ACT Alliance Programme Officer, ACT Regional Office in Nairobi, Kenya

****Programme Officer (ACT Alliance, Nairobi)****

About ACT Alliance

ACT Alliance is a coalition of more than 140 churches and affiliated organisations working together in over 140 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality. ACT Alliance is supported by 25,000 staff from member organisations and mobilises about $1.5 billion for its work each year in three targeted areas: humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy. ACT Alliance is deeply rooted in the communities it serves. It has earned the trust and respect of local people long before large international interventions scale up, and remains steadfast in its grassroots commitments for many years after world attention has shifted elsewhere. For more details about the general work of ACT, please click on this link: http://www.actalliance.org/

To strengthen the ACT Alliance secretariat, a Programme Officer (Nairobi, Kenya) is recruited to join the Nairobi based regional team.

****Major Functions Summary****

The Programme Officer supports the humanitarian, development and advocacy strategic priorities of the ACT Alliance based in the regions. She/he reports to the Regional Representative and supports the strengthening of the national ACT forums and engagement of the members in Africa.

****Duties and Responsibilities****

• Facilitate the strengthening of national and/or regional ACT forums in line with strategic priorities to enable them to initiate humanitarian, development and advocacy engagements;
• Support ACT forums in the development of emergency preparedness and response plans;
• Support ACT responses to emergency situations in line with the new humanitarian policy, including monitoring, evaluation and learning initiatives;
• Work with forums to prepare Alerts, Rapid Response Fund requests, Concept Notes and Appeals in line with the ACT Humanitarian Policy in Africa;
• Support timely reporting by members on the use of funds for ACT coordinated responses in Africa;
• Collect information related to the total ACT Response of ACT members in emergencies and work with communications to disseminate this information effectively;
• Support capacity strengthening processes and member-led advocacy, development and humanitarian projects.

Competences and behaviours

• Committed to the values of the ACT Alliance and takes pride in delivering on agreed priorities according to the highest standards individually and as part of a global team
• Proactively finds innovative and creative solutions, is efficient and reliable, adapts to change and uncertainty, is decisive and acts with integrity
• Builds effective internal and external relationships, involves others when solving problems and treats others with consideration and respect in an alliance where faith is a key ingredient of people’s lives
• Passion for building and developing core skills for the role and contributes knowledge outside of immediate own role
• Effectively motivates, influences and develops others, drives high performance, inspires people to follow them and acts as a role model

Key working relationships

• Liaises with ACT forum coordinators and members in the region
• Reports to the Regional Representative
• Engages with Global Humanitarian Coordinator, Global Policy and Advocacy Coordinator and the Global Sustainable Development Policy and Practice Coordinator on relevant areas of work
• Liaises with Geneva-based finance and communications staff

Technical skills and experience

• A minimum of five years of humanitarian, development and/or advocacy experience; a minimum of two in international context, preferably in Africa;
• Knowledge of the role of churches and NGOs in humanitarian response, development and advocacy;
• Ability to work flexibly in a networked working environment;
• Relevant academic or technical degree with excellent communication skills;
• Excellent knowledge of English language, working knowledge of French or other languages spoken in the region an asset;
• Experience in humanitarian preparedness or thematic aspects of humanitarian response an asset.

HOW TO APPLY:

****The position is recruited locally.****

****If you are interested kindly submit your CV, application letter and information about three potential references via email to recruitment@actalliance.org by Wednesday 15th July. Kindly put Programme Officer/Nairobi as a reference to the email.****