WFP Kenya Jobs 2022-23 Vacancies at WFP Careers Portal 

WFP Jobs in Kenya guidelines 2022-23 Job Description

Reporting to the extreme of the WFP Regional Innovation Hub For jap Africa, it is doable you will be working with all purposeful objects in RBN collectively with Partnerships, current Chain, Programme, evaluation, and others. furthermore, you will work with WFP nation workplaces, stakeholders, and companions inside the regional innovation ecosystem.

The duties will embrace:

1) assist and drive the event of a healthful startup/innovation pipeline (each exterior innovation ecosystem and inside WFP improvements) throughout the area:

assist nation workplaces (CO) to choose a good implementing associate (IP) to execute IGNITE innovation challenges and to develop associated workplans and budgets.
assist COs and IPs to design the innovation challenges and associated processes (utility design, administration, communications, innovator recruitment and so forth)
assist the COs and IPs to be optimistic that worthwhile supply of innovation challenges in opposition to set funds and workplan.
consider and choose MSMEs and start-ups to attend the acceleration programmes organized by the Hub; co-create standards for various with completely different crew members/IPs, constructing on what was executed for IGNITE cohort 1.
assist the due diligence approach of every enterprise in every ecosystem/nation context, participating associate organizations if/when wished.
assist the cultivation and upkeep of a community with completely different accelerators/retailers inside the social influence/meals tech/agri-tech/current chain tech/fintech sectors for pipeline sharing and change of classes found inside the ecosystem.
handle and assist the innovation funding various course of with Implementing companions and Innovation Hub’s revolutionary Financing Advisor

2) Coordinate the supply and scaling of cross-regional innovation initiatives:

Coordinate and assist nation workplaces with the supply of revolutionary initiatives e.g. aflatoxin prevention and administration in South Sudan and Rwanda.
Coordinate/oversee the supply of pilot/scale up initiatives with chosen nation office programmatic teams.
Coordinate the manufacturing of evaluation initiatives as required, in collaboration with mandatory capabilities, e.g. FSQ, meals purposes.
set up the sharing of learnings on initiatives throughout the area (workshops, information briefs and so forth).
Coordinate and consolidate the required inputs (methodologies, actions, classes, influence, case research) for donor reporting on these initiatives.

three) handle the group of program supply and assist measurement and studying actions:

Coordinate and handle the funds of the Innovation Hub’s portfolio of labor; working with finance to create quarterly reviews on spending/funds positioning, to right/justify any variances to plan and to launch funds to nation workplaces (general accountability will reside with Head of Innovation Hub).
set up workshops and occasions, e.g. innovation bootcamps, and create wished supplies (liaising with inside procurement and communications).
Create and handle course of flows for current and new programming (Gannt charts with roles and duties, coordination between nation workplaces and companions) managing well timed execution of deliverables in opposition to timelines.
Working with the teaching Advisor and companions to collect influence information of actions, gathering actionable insights to inform future program design and meet reporting requirements.
Work with the teaching Advisor to develop and meet donor reporting requirements as required.
When wished all by purposes, act as an ‘entrepreneur in residence’ to assist challenge teams all by ideation and product design phases.

4) assist completely different Innovation Hub actions:

current evaluation and content material preparation (information on initiatives, PowerPoint shows, briefs and so forth) for agency precedence subjects, donor conferences and govt administration conferences
Collaborate with colleagues in completely different divisions and/or exterior stakeholders on subjects associated to innovation.
assist completely different core processes of the Innovation Hub (e.g. fundraising, partnerships, occasions, procurement) as required.
assist the extreme of the Innovation Hub as required.

DELIVERABLES on the tip OF this predominant CONTRACT interval:

worthwhile administration of funds portfolio.
passable supply of innovation challenges and revolutionary initiatives.
mandatory donor reviews accomplished on time.
passable assist to completely different hub actions collectively with required evaluation, shows, and strategies.
All work and supplies developed all by the contract are properly documented and accessible to all related stakeholders in designated information administration processes/platforms.

skills & expertise REQUIRED:

training: Advance diploma in enterprise, innovation, design, worldwide enchancment or completely different associated levels.

expertise: Three years put up graduate related expert expertise in African start-ups, consulting, FMCG private companies or innovation/entrepreneur assist inside the humanitarian/worldwide enchancment sector, or 5 years of under graduate expert expertise with a predominant college diploma.

Program and event group, challenge administration, and information assortment and evaluation expertise required. expertise working with startups/organizations inside the East Africa innovation ecosystem and/or in meals purposes is useful.

information & abilities:

Curious, motivated to be taught, and cozy asking questions and proposing new ideas;
Self-motivated, proactive and in a place to work with a extreme diploma of autonomy and sense of possession. in a place to ask for assist when wished;
Collaborative spirit, in a place to associate and empathize with colleagues throughout expert ranges and cultures, in a place to behave with endurance, credibility, diplomacy and tact;
extremely organized and in a place to effectively handle a quantity of initiatives and stakeholders, effectively leveraging devices (GANNT, excel and so forth);
in a place to collect, analyze and synthesize programmatic efficiency information;
sturdy time administration abilities with a performance to plan forward, anticipate requirements, factors and obstacles, and a performance to juggle competing priorities effectively, and to work to tight deadlines;
glorious communication/presentation abilities, with the power to jot down reviews, develop steering paperwork, and current findings clearly and concisely to a various of numerous audiences;
dedicated to attaining the goals of the UN World meals Programme and the Sustainable enchancment goals;
community of actors in African innovation ecosystems and a nuanced understanding of the sector and its enchancment over the previous decade is useful.