GVEP The Project Integration and Delivery Manager


Job Title:       The Project Integration and Delivery Manager

Reports to:     Regional Director, Africa

Based in:       Africa Regional Office, Nairobi, Kenya

Purpose

This is a fixed term contract (with a possibility of extension) to support the Africa Regional Office in delivering key programmes in line with GVEP International’s philosophy, donor requirements and stakeholder expectations. Each programme needs to be delivered adeptly, with synergies, efficiencies, scale effects, lessons and knowledge being shared among projects. This role will help fulfil that purpose, notably by helping deliver the CARE2 project described below in a complex environment. The key projects currently managed by GVEP include:

  1. Capital Access for Renewable Energy Enterprises (CARE2) project funded by Sida. GVEP is implementing all aspects of this programme which will support the growth of a sustained market for renewable energy, focusing on “e-MSMEs” (energy-focused micro, small and medium sized enterprises) in East Africa, as a means to drive economic prosperity inclusive of people living in poverty. Lasting three years, the project is targeting the creation of 3,600 new jobs in 1,400 e-MSMEs, through a balanced combination of interventions designed to increase both the supply of capital to businesses, and their capacity to deploy that capital effectively.

The project has three components:

·    A   Business   Support   function,   also   known   as   the   Technical   Assistance   Facility,

(“TAF”), for e-MSMEs looking to raise capital, to help them to identify potential lenders and/or investors, and prepare their investment cases for that purpose.

·         A Loan Guarantee Fund, (“LGF”), to improve the supply of capital, in particular bank debt, by underwriting some of banks’ default risk on loans to qualifying e-MSMEs.

·         Pipeline Development Projects, (“PDPs”), targeted market development activity, in specifically defined niches, designed to stimulate the creation and growth of e-

MSMEs in those niches, and thereby to build the “pipeline” of potential transactions for investors/ lenders. At the start of the project two specific PDPs will be launched, but the intention is for additional ones to be added over time.

  1. Energy SMEs Programme: ESME is a programme under the World Bank administered Russian fund. The fund is for supporting Energy SMEs in Sub Saharan Africa to strengthen their capacity to provide energy services to poor communities in the SSA region.


GVEP International is providing technical assistance, business development services and supporting accessing finance for SMEs in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Mali and Senegal. Government agencies in these countries also receive funding from the Trust Fund to support SMEs through specific programmes which GVEP International has helped to design.

The primary focus of ESME is on assisting eligible SMEs and projects to access the support being provided through government agencies and ensuring they become sustainable and successful enterprises. Activities also extend to assisting similar SMEs and projects to qualify for finance from other sources, such as other government initiatives, donor programmes, banks and/or investors. Follow up with these various enterprises to enable them to realise their potential is a key part of the GVEP work plan agreed with the World Bank.

3. The Kenya Climate Innovation Centre (CIC) provides incubation, capacity building and financing to Kenyan entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) looking to develop and scale up innovative climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives.

The initiative, which is being funded by DANIDA and DFID in partnership with the World Bank’s infoDev programme, aims to improve livelihoods by unlocking innovative solutions to climate change. In the first 5 years, the CIC is expected to fund over 70 climate technology businesses in Kenya and generate 4,600 direct and indirect jobs, including 1,400 jobs for women.

The CIC is implemented by a consortium whose lead partners – Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), GVEP International, Strathmore University and the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) – offer a unique combination of world-class management capability, frontline experience with Kenyan SMEs, and first class facilities.

4.    The Developing Energy Enterprises Project (DEEP) East Africa is a five year initiative established to provide the crucial support necessary to enable the development of a sustainable and widespread industry of micro and small energy enterprises in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The implementers of DEEP East Africa recognise the constraints and challenges faced by the energy entrepreneurs, especially the lack of business and technical capacity and inadequate access to finance.

DEEP East Africa supports the development of energy enterprises formed by, and for, rural and peri-urban entrepreneurs and communities by assisting them with the identification of viable energy market opportunities, technology options, and service structures to generate revenue and sustain business. DEEP will also assist entrepreneurs through training and mentoring to develop business plans and access the financing to put them into practice. Post-investment, DEEP will continue to provide management mentoring services in accounting, strategy planning, marketing and legal issues relevant for businesses to survive and grow sustainably.

