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Christian Aid is a humanitarian and development non-governmental organisation that insists that the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We work globally for profound change tackling the root causes of poverty, empowering people to have a brighter future and creating enabling environments for communities to exercise their capacities. We strive to achieve equality, dignity and freedom for all, regardless of faith or nationality.

In Kenya, Christian Aid focuses on delivering interventions that shift power relations and dynamics in favour of poor and marginalised communities and groups as a means to ending poverty cycles. We work in ensuring access to essential services, promoting inclusive market systems and enhancing resilience to climate change.

About the role

The Project Officer-Nutrition role is responsible for contributing to the development of Christian Aid policy, strategy, thought leadership and communication in Nutrition.  The role entails delivering the following key results:

• Effective project management in liaison with partners ensuring quality control, accountability and compliance within the framework of Christian Aid policies and procedures.
• Effective documentation of the project and successful representation of Christian Aid and the projects’ best interests to relevant stakeholders

About you

With line management from the Program Manager, you will model and promote in your role, the three key desired behaviours self-leadership, teamwork and decisiveness. You are proactive and able to work under pressure with minimal supervision to deliver quality and excellence in related results outlined above. You will work with the wider team in a spirit of cooperation, recognising that change is brought about through partnership with others. You will be accountable for your actions, recommendations and decisions in the context of Christian Aid’s vision of ending poverty.  You will also demonstrate adaptive programming with ability to translate thinking and decisions into results in a timely manner.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits and including flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build partnerships

Tell us about a time when you were proactive in taking on new and additional work to achieve a team or organisational goal. What was the situation? What was the new/additional work? What was your task? Why did you need to be pro-active? What did you do? Why? How? What was the outcome? What was the impact of what you did?

Deliver results

Tell us about a time when you had to make recommendations or take decisions after analysing data, information and other evidence. What was the background? What recommendations or decisions did you have to take? What was your particular task or responsibility? What actions did you take? How did analyse the information and data? What was the outcome? Were you successful?

Strive for improvement

Please tell us about a time when you have identified a better way of doing something having taken into account the implications of your proposal. What was the context? What was your ‘better way’? What was your task? What action(s) did you take? Why? How? What was the outcome? Was your proposal accepted? What was the impact?