The Kenya program strategy is DRR-orientated, while maintaining a significant emergency response component.

• Propose and develop a sector-based strategy in accordance with SI’s policies and priorities for the intervention country.
• Oversee and lead to process of programme development through drafting concepts and proposals with programme managers
• Propose and organize diagnostic missions.
• Support the head of mission in the monitoring and analysis of SI intervention sectors and the analysis of the donors’ strategies for the organization’s activities.
• Be the driving force for putting new activities into place.
• Participate actively in programming work
• Participate actively in the week of technical coordinators

• Validate the relevance of any assessments carried out
• Propose and organize evaluation missions
• Support the programme supervisor/s in setting up a technical approach and assessing the financial, human, and logistical elements of programmes to be implemented.
• Approve the technical approaches and aspects of projects.
• Ensure that all programmes are implemented respecting Solidarités International annual operational strategy, technical requirements, and the criteria stipulated by financial backers.
• Ensure the relevance and consistency of all programmes vis-à-vis the needs of the populations.
• Ensure that the programmes under his/her supervision reach the required results
• Ensure that work meets sustainability requirements and that established norms and standards are respected
• Develop team capacities with techniques and new methodologies

• Ensure that resources from the SI Tool Box are used correctly for project cycle management.
• Ensure that the planning and monitoring timetable is consolidated / validated.
• Approve quality criteria and performance indicators of the programmes proposed by programme managers.
• Ensure that monitoring indicators are in place and relevant.
• With the coordination team, take part in a monthly programme review (budgetary, operational, logistical…)
• Provide support and advice to logistics for programme material purchasing.
• Provide technical and methodological support to programme managers for programme planning and implementation.
• Supervise and support programme managers, monitor and evaluate activities.
• Anticipate difficulties relating to how his/her tasks are carried out and facilitate the resolution of problems
• Propose reorientation of activities and indicators according to changing contexts
• Organize the sharing of experiences among the different field teams (at Food Security and Livelihood managers and Food Security and Livelihood assistant levels) through workshops, regular communications etc.
• Organize capacity building activities for the various Food Security and Livelihood teams on techniques or new methodologies related to Food Security and Livelihood
• Validate the relevancy of technical designs or solutions proposed at the proposal level or during the course of the project
• Support field Food Security and Livelihood teams in preparing Bill of Quantities (including detailed design drawings) for all Food Security and Livelihood activities involving materials and to provide final validation of BOQ for each proposed activity.
• Provide technical support to the field teams on all Food Security and Livelihood relevant methodologies and surveys (Economic surveys, , impact, Post Harvest surveys).
• To assist in outsourcing of technical support where relevant.

• Ensure that SI’s capitalization tools are correctly used and disseminated to relevant HQ departments (technical unit and desks).
• Participate in the centralization and dissemination of procedures, guides and tools linked to activities
• Propose improvements on existing tools
• Form a network of experts, develop technical partnerships with others actors in the intervention zone and regularly keep the technical unit informed
• In coordination with the technical unit, capitalize on the intervention methods and techniques, and on the experiences acquired by SI and others actors in the field.
• Ensure that handover reports are written by all programme managers before the end of their contract and that these are sent to headquarters

• In conjunction with HQ HR, define the prerequisites for technical position openings and adapt existing criteria if necessary.
• Welcome and brief expatriates working on the programmes
• Identify training requirements within programme teams and locally available resources
• Implement technical training in line with operational needs and the training requirements identified
• Lead workshops, coordination meetings and/or technical exchange programmes
• Evaluate and assess the performance of collaborators under his/her direct supervision
• Actively participate in the organization of regional technical weeks and compiling reports on these work sessions
• Supervise adherence to security regulations by personnel under his/her supervision

• Support the Head of Mission in fundraising and the negotiation and examination of project proposals
• Convey information to the relevant authorities on security matters or any event having a possible consequence on SI activities and the security of the teams.
• Consolidate activity reports, supervise the preparation of, review and validate reports and/or amendments
• Ensure that all reports are delivered on time and in the correct format
• Validate technical reports
• In conjunction with the CD, establish and maintain a communication network and good relations with local/government authorities, donors’ representatives, FSL Cluster and cluster partners, UN agencies and other international/national agencies.
• Ensure that SI is represented at all meetings or forums concerning SI programmes
• Represent SI when asked and/or delegated to do so
• Reply to HQ requests regarding specific programme needs