5.    The Loan Guarantee Fund (LGF): GVEP established a Loan Guarantee Fund in June 2009. The fund focuses on working with Financial Institutions and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in order to increase access to investment finance for them and stimulate consumer product demand through consumer financing initiatives. Initially focussing on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda the Programme will be seeking to establish a


replicable methodology that can be expanded to other African countries over the next few years

The fund structure is that of a revolving guarantee fund where a portfolio of guarantees are made with different financial or intermediary institutions which then provide a credit facility to entrepreneurs, communities or clustered micro-enterprises.

  1. Other projects: GVEP carries out other projects in the field of supporting enterprises to grow and flourish through capacity building, mentorship, project development and access to finance. In addition, GVEP is continuously looking for new opportunities for projects to further its mission of accelerating access to energy.

Each of these projects has to provide progress reports to funders and feed data to GVEP’s corporate impact measurement framework. A limited number of Key Performance Indicators have been established which GVEP management use to report our overall impact. The Project Integration and Delivery Manager will play a key role in ensuring GVEP is able to report against its KPIs. Timely analysis of data from different projects and production of management reports will form a key part of the role, as will the commissioning of project evaluations. The monitoring and evaluation team will report to this position.

The Role

To deliver these projects and more, GVEP International has a strong team of qualified, experienced and motivated individuals to take on various roles in the projects and in other GVEP activities. The Project Integration and Delivery manager will work with this team to improve delivery, increase synergies, improve skills, share knowledge and lessons, improve the impact evidence base, strengthen communications and cement foundations for new projects. The role will report to the Regional Director for Africa and will be responsible for a small team of 2 staff.

Main responsibilities include:


·         Setting the standards for project planning, management and delivery, progress reporting, resource planning, project risk analysis, and the integration of reporting, control and analysis of financial and project progress measures

·         Developing templates for the processes described and having these agreed across GVEP and used continuously

·         Facilitating delivery of and across projects through identification and use of synergies, enabling regular interaction and communication and encouraging sharing of information and knowledge

·         Facilitating efficient allocation of resources among programmes through a thorough understanding of the internal capacity at any given time and having ready sources of external capacity where needed to maximise value to GVEP and its beneficiaries

·         Ensuring efficient reporting that enables all the relevant departments are in the picture regarding activities and results and by improving the quality of reporting, including financial reporting

·         Helping consolidate the evidence base by establishing proper M&E frameworks at both project and overall GVEP levels. Working with project staff to ensure accurate population


of databases and M&E templates, as well as proper analysis of the results and good feedback to the project teams and beneficiaries

· Ensuring the M&E frameworks for individual projects enable GVEP to consolidate organisation-wide data in order to report against agreed KPIs. This includes managing the process of generating data on KPIs and commissioning external project evaluations as required by funding contracts for different projects.

·         Supporting the development of a knowledge management system that ensures GVEP captures all relevant information and knowledge from our work and beyond and that this information is disseminated efficiently across the organisation to inform implementation, reporting, communications and business development

·         Developing a system of continual improvement that incorporates suggestions, new knowledge, best practice and reward/recognition.

·         Facilitating smooth start up of new projects and orderly phase out of ending projects

·         Developing relevant GVEP staff competence in project management & control: Identification of skill gaps and filling them through additional resourcing as well as through facilitating Training and Development of existing staff



Requirements:

·         Five years experience with complex programme management; emphasis on delivering in multi-project environments

·         Strong knowledge and practical application experience of project management tools & techniques

·         A strong academic foundation in the sciences, business and/or project management.

·         Desirable experience includes:

·         Energy sector, including project financing and investment, renewable energy technology and the energy environment;

·         International donor funded programmes, social science research methods and evaluation techniques as applied to the type of projects implemented by GVEP

·         Good team building and motivational skills with an ability to work with a diverse mix of professionals

·         A good communicator with advanced oral and written skills

·         High numeracy skills with ability to analyse complex data and discern patterns, trends, anomalies and generate useful information; good understanding of project financial management and reporting

·         Experience with knowledge management systems and methods with evidence of how knowledge has been disseminated and utilised

·         Experience with continuous improvement programmes such as Kaizen and Six Sigma within project management environments

·         A can-do and collaborative mindset – comfortable with the ambiguities and demands of a rapidly evolving environment.


The position will require regular travel within East Africa.

To apply please send your CV plus a covering letter (in English) outlining how your knowledge, skills and experience match the job specification to  recruitment@gvepinternational.org

Deadline for applications submission is 19thOctober 2012.

Interviews will be held during the week commencing 22nd  October 2012 in Nairobi

GVEP International is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
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