (literacy and numeracy), social-emotional learning, digital literacy, online safety, and child protection initiatives in both formal and non-formal education settings.

The Education Manager will provide strategic leadership on Early Childhood Development (ECD) within ChildFund Kenya’s education portfolio, ensuring explicit alignment with global ECD frameworks and ChildFund’s Nurturing Care approach.
The position will play a critical role in resource mobilization, donor engagement, grant acquisition, and portfolio management, while fostering partnerships and building technical capacity across all education, ECD, Child Protection and safe digital learning programs.  It will specifically champion ECD donor priorities and coordinating closely with ECD-focused donors while balancing broader foundational learning and digital safety priorities.


Required Experience and Education

  • Master’s degree in education, Early Childhood Development, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or related field.
  • Experience:
  • Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in education programming within an international NGO or development agency.
  • Proven track record in resource mobilization, proposal development, and donor relationship management.
  • Experience managing multi-sectoral education projects, including ECD, literacy, teacher training, and child protection.


Primary Responsibilities
Program Strategy, Design & Implementation

  • Lead the development of the ChildFund Country education strategy aligned with ChildFund’s global and country strategic plan priorities and other relevant country, regional and global education strategies, policies and frameworks.
  • Contribute and participate in the development and review of country strategic plan and related country level strategies, policies, and frameworks.
  • Lead integration of ECD strategies across all education interventions, ensuring compliance with national and global standards.
  • Lead the design and implementation of evidence-based interventions for ECD, foundational learning, teacher training, social-emotional learning, digital literacy, and child protection projects and programs
  • Offer technical guidance to implementing partners (IPs) and field teams on all levels of the education portfolio’s programming standards and best practices
  • Collaborate with the International Office ECD Advisor to strengthen technical guidance, quality standards and reach and impact measures in ECD programming.
  • Provide technical leadership in the development of tools, guidelines, and training materials for ECD, nurturing care, foundational learning, social-emotional learning, digital literacy, online safety, and child protection education programming.
  • Integrate inclusive education, ECD and nurturing care approaches, addressing gender equity and the needs of children with disabilities.
  • Develop high-quality proposals and concept notes for donor funding in collaboration with the Business Development team.
  • Support the generation of education programming content for internal and external communications through writing briefs, blogs, and articles.


Technical Support & Oversight of Local Partners

  • Provide ongoing technical assistance and capacity building to implementing partners, and other technical partners at county and national level.
  • Support partners in all education programs’ related planning, budgeting, implementation, and reporting to ensure quality and compliance.
  • Conduct regular field visits and technical reviews to monitor progress, identify challenges, and recommend corrective actions.
  • Facilitate learning and knowledge exchange among partners to promote innovation and best practices in all education programming, including ECD and nurturing care
  • Provide leadership in rolling-out of ChildFund’s global education strategy and nurturing care framework through technical guidance to country office and implementation partner technical staff.
  • Ensure integration of safeguarding principles and Nurturing Care Framework across all education initiatives.


Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL)

  • Collaborate with the MEAL team to develop and apply robust frameworks for tracking education program outputs, outcomes, and impact.
  • Support partners in data collection, analysis, and reporting, ensuring alignment with donor and organizational standards.
  • Lead documentation of success stories, lessons learned, and evidence-based practices and facilitate internal and external learning and knowledge-sharing.
  • Support research and evaluation activities to strengthen evidence-based programming.
  • Ensure timely and high-quality reporting to donors, government, and ChildFund global offices.


Business Development & Grant Management

  • Drive resource mobilization efforts for education programs, and ensuring a diversified and sustainable grant portfolio in ECD, Nurturing care and safe-online programs
  • Identify funding opportunities and lead proposal development for education sector initiatives.
  • Build and maintain relationships with donors, foundations, and development partners and lead negotiations and discussions for securing funding for education initiatives.
  • Strengthen management of relationships and engagement with existing ECD and other education sector donors.
  • Provide technical leadership and strategic direction in fostering donor relationships with support from the IO-level ECD Advisor.
  • Ensure proactive communication and strong partnership with ECD-focused donors to secure funding and sustain program growth.
  • Provide technical leadership in pre-positioning, capture planning, and proposal development for education grants.
  • Support budget development, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting in collaboration with finance teams.
  • Oversee education related grant implementation, ensuring timely delivery of results, financial accountability, and donor compliance.
  • Monitor grant performance, budgets, and timelines to ensure successful delivery and reporting.

Provide technical support to partners in managing education grants effectively.Representation & Advocacy

  • Represent ChildFund Kenya in national and regional technical working groups, CSO coalitions, and policy forums related to education, ECD, Child Protection and safe online.
  • Foster strategic partnerships with government agencies, NGOs, research institutions, and private sector actors to advance education goals.
  • Advocate for inclusive and sustainable education policies and practices at county and national levels.
  • Build strategic partnerships with government agencies, private sector actors, and civil society organizations to enhance education program reach and sustainability.


Team Leadership & Capacity Building

  • Supervise and mentor education sector program staff, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
  • Organize and facilitate training workshops, webinars and mentorship for staff and partners on education-related topics.
  • Promote cross-functional collaboration within ChildFund Kenya to integrate education into broader child protection and development programming.
  • Support caregiver engagement and community advocacy for improved education outcomes.


Safeguarding.

  • Remain alert and responsive to any safeguarding risks; acquire relevant knowledge and skills to enable understanding and application of the safeguarding policy and procedures;
  • Promote strong safeguarding practices and perform his/her duty and responsibility to safeguard,
  • Report violations, and promote appropriate behavior; and
  • conduct self in a manner consistent with the organization’s policies and values.


Required Competencies
ChildFund’s Core Competencies

  • Teamwork: the ability to work effectively and collaborate with others; values and respects individual differences.
  • Communication: demonstrates empathy and tact when communicating with others and uses a storytelling approach when appropriate.
  • Results orientation: gets things done; takes proactive steps to achieve organizational goals and quality standards.
  • Decision making: uses good judgement, critical thinking, and non-traditional ways to evaluate problems and opportunities; reflects and innovates to improve decisions and outcomes.
  • Resilience: thrives and grows in rapidly changing, demanding, and complex environments.
  • Digital literacy: adopts and champions new technology to relevant contexts, stays aware of technological trends and embraces technological solutions to business challenges.


Other Required Competencies

  • Language requirement: The ability to read, speak, and write fluently in English. Proficiency in Swahili will be an added advantage.
  • In-depth and hands-on experience in Education programming: Experience in managing and implementing education sector programs including expertise in early childhood development, nurturing care framework, child protection, education policy, teacher training and building key foundational skills (i.e., literacy, numeracy, social-emotional learning) and curriculum development, and safeguarding.
  • Technical Expertise and Leadership: The ability to provide technical support and leadership for the expansion and diversification of revenue streams
  • Grant Proposal Development: Strong skills in technical writing; ability to collaborate with other sector managers, and program technical specialists and the Country Office, Regional and global business development teams to craft well-aligned grant proposals that adhere to ChildFund’s Results Framework, key sectoral and global practices, and evidence of impact.
  • Donor Relations and Funding Models: Proficiency in identifying global donors, cultivating relationships with key donors, advising on donor trends, knowledge and understanding of existing and emerging funding models.
  • Education Grant Acquisition: Expertise in leading the education grant acquisition portfolio, focusing on proposal development.
  • Impact Assessment and Collaboration: Competence in guiding ChildFund education program evidence and impact assessment needs, priorities, and thought leadership strategy and product development.
  • Capacity Building and Training: Demonstrated ability to conduct effective capacity building and training both in face-to-face and virtual settings.
  • Work effectively in a matrix environment involves the ability to navigate and collaborate within a matrix organizational structure, where multiple reporting lines and cross-functional teams are common.
  • Effective representation and networking: represent the organization effectively in various forums and build strong networks with technical partners, multilateral agencies, foundations, and other stakeholders.
  • Strong computer skills, with familiarity in using Microsoft Office suite applications: This competency requires proficiency in using Microsoft Office suite applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Advisor Sr., Early Childhood Development at Child Fund International

About This Role

  • The role of the Global Early Childhood Development Senior Technical Advisor at ChildFund International encompasses several key elements that are crucial for the success of the organization’s global Early Childhood Development program portfolio.
  • The Global Early Childhood Development Senior Technical Advisor provides technical support and leadership to strengthen ChildFund International’s global Early Childhood Development program portfolio, enhancing program quality and ensuring that Early Childhood Development programs, or components integrated into other sectors, are designed with the latest best practice and ChildFund’s impact evidence.
  • The Global Early Childhood Development Senior Technical Advisor works closely with the Director of Program and Product Design to ensure that grant proposals are well-crafted and aligned with ChildFund’s Results Framework, key sectoral and global practices, and evidence of global impact. These elements are integral to the role and contribute to the overall effectiveness and impact of ChildFund International’s global Early Childhood Development programs.
  • Early Childhood Development programs or components ensure that Early Childhood Development initiatives address climate change adaptation and mitigation and the integration of risk analysis, adaptation, and mitigation into other sector (Health, Education, Livelihoods, Protection, Humanitarian) programs.
  • The role requires working closely with the Business Development and the Grant Acquisitions teams to expand and diversify resources for ChildFund Early Childhood Development programs, which is essential for securing funding and creating new opportunities for the organization’s education initiatives and global aspiration of positively impacting 100 M children and their families around the world.

Required Experience and Education

  • Experience
  • 8 to 10 years of progressive program management or technical advisor experience in early childhood development across multiple countries or regional contexts, with a minimum of 3 years of international field experience and a proven track record of leading complex program design for grant acquisition.
  • Demonstrated experience leading program design for large-scale grants, such as those from USAID, EU, UNICEF, foundations, and multilaterals.
  • Extensive experience in developing and submitting successful grant proposals, securing funding from various sources, including government agencies, foundations, and corporations.
  • Experience in strategic Early Childhood Development program design with a focus on children’s rights and children’s and caretakers’ well-being and incorporating innovative approaches.
  • Strong technical writing and proposal development skills, with the ability to produce well-structured models that showcase the organization’s capacity to deliver impactful programs.
  • Proven ability to build and maintain strategic relationships internally and externally fostering a focus on a strong donor engagement and creating effective funder-focused communications.

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA) or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
  • Master of Public Health in Nutrition Degree is preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience leading program design for large-scale grants (e.g., USAID, EU, UNICEF, foundations, and multilaterals).

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