Consortium Coordinator - Unlocking Opportunities Project, Nairobi, Kenya

Handicap International

  • Nairobi
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 8 days ago
Responsible to: Country Manager, KenyaPlace: Nairobi, KenyaClosing date for applications: 26th September, 2025THE ORGANIZATION“Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity”
Handicap International Federation, operating under the name Humanity & Inclusion (HI), is an independent and impartial aid and development organisation with no religious or political affiliations operating in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable people to help meet their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights. Currently, the organisation is working in 59 countries.For further information about the association: .JOB CONTEXT:The Unlocking Opportunities project, a three-year project, aims to advance inclusive economic empowerment for youth with disabilities, with a strong focus on young women. Through a twin-track approach of personalised support and systemic inclusion, the program equips youth with skills, resources, and opportunities to engage meaningfully in the economy as entrepreneurs and employees. It further promotes innovation in areas such as assistive technology and digital accessibility, while working with both public and private sector actors to mainstream disability inclusion across key sectors, including agriculture, digital economy, and the creative industry.The Project consortium coordinator reports to the Country Manager. She/He is in charge of the coherence in the strategy and in the execution of the Unlocking Opportunity Project. She/He is responsible for optimising the quality and impact of the project through a delegation system with appropriate control mechanisms. She/He shares responsibility with all HI managers for the sound management and optimal functioning of the overall organisation. She/He is responsible for the overall management, leadership, coordination, and accountability of the Unlocking Opportunity Project, ensuring the successful delivery of activities by 4 partner organisations across 5 hubs in Kenya, reaching 7,000 young people with disabilities with a specific focus on girls and women. She/He facilitates the coordination of the project with all partners, ensuring joint planning, progress monitoring, quality and compliance with HI and donor requirements, and manages partner relationships to meet targets and deadlines. The role includes managing a team of 2 to 4 persons, consolidating reports, managing risks, fostering collaboration, engaging stakeholders, and representing the consortium with the donor and relevant networks.YOUR MISSION:
Mission 1: Management of the donor and partnership relationship
Responsibility 1: Donor Relations
  • Ensure compliance with the donor’s rules and respect for contractual commitments: consolidation, control and reporting of operational and budgetary elements.
  • Represent HI (and the other partners) in all matters relating to the project with local, national, traditional, political, military and diplomatic authorities and bodies, with international organisations and with international coordination mechanisms and systems.
Responsibility 2: Coordination and management of partnerships
  • Organise and implement governance schemes for her/his project (ARCI and coordination mechanisms/tools).
  • Facilitate internal coordination between her/his team including partners’ teams and all relevant departments (Area Manager Shared Services, technical teams, MEAL, etc.).
  • Ensure coordination with all partners involved in the project / consortium members, and ensure effective communication mechanisms.Set up and animate a Steering committee
  • Ensure the overall management of the partnerships/consortium partners and the associated contractual documents (partnership contracts, MoUs, amendments, reports, etc.). Ensure all proper documents for the partnerships are elaborated (due diligence, capacity assessment, capacity building plan) and monitor their implementation.
Mission 2: Coordination of operations
Responsibility 1: Ensure coherence in project strategy and implementation, in collaboration with relevant departments and in accordance with general standards and procedures
  • Ensure joint planning, consistency in project implementation approaches in accordance with the logical framework and within the allocated budget.
  • In liaison with the project's governance bodies, in particular the technical resources (HI or partners), ensure the application of HI's quality standards (including technical standards) within the project, and follow up on the implementation of recommendations resulting from evaluations, support missions and audits.
  • With the support of the MEAL unit and in coordination with partner MEAL focal points, create, deploy and implement all appropriate tools for project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning, in line with HI policies and frameworks.
  • With the support of the technical team (field and HQ), be able to implement the technical standards and interact with partners, authorities and local institutions on technical aspects of the project.
Facilitate audits (operational, financial and organisational) and ensure the implementation of their recommendations in its area of responsibility.Responsibility 2: Ensure the management and compilation of project data
  • Ensure that appropriate data collection and management tools (including technical tools) are put in place in the project, in accordance with standard frameworks.
  • Ensure that project data is collected and compiled in the project database.
  • Carry out regular checks and make any necessary corrections to the activity database in conjunction with the MEAL unit.
  • Ensure the archiving and availability of all verification sources (documents) related to the project
Responsibility 3: Contribute to the transformation of the organisation, in particular through changes in working and management methods and the continuous improvement of work processesResponsibility 4: Develop HI's external influence (forums, operational and strategic alliances, etc.) and the organisation's external representation (events, media) in its area of responsibility
  • Relay HI's global advocacy messages to all relevant external parties.
  • Contribute to the external influence of HI by participating in relevant networks.
Mission 3: Management Being a role model: embodying HI's values daily.
  • Giving meaning: understanding the strategy, making it explicit, translating it into operational objectives for the team, and leading the necessary changes. Give meaning to each managerial action. Encourage the exchange of practices within the department and between departments. Encourage innovation and risk-taking.
  • Manage operations: organise the operational management of her/his team, structure work around identified processes, monitor performance and facilitate problem solving.
  • Manager and coach: contribute to the development of team members, including partners’ team, create conditions for commitment, professionalism and attachment to HI. Ensure compliance with the code of conduct and institutional policies, the state of mind and the expected individual and collective behaviour.
Mission 4: Principles and know-how : Ensuring the deployment of and compliance with global frameworks, institutional policies and HI principles.
  • This includes, among others, the core reference frameworks (e.g. HI Mission and Values; Theory of Change: Access to Services), all HI institutional policies (Security; Code of Conduct and Protection; Anti-Fraud and Corruption; PSEAH and Project Quality Framework; Disability, Gender and Age), all institutional guidelines and processes, delegation thresholds, security levels, etc.
YOUR PROFILE :
Educational background and experience
  • At least a Bachelor's Degree in the following fields: Business administration, Economics, Social Science or related field.
  • At least four years of practical experience managing a consortium project is highly recommended
  • 3-5 years of experience in implementing economic inclusion projects/programmes (entrepreneurship, market-based programming, socio-economic empowerment, etc.)
Skills required:
Management skills
  • Being capable of helping team members to progress: developing staff‘s ability to work autonomously.
  • Knowing how to position oneself so things can move forward.
  • Knowing how to simplify and prioritise.
  • Conflict management
Project management skills
  • Planning, monitoring & coordination
  • Operation partnerships
  • Evaluation
  • Intervention strategy
  • Proposal and narrative report writing
Other professional skills
Monitoring , Evaluation, Accountability and Learning /Information Management
  • Results and indicators monitoring
  • Planning and coordination of qualitative and quantitative surveys, dissemination of results
Project evaluation * Accountability to affected populations: participatory, non-discriminatory and responsible approaches.
  • Capitalisation and continuous learning
  • Information management strategy, data structuring and quality
  • Quantitative and qualitative data collection, qualitative analysis
  • Responsible data management
  • Statistical analysis and data visualisation
Log/supply
  • Planning (supply)
Finance
  • Financial/budget management
  • Donor financial management
Security
  • Personal security management
  • Security context analysis
  • Security risk analysis
Advocacy
  • Networking & promotion of HI advocacy messages to external stakeholders
Global programme management
  • Management of major risks (safeguarding, fraud & corruption, security and major financial risks)
Cross-sector skills
  • Frameworks and references
  • Office and collaborative tools
  • Stress management
  • Collaborating in a global organisation
Language skills
  • English and Kiswahili

